Too many voters embrace feel-good propaganda that they want to hear instead of learning the basic facts about issues they care about. They should do a better job of calling out dishonest politicians -- and shunning media outlets that stoke political food fights.  YOU WANT SOLUTIONS (not the lame blame game, finger pointing, partisan bullsh!t, etc.):  1. Reinstate the US Laws that made Illegal the Causes of the previous Depressions and Caused the current $60 Trillion to $100 Trillion Global Economic Crisis consisting of the Mortgage Crisis, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Credit Crisis, etc.. To the political low or no information voters, President Bush (43) did not eliminate those US Laws (lame blame game of typically blaming the WRONG person).  2. Create a Federal US Law identical to the Defeated by the Lawyers of La Raza in the 9thFederal Court, California Proposition 187, in that Non US Citizens cannot receive Public Assistance of Any Kind as paid for by US Citizens. With the defeat of California Proposition 187 in a Federal Court, US Citizens of California voted in favor of this California Proposition, this set the Legal Precedent that Illegal Aliens can get Public Assistance of Any Kind.  Before anyone starts saying nonsense, go do the research into the actual cost of Illegal Aliens to US Citizens (including the decreases of available Public Assistance to US Citizens) versus the actual work done by Illegal Aliens (hint: most vegetables and fruits for the US come from South and Central Americas, most no longer picked at the US). example: 2004 1/8th of California Budget spent on Illegal Aliens; recently this became 1/4th of the California Budget with this 1/4th or more of the California Budget then no longer available for US Citizens of the State of California as Public Infrastructure, Roads and Streets, Education, Law Enforcement, Firefighters, Public Assistance, US Citizen's Benefits and Entitlements, etc..  $10.5 Billion spent on Illegal Aliens: Education $7.7 Billion, $1.4 Billion Imprisonment of Illegal Aliens for Violent Crimes like Murder, Rape, Armed Assaults, etc.; $1.4 Billion for Health Care. The $10.5 Billion does not include Food Stamps (SNAP), WIC, Public Housing, other Public Assistance this $10.5 Billion then became unavailable of the US Citizens of California.  The Illegal Aliens do pay Sales Taxes but NOT State nor Federal Income Taxes to avoid Detection, Detentions, and Deportations; the Majority work for "Cash Only" absolutely NO filing out of Employer Paperwork (W-2 paperwork).  In Florida alone, more than $3.5 billion a year is spent on health care and criminal justice for illegal immigrants. Given this, I think it is time for Florida to follow Arizona’s lead.  Illegals receiving food stamps (also research how Illegals cashout Food Stamps, including selling of Food to Restaurants for cash.):  Economic costs of legal and illegal immigration:  The Cost of (Legal & Illegal) Immigrants:  Most Wanted and Criminal Illegals:  we have plenty of undesirable people here from Mexico and beyond. Here’s proof:  Here is a link to the DEA's most wanted for just California and this will open your eyes:  Here’s the link to the LAPD’s most wanted site:  3. Stop chopping the h3ll out of the US Defense Budget, as the US Military Defense Industrial Complex employs directly or indirectly almost a Million (overpaid too expensive) US Civilians.  President Obama as Commander In Chief Ordered a 11% US Defense Budget Cut, in response Secretary of Defense Penetta stated, "A 10% (US) Defense Budget Cut will result in a Million (US) Civilians becoming Unemployed.  Currently only less than 1% of US Citizens are Serving in the US Military, previously President Obama as Commander In Chief Ordered a Reduction in Forces (RIFs) of the US Military of 90,000 to be thrown on Unemployment further straining the Veteran's Affairs (current situation), the Unemployment of 108,000 US DOD Civilians. Translation: The less than 1% US Military remaining will have more Deployments for longer Tours, meaning more Domestic Violence, Suicides, Violent Civil Law Violations (usually against US Civilians), etc..  Recently President Obama as Commander In Chief Ordered the US Military Mission Changed from Two Wars and Contigency Missions (including United Nation's Missions) Simulanteously to One War or a Contingency Mission as greater than a 50% Cut. In response Secretary of Defense Penetta stated he would be tendering his Letter of Resignation "to go work on his (Walnut) Farm with a Different Kind of Nut".  You can shut down the US Defense, US Military, US Intelligence Agencies, US Military Defense Industrial Complex in months; however, it takes years to restart them, as most US Citizens will NOT return if required after being laid off before with nothing guaranteeing that they will not be laid off again (and again and again), especially if they already reestablished a successful US Civilian Career that is non US Defense, non US Military, non US Intelligence Agency nor US Military Defense Industrial Complex related. During those years to restart more US Citizens of the US Military will die unnecessarily (lack of ammunition, military equipment, modern weapons systems, medical supplies, etc..).  Tokenflame - Well, you know, we could print up some more of that fake money and put people back to work rebuilding our infrastructure, our roads are crumbling, our electrical grid is outdated, etc.  The US Defense Budget includes those US Army Corps of Engineer Infrastructure Projects within the US. Like Levees, Sea Walls, Bridges, Dams, Interstates, Dredging of Rivers and Streams, Beach Erosion, Water Reservoirs, Irrigation Canals, etc..  Historically, President FDR's "New Deal to the American People" was a Failure that only prolonged the Great Depression (President FDR's later Presidential Papers). What got the US out of the Great Depression in 1939 BEFORE US Entry into WWII 1941, was President FDR's creation of the current US Military Defense Industrial Complex with the Sales of "War Materials" to England, France, Russia, China, etc. in exchange for tons of gold, silver, raw materials, etc. (Sales of "War Materials" to an Enemy is an Act of War, as to why Chancellor Hitler debated Declaring War against the US in 1940; instead Hitler sent his infamous U-Boats to the Atlantic to sink unarmed US Merchant Marine (Reserve USN) Ships going to and from England).  4. Stop taxing the h3ll out of US Businesses, as Federal Taxes + State Taxes and Business Fees +City Taxes +Local Taxes. Even President Obama stated this in his State of the Union Address as 35% Federal Taxes (but not the other added Taxes from the States +Cities + Local Taxes). This leaves the US Businesses with difficult Decisions on what must be Cut, as lay off a number of workers, move Overseas, Automation to replace workers, etc..  5. Do NOT fund the previously not budgeted for $2.5 Trillion ACA. This makes the Funds (US Congressional Appropriations) available once again for the previously Budgeted For Programs (Medicare, Social Security, etc.), Projects (Infrastructure, etc.), Agencies (FEMA, Department of Education, Veteran's Affairs, etc..), and the Benefits and Entitlements for the "47%" (2012 update 49%, 2013 update 51%). You want REAL Health Care, instate the President FDR Universal Health Care for All US Citizens, by getting the Insurance Corporations OUT of the Medical Profession.  6. Stop all of the insane sending of US Citizens Money to Nations that hate the US.  7. Elimination of the 1920s Jones Act and similar outdated US Laws that impose unnecessary hardships on US Citizens (like the automatic taxes for anything shipped to the Territory of Hawaii, Hawaii has been a US State since 1959). Extract the portion of the 1920s Jones Act that created the US Merchant Marine (USN Reserves) and create a US Merchant Marine Act.  8. And PLEASE STOP REPEATING THE SAME (PREVIOUS IDENTICAL) MISTAKES AND EXPECT DIFFERENT RESULTS. Do not give the lame excuse "Maybe it will work this time" (at the cost of unnecessary deaths of US Citizens when not if the same results occur (failures).).
By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer, NBC News  A heated battle is brewing on Capitol Hill over cuts to the food stamp program, with lawmakers quoting Bible verses at each other and benefits for millions of people hanging in the balance.  Nearly 47 million people – one in seven  …