I would like to follow-up with another area of government spending that has to be controlled.

MILITARY spending.  It must be reduced.  We constantly involve ourselves in stupid wars trying to be the big guy on the block and establishing a PAX Americana.  We can't afford it.

All of the attention is on pensions. It is the new PC to dwell upon that and that only.

Does it deserve attention?  Absolutely.  But so do other areas of the budget.

The massive welfare state ( and I don't mean SS or Medicare) that has developed in the last 45 years has also come home to roost.  Medicaid is killing the country and Obama wants to expand it.  Here in Illinois we spend $896 million on welfare daycare alone and some $14 billion on welfare Medicaid.  Far too many on SS disability.  Food Stamp increase have doubled in the lasy 10 years and keep on growing.  Welfare programs for refugees that are flooding into this country.  And backdoor benefits in terms of educaion and health care for illegal aliens.  The list is almost endless.

Yet all the attention is on pensions.  Certainly, some pensions are absurd and some have gamed the system.  But most people really are entitled to their pensions. 

Unfortunately the word entitlement is being purposely confused to mean welfare rather than pensions to which most people honestly contributed to for many decades.

Don't any of you realize that the so called 1% pays most of the taxes and also provides most of the jobs here in the states??

Think about that for a few seconds!!! 

There wouldn't be any free stuff without them and people are constantly hammering them...It's biting the hand that feeds you!!

No, I'm not at all rich and I'm not stupid either!!  My income is presently well  below poverty level, but what I have is mine. And I worked hard for it in my younger years.

My only gripe about corporations is...bring the work back to the states!!!  Where it belongs!!