what defines sucking the teat?

[luckyleftyme2]

If you spend 20 years working for some form of gov? If your company or business you work for or own depends on gov, contracts to survive. Or you or your company gets gov. grants or loans? How about if your in politics and hoping to be elected long enough to get a pension.
Well my guess is many of us at one time or another have been sucking that teat. And as we age we realize that those who dam others for political reasons are hypocrites cause they are beating that very bush to get elected.
IF MORE OF US REALIZED THAT MORE MONEY IS SPENT ON CORPORATE WELFARE THAN HUMAN WELFARE WE COULD BALANCE THE BUDGET.

[tonyt53]

1. The words might offend some, but describe exactly what is happening.

I travel for business some and in the past few months, i keep seeing on TV/hearing on the radio politicians of all parties talking about "reducing" regulations. WTF!!! The lack of regulation and oversight almost took this country, and much of the world into another great depression. The reducing of regulations is another way of saying "more corporate welfare at the expense of human welfare".

[procon]

2. No. Balancing the budget is a rightwing cudgel.

As a policy its still a cudgel because it opens the door to political extortion by the minority party. Think nearly constant government shutdowns that would require a super-majority just to raise the debt ceiling or to run a deficit during a crisis.

Imagine trying to run your household on a budget you made 20 years ago. As practiced in most states, mine included these BBAs mean that there is no new money for new infrastructure projects, upgrades, replacements, modernization, repairs, etc. We have a system of robbing Peter to pay Paul so money is 'stolen' from one government agency and shifted to another because no politician wants to be blamed by the ignorant voters for increasing taxes and spending.

Trying to portray the financial aspects of the whole country to someone's picayune family checkbook is profoundly ignorant. When we are short of money, maybe we can use credit cards or get a loan, but the payback is a huge hit. When the country needs to increase cashflow, it can issue bonds with very low interest rates to raise money, raise taxes, and even even print money in some cases.

Republicans only want to have a Balanced Budgets to prevent Democrats from legislating progressive policies.
Please do a bit more studying before buying into the GOPs tactic.