Cut Funding to Domestic Programs to Balance the Budget?

Today I spoke with someone who suggested that all national domestic programs must be drastically cut to obtain a balanced budget. Here is my response:

 Personally, I spent all of my savings and had my house foreclosed upon in the years after I was disabled in 2003. Now, at age 65, I am dependent on $1281/month to survive. (My last salary as a clergyman was $4200/month plus a housing allowance and medical insurance). I am nor surviving.

(2) All communities/nations are judged by the manner in which they care for the least of them: the children, women, elderly, infirm. The U.S. is very low among the world’s nations in this.

(3) If cutting must be done (the U.S. has always had a national debt since the beginning; hell, we’re still paying for the Revolutionary War), the I believe in should be in the $167.9* ($460,000 per day) budgeted for FY 2011 for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 * Source: The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Estimated Iraq and Afghanistan War Funding FY2001-FY2012


We look to the day when sharing by all will mean scarcity for none (United Church of Christ Book of Worship)