Democrats Considering Changing Party Name From "Democrats" To "Socialists"

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

President Bush released his federal budget this week and it was meet with the usual theatrics we have come to expect from the Democrats. I am starting to think the Democrats' parents never taught them the adage "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all." And while I want the Democrats to debate the budget to give us counter-balance, I would like to think there might be one or two items in Bush's budget that they can agree on.

Apparently this is too much to ask.

On Friday, Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl (D) attacked President Bush for having the audacity to even recommend a cut in the nutrition-in-a-box program for the elderly. The premise for the proposed elimination of the Commodity Supplemental Food Program is due to the fact the Food Stamps agency could provide the seem coverage to the seniors with less overhead.

The rub? Senior citizens don't like the stigma of being on food stamps. Mr. Kohl would like country to continue to fund a duplicate government program just so old people who don't like depend on government assistance can still receive their government assistance without the ugliness of using food stamps.

Stupid.

The good senator then stepped outside of himself for a little while for this quote:

"I call it misplaced priorities. How do you justify doing something like this, while at the same time giving people like Herb Kohl huge tax cuts?" said Kohl, a multimillionaire.

Apparently people like Herb Kohl missed the memo on the tax cuts. Just because people like Herb Kohl "received" huge tax cuts doesn't mean they are required to squirrel the money away. If people like Herb Kohl really believe in the nutrition-in-a-box program, then maybe people like Herb Kohl should fund the darned thing. They did after all "receive HUGE tax cuts."

It would seem that people like Herb Kohl need to learn that the government doesn't have to provide every service this country needs. People like Herb Kohl could work together and service the elderly from the private sector.

I know this a very difficult theory for a Democrat to wrap their mind around, but providing a government social service every problem facing society doesn't actually solve them.