Rob, let me be the first to say that you are

1) cherry-picking the media again
2) slanting things to support your own world-view
3) showing your lack of concern for little old ladies
4) trying to cast liberals in a bad light
5) scaremongering for effect
6) being a heartless meanie

Now that I’ve pretty much de-fanged the trolls, maybe the rest of us can have an adult discussion about runaway entitlement spending.

Liberals use the “politics of fear” every time we conservatives talk of reigning in the spending.

Then they sit back, act morally superior, and project their inadequacies upon us.

Socialism, like the ancient idea from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

-- Frederic Bastiat, “The Law” 1850

This won’t change, despite the calls for Change™.

I think I’ll just keep the $500,000 and use for my own family instead!