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The Debt Ceiling And Budget Battles Are Just A Smokescreen. You Read That Right.

When you hear folks in Washington talk about “entitlements” and cutting them back in order to solve budgetary woes (either real or imagined…), this is one of the biggest items that they like to go after. Umm, excuse me, but we earned it after working and having it taken from our paychecks every damned week.…

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