WHAT TO CUT OUT OF THE BUDGET?

Give me a break!  There is fraud threaded throughout the government in the form of unnecessary jobs, welfare, medicaid, and disability entitlement programs.  This should be the first place to start. 

Another place to cut would be with the luxurious trips taken by our politicians using their "slush" funds.  Lobbyists should be thrown out of the whitehouse.  Why are they allowed to bribe our politicians?  Why do politicians allow themselves to be influenced by a lobbyist?  Shouldn't this be a crime?  Government departments should not be allowed to attend extravagant conventions on our dime.  What do they really accomplish except spending a lot of our taxpayer money and making fools of themselves?  Obama's golf games, due to the excessive amount of money it takes for the secret service men to protect him, costs our country tons of money.  I could go on and on.

However, instead of cutting any of the above, the first thing on their list is always social security, medicare, and the military.

Social security was started by FDR, and in the beginning it was put into a retirement fund, aside from the general fund.  President Johnson came along and decided (on his own) to put our social secutity into the general fund...you know...the fund where all the above stated shenanigans are funded from. 

Now, everybody has the nerve to start calling it an "entitlement."  If everyone who has worked all of their life, and they had the same amount of money taken out of their checks and placed into a private retirement fund, drawing interest, and interest upon interest, most retirees would be in good shape today. 
 
Not only has everyone who has contributed to social security and medicare in the past, retired and are still working, has social security and medicare still being taken out of their paycheck.  In addition, most retires have to purchase a supplement form of insurance to pick up the slack where medicare does not pay.  It is not an "entitlement" when you have spent years putting money into a program.

As for the military...thousands of men have died for this country.  Without them, we may not even exist as a country today, because some of the radicals overseas would have probably blown us to bits.  It is imperitative that we keep a strong military.  We should be acutely aware of this since 911 happened.  Anything the military gets should never be called an "entitlement," because our men in the military, and their families, have paid a high price for any of the benefits they get.

I do not understand why the politicians in Washington can't see or understand the reasoning behind what I have just written above.  All they can see is how to "spin words" in such a fashion that it will get them re-elected.