Not what I'm saying at all.
I'm saying that under current proposals, these are the groups that bear the greatest burden of the cuts; as if they are being punished for the government's mishandling of our tax payer dollars. The entitlement programs must be fixed, no doubt. But so must the frighteningly inflated military budget (still largely being ignored - the best anyone's offered is taking the cuts Gates proposed and pretending that was enough) and the disturbing amounts of corporate tax subsidies are government gives out to the industries who pay the most for lobbying.
These things are all being ignored while we attack the old and the poor.
Again, the guy in the district next door to me ran on the Tea Party platform and won. Good for him. But he collected more than $3.2 million in farm subsidies over the decade leading up to his election and he's done nothing to prevent the suckling of the government teat that his family still maintains (much less so in his name, but still his family's farms). So why should my mother sacrifice her Medicare before a fifty-something elected representative tells his family to stop taking farm subsidies?
I get your mistrust of the left. Believe me, I do. But we spend more than twice on farm subsidies than what we do on college grants for qualified but poor students. Worse, most of that money (and this is redistribution of wealth, by the way) goes to gigantic corporations. And if you don't believe me, I'll give you my far-from-liberal
source. So, you can see where I find some of these proposals to be less than fair. I have a guy in the 8th District of Tennessee saying voting for a budget that won't effect his suckling of the government teat, but makes people like my Medicare-recipient mother, my severely mentally-retarded uncle (65 now, doctors said he would die before 13), and people who work at lower-wage jobs suffer the burden, while he takes their tax dollars (except for my severely mentally retarded uncle, he never worked) and pays his family's farms with it.
I'm with you on redistribution of wealth. But I'd rather a poor kid get a grant to go to college than a guy whose already rich getting richer off my tax dollars due to a corrupt system that gets completely ignored in this discussion.