Heritage Foundation's "Saving the American Dream"

In today's Cal Thomas column in The Tennessean, he stresses the favorable plans developed and advocated by The Heritage Foundation. 

Aside from the rank stupidity of some of the Heritage Foundation's ideas (selling off Federal lands, privitizing the FAA which would be funded by user fees, focusing on fully funding defense budgets to protect America's interests where no one can identify our enemy), they are focused on collapsing the Federal government by eliminating taxes and cutting all "discretionary spending."

One excerpt from the plan illustrates their duplitious ideas:

"Thus, although the major entitlement programs are the primary driver of long-term spending and debt, Congress must take tough action on discretionary programs and smaller entitlement programs to reach a balanced budget and ensure that federal spending is smaller, more effective, and more efficient.

Under the Heritage plan, non-defense discretionary spending—appropriated programs such as foreign aid, K–12 education, transportation, health research, housing, community development, and veterans health care, which account for 4.5 percent of GDP—is reduced to 2.0 percent of GDP by 2021."  *

Read that carefully...veterans' care in their view is now an entitlement like school lunches. They plan to shrink the entire list of "entitlements" by more than half--while ignoring a major explosing on the horizon of their own making.

On that latter function--veterans' health care--they may have missed a little connection.  Back in 2003 or so, it was the Heritage Foundation that rah-rahhed for George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq. It was the Heritage Foundation's stage where such notables as Dick Cheyney spoke to justify an illegal war on Iraq.  They were quick to advocate the meat grinder for American youth to be killed, maimed and mauled by such a war.  After ten years, we have over 2,000,000 veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan--and of those, several hundred thousand are currently or will be served by the Veterans Administration.  This ranges from physical disabilities to PTSD.  The Heritage Foundation is quick to send Americans to fight their dirty deeds for the wealthy whom they protect from higher taxes, and when the bill for thier care becomes due, they will quickly deny the care under the guise of being an "entitlement."

They do mention later under Defense Spending, "..(their proposal) also provides for tailored transition options for current military personnel and retirees."  For the life of me, I could not find their ideas for such options.

If you want to see a picture of "corporate America" in the eyes of our Tea Party friends, read this document. It is dangerous.

*http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/05/Saving-the-America...