My Response to Rick

My "blog" friend wrote a response to my blog entitled," I am Not a Republican".  In his reply Rick states:

"three comments to Jeff on his blog....
1) 100B in savings (what he wanted) amounts to 2.25 weeks of interest payments on our current debt.
2) The GOP got more than $38.5B because they stripped out other money in the first few "continuing resolutions".
3) If he's so worried about money then he should not be so harsh on the abortion topic because if we had an additional 330K unwanted kids a year in this country then the cost would be astronomically larger than the $300M in P.P. funding (which doesn't only go towards abortions)....Just sayin, he's off on this rants.  Feel free to print this and share with him".

Rick, I love the feedback from you.  Keep it coming.  Hopefully, I can learn a few things from you and maybe you can get a different viewpoint from me.  So here's my response:

1) I agree 100% with you.  $100B or $38.5B really doesn't matter either way right now.  Both amounts are pitiful compared to the national debt.  But, given the situation that America is in right now, I would favor $100B rather than $38.5B.  Personally, I don't see the budget as a Republican or Democratic issue.  I see it as an American issue and I am for America, my kids, and my grand kids (if/when we have them).  It's just that my simple little mind tells me that you can't continue to spend $100 when you only have $20 in your money clip.  I think we need more cuts. I don't know all of the proposals in the Ryan budget cut proposal of $6-7 trillion, but I think that is a step in the right direction.

2) You wrote,  "The GOP got more than $38.5B because they stripped out other money in the first few "continuing resolutions".  Not according to the AP.  The press and the Administration did a "bait and switch" over the weekend and praised Boehner, but on Tuesday of this week, the praise started going back to Obama.  Why?  Because he "duped" the Republicans.  The AP reported yesterday that, "The historic $38 billion in budget cuts resulting from at-times hostile bargaining between Congress and the Obama White House were accomplished in large part by pruning money left over from previous years, using accounting sleight of hand and going after programs President Barack Obama had targeted anyway. The details of the agreement reached late Friday night just ahead of a deadline for a partial government shutdown reveal a lot of one-time savings and cuts that officially "score" as cuts to pay for spending elsewhere, but often have little to no actual impact on the deficit."  In other words, the GOP didn't get as much as it first appeared.  Obama and the Democrats won.  America lost.

3) We may simply have a different opinion on abortion and I am sure that I can't convince you otherwise.  However, for me, I can't save money at the expense of a human life.  And I can't make a distinction between an unborn child, and say, and an elderly person.  To me, both are human lives.  Both could be termed "unwanted".  The old retired person simply draws from the system and costs us money.  But I have a 96 year-old grandad that I cherish and could never imagine terminating his life because he is unwanted and costs us money.  The Germans thought the Jews were "unwanted" also. 
In regards to Planned Parenthood, I simply don't want to pay for killing babies.  If this issue is so important to people, tell them to hit people up like George Soros that have the money to fund every PP clinic in America, or donate themselves.  I can't imagine the outcry of liberals if the government would purchase a gun for every adult in America or if the Left had to pay for mosques, churches, and synagogues.  They wouldn't stand for it and they wouldn't allow it because they don't believe in it.
Also, 97% of the women entering PP get an abortion.  3% get "other healthcare services".  In a study done recently, over 50 clinics were called inquiring about receiving a mammogram or cancer screening.  98% of the Planned Parenthood clinics responded saying that they don't provide those services. 
And that is why I don't think I am off on this rant.