Senator Warren is not talking politics. President Obama is talking politics to the GOP. Our nation's business is not a continuous campaign.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (click here) on Wednesday criticized Democratic President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for a provision that cuts benefits to senior citizens on Social Security.

In an email to supporters, Warren wrote, “I was shocked to hear that the President's newest budget proposal would cut $100 billion in Social Security benefits. Our Social Security system is critical to protecting middle class families, and we cannot allow it to be dismantled inch by inch.”...

Elizabeth Warren is correct. Speaker Boner is still a bone head and the stalemate is guaranteed so long as ruthless, manipulation by the GOP exists in the USA. This isn't new. The GOP has had this method of oppressing the American people for a long time now. McConnell is one of the worst of them.

...One new proposal (click here) is a 94 cents-a-pack increase in the cigarette tax. The tax would raise an estimated $78 billion over the next decade to pay for early childhood education.

Obama says his tax plan is part of a balanced approach to deficit reduction that includes painful cuts to benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare. Most GOP lawmakers, however, adamantly oppose new taxes....

There needs to be cuts to the military as well as tax increases, until those goals are met and the USA budget is reasonable, there is no talking about our Earned Benefits. None.

By Andrea Shalal-Esa

WASHINGTON | Fri Mar 15, 2013 6:53pm EDT

The term - recently invoked by top brass involved in the F-35 program - (click here) refers to a budgeting Catch-22 that plagues the defense industry. To keep the cost per airplane low, you need to build and sell a lot of planes. But in tough economic times, governments cut orders to save money. That pushes up the cost per plane, leading to more cancellations, pushing up the cost, leading to more cancellations. And so on....

Speaker Boner would rather keep the $85 million per plane program rather than leave the Earned Benefit programs for our citizens? Really? This plane doesn't even fly, yet alone prove to be worthy for any aspect of USA national defense.

Steve O'Bryan, (click here) Lockheed's vice-president for the F-35 program, said just 18 months ago that Canada would pay $65 million per plane. Now, O'Bryan tells CBC News the price is $85 million.

It may not be the best time to mention that. The U.S. budget axe is hovering over the whole F-35 program and the Canadian government insists that it's no longer committed to buying the jet at all.

Lockheed Martin is now running a multi-million ad campaign in Canada to create a wedge issue in elections. Nice. Real nice.

The cost for each F-35 helmet is estimated to be up to $2 million. (Terry Milewski/CBC)

Heck for a helmet that expensive it should fly the plane itself. Wait, maybe once it is perfected it actually might. The Drone F35. How special is that, huh?.

But, old folks need to take a cut in their Earned Benefits. Right. And then on occasion I wonder why there are no ideas from the GOP? I mean do they think for a living at all or only become inspired when they attend dinners with a President that does think for a living?