"Spend, spend, spend" say the Democans

Call them not Democrats or Republicans at Congress. Instead, refer to them as Democans.
When they talk about the budget without talking about the real big expenditures, I say that is a wonderful example of bipartisanship.

Neither one wants to talk about the mandatory spending, but that is where the real money is! (source for the graph, via)
So, what is in this mandatory spending that takes up nearly 60 percent of the budget?

If only the joke weren't on us voters!
And, of course, even within the Discretionary Spending, way too much agreement on the need to spend a gazillion billion on defense :(

I like how Ezra Klein sums up the situation:

Well, the business of the American government is insurance. Literally. If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.