OVM, Did you actually write this?
50% of hardworking Americans are paying 100% of the income taxes in this country.
So that the other 50% of Americans can become the new ‘Entitlement Class’. And that is not ageism, sexism or racism. That is a fact.
Really?
Yet it is true that 47% of the population of our country doesn't pay taxes, there is no NEW entitlement class nor are all the people who don't paid taxes are on welfare.
Look at the facts, many people who are in our population receive some sort of government subsidy or direct payment, which INCLUDES unemployment and other employment subsidies.
Maybe you should have watched Stossel last night, pretty interesting show about libertarians.
This is obscene and despicable to ALL Americans. A hand up, but not a hand out.
AND?
I don't think the majority of “Americans” have a problem with helping out, but most don't understand the correlation between the welfare state and freedoms. Most don't believe that we have had a second class group of citizens who have been enslaved since the 1960's and it is their belief that we should worry about what the other person has, not what they can have.
More debt is simply not sustainable and will most assuredly, lead to the death of the United States of America, the free market economy and most importantly….our Freedom.
Well the death of the free market will never happen until we as a world is enslaved and can't move without permission. The death of the US is another matter and is where the problem sits with the political machine AND the people. We as a country have gotten lazy, it is a reflection of western values and a reflection of most of the world around us.
But the problem is the idea that we can spend ourselves out of poverty while using methods that failed not just one country but several under the guise of Keynesian ecomonics. From the origin of this failed economic system, we can see where it is a failure and why. But more importantly the home country that it was created in was one of repression of free thought and speech which continues today.
Make no mistake, starving the Beast is going to hurt. And we’re going to take a beating.
And it’s going to leave a mark.
IRT write that?
It makes no sense of who we are going to starve or what the beast is unless we can consider the beast the American People. Then and only then can it become clear, removing the fog that has enveloped the problems to fool us into thinking there is absolute hope with one leader over another.
But I guarantee you when we come out on the other side, our nation will be a lean, mean, economic super power to be reckoned with.
You are joking?
If we have an implosion, there is no hope of being lean, mean or any economical super power, those days will be behind us without a doubt. We will lose and have lost for that matter our manufacturing assets, the very core of our foundation to weather any storm. Without our ability to be able to manufacture, to produce something tangible, we are a lost nation just like England in the 60's and 70's.
Maybe even our children and grandchildren will declare us the second, Greatest Generation to have saved THEIR nation.
Again you joking?
Like many of my generation, they will blame us for our laziness, stupidity but most of all our lack of fighting spirit. We need to be victims and our greed and selfishness has put us on this road. We didn't care 20 years ago, we don't care now what the debt will do to us in the near future because we are lazy as a nation.
Great Freedom requires even Greater Responsibility.
True but our freedoms have been redefined long before we came to this earth and our responsibilities were also redefined when we were young and naive.
In ourselves, in one another, in our allies around the world, in Humanitarian Care, in National Defense AND most importantly, in REAL fiscal responsibility.
Who are our allies?
What humanitarian care?
Fiscal responsibility?
All of those are not what we should be worrying about at this point. Accountability should be our first priority, then fixing the mess we allowed to happen. The world isn't going to stop with or without us so I would think getting our house in order is the first thing on the list.
Fiscal responsibility starts with the individual and only the individual. This is reflected by our inability to judge those who we send to congress to represent the people collectively. If we can't keep our own house in order, how can we expect to identify those who can't do the job for us in Washington. There is a reason why Dave Ramsey and Susan Orr are making millions, we failed to get off our a**es and be fiscal responsible.
If we don’t save ourselves from becoming Debt slaves now, then we won’t be able to save future generations of Americans from tyranny, fear, starvation and enslavement.
We are already Debt Slaves and have been since 1934.
Ronald Reagan was the Great Communicator. As he so eloquently spoke, “Government is not the solution, Government IS the problem.”
Sorry Reagan wasn't the first to say this, I think it was Jefferson. But regardless, the people are the problem, not the government. We already have the tools to limit government but refuse to use them.
Sadly POTUS Obama has become the ‘Great Enabler’. Mr. Obama has become the ‘irresponsible host’ who has kept pouring the liquor.
Replace Obama with Bush.
Mr. Obama claims these are problems that he ‘inherited’?
I believe that he raised $500 million to run for office and then begged for the job?
Get your facts straight, he didn't beg for anything, he used the people.
Yes he inherited the problems from the congress, not the previous administration. But with that said the republicans had from 1994 to 2006 as a majority in congress and didn't do much.
Yes, I believe POTUS Obama was born in Hawaii. No, I don’t believe he is the anti-Christ.
That’s Hillary. Maybe he’s the Manchurian Candidate?
I wish people would get over the birth thing, vetting process isn't so easiely fooled but the people are. Too many people have too much time on their hands to find blame with others for their own problems.
I believe that anyone who is elected to POTUS comes in fully aware of the responsibilities and the challenges. Or they should be.
D*mn right BUT the common person doesn't know what the job is all about and neither did Obama until December 2008.
From day one the President is either part of the solution or part of the problem. There are no excuses that go with that office.
BS, the congress is the deciding factor in all of this, they control the purse strings, not the president.
During the campaign POTUS Obama was opposed to requiring mandatory purchase of health care. Now mandatory purchase of health care has been passed?
Did he see the light and change his mind or did he just lie to us?
Get the facts straight, he is for a single payer system, anything outside of that is the road to the goal.
Layout, he is a marxist, but he is driving our country into fascism. It is basically all the same when you come down to it - all about power.
