Re: Don't try this at home


Tex wrote:
> Mister Hand wrote:
> > And your assumption that the budget deficit and overall government
> > debt has risen with each successive president isn't true. A quick
> > look at the records of the government spending bears that out.
>
> I didn't say "debt"...I said spending...it will continue to increase
> because of the mistaken promises of social security and health care
> coverage for all retirees.

Deficit 'spending' leads to 'debt'. More money goes out than what
comes in. It was not the mistaken promises of social security and
health care that created the current situation. And before you bring
up 9-11, the current administration was already eating into the budget
surplus it had inherited before 9-11 occurred. Compound that with a
tax reduction at the same time as a voluntary decision to engage in a
long-term occupation of another country and you have the current
situation.

> The current plan is plain and simple a ponzi scheme that relies on more
> and more workers paying for the ever increasing aging population.

I wonder what the end result would have been had the cost of the
ongoing occupation been instead plowed back into domestic spending.

> Ever wonder why illegal immigration is not being stopped?
> Sure, I knew you could come up with that.

I'm afraid I can't.

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