Our country doesn't have a pot to piss in and here comes Barry with a lavish trillion dollar spending proposal. Yippee! Maybe we can borrow funds from Jupiter or Saturn. He's like Paris Hilton at Saks Fifth Avenue on Sanford and Son's budget.
Here's an idea. Require those that recieve public assistance to submit to a drug test before collecting their check. Hardworking Americans need to submit to testing to stay employed; the same should be true for those vacuuming public funds.
This would create additional dollars that could be redirected for financing Barry's spending proposal.
God I hate this kind of drivel.
McCain fully intends to INCREASE the spending on the WAR... pissing away 100 BILLION dollars a year killing the wrong people for NO GOOD REASON.
Iraq is NO threat.
McCain intends to LOWER the taxes on the rich even further, and intends to CONTINUE the republican de-regulation idiocy.
So- in FACT- Obama wants to spend money on rebuilding the US economy. ( you do that by funding infrastructure and other initiatives that create jobs )
McCain wants to CONTINUE with the same economic policies that made him central in the Keating 5 scandal and created THIS fiasco.
Anyone who thinks that this economy can be fixed without MASSIVE government spending on job creation is deluding themselves.
The ONLY thing that ended the depression was massive government spending on JOBS programs and spurring industries that created jobs.
McCain would like to KILL our way out of a depression.
Obama would rather put Americans to work on something OTHER than war profiteering.
Either way, folks... we ALL are gonna pay for allowing our nation to switch from manufacturing to an economy based entirely on DEBT SERVICE.
The opposite of Privatized is NOT "socialism", its
SocialIZED.
Here are some examples of Socialized government programs...
1- GOVERNMENT-- the entire IDEA of government is a socialized solution to public needs.
2- Military- Our armed forces are SOCIALIZED - military contractors sell their products to the government at a profit, but your government DOES NOT MARK UP those products to YOU, the taxpayer. Not so with Blackwater- who charges YOU
3 times as much as the government pays for military services and equipment direct.
3- WATER- your government supplies you with the safest drinking water in the world...at ZERO profit. Because there is no profit- they do not have an incentive to cut corners and thus endanger your health. Municipal water is checked 4 times PER HOUR, every day , all day. Idiot Americans buy bottled water- which your bottling company takes from the TAP- and runs thru a very large Brita to take out the chlorine that kept it pure. And charges you
6 to 10 times as much as the SAME water costs from your tap.
4- SEWER- your SHIT is whisked away from your home and processed by a non-profit governmental service. They take care of the pipes, the mess, everything. We all pay for it, and we get it for COST.
5- FOOD inspection... thousands of public employees whose ONLY job is to ensure the food you eat is safe. a service provided at cost.
I could go on and on.
The people who try to SCARE you with the idea the socialized healthcare or other services are "wrong or BAD" or communist, are simply ignorant or trying to CHARGE a percentage on top of what you would otherwise pay.
Private enterpise harnesses individual greed to innovate and create industries and jobs.... But it DOES NOT LOWER the cost of essential services.
The Garbage company that gets the contract to take away your trash makes a profit, the same as Lockheed makes a profit selling bombers to the Air Force.
Privatizing essential services simply means that ONE MORE LAYER of MARK UP is added to the cost to YOU the taxpayer.
Along WITH the incentive to cut corners and cheat to maximize profit.
The entire POINT of government supplying essential services is that the government can NEGOTIATE how much profit is appropriate for a vendor to charge.
Nobody really notices... but since telecom was deregulated... we are all PAYING for things the government USED to make AT&T give us for free...Like information calls.
I don't mind folks who DO nothing and CONTRIBUTE nothing carving a profit off the stock speculation on the manufacturing of Pantyhose or iPods.
But I do not need some Beemer driving dweeb carving a profit off of MY illness nor my deathbed.
I do not need my doctor's INCOME to be tied to how much care he can DENY me.
In some areas... we can harness human avarice to our benefit.
In other areas... human avarice can ONLY make everything worse.
Govenrment is the IDEA that SOME aspects of a society are best handled as a collective.
Defense and essential- non-deferrable services.
Because, when services are essential, when their purchase can NOT be deferred... free markets ALWAYS result in price fixing.
In THIS particular fix we are in....
The LAST thing we need is more fucktards who think "government is the problem"
We can't AFFORD for govenrment to be a problem...
We must DEMAND that it be a solution.
People who think government is a problem prove themselves right by making SURE government is a problem.
Guess what some execs at AIG did the day after the bailout passed? Took a vacation to the most expensive resort in the US. If you're rich, you don't have to worry about anything except being slightly less right for a minimal amount of time.