Bottom line, people (liberals, conservatives, neutrals), is the bigger the government gets the worse off we are. We are screwing future generations with our spending of the last 5 decades. Nobody can spend their way to a better life without a dollar in the bank. Not a single person, or an entire country can get better by billing it all on credit and filing away the bill.
Look in the news! CHINA is worried about the future value of their investments with us!!! What kind of sad country have we become?
The rediculous retail expansion of the late 90s and till last fall was POOR PLANNING on our entire society. Spend! Spend! Spend! Every cashier at every store asks you if you want their charge card. Credit this and credit that!
Whatever happened to saving up enough then buying. Delayed gratification is ALWAYS better, in every definition..
Those that were stupid enough (YES, I am calling some Americans MORONS) to take out home loans that had balloon payments, high interest, were from unreputable banks.. they need a slap in the face. No matter who is offering you snake oil, it is YOU that signed the dotted line.
Personal responsibility is something that has gotten lost in our society, with more and more looking to their federal governemnt to save them from their own mistakes.
Those that have legitimately lost their income and must sell or forclose, I pray for, but in the end it is time for them to go back to being renters. Just a fact of life.
Companies that mismanaged money and had sketchy practices that were "too big to fail" should have been allowed to fall. I and all of you should be willing to shoulder some pain just to see a greedy company fall flat on its face, and disappear into oblivion.
Now a days the only way public officials get elected any more is if they can offer their constituents even bigger pieces of the pie. This goes for all breeds of public official.
Each and every one of us needs a slap on the face to see the light. Someday that national debt is going to come back and kick us all. Right now your share of the public debt is $35K, growing every day we spend more than we should.
It is not impossible to end this half century of spending. It will take massive cuts in federal spending, starting with entitlements. It will require people to realize that their "government check" doesn't exist anymore, and they may have to find another way. The taxpayer shouldn't have their money funneled to a neighbor who made poor choices.
Decentralizing government will be the plan. States, counties, townships, and cities will re-gain the authority they once had early in our country's history. What California needs to do doesn't necessarily apply in Ohio. Remember, we are the United States of America.. NOT just America. Just like you choose a stae to live in because the people there are similar to you and have similar values and causes. How rediculous would it be if we were just one big country. There are reasons I choose not to live in certain states, and that is why states need to fight the federal system to take back control of their own territory.
The federal government will never voluntarily get smaller. It will take years of wise voting to get people into offices that will actually make some real changes. I'm not talking about Obama. "Change we can believe in" what a joke.
Change we can believe in starts at home, not force fed from above.
Did you realize there were a lot more than two people running for president? It is OK to vote for someone you didn't see on TV. You may have to (gasp!) even write in the candidates name. Not just for the presidency.. We must sweep out the old (Ted Kennedy comes to mind) and replace them with people who may not have a hsitory in politics, and therefore has no history of public corruption.. and only has the goal of doing what's good for the country, not what will earn him extra stuff.
Well I'm all riled up now and feel like punching a liberal with my conservative fist.
