A Fiscal ‘Tsunami’

Where is all the Social security dollars taken from every working person paycheck and matched by the employer. Remember; they (the goverment) set this up as a trust fund.
There is a decution of 17% of the total amount of your security check deducted each month for medicare.
Where is this money?
Now let us examine money was supposed used for this war.
No one responsible for accounting for the TRILLIONS of dollars spend seem to be able to answer Where were the dollars spent?
Who received the dollars spent?
What did the dollars spent buy?
When did billions of contracts go to best contributors?
Why are billions of dollars being paid for contracts that were never started to be fulfilled.
Look to the people in our goverment who are acting like children with a unlimited charge card in toys R us.
Working people are spending three months or more of their working life each year just to pay taxes to the federal goverment. The social security is being deducted form paychecks all year.
This is the few Americans that still have jobs here in the U. S.
How is our goverment doing? How many of them are honoring the oat the took to protect America and the constitution with their right hand raised and the other on the bible?
Remember; you the American citizen hired them. Yes you did, when you cast that vote with their name on the ballot. Has you e-mailed, faxed, telephoned, wrote a letter, expressing your thoughts, if not why not? they are acting in your name and your future and spending your hard earned money. Your silence is your consent.. Where is the TRILLIONS of dollars? certainly not in our health care, not in our educational system, not used for any veterns care,
not used to insure that our foods. medicine, toys, ets are safe, WHERE is the money going?
vflaz@msn.com

I thought that "taking money from one person and giving it to another" was what capitalism was all about. And do you really think that you have an "absolute right" to keep "100%" of your money? If it's true--- and it certainly is--- that taxes are the price we pay for civilization, then this is an argument for barbarism. No schools, no highways, no national defense.... I guess we'll all disperse in the woods and live off grubs. But at least no federales will be messing with our millions!

Fat chance it's the baby boomers, it's the same corrupt politicians that have brought you all the other disasters. There is only one presidential candidate that is addressing this issue and that is Ron Paul. Ron Paul has been sounding this same warning for 20 plus years and now that this tsunami is upon us people are starting to listen. Bring our troops home from all 130 countries, including Iraq and save trillions, not billions, trillions. Let???s get our financial house in order by electing Ron Paul.
Please visit www.RonPaul2008.com.

Where is mention of the real solution? That is, a progressive tax on the rich, say 91%, who gained their riches because of the whole USA, Give us negotiation with the drug companies. Get rid of the middlemen in the insurance rackets. Universal health coverage. Nowhere is mention made of the time line these huge money numbers come from. All in all, if we acted like a true nation there would be no problem, but this unfettered capitalism will drag most of the nation to the garbage dump.

To "arbucle" I'd suggest you make that "I murdered him" rather than he was killed - take some responsibility, even as you gloat in the taking of a human life. And, by the way, it is not his "illegality" that had him breaking into your home, it's because he's a criminal. His immigation status is incidental. The habit of taking every crime committed by an "illegal" and pretending citizens and "non-illegals" are not committing the exact same crime at the same or even higher rate is just retarded. Are you an 'illegal" driver when you go over the speed limit? By the way, 20 years ago, I too was "illegal" - today, I'm a citizen and harvard-trained corporate lawyer paying more in taxes than probably 99% of the "pure-breds" who are "legal" to support your appointed President and congressmen in their wasteful spending. You're welcome.

While the rest of you are tinkering with my money, I will remind you that I have been part of a large group of Americans who have been sounding this alarm for decades. This is not a new event. It started the day Americans like you decided that it was perfectly OK to take money from one person and give it to another. You want to know which presidential candidate will solve this? Ask them all one question: "How much of my money do I have an absolute right to keep?" Only one candidate will say 100 percent. His name is Ron Paul. (The others will say zero percent.)

I didn't see a word about illegal immigration. Living in California, and seeing 100 hospitals close their emergency room doors due to lack of reimbursement from illegals, its easier to see how close the end really is. Twenty Million Illiterates can sink us faster than you might think.

Welcome to the shocking realization that the United States of America and all its descendents have been raped by corrupt officials bent on enriching themselves and their supporters. Congratulations Republicans especially - you've swallowed the line for eight years that you can spend without consequence. Thanks to all of you, Republicans will be remembered in Chinese History classes as the group most responsible for turning the United States into a third world country. Our children on the other hand will be scraping through derelict Ford and GM factories for scrap metal.

Truly the bovine apathy of our own fat rears in allowing ourselves to be led by the nose by predators like Bush, Cheney and the Congress is what is to blame. My one concilation is the irony of the thought of narrow minded Republican zealots watching their grandchildren struggle to learn Chinese in the hope of getting a menial middle management position for whoever takes our place.

Seems to me that "decline and fall" is an apt description of the path the United States has started on in the last several years and it is a path we have untertaken of our own free will. We are a society tthat has the largest and most expensive military establishement the world has ever known, and which is growing in its cost and lessening in its capability every day. We engage in wars and war threats all over the globe in order to give this military something to do, yet we are unwilling to pay the cost of it by an increase in our taxes. We have doubled our national debt in just six years and are now running 100% of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on borrowed money. Everytime the President asks, and the Congress meekly grants, some huge funds to "support the troops" we have to go out and find that money because we have no reserves of our own to pay for the war. And we are borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to fight (and lose by the way) Bush's self-indulgent little wars from countries like China, Saudi Arabia and Mexico, (bet that's a surprise.) all nations we belittle in our crass Western superiority, yet on whom we are dependent to keep our military machine from being an even greater disaster than it has been in the last two wars. No nation, large or small, has ever been able to survive its economic failures, usually self-inflicted, caused by rampant and out of control military expenditures and an unwillingness on the part of its citizens to pay the cost of them in the form of additional taxes. No nation can continue to pile up debt for the purpose of military adventurism and without any security for that debt. As a result of the Bush Administrations inept and inneffective economic policies as well as the greatest spending frenzy in our History we stand at the point where we may soon join the list of "used to be great" nations and will end up beholden for our existance to China, Saudi Arabia and Mexico. Such irony.