"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
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"SteveB" wrote in message
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Sure. They count. It's worth having a discussion about how to pay for
what we need/want. It's actually pretty hard to do the math, since there
are so many different ways of adding things up. In the past, many of the
costs were hidden and/or pulled out of the budget, for example.

It's easy to say, we're running huge deficits and spending tons of money
without examining why and what we might get out of it. For example, if
you want to claim (falsely I believe) that FDR's social programs were
not what got us out of the Depression, then what did? Some say, with
some justification that massive military spending as a prelude to WWII
did it. Yet, it was gov't spending that did it.
Wow. With our debt quadrupling every year, I see a dark and stormy night
on the horizon. But I guess it's like Shopaholic Suzie .......... I got
checks and the bank has money. What's the problem. How do you suggest
we get the current crew up there to examine spending and see how we might
get out of it?


Our debt accumulating every year... A dark and stormy night... perhaps. I
guess we could go back to no gov't involvement, but I don't think anyone
with any intelligence is really suggesting that. The Dark Ages weren't all
that comfy, as I recall from the history books. I don't mind paying for
things I might not use directly. I am my brother's keeper. Who would Jesus
not cover with health insurance? Didn't He take the side of the poor, and
wasn't He against the money changers? Or, was He for big business, and
anything-goes capitalism?

I think that the "crew" is acutely aware of the issues you raise...
growing debt and potentional financial disaster. Heck, the boys in charge
in the last administration knew they had to do something.

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Nom=de=Plume

I have been a registered libertarian all my voting life. I guess I'm one of
those who doesn't have any real intelligence because I think government's
role should be minimal as stated in the Constitution. Now they have taken
"regulate commerce" to mean any time a dollar changes hands in the us, they
want their juice. And to get into all things and businesses that they
should have never been allowed to incrementally infest.

The boys on the hill know what's up. Always have. They just want their
cut, and to bring some back to the pack, like wild dogs. It's just now that
there's a feeding frenzy as the trough dries up to plunder whatever is left,
and that is getting thin.


steve