How bout this alternative...if you quote me, address my post and not something only remotely related to my my post. My post had nothing to do with the debt, taxes or anything else you typed.
What you just did here is like quoting Moreluck's post and replying, " The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"
Are you and FedEx communicating your special language in PMs?
You asked about those stats... so I explained them, is that ok ?
They even have the extra $2 trillion per year in those stats that Bush spent since he implemented those tax cuts and medicaid part B.
Figures why you and Nimnim can't figure it out, why the government falls deeper into debt, when it receives less income (taxes), while expenses for the governemnet keeps going up (more people on medicare and SS, and within 18 years - by 2030, 60% of the current budget will be paid out to medicare/aid and SS alone - higher interest payments on the federal debt - the more you borrow - the more you pay on interest).
Fighting 2 1/4 wars don't help. They are not free !
No one wants to fight Healthcare costs that already take up more then 30% of GDP and let the private sectore continue to raise prices as they wish and desire.
With every raise in healthcare, there is a "cost" to the government, even in your paycheck ! The government gives you automatically deeper non-tax wage amounts with every raise in your healthcare plan.
Every American man, woman and child share of the soon to be $15 Trillion dollar federal debt is $50.000.
Now, that doesn't even include state or municipal debts, which probably double the above amount, esspecially in a state and city like LA, California.
And you still wonder why the government suffers, if they takes in less taxes ?
Simply put: The US Government and citizens lived too long off borrowed and "free" money for too long.
Now, it's time to pay up.
Just like Greece, UK, Ireland, and other parts of Europe are doing.
They don't reley on lowering taxes to pay off their debt.
Republicans still think it works.
Why didn't it work when Bush was Prez, and the unemployment was at record lows (3.9 - 4.5%) ????? And he still kept adding to the federal debt !
