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  The problem is that the pols just can't seem to get it through their collective heads that it IS their money as taxpayers. If they treated it that way, they would balance the income to the outgo very quickly. If you are responsible at home, you don't get the option to keep on spending more than you make - bankruptcy does happen.

  Oh, never mind. I used that "responsible" word. And that doesn't describe the majority of pols which explains the problem, doesn't it?

  It's our fault, though. A few elections ago there was a large "Throw the bums out!" campaign, but the election results showed that the majority in this nation only wanted OTHERS to throw their bums out of office, they wanted to keep their own pork-slinging bums. But don't worry, we can alway increase the tax on the rich to make up for it.

  Robert Heinlein had a quote in one of his books - Democracy is wonderful until "...the masses find out they can vote themselves cakes and circuses..." and make someone else pay for them.

  Skeptical Posted March 11, 2005 8:09 AM
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  I agree that Congress has to cut spending somewhere and that they've picked the most viable, logical choices - welfare programs. If we as taxpayers want to continue supporting social services, then we're going to have to pay more in taxes. In the mean time, the cuts are going to force these programs' managers to reduce benefits and more strictly police alleged abuses within their programs. It's the same problem Mississippi's Medicare program is facing...and they're running out of funding at the end of this month! According to local news, they've overpaid hospitals several milliion dollars over the past 3 years due to computer errors.

  Stephanie Smith Posted March 10, 2005 10:15 AM