Buddy, what is a monthly cost of home cooked food for an average person? $200 tops, very manageable even for a 14 year old part time worker. What is the cost of orthopedic surgery on leg in a bad backyard accident? Let's say $5K and that too on the lower side of the bracket. How many folks have $5K sitting around in the bank. Another human right that has propped up in last years and 'event' long over due is the 'free body padding' for the RATS. The event of bashing some serious bones on RATS is long overdue and real healing of America will begin with this event. So avail your human right and get some free body padding. Might need it for use more than one time.
But that has nothing to do with the government ensuring our rights. The debt is because the federal government insists upon doing all sorts of things it was never supposed to do, such as policing the world and providing expensive entitlement programs. It costs government nothing to let you speak freely, peaceably assemble, practice your religion, own your guns, print what you want, or be free from unreasonable warrantless searches. Indeed it costs lots of money for the government to *violate* these rights, as when it wastes our money on the TSA gestapo.
It costs nothing to speak freely or print what you want? So, you think that legal terms like slander, defamation of character, incitement to riot, and the newest -- cyberbullying all just popped out of thin air at zero cost? Peaceful assembly? Guess you missed that viral video of those girls being maced by the police in NYC a few weeks ago. Own guns? Really? Never mind automatic weapons, in some places it's near impossible to own a hand gun today. Free from unreasonable warrant-less searches? You need to check up on the 24/7 wiretaps and the growing ability of police to search the contents of your cellphone -- both without a warrant. Sorry, but you've got it completely backwards. The government spends a lot of our money to put laws on the books that limit our rights. There are over 4,000 of them today and there are no signs of them stopping from adding more anytime soon. If anything good comes from the current mess is that we finally get to put boundaries on the Congress in how much and how often they can spend our money. IMHO, any topic anyone cares to bitch about can ultimately be solved by limiting government spending.
You got it. We need to review the 50's and 60's when government was small and America was prosperous. Today it's the OPPOSITE.
In the 60's only 1 in 4 households only had a bath room here... Today everyone has 2 cars. What do you mean an entire continent has been destroyed? Never before in the history of man have people been more wealthy. And these would have remained to be the case if the banks didnt invest the gigantic pool of excess savings into crappy shit shit.
In the 50s and 60s when government was small (ur words) income tax rate on the top earners of the population was between 70% and 90%. This tax rate was in place from late 1930s to 1980, when our beloved president Reagan told us this was OUTRAGEOUS. I hope this tax rate is also something you have in mind.