Too many crooks, grafters etc. The State can't support them ALL Get tough on criminals imho - flog the small fry and Fry the big ones end of problem
Funny how the liberal left seemed to stay away from this thread. Seems like they should be able to blame it on somebody.......maybe it was Bush's fault. Stosh
I think you're basically correct, but that doesn't apply to government. It's like a cancer... ever growing, ever consuming more... won't scale back prudently... just take, take, take until it all collapses... and takes all the innocents down with it. Same true at the Federal level... just takes longer and is more covert because they can print money.
I was actually looking forward to someone posting here...I want to know the counterargument, although it will probably be extremely lame like you say.
Sad, but probably true. I guess that is one of the main reasons for the rise and fall of so many governments throughout history.......and why the brief history of our system should only be referred to as an experiment. Probably the best we can hope for is that when things get bad enough, reason may prevail.....but we could just as easily say free markets don't work and kill the goose that briefly laid golden eggs.
I'll say it again and I am not a liberal: Nobody seems to have mentioned that Enron fucked this state out of about 30 billion (some estimates are higher) during those fabricated "rolling" blackouts. That's what put us into debt in the first place and got Davis essentially thrown out of office. How does a state recover from a hit like that?" As another poster said, we can't exactly print money. Who exactly decided that deregulating energy was the way to go per Enron? Mike
gov't needs to get back to basics. debt must be paid either by taxes or inflation. money doesn't grow in trees there is no free lunch. income taxes are from working slaves. taxes are not a right.
True When Mayor Ed Koch was voted out of office he replied, "Well the people of New York have spoken; and now they must be punished". With Obama the American people have spoken and we all will be punished. "The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" âMargaret Thatcher. How long will it take for the U.S. Government to run out of credit?
If you read some about world economic history, it's ALWAYS government that brings destruction upon its people. The Founding Fathers knew that. They had a wealth of knowledge about European history. They were VEHEMTLY against (1) a large and powerful Federal Government, (2) a Central Bank, and (3) paper money... DEMANDED that "money" be only "gold and silver coin"... for the obvious reasons. Look where we are today...