It's not the 1 trillion. http://www.usdebtclock.org/
It's that the government has spent ALL of our money already. We already know that the CBO says that his health care reform will not only not save any money but will cost more that what we have now. We know that Obama blew the deficit estimates by 2 trillion (somehow his inability to get it right , after ignoring the CBO number of 10 trillion, was still bush's fault) 1) medicare is broke. 39 trillion in the red 2) Social Security is 10 trillion in the red 3) Our unfunded liabilities are about the same as the WORLDS GDP. 4) We are spending a little less than 1 billion dollars a DAY to just to pay the interest on our debt. Now we are in the worst recession since the great depression. Unemployment is near 10% IRS revenues are down 37% and the over all loss of home values etc. exceeds 12 trillion, so the people that had some money have a lot less. (those rich folks aren't so rich at the moment..) So the answer is to spend MORE? WTF? We are supposed to just *believe* that THIS time it will be different. That simply taxing some rich folks and cutting the amount we pay doctors is going to magically cause the 50 MILLION people we add to the system plus anyone else that wants the public option, (with no additional doctors, nurses or hospitals) not to run up the cost to all of us much more than predicted and lead to more and more government intervention and intrusion into our lives as they try to constrain costs and "target" health care to the needy. This all started well before Bush, before Obama, closer to FDR or Johnson, but that doesn't change anything. The is no money. =c= _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
