Big Black Dog
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Maggie Wrote:
Really? Tell it to the astronauts, who wouldn't have their jobs were it not for the multi-billion dollar government program to get to the moon in 10 years. Tell it to the tens of thousands of people who work in private sector jobs related to space science. Tell it to the tens of thousands of people who work for businesses and contractors maintaining the interstate highway system.
This completely misses the point of the larger picture and is nothing more than a programmed partisan response! Obama vision at it's best or a Nancy Pelosi sound track!
NASA, the Post Office, Medicare and others have had budget problems for years or are in serious trouble.
The DMV in our state, meaning all of the branch locations (the bulk of the employment) have been privatized because they could not make it under state management.
IMO, Our downfall began 40 or so years ago, but, to count on the government and not place the healing and recovery where it belongs, with the American people, is a huge mistake.
American's built this nation, not the American government!
Mike
I couldn't agree with you more. The American people have become used to getting everything they can get from the government in terms of government handout programs and thus, basically allowing the government to take care of them. The more the politicians gave, the more they were re-elected. Never look a gift horse in the mouth! Well, it's all coming home to roost now. The government is attempting to run and rule every aspect of our lives. I find this very distasteful but a large number of people in the general population seem to want this. My guess it is the biggest share of those Americans who pay no taxes that want to be given more and more. This public charity comes from the work and sweat of the real people in this country that do the majority of the work, i.e., the middle class. The wealthy already have their slice of the pie. The government gives the poor their slice of the pie. The only person not getting to eat pie is the middle class. A couple of things need to happen in this country IMO. That is, I don't care who you are, if you are an American citizen you need to be paying taxes. Everybody should be on the same tax level and pay the same amount of tax. I don't think income tax is the way to go. There should only be one tax and no other hidden taxes on goods and services. That tax should come about as a National Sales Tax. They could tax every item sold in America, except for essential food and clothing. I propose the tax be 15% for everybody on the goods they purchase. The money collected should be divided up in this way: 10% for the Federal government and 5% to the state the taxes were collected in. No other form of taxation should be constitutional. The tax should never be raised for any reason. Both the Federal government and the State government should be required under the rule of law to spend no more than what was collected in taxes per year. No more borrowing money from other governments should be allowed. If there isn't enough money to fund a particular program then the program does not fly. Simple economics. You can't run a family spending more money then you earn and you surely can't run a government for very long spending more money than you take in from taxes. The easy street ride should be over for everybody. If you are an American, you need to pay taxes.