what is interesting in looking at this chart, it clearly demostrates one thing. The left is focused on dedicating most of our resources to the segment of our society that returns the least (little to nothing) to society as a whole. When you talk about a return on investment, the poicies of the left pay no return. Is it any wonder that we're going broke?
Thank heavens, people are looking and talking about the chart. Your second sentence is a vastly overinflated statement, in what the "left" is doing and in what America is receiving. Kaz, by inference, could have asked what the GOP is doing to try prevent that, but then we have NCLB (which I opposed) and the Senior Drug Prescription (which I opposed) and the invasion of Iraq (which I opposed) and the privatization of much of the logistics (which I opposed) for the war effort, the Patriot Act (which I opposed).
We need to reach out to women, minorities, and immigrants. We need to downsize our military. We need to stop the war on gays. We need to tell the socon Christian nationalists they cannot use government to impose their morality on every one else. We need to reform and update social entitlements so that it is cost effective and solvent.
And, yes, we need to tell our reactionaries we are never going back to a world of the 1890s or 1920s. Not ever.