Text 17294, 39 rader
Skriven 2011-04-22 06:10:48 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 17228 av Mark Hofmann (1:261/1304)
Ärende: Haliburton (was: Taxes)
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Replying to a message of Mark Hofmann to Wayne Chirnside :

 >> Further one need look no further than the current state of
 >> economic and social affairs and unemployment in the U.S. to see
 >> what the war and Republican agenda has brought us to, I include
 >> Obama.

 MH> So now the fact that Obama is president is also Bush's fault?  The
 MH> fact that Obama is president is the fault of the people that voted
 MH> for him.  Smart people learn from their mistakes - stupid ones
 MH> repeat them.  It is truely amazing how so many people never take
 MH> any responsibility for anything because they are either a "victim"
 MH> or it's "someone else's fault".

 MH> One of the many reasons we have high unemployment is due to an all
 MH> but dead small business sector.  I heard a report yesterday that
 MH> stated that Maryland now has more government employees (State and
 MH> federal) than employees in the private sector.  It doesn't take a
 MH> rocket scientist to come up with calculations showing a major
 MH> problem with that fact. 

There was an article posted recently in another echo that noted that today
the US has more people receiving government checks every month than it has
working in non-government occupations.  More 'takers' than 'makers.'

Well over ten years ago I heard a radio interview with some muckety-muck
from the Futurist Society who stated at the time that *one person in three*
in this country gets a government check every month (employment, pension,
welfare, Social Security, etc.. - includes state and local governments as well
as federal).  There's no way anybody is going to be able to turn that spigot
off.

Dave Ramsey noted on his radio show the other day that in order to eliminate
the federal deficit the US would have to cut its spending by 27% - and that
doesn't address reducing the national debt, it would just stop it from getting
bigger every year.  Ain't gonna happen.

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