[ExI] eput this crazy system out of our misery: was RE: Euthanasia
BillK
pharos at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 22:15:27 UTC 2013
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 6:00 PM, spike wrote:
> They promised to do what they cannot do. In the early 2000s, the congress
> bet the economy would grow enough to accommodate the wild spending spree of
> those heady days. The economy didn’t grow at the assumed pace. Now we must
> face up to the bills that were run up during that period. This is the
> democrat’s big chance to say It’s all Bush’s fault. They would be right
> this time, or half right. They have already borrowed our Social Security
> savings and spent it without means to repay, so those of our generation are
> screwed when we reach retirement age. What do we mortgage next?
>
> Overspending is unpatriotic, it represents a threat to national security, a
> failure in leadership. Our current president could read off his
> teleprompter word for word the speech he made in 2006, for it is more true
> now than it was then. Instead he disowns it. Why? Instead, congress
> brings in another far bigger wild overspending program.
>
> Sheesh.
>
> At some point, the US will go into massive default. It only gets worse the
> longer we wait.
>
>
"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it
leaves to its children.”
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
BillK
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