Socialism cannot compete!

Defining Government Expenditure vs. Investment

> For that sum of money, we could have purchased universal healthcare,
> energy independence, free university educations for our brightest
> students, AND the advanced technology and knowledge base that could
> keep the US the dominant superpower in the 21st century.

Agreed -- we could have spent the *bailout* money elsewhere. Come to think of it...they could have just given us ALL tax cuts. Stop thinking as though it's *their* money to begin with -- it's OURS. Let us keep more of it.

> Instead, we have done the equivalent of bailing out pets.com or furniture.com
> in 2000 or the typewriter factories in the 1980's. Every major investment
> - excuse me - expense of the last two decades has been for things
> that have no future - Iraq, Big 3 SUV's, overpriced exurban McMansion
> mortgages, oil. No wonder people hate paying taxes. The ROI is
> near zero.

Every? Sorry, but Iraq is not for nought, despite what leftist thinking mandates its followers believe. There are 25 million people very happy to have a chance at a new life, including a dozen million women who are now allowed an education!! You think that's not a game changer???

We hate paying taxes because it's our money by right, not government's. We *ought* to kill income taxes (and property taxes)...in order to restore personal property rights, which have gone totally by the wayside!! Move to solely consumptive taxation -- that lets US decide if and when to pay taxes, when we decide we can afford them and want to spend.

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> This is how you dismantle an empire. Invest in saving the past instead
> of producing the future. I hope we're OK with 100 years of Chinese
> dominance because we are the ones making it happen.

Define "this" in "this is how". What is your root cause? Socialist housing, followed by socialist bailouts? Those are wrong...but only the symptoms. We have to look at the lack of ethics and generally declining morals in our society and recognize that without morality, disorder cannot be segregated from our finances and kept merely in the "social" sphere.