Quote Originally Posted by ahmonrah View Post
I'm a fan of G healthcare, so long as it's used from the 35-40% that's already being taken from income taxes....i mean dayum.
If the govt takes it over, expect you income taxes to go up to around 55-60%. You can also expect a sizable jump in your insurance rates, and your medicare taxes.

Hell, your current 35-40% is resulting in a 1.5T deficit, what do you think another 200B+ a year in spending is going to do?

Quote Originally Posted by ahmonrah View Post
reduce the frickin defense budget...actually, citizens need to go to DC, find every lobbyist and toss their asses out into the streets. but back to the defense budget...$663.7billion?? what enemies do we have? i mean, i know we have an empire....700 worldwide facilities attests to that. but do we have any enemies that warrant that $$? not that i know of. how about we have our services @ home, training as usual, occupying bases in the US for what they are for, defense of this land. i'm sure if all our forces were home, this in service would be happier, plus im sure the border hopping would stop fast as hell, seeing marines doing desert training @ the border. and i know, the military charter states they arent to operate inside the borders....take the fight to the enemy, but we are, IMO, spread thin as hell our back doors open.
You really have no clue where the defense budget is spent do you? More than 2/3 is spent on personnel and all of the things needed to support them, such as housing and medical care. The only place to really cut defense spending is in the acquisition process. I can tell you from my own experience, that entire process pushes the cost of anything to more than double what it should be.


A better idea would be to reduce spending on entitlements. All of that money is simply money that is wasted on those that have no intention of doing anything more than living off the govt tit.


Quote Originally Posted by ahmonrah View Post
then kick the bankers in the balls, get our money back, kick our Reps in their asses too...they work for us, not lobbyists
You also need to add the people that bought houses they couldnt afford and racked up crazy debt in the process.

Kick congress in the balls again for their credit card bill. As a result of that bill, 2 of my 3 CC's had an interest rate jump of better than 10% right before it kicked in.


Quote Originally Posted by ahmonrah View Post
i'm frustrated as hell about this countrys current standings...... it's looking very, very, very bad.
From a business and jobs sense, things will get better after cap and trade and health care legislation is killed. Also, after the Nov elections, the entire Obama platform will be over with, giving further confidence to businesses.