The Ultimate Question
BIG Spending Bubble! <<==
It is my thesis that Government doesn't do anything well (except perhaps tax & spend & continue to try to get elected again). So why should we trust anything Big Government does to affect the current areas they would like to spend your & my tax dollars on:
- Medicare & Health Care in General
- Social Security
- The financial crisis & securities (bailout etc.) ... Housing etc.
- Energy
- & ... the ultimate con game (or NOT) Global Climate Change
- World Hunger & genocide
- Abortion & Life
The difference between the parties has become blurred. Now they both seem to be moving toward bigger government. The ultimate big government is socialist which is likely to devolve into totalitarianism.
I defy each side to present something or some program that Big Government solved & which shows up today as still solved....& which couldn't have been solved better by private ingenuity & private/public investment.
12/20/2008 - & NOW, post-election, we see the government handling of the economy giving bailouts as far as the eye can see! Can anyone argue that the government does anything well? The president-elect is promising that there is no ceiling to spending to get out of the mess - the sky's the limit! And the US Congress votes itself a raise. This is the stuff of which revolutions are made. Now where did we hide that guillotine?
3/7/2009 - 150 days and still counting I wonder why nobody has yet found something that the US Government does well?
"Our ideas and opinions about how to achieve this reform will vary, but our goal must be the same: quality, affordable health care for every American that no longer overwhelms the budgets of families, businesses and our government," Obama said.


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~~ Robert Heinlien - To Sail Beyond the Sunset
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Building roads & providing infrastructure
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Regulating immigration - note however poorly it is currently done no private enterprise could do it without corruption
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Intelligence gathering - however poorly you may think it is done now it would be worse provided by many different corportations with private agendas as well as public.
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Initial high cost enterprises like NASA & the LHC & other physics experiments which are in part or whole financed on public funds.
There are a few others & some like the USPS have reverted to a semi-private enterprise. Notable failures are education, housing, taxation & legislative processes.






When the Obama administration releases a report on the Friday before a long weekend, it’s clearly not trying to draw attention to the report’s contents. Sure enough, the “Seventh Quarterly Report” on the economic impact of the “stimulus,” released on Friday, July 1, provides further evidence that President Obama’s economic “stimulus” did very little, if anything, to stimulate the economy, and a whole lot to stimulate the debt.
The report was written by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors, a group of three economists who were all handpicked by Obama, and it chronicles the alleged success of the “stimulus” in adding or saving jobs. The council reports that, using “mainstream estimates of economic multipliers for the effects of fiscal stimulus” (which it describes as a “natural way to estimate the effects of” the legislation), the “stimulus” has added or saved just under 2.4 million jobs ��" whether private or public ��" at a cost (to date) of $666 billion. That’s a cost to taxpayers of $278,000 per job.

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Yeah ... sometimes he sounds good & other times he sounds nutty! I want him to show me his cards - what is he going to do & how is he going to accomplish it in the expected environment he would find himself in January 2013 ? Sometimes it sounds like his OBGyn strayed into proctology!

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