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Politics : Welcome to Slider's Dugout -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Webster Groves who wrote (9611)	5/15/2008 6:37:38 AM
From: Kpain	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50155

"I was asking WHEN we did just fine. The stuff you quoted goes back as far as 1906. Presumably the WHEN must precede that. I could embellish my question by also asking who the WE are in your statement. Are WE the well-to-do stocktraders who post here, or are WE the millions of people who have benefitted from those social programs ? wg PS -- Let me guess - you hate paying taxes for those other people who get something out of it -- not all, but something." Webster, Is this country in a little bit of debt or what? The pricetag for those big government programs including future obligations are huge as everyone on this board knows. My feeling is that if government did what they are supposed to do based on that apparently old outdated Constitution thing, we wouldn't need the back-breaking taxes we have. C'mon, a tax on income?? I personally see, know, and know of people who take advantage of the system because it is there. You think our Founding Fathers would have looked at the size of our government, it's budget, and many of it's laws and be happy about it? As far as benefitting from social programs, the cost is always greater than the benefit and often does the opposite of what it was meant to do.