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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zuiderzon who wrote (21128)	7/1/2009 4:51:54 PM
From: benwood	1 Recommendation Respond to of 71454

The services that I pay for now include two wars and vast bailouts and transfers of wealth to the elite plus small and large boondoggles numbering (I'd guess) in the thousands of projects per year range. The accumulative damage from the current policies cannot be overstated. Blindly thinking that more taxation is all that is required is a literal dead end. The actual structure of how we pay is messed up, but not nearly so badly as the structure itself. I'd also argue that many of the 'must pay for services' simply beget larger need for the so-called services. I actually know people who are young, of sound health, yet are on disability permanently, or seemingly endlessly. Two of them take home as much as my wife who's a pharmacist working 60% time. You know, feed a man a fish... By the way, here's one such boondoggle of the 'necessary services' gov't (not yet approved but no doubt typical): seattletimes.nwsource.com