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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (101170)	9/10/2011 5:15:13 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

By who pays for everything, the taxpayers. I'm with you, we should get out of the war business entirely. Medicare is supposedly paid for by a dedicated tax, but it's been in deficit since it's inception. I'm for helping people who need it and can't afford it, within reason. The military runs the one of the largest "socialized medicine" operations in American government, but no right winger questions THAT!

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (101170)	9/10/2011 6:50:35 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

when it comes to taking care of our own citizens we do not have the money An open audit, available to taxpayers of the monies going to take care of these alleged banking problems would be a good start as well as looking at where the monies going to help people is really going, I think we agree people are not getting the help they need and it is getting worse. Trillions have been wasted with Bush and Obama, and we have nothing to show for it except record food stamp enrollment, unemployment, fuel and food price, health care costs, a disaster education system. That's why I'm against throwing more money after bad, the bucket ain't got a bottom, yet we don't have a clue where it's all going. Billions to banks to reimburse them for their risky investments they were trying to make a quick buck on and dump on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Before we spend another dime on anything, we still need to put it all on the table. Defense, social programs, cronyism, everything. We still making $600 hammers? I'd bet they are over $2000 each now.... And after this audit, if a high school graduate can't tell you where the money went after looking at the government figures, it would suggest to me we need to put our education system near the top of the list to overhaul. 2007, over $8700 per student, per year on grade school, not college? empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com If you look at world listings, India and China ain't in the running, thought I think Japan is 10 while US is #2-#4 in several places. We ain't getting our money's worth in education, and more money thrown at it is not the first step we should take is it?