Quote Originally Posted by GeoFisher View Post
THAT is the most single laughable thing I've read on this site in a very, VERY long time.

If government had ANY concious, we'd NOT be in the fiscal mess we're IN.

* Who do you suppose SPENT like drunken sailors.

* Who do you suppose CREATED medicare and medicaid.

* Who do you suppose CREATED Welfare......

* Who do you suppose SPENDS money they don't have and NEVER planned on having.

* Who do you suppose GETS us into messes all round the world ( not that some are not justified.......like the current actions).

Yes my friend.......LAUGHABLE.

Later,

Geo
Agree with some of this ^. But.......Medicare and Medicaid are programs that do protect citizens.

I have worked witha lot of children and adults with profound retardation, cerebral palsy. If it were not for medicaid they would not be in our community, The would be in a warehouse under the worst conditions you can imagine and many of them would not be here at all. Same for medicare, a lot fewer seniors around.

So some may think this would be a good thing. I think Hitler sent the mentally retarded to the showers to purge the unpure.

But I do agree with war spending out of control (world police), deficit year after deficit year and look at the national debt now. Medicare and medicaid have driven up health care costs, but the programs are needed. Some health care changes are needed.

Back to big oil. Look how much money goes into blacktop, bridges, roads, traffic lights, stop signs, road stripping, guard rails. All to use the oil companies product. All this infastructure that has been base on a single commodity (oil). No wonder the have so much power now. So they have benifited tremendously on government spending. Let them pay their fair share.

So I'm not necessarily for less government but more responsible govenment.