Boiling Over

The excuse for the up-coming Fed takeover of our health care is to reduce the runaway costs. How in the hell do they plan on doing that? Our population is getting old and old people require more care. We will have fewer people that will be earning to pay for government expenditures, at lower wages, with more riding on their shirt tails sucking that money away. Medical expenses have to go up as a percentage. I see no way around it, unless older people start dying sooner.

We're a country in bankruptcy. Our expenditures are well in excess of our income, and the future looks even worse. It's time we started looking out for ourselves. It's time to stop giving money to other countries and lining the pockets of those governments.

Let's close all of our overseas military bases. Let those countries protect themselves. We can use those resources to protect our borders from illegal entry.

Let's stop trying to rebuild everything after we've destroyed it when protecting ourselves. Bomb the shit out of those that attacked us. If others get in the way and homes are destroyed, too damn bad. If Osama is located, even generally, level the entire area and go home.

Stop spending money on space exploration, except for keeping some satellites functional. The payback is too small for the investment, and we just can't afford it at this time.

Increase the exploitation of our own natural resources. The technology is now such that it's environmentally friendly. Even if it wasn't, we can't afford to keep paying others for fuel, and we can't afford the time and expense to develop other technologies.

OK, I've now cooled down a little.