[jc3900]

All I can say to you guys is that the current system will crash! In the end I will be proven right because the numbers just don't add up. All any of these entitlement programs do is prop up a small percentage of the population while draging down the large majority. You guys living in a bubble who think that the United States is in a fine position to just keep wonderful entitlements should go look up David Walker. He used to be the comptroller general for the GAO. According to him, to fund all of our entitlements(not including any new programs like universal healthcare), we would need 8-9 trillion dollars beeing invested at treasury rates. However instead of having 8-9 trillion in the bank, we have nearly 9.5 trillion in debt. Sorry but this house of cards will fall. No one can keep spending forever. It must come to an end sometime. And I am sorry I would rather it end now with a few sacrafices, then having a full blown depression by avoiding the 800 lb gorrilla. Our fiscal crisis must be dealt with now. If you don't think immidiate and drastic action is needed now to change the fiscal cancer this country suffers from, then quite frankly you are either living in a box or a moron. Right now our countries debt is about $30,000 for every man, woman, and child in this country. Yes, the steps we must take now our bold, however the consequences that we suffer by not acting our to great to avoid.

Hopefully, you finally understand where I am coming from. Over these last few posts, it would appear that none of this is important to a lot of you. If you did care about this, I don't know how any of you could fathom keeping monsters around like medicaid, medicare, and social security.