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wwcd101- Your ideas are sound. However, we live in a society of entitlement- and I don't just mean government entitlement. We feel as though we're entitled to Cable TV, or the Internet, or Thai Delivery food. We feel like we've earned the right to relax and watch "24" or "The West Wing" because we work hard.
Why is this important? As time keeps going, new stuff is invented, and new entitlements created. Everyone's going on Atkins now- it must be safe! If it wasn't, the government would tell me! Zicam can't really cure a cold, can it? Why doesn't the government find out if this is a scam? Terrorists are utilizing e-mail! We'd better track it! Bob Dole can't get it up any more? Write him a prescription for Viagra! These are all issues the government has seen fit to dabble in the last few years- and none of these issues were present a decade ago. (Okay, Bob Dole still couldn't get it up...) So how do we pay for the government to test Atkins, Zicam, check billions of e-mails, and provide Bob Dole with another pen holder?
Toss in the huge boon in immigration, which we will pay for in terms of public school, lower wages, so on, and our costs will continue to rise while our.. taxes are cut? Watch that deficit...
Luckily, most Americans are starting to realize "tax and spend" isn't a Democrat thing, it's a politician thing. Democrats control jack squat nationwide, and our spending it out of freaking control. No one left to blame but terrorists.. and we feel entitled to invading Iraq and Afghanistan, too!
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