Bottom line is that you can't run a government on pyramid schemes. There are reasons that these schemes are illegal but state and federal governments still run them. As soon as you have less being paid into the system than being taken out, it will collapse. Neither party seems to want to recognize this fact, and they continue to want to give ***** away. Farms, businesses, oil, carbon credits, health care, welfare, social security, medicaid, mediCAL, TSA, bridges to nowhere, earmarks, pork barrel spending, whatever....
I know a lot of folks on the left don't think we're in peril and that the rich can pay more but we're seeing the effect of this already. Take a look here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/05/30/ford.fiesta.ap/index.html?eref=rss_latest
All of that investment and the revenue that it generates will not be ours. Why? Because the Mexicans want the jobs while just want the taxes.
Who is John Galt?