Re: Something is missing here?

Anne V wrote:
Karen, I think our healthcare problems have been brewing a lot longer than either of our last 2 presidents have been in office.

They have. I think probably ALL of our elected officials have seen this train coming down the track for a lot longer than most of us realize.

That's one I don't see anyone having grounds to blame Obama for.

I don't blame Obama for the past; but he is picking up with spending the $$$ like a drunken sailor--yes, just as Bush did. They (Congress, Senate, Presidents) throw $$$ at the problem, and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. We CAN'T solve our $$$ problems with printing and spending more $$$. It's just not logical, and it just can't work.

Have you ever run up credit cards and gotten into a squeeze with paying them back? The interest, alone, sucks the life out of you. It consumes you. And that interest gets bigger and bigger. It'll strangle you if you don't find a way to pay the bills off. For the average Joe, that means tightening our belts--not spending more--and doubling up on payments to get the debt paid down. So why doesn't our government work like that?

We can't even pay China the INTEREST on what we owe them. How in the world do we expect to pay for Medicare, Social Security, AND a gov't option? We can't. No way.

Now, if healthcare reform turns into an absolute snafu, then he'll have to shoulder some (but not anywhere near all) of the blame. The money? I'm dropping that directly on Bush's and Reagan's shoulders.

I believe it actually goes back to Nixon's shoulders. He removed the gold standard. With no standard, the Federal Reserve (which is not a government entity), there is no control, and they crank those dollars out like there's no tomorrow.

Yes, Obama's spent a frightening amount of money, but it's been in an attempt to fix the mess his predecessors got us into. Whether or not it will work...I think we're going to have to wait to see. I pray so, because if it doesn't, then we truly are in a mess.

Yes, we're truly in a mess; because there's no way we can spend our way out of debt. No way.

Karen C.
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