I also think we have a problem with our political leaders, especially the ones in Washington. It seems to me that 'liberals' support their lobbies - unions, public workers, etc. and 'conservatives' support their lobbies - big contractors for the government, etc. For the ones that are in neither group becomes increasing...more

I think that the problem is actually broader. Pretty much only the salaried workers are paying the full extent of current taxes (and they are obviously not enough to cover our government's spending). Almost everybody else has ways to expense or under-report their income to the level that sometimes even qualifies them f...more

Instead of crying for Romney, make sure next time the republicans choose strong enough candidates that represent the core values of the party, not its extremes. These elections were not as much won by Obama as lost by republicans as a lot of people would have voted republican given the right candidate and there are ind...more

Yea, it is easy to be generally pro or against like at a sports game. It is much more difficult to try and pick the right ideas and support the work to make them happen. Man, it's becoming more and more difficult for the moderate, or whatever the people that try to work the details are called nowadays, haha.

Of course they will but in the long term. In short term, it will have negative effect as that government spending is to a large extent funded by debt, not only tax revenue. As long as that effect is limited to the governments and their contractors, it should be considered expected effect. After all, private businesses ...more

A slowdown in the economy growth is an expected consequence of government cuts. Indeed, our government is not as big as the ones in Europe but it still has a lot of contractors attached to it. Bringing balance in public spending will have short to medium negative effects on growth but long term is the only way to go.

Is it really so difficult to make a list of the programs and services that the government provide, order them by value (for "we, the people", not the lobbyists) and start cutting from the bottom. I understand that all these services are important for something / somebody but not to equal level. This talk concentrating ...more

It seems to me that the big media companies are against distributing content over the Internet for some reason, although it is the natural way of going forward. While DVD/ BD with rights to rent costs are reasonable and you buy these rights, the price tag for the rights to stream contents is astronomical (millions of d...more

Search Social Security Act (1935) in Wikipedia and check the Overview section. 'Payments to current retirees are financed by a payroll tax on current workers' wages' You can find other references besides wikipedia if you do the search