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The top three expenditures of Federal Tax dollars....

Corruptbuddha

Governor
...are Social Security. Medicare/Medicaid and the military.

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/taxes/tax-receipt

(Dummy input numbers by the way)

In light of this, why do both parties still think it's reasonable to maintain a superpower military?

I mean, we will spend about $700 billion dollars on 'National Defense' this year. That's $700 billion that we simply can no longer afford. And the kicker is, both sides are telling us that we can't live with any less. That we won't be safe. Even the vaunted liberal Obama has stated that even with the 'cuts' he has proposed to military spending, the defense budget will continue to grow. Which, any fool can see, is no cuts at all.

In regards to Social Security and Medicare, their own Trustees Report Summary for 2011 says it best:



How can this continue? How can we maintain trillion dollar national debts? How long until the weight of this debt burden brings the roof in on our heads?

All of this is bad news. But you want to know the worse news? Neither Democrats nor Republicans want to do anything about it. When confronted with the rampant military spending they chime 'National Defense', when confronted with the social network deficits they sing of a 'safety net' sacred cow.

The stupidity that got us here is self evident. Spending well beyond our means. Two ill advised wars, massive increases in entitlement spending, economic stimulus, aspirations of 'empire', and, to top it all off, bailouts for failed banks, thuggish unions and incompetent companies.

The common citizen can only come to a singular conclusion. The federal government does not and will not work for his benefit. Those who take the mantle of 'public servant' serve no one but themselves and their monied interests. The will of the people has been subverted to the will of the patron.

And those who would have us follow, lead us only to ruin.

They lie, they cheat, they steal. They make outrageous promises they full well know they can't keep. And when caught, they claim we simply misunderstood them. Or that we don't get the 'nuanced' approach. Those who would speak plainly and tell us the truth no matter how hard it is to hear are labeled crazies or ideologues. The truth in their words ignored and ofttimes forgotten.

The fact is that the current system of government at the federal level is a massive failure. Of course, the founding fathers understood this and warned us of it's consequences.

It is far too ubiquitous, far too active and far too involved in the daily lives of it's citizens to be labeled as anything other than tyranny. Soft, or apathetic tyranny, but tyranny nonetheless.

Just as too much freedom is anarchy, too much government is slavery.

We must move the seat of power from Washington to our own capitols and communities where it can be watched and controlled. Once again doing the bidding of the citizen, not the monied interests attached to government's skin like so many bloated ticks.

We must find it in ourselves to strip away the long held dogma that the jesters who fancy themselves our benefactors would know better than we do how to run our lives. And we must find the will to regain our liberty and never again surrender it to those who smile and nod as they stick a greedy hand in our pockets while they tighten the yoke about our necks.

The tree of liberty has long suffered ill-advised pruning at the hands of big government and big corporations. How long can it survive these assaults?

I would suggest, not very long at all.

"The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants."

Thomas Jefferson.
 
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