PART II

The cost of healthcare eats up more and more of our savings each year, yet we keep delaying reform. Our children will compete for jobs in a global economy that too many of our schools do not prepare them for. And though all these challenges went unsolved, we still managed to spend more money and pile up more debt, both as individuals and through our government, than ever before. And forcing govt healthcare down our throats is going to maintain the level of healthcare we have? Reducing benefits to our Seniors (by the way they paid into it) will stop rationing and our colleges will be full of future doctors who know the Govt will control their earnings. Doubtful. How about we draw a line starting on 1/1/2010 anyone over 30 will continue to pay into SS and Medicare those under 30 will be responsible for a HSA and their own care. This phases out SS and Medicare and um what was it in part one RESPONSIBILITY kicks in. Dunno my Mom raised 4 children alone and managed to take care of our medical needs.

In other words, we have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election. A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future. Regulations were gutted for the sake of a quick profit at the expense of a healthy market. People bought homes they knew they couldn’t afford from banks and lenders who pushed those bad loans anyway. And all the while, critical debates and difficult decisions were put off for some other time on some other day. Hmmm failed to look beyond the next election, that sounds like the ONE who voted Present & about 500+ folks on capitol hill. Transfer wealth...think Joe the Plumbler's ? to the ONE. People bought homes they knew they couldn't afford because BARNEY FRANK, ACORN etc forced the lending community to make homes affordable to low income people WHO COULDN'T AFFORD HOMES!! What was the SEC doing all this time? Our wonderful Treas Sec was busy evading paying his taxes.