The only way to end this BS is to go to term limits. You cannot have a Free Society without rules, laws, a police force to catch the bad guys and prisons to put them in. The same goes for a Free Market capitalist society, you have to have rules, regulations, a police force and prisons to put the bad guys in. Our government is not maintaining a Free Market. Too many political contributions (pay-offs), it is obvious laws are bought and sold. Folks we need to correct this, it happens over and over. Our government is paralyzed by the need for pay-offs (political contributions). We need a major change to end this professional politician form of government. We need TERM LIMITS and real campaign finance reform. How about three 4 year terms for Congressmen, two 6 year terms for Senators, and keep the current two 4 year terms for President. The most you can serve in the Senate and Congress combined is 14 years. We need an end to the professional politician form of government.

"Obama wants to control health care costs and insure millions of Americans now without coverage."

At this point (as it was pretty much from the beginning with Bush) sound, careful, responsible journalism fairly cries out for that sentence to begin: "Obama SAYS he wants to control health care costs (etc.) ... "

Bam-Bam says a lot of stuff, much of it self-contradictory; and much of what he actually DOES has very little to do with what he says.

So far, rather than the much-ballyhooed, much-feared transfer of wealth to the "have-nots" (or "undeserving poor", as some would state it) he has focused almost exclusively on the transfer of wealth upwards towards the "haves" at the expense of future generations of "have-nots" -- he works for The Man, as many pointed out well before his nomination, and any promises to "spread the wealth" downward need to be taken with the smallest grain of salt humanly imaginable.

He's not pushing any pie-in-the-sky socialism except rhetorically -- he's pushing National Socialism, and that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish, y'all.

Yeah, buddy, that big old wooden horse looked r-e-a-l good to the Trojans -- damn near too good to be true -- but they wheeled it on in, anyways, despite Cassandra's best efforts, absolutely certain that it sealed their victory over those nasty Greeks.

You remember Cassandra, of course: Always right, never believed.

The more things change ...

This will indeed backfire, and it will be well deserved. Democrats are bosses and Republicans are leaders.

We an talk budgets and we can talk of spending untold sums - it becomes at a matter of time - until we run out of money.
Speculation and comparison to the empire of Rome have been made many times and we go further down this road knowing full well the ultimate answer. Obviously, if we are to survive, things have to change.
We are in the midst of a complex economic problem that has no comparison through out history. Economic burps have been with around since people started using currency as an exchange medium and they will continue despite all efforts at control. The difference of today is that the entire world has been sucked into this vortex of greed and uncertainty, leaving those that are to lead, confused at best.
We in deep shit.

Mr. Lindblad --

Sun-Tzu would say that the APPEARANCE of confusion is the best possible cover for its opposite:

"Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

"Hold out baits to entice the enemy; feign disorder, and crush him."

All I see here is a well-organized rape of the world-wide middle-class, done in broad daylight, by people who have learned (think "George Bush") that "incompetence and stupidity" are a marvelous mask for large-scale criminal enterprise

In other words, bro' -- they are counting on you giving them that benefit of the doubt.

Do so at your own -- and your grandchildren's -- risk.

The budget deficits are going to be far higher than Obama and everyone else now expect. AS more Americans lose their jobs; as more corporations and businesses go bankrupt, as more banks report losses; as the economy shrinks further; as more Americans lose money on their investments________ income tax revenue is going to decline far more than anyone now expects. Declining income tax revenue being paid into the Federal Government will double the size of the deficits above what is now expected.

What a bunch of friggin IDIOTS! It is sad that those that were elected to work in our behalf, instead work against what is good for the country.