Bad News and Getting Worse.!! Report from David Walker, head of GAO..link>

[sam sarrha]

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_7041.shtml

the intent of this government is to hide the eminent disaster coming in order to destroy the constitution and make us slaves..

hide the real threat.. till it is too late..

[still_one]

1. I am glad he is optimistic, I sure am not

[getmeouttahere]

2. This will be especially bad for our social infrastructure...

as long as BushCo is in charge, they will continue to dismantle it, and the war on poor people, among other things, will go on

[Coastie for Truth]

3. Medicare/Medicaid and the collapse of ERISA Defined Benefit Plans

are the ten ton gorillas in the living room (or - if you're from my part of the country - the crazy uncle in the apartment above the garage out back).

Unfortunately, we can't begin to look for solutions until we recognize that we have problems.

Meanwhile - I think Bush's Social Security non-plans are somewhere between a red herring and a weapon of mass distraction and diversion ---- distraction and diversion from the collapse of our health care funding (public and private) and our private funded pensions.

The problems per se are not the cause of our economic decline, off shoring, out sourcing, and sale of manufacturing businesses to China and India. It is the failure to even admit that these are problems that is driving our economic decline.

Walker is 100% on target.

[sam sarrha]

7. we will have to let the terminally ill just die, over 80% of the total

health care provided to a person on the average is spent the last 4 years of their lives.. aparently the hospitals trying to make up for the insurance companies profiteering, most are going to die soon anyway before they start cutting pieces off of them bit by bit.. like my crazy great aunt Tacie..
she didn't even know what was happening..
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if we got a realistic nonprofit system.. we could save more than 1/2 what we spend now. legalize hemp and make them happy till the end when you cant do anything more.. put them in a Hospice and give them as much weed as they want.

my father knew what they would do to him when he had cancer, he told us he wasn't going to get treatment, it was worse than the disease.. and if we bugged him about it he would leave and die somewhere peaceful.. so we made him comfortable.. i started a garden for him and he had a fairly pleasant year and he died with a loving family around him.

[tibbir]

4. Bush ran every business he ran into the ground.

It's no suprise he's doing the same thing to the United States.

[Booster]

8. Well, he said he was going to run the country like a business, so

that may be the only thing he hasn't lied about. Asswipe.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Of course

Bush has been trying to "sell" his Social Security plan since 1978 when he first ran for Congress and lost. He wants to do the opposite of what FDR did. They would love to drain us all and make their pockets fuller and make more people join the military so they never have to have a "Draft" and they can always stay in Iraq. :mad:

[cliss]

6. Bush is the Americans' equivalent

of Ivan, Dennis, Emily all rolled into one.