Entitlement Society

[SHRED]

If these amounts were loans (not including interest):

$1 Trillion = $1,000,000 per day for the next 2740 years
$1 Billion = $10,000 per day for the next 274 years.


Iraq costs $3 Billion per week with an estimated $1.3 Trillion total cost.

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Yet here in America you get labeled a commie-socialist-traitor if you suggest that it would be nice to receive something for our tax dollars instead of war like:

*Publicly financed elections
*Universal health care insurance that is affordable
*A "Marshall Plan" on energy to move from petroleum to independence
*First time home buyer programs for hard working Americans

The RW always throws out the canard of, "Entitlement Society".
Well, they are god damn right we are entitled.
At these tax rates, all of us in the working class are entitled to something besides oil and war, for a change!

[Hubert Flottz]

1. I agree!

All we're getting for our money is the shaft!

[rurallib]

2. the really funny thing is that the last three would help business

in a huge, huge way. Universal health care would help level the playing field for competition with the world, an energy program would create a multitude of opportunities for new devices and their maintenance, and what can be more basic to the economy than homes. Publically financed campaigns would also be much cheaper and the hidden 'tax' of campaign contributions would be removed from products, plus it would help stabilize what has become an increasingly divided society.
So the true winners in this would be business, especially small business and entrepeneurs.

[SHRED]

3. agreed...

...many have said that Universal Health Insurance will come about when business wakes up to the fact that it is good for them.
Good for every business except the health insurance industry that is.

[Mnemosyne]

4. Exactly. Good call SHRED! K and R n/t

[SHRED]

5. kick