It doesn't matter whether some people reeeeeeelly need help or this program should not be cut or this other thing should be paid for. You can go on and on till the cows come home about who deserves what. The fact of the matter is, that our countries have run out of money. If you used your credit card and kept buying things that you can't pay for and you owed hundreds of thousands of dollars and then you kept on using your credit card and you asked your parents to help you out and they spent every last dime they had helping you out but you kept on buying things on credit. What would happen? Where would you get the money to pay the credit card with? Do you think the credit card company would just let it go and let you keep on spending money? Well, apparently the people in this kind of system, those who vote for politicians who are all about social help think it will all work out fine. The parents will keep paying for them. Who are the "parents?" The rich. Oh yes, let's just make the rich pay. But guess what? Rich people run out of money too, just like the parents in this little story. And just like the government. If you keep taking from some source....any source, it runs dry eventually. Then what do you think will happen? A complete and colassal collapse. And that's what we're doing right now. Imploding, you might call it. People need to stop whining about not having their health care paid for by someone else or anything else from the government. Whether it's right or wrong, whether you believe in government doing a lot of stuff for people, whether it's done "correctly" or not, it doesn't matter. We're out of money. There isn't anymore. We're in debt up to our eyeballs. There's no one left to pay for it.
Anyone read Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich? A journalist tried an experiment, starting with nothing to see where she could get with the proverbial hard work in several US cities. It's a pretty eye-opening book.
