This is a topic I'm really upset on. Why? Keep reading.
The biggest problem I see about liberal "experiments" is that they are going to take me down with them, and I find that deeply disturbing. Keep reading and let's do some math.
Hard core liberals are the party of "emo feeling" and not reality. I challenge any liberal to pay significantly extra in taxes, freely of their own accord, to fund their liberal ideology. I challenge any liberal to get off their lazy behinds and go live in one of those countries they hold up so highly for a month. They'll be very happy to come home afterwards. They won't want to turn their home into them. The grass is not greener on the other side, and it still has to be mowed.
Let's take the liberal medical issue to start my main discussion...
I'm a poor and dying cripple who's had bad health problems since 2003. I've seen the medical system like few others have. I fully agree there are some major problems that need fixing... but I'm fully against anything like obamacare. I believe the government should provide basic operating rules and guidelines to prevent people from screwing each other over... and nothing more. Politicians shouldn't be "looking for things to do to justify their jobs".
Obama compared FedEx and UPS to the USPS when mentioning his health care plan. He should have fired his speech writers for that one. The USPS is bleeding something like $7billion per year. Great model of government efficiency. The GBO has stated obamacare projected costs are already unrealistic... meaning whatever the billion dollar number they put out would be much higher. If liberals want to win us over to their point of view, they should have started out by fixing Medicare, Medicade, Social Security, USPS, Amtrack, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FEMA, welfare, illegal immigration, and the IRS. They pretty much owned congress 2009-2010 and this wouldn't have been that difficult for them to do.
...which leads me to the point I really want to make in this post:
Liberals Failed High School Math.
Why? Because they can't count big numbers and do simple arithmetic and multiplication.
I'll try to over simplify this and make it easily understandable to the liberal mind... (yes, I'm talking down to you liberals in hopes that one day y'all will learn and be able to talk as equals.)
According to www.census.gov, there are about 310 million people in the USA for 2011.
The end of the Bush admin and the start of the Obama admin had started collectively spending in the multi-TRILLION dollar range.
Grossly over simplified, the per-person dollar amount per trillion is:
$1,000,000,000,000 / 307,000,000people = $3225/person
That's for EVERY man, woman, and child regardless of age and if they are working or not. If a person doesn't pay for it directly, they will pay for it indirectly by higher taxes and higher product costs.
I can't remember where I heard this number, so if I get it wrong, please just use it as an example... Between the TARP's and bail out's, I heard something like $2.5trillion had been spent in 2009.
Taking the per person number above (re-adjusted using 2009 census numbers), that's:
2.5 * $3250 = $8125/person worth of debt.
In a family household where the father works and the mother stays at home to raise the 2 children, that family would collectively owe $32,500 off that $2.5trillion number for this example.
Once again, all this is grossly overly simplified, but maybe someone will get the idea.
Now let's talk deficit spending.
The government is known for cooking the books. The national debt is something like $14trillion in 2011.
14 * $3225 = $45,150/person worth of debt.
I don't know where to find the other numbers for the books of unfunded liabilites of social security, medicare, and medicade... but I've heard numbers ranging from $40trillion to $200trillion. For the sake of argument, let's go average.
100 * $3225 = $322,500/person worth of debt.
Adding the two debt numbers up:
$45,150 + $322,500 = $367,650/person worth of debt owed.
Applying that to my family of 4 example above:
$367,650 * 4 = $1,470,600
These numbers are what has to be paid back over time in addition to yearly running taxes. These numbers don't even include the interest on all that debt. As of 2011, the debt interest is estimated to be 25% of the federal budget. That's money that could be spent the citizens instead of debt holders. That's money that's pissed into the wind and we'll never see a return on.
By now, some whining liberal is going to shoot his mouth off and say those numbers aren't entirely accurate. As I stated above, these numbers are grossly over simplified.
The point I want to make is that no matter what math you apply, the per person spending and the debt is HUGE AND UNSUSTAINABLE!!!
Now I want to "pull a Beck" for a minute and scream:
FROM A PURELY MATHEMATICAL LOOK, BIG GOVERNMENT ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF HORNY TEENAGERS IN A WHORE HOUSE DOES NOT WORK!!!
YOU CANNOT HAVE WHAT YOU CANNOT PAY FOR!!!
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ARE BOTH GUILTY AS SIN IN THIS DEPARTMENT!!!
THE INTEREST ALONE ON THE DEBT IS BEYOND STAGGERING AND RAPIDLY GROWING!!!
THIS GREAT COUNTRY WILL BE DESTROYED BY THE MONEY MATH ALONE!!!
LIBERALS (BOTH DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN) NEED TO PULL THEIR HEADS OUT OF THEIR BACK SIDES AND BREATHE SOME FRESH AIR!!! THEIR POLICIES ALREADY DO NOT WORK!!!
WHAT IS THER NOT TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS???
Ok, I'm calm now. I think it's great liberals have high and lofty ideals, but the reality of the math does not lie. You have to pay for it. Making our children, grand children, and great grand children pay for it is criminal. By then the system would have collapsed and they would get NOTHING for their "investments".
For my shorter second point: Whatever happened to the principles of Darwinism they shove down our throats in high school?
I may not believe in macro biological Darwinism, but what about economic Darwinism?
Let the strong survive (and stop the bail outs). They are the ones who built this country and employ everyone else. Taxing them to death to pay for the debt is wrong and will lead to "Russian Economics".