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Originally Posted by bobnyce
There is no taxpayer money! Most of the budget is run on borrowed money. Taxpayers hardly pay the operating cost of government today. We are operating on the backs of our grandchildren who will never pay off the debt we have left them. If you think the admitted debt is all there is, try asking about all of the unfunded pension promises at the local, school, county, state and federal level that no one ever talks about. We are broke!!!! So how do we fix it - borrow more money from China and ourselves. How about that. We have no money, but we believe we do, so we print more based on the Government's promise that someday we will be able to pay it to ourselves! If you really do believe then I have a bridge for sale. What we have done to our successors, children and grandchildren is inexplicable and disgusting but then again - we got ours let them get theirs!
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The only clarification I would add is that "
we" is not me (and probably not you).
We have been "sold a bill of goods" by charlatans on both sides of the aisle who, as me Grammy used to say, "spend money like drunken sailors" (not to demean drunken sailors by lumping them in with politicians) in order to further their agendas and ensure their continued reign over the "great unwashed" (us). There will be nothing to "get" as this country goes the way of all former great civilizations and fades into the dustbin of history - SAD - when you think about what The Founders bequeathed us - "
a Republic, if you can keep it"
Fred