Budget woes on the way

Cheryl Chumley:  Thanks for reporting
on local issues as BOCS is now in
work sessions to “scratch their heads”
of outcome of budget issues.
Phdee:  Thanks for attempting to remind
that this article is a local government
report, based on PWC BOCS Meeting.
Good luck in your efforts.

Joni6100,

There is a simple fix for social security to keep us baby boomers from bankrupting the system (of which I have been paying into since I was 16).  That fix would be raising or eliminating the SS income tax from it’s present $85,000.  That cap was created by Reagen, and is one of the principle causes that SS will someday, maybe, possibly, be in trouble to the point that the SS administration may have to decrease beneficiary payments by a small percentage.

Once again tho, I do agree with you - that we will never agree on anything.

ron, you and I will never agree about tax cuts, Reagan, taxing the rich, aiding and abetting proverty, capitalism or any of the rest. You and others seem to forget that many IF NOT MOST of the economic problems we had/have did not start overnight. Bush was not a conservative, he was not fiscally responsible, and that along with a SPENDING SPREE in congress, the idiots starting at Fannie and Freddie, that threw us into this economy. If you add to that the 100 Trillion dollar debt we really have (you know the real one they hide from us)mostly in UNFUNDED MANDATES, you can spell disaster.

Look, we saw it coming, conservatives tried to fix the problems with social security and medicare along with Clinton and even Bush. EVERYONE KNEW THAT WITH PEOPLE LIVING LONGER AND HAVING LESS KIDS, the baby boomers would bankrupt the country. People screamed when they tried to raise the retirement age, just a few years ago, now, along with what they did with BAD LOANS given to STUPID people, we are in fact bankrupt.

The solution ?? it’s too painful for most Americans to wrap their heads around, so, they throw little bones at us and expect us to be quiet.

Really Ron??? you said..
<<“Obama is a product of the Marxist Movement begun over 40 years ago. “

You’re just being ridiculous>>>ok, here we go…

In a debate, Obama said the following: “Judge me by the people who surround me.

In Hawaii, Barack was mentored by a member of the Communist Party by the name of Frank Marshall Davis. Davis, whom Obama calls “Frank” in his memoir “Dreams from My Father,” was an unrepentant communist. He stayed with the Communist Party even after the Hitler-Stalin pact.

Saul Alinsky…I think that in order to better understand who Barack Obama the man is we need to look to his past.  That is why I’m starting a new feature on Deconstructing The News called Obama’s Mentors.  Princeton.edu defines the word mentor as “a wise and trusted guide and ad visor.”  In part 1 of Obama’s Mentors we’ll learn a little about Saul Alinsky.

Van Jones…“I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,“ he said. “By August, I was a communist.“ In 1994, the young activists formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia.

Hired to run Obama’s blog, Sam Graham-Felsen writes in a Marxist publications that openly calls for revolution against the American government.

Mark Lloyd…Lloyd is in fact a Saul Alinsky disciple.  In his 2006 book entitled Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, he calls for an all-out “confrontational movement” against private media.  He wants leftist activists - through incessant political pressure - and the government - through the creation of a totally untenable operating environment of fees, fines and regulations - to work together to force the commercial broadcasters out, to be replaced by public broadcasters.

The Weather Underground terrorists, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, weren’t just any ‘60s radicals. They were communists who openly supported the enemy killing Americans in Vietnam. Some of the members in this group, including Dohrn, had traveled to Havana, Cuba, to get instructions from the communists about how to wage their campaign in the United States.

There are two reports that state Sen. Palmer had been involved in a Communist Party front group called the U.S. Peace Council and had actually made a trip to the old Soviet Union.

Dr. Quentin Young had been accused of involvement and membership in the Communist Party, and he refused to answer as well when he was called before a committee to explain his financial support for radicals who were behind the riots in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention back in 1968.

Ray, I am speaking of what happened about 2 1/2 or 3 years ago. Businesses were scared, consumers were scared, and I remember hearing over and over and over, on every news channel, and every radio station for 2 years how bad things were, the sky is falling, run for the hills, people got scared, people stopped spending (myself included).

Add to that, a GOVERNMENT stepping in, forcing banks to make bad loans to people who COULD NOT AFFORD THEM, (The Community Reinvestment Act), and what happened, that’s right, out of control weasel lending practices.

Add to that, the unions especially the car industry (don’t bother dee) that knew they were in REAL trouble with their legacy costs. The made promises (contracts) with their members that they could not keep. This is the biggest reason we hear Pelosi, Reid and Obama scrambling to find a government run health care program. They are in debt to the likes of SEIU, UAW and others and those groups are coming to terms with an aging population that is living so much longer that legacy costs are bankrupting them, mmmm kind of like the federal government and S.S. and Medicare. They made promises they can’t keep, now they have to figure out a new way because those two programs are something like 50 or 60 TRILLION in debt.

We have to decide if we are a true CAPITALIST FREE country or if we want what they are selling, and that is Socialism, almost to Marxism. The difference between America and most of the rest of the world is that we are free, but with that freedom, we must allow those who need to fail, fail including GM, Chrysler and the rest. People in this country have become, lazy, needy, and now have the feeling of entitlement, it trickles down into every aspect of life. If you have kids in school, you see it with kids and parents who DEMAND grades their kids don’t earn and promotion they should not get. It is getting worse everyday, and it is destroying our great country.