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Well if this is true, then you are saying Democracy has failed us. If our government refuses to live within our means and other countries are getting rich off us by undervaluing their currency, then the system is broken.

Bankers and stock brokers are getting rich because they make high leveraged, risky investments... and then are bailed out by the taxpayer because they are "too big to fail".

The average American can barely afford to pay for their own health insurance. They really have a tough time paying to keep Grandma alive when she is wired up to computers and has tubes up every orifice

Why do we have troops all over the world? Why are we fighting wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya? And just maybe we are spending too much money on defense? Can anybody look at this graph and really justify that we need to spend this much money just to protect ourselves?

Yea, Higher Taxes = Greater Revenue..... Does anyone really believe we should raise taxes to pay for a the inefficiencies of a broken system?

<blockquote data-quote="Hobo1" data-source="post: 158099" data-attributes="member: 2055">Well if this is true, then you are saying Democracy has failed us.&nbsp; If our government refuses to live within our means and other countries are getting rich off us by undervaluing their currency, then the system is broken.Bankers and stock brokers are getting rich because they make high leveraged, risky investments... and then are bailed out by the taxpayer because they are &quot;too big to fail&quot;.The average American can barely afford to pay for their own health insurance. They really have a tough time paying to keep Grandma alive when she is&nbsp; wired up to computers and has tubes up every orifice <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />&nbsp; Why do we have troops all over the world? Why are we fighting wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya?&nbsp; And just maybe we are spending too much money on defense?&nbsp; Can anybody look at this graph and really justify that we need to spend this much money just to protect ourselves?<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/e28cfcc56891df08bf32a556eb9d6d90.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&nbsp; Yea, Higher Taxes = Greater Revenue.....&nbsp; Does anyone really believe we should raise taxes to pay for a the inefficiencies of a broken system?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hobo1, post: 158099, member: 2055"] Well if this is true, then you are saying Democracy has failed us. If our government refuses to live within our means and other countries are getting rich off us by undervaluing their currency, then the system is broken. Bankers and stock brokers are getting rich because they make high leveraged, risky investments... and then are bailed out by the taxpayer because they are "too big to fail". The average American can barely afford to pay for their own health insurance. [B][I]They really have a tough time[/I][/B] paying to keep Grandma alive when she is wired up to computers and has tubes up every orifice :eek: Why do we have troops all over the world? Why are we fighting wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya? And just maybe we are spending too much money on defense? Can anybody look at this graph and really justify that we need to spend this much money just to protect ourselves? [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/e28cfcc56891df08bf32a556eb9d6d90.png[/IMG] [B]Yea, Higher Taxes = Greater Revenue[/B]..... Does anyone really believe we should raise taxes to pay for a the inefficiencies of a broken system? [/QUOTE]

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