any individual proud to claim they represent the "farright" would have a tough time explaining your stunningly phony outrage over "tax and spend liberals" when you just discovered ridiculous spending only this year... where were you when Ronnie ran up the debt? Where were you when Ronnie taxed the shit out of everyone to make up for it? Where were you when every single republican administration put us in a financial hole? Where were you when it came to any fiscal responsibility...oh yeah... you are the silent majority. Where were the thank-you's when Obama gave you tax breaks? Where were your thank-you's when the Obama administration saved automobile manufacturing in the United States? Where were you when you had the opportunity to engage in a civil conversation? Oh yeah... absent... as always. The economy is improving, Jobs are getting better, unemployments numbers are getting better, people are beginning to have some trust that things are improving...no thanks to fools like you, "farright". You are probably still sitting on your fat but bitching about a birth certificate. Your attitude is a putrid as your politics.

Hey Smith, what about jackson and sharpton, don't they belong to your liberal pit. Those to are the most racist scum there is, there lifes are all about causing conflict. Martin Luther had vision, these other two are just plain racist, anything to cause conflict. Why are they in AZ, just to cause conflict, they don't even know the law they are complaining about. Appears you don't know much, typical liberal, maybe you better read up the issues a little better.

there is not one single liberal person on television who could come even close to the absolute INSANE rantings and divisive BIGOTRY displayed by Glenn Beck. There is not one single person on liberal talk radio that comes even close to the rantings, the hate-speak, the evil, the bigotry as displayed each night the Savage Nation plays to you, Jackie.
There is not one single television news station devoted exclusively to republican talking points, conservative non-truth, and religious bigotry that can match that of FOX NEWS. there simply is not.
Don't stand there and deny this, Jackie. . Your problem is that you only look in one spot with one eye closed and the other one blinded. You are nothing close to any solution- you ARE the problem and you add to it daily with the absolute lies and bigotry that you place on this site.
I pity your children. I pity your community. I pity your employer. I would never, never patronize any business where you worked. I would never allow my children in your vicinity. We don't permit the type of language that you place here. You're such a putrid woman.

I guess you consider the teachings of Martin Luther King radical? Regardless, your stupidy regarding Beck is astounding! I guess you failed to see his discussion with Dr. King's niece, Alveda King. She agreed with Beck and they discussed how Dr. King's ideas were similar to Beck's. It was a great show and debunked your comments.

yeah, your opinion is coming from a liberal! LOLOL! don't make me laugh harder! that is funny! he isn't a bigot but keep spreading your lies. keep on spreading the obama rhetoric. you idiots have no integrity! i really don't care about your opinion or your children. we don't permit the lack of morals, values and language you display around our children either. your rhetoric is typical of a liberal and the lines are all the same. they are getting old. california is the perfect example of the disaster you idiots want for our country. liberals are in control and we all see where they are now. keep posting if you wish and i'll continue to be entertained by your ignorance!

spreading hate is what you idiots do best and it is a shame children have to grow up in that environment but it is a free country. you extremists are out there for all to see.

Arizona has made the first step in the right direction to end illegal immigration into the US. The Federal Government has done nothing to correct the problem. Violence is now creeping into the US. The Feds think the answer is amnesty, and this will accomplish nothing. I stand with the Gov of AZ, she has done the correct thing for the people of AZ.

farright--i agree completely and think this all boils down to the right to life. we know where most on the left stand on this issue so i should not be surprised to hear their stance. since when did profiling and discrimination issues trumph the right for Americans to live and live without fear in this country? Americans are being killed, kidnapped, etc., and people are complaining about rights? give me a break! this view is why we have a lot of the problems we have in this country. the left-wing nuts need to be out of office and the folks who claim to be on the right that aren't need to be called out!

Damn. . I expected nothing less from the right wing nut jobs - however few they are that frequent this site. No small wonder that this place is taking it's last gasps. Nobody wants to claim ownership of the hate and violence that spills constantly from people that just cannot get over the fact that you LOST. Why? because you are all LOSERS.
This new law signed in Arizona will be found to be unconstitutional. Without question. Those of you here who CLAIM to be supporters of this document that guides this country once again display your desire to be selective on just which laws you find to your liking- rather like your bible readings- you pick and choose as you like and disregard the rest.
I am ashamed that you call yourselves Americans. You don't know the first thing about being this.

The violence and hatred that you guys are speading is ridiculous! It is sad that your kind lies and places false blame on others to cover up the truth. keep it up. i didn't lose. thank goodness the stupid people that voted for him are waking up. the mentally illl are capable of understanding simple economics much less the lies of the left.

The age of a newly elected representative riding off into the sunrise to never be heard from but at their leisure, should be long gone. However, in this contemporary age of technology, we still hear from our representation when they deem necessary or advantageous. Interaction with constituents should be one of the most significant portions of any representative’s job and should occur during the entire length of their duty. Is not the elective official granted the privilege of being the voice of the people, for the people with the State’s best interest and the best interest of the citizenry? I am deeply saddened that we, the people, have accepted communication at our representative’s convenience and their leisure, and usually around campaign times.

If we have eyes to see, can we not perceive the pointlessness of party system candidates raising colossal amounts of money to spend like party confetti to broadcast their fiscal responsibility? In this national economic misfortune, millions of green backs will be reduced to ashes to program our minds to instinctively elect the most overused name. If we have ears to hear, can we not listen to the reckless pleas of ‘more money needed’ by party politicians with intent to secure a job which requires responsible spending of our money? Our current party leadership spends money we don’t have to save money and our alternative party counters with a “money bomb” to DC directed by their national chairman?

Is it odd to argue which political system is least corrupt at the moment? Is it witty, through discussion, to then squabble over which of these system supporting candidates are best funded, or least dishonest, or most conventional, or farthest from everyday people, or furthermost from responsible spending, or strictest in Constitutional values? Would it not be easier to actually have a responsible conventional candidate that will stand for the people over the party and the system?

Why should it be a surprise to anyone that we are a country that is exceedingly overspent, indebted to ourselves and others and is on the edge of calamity? Why do we, the people that control our government by individual votes, continue to empower the systems that have molested our innocence? Shall we be impacted enough when we must explain the meaning of the words on a greeting card, to our children, that state “I care about you?” I am sleepless with our overconfidence and superciliousness as a nation. We constantly preach system politics and wonder why our trained and rehearsed politicians side with their party and the corruption of the system over the will of the people. A favorable stand of an issue usually leads to an unacceptable and devastating blow of another.

To think, research and study should not be a lost art. The provocative sleight of hand should not be allowed to endanger our future. A legal entity, congress, that can obliterate our heritage and then campaign against its own deeds at our expense, should not be accepted, let alone encouraged. Wouldn’t it be nice to once again have a candidate from the people, for the people and by the people? I am Jesse Holland and implore all concerned citizens to stand forward with a roaring voice in support of our Constitutional Republic. Without exorbitant bundles of money, I offer videos, writings, Weblogs and educational information. I am easily found online.

Sincerely,
Jesse Holland
United States Senate Candidate

The real waste is in the Department of Defense people. We can do without just 1 carrier group which would save HUNDREDS of billions of dollars!

Your article is correct in saying that most American's have trouble understanding the size and scope of our federal debt. According to the U.S. National Debt Clock, every taxpayer owes over $115,000. Our nation is going to be facing some very difficult decisions over the next couple of years and cuts are going to need to be made. At this point it is inevitable if we are to remain a fiscally sound nation. Big and drastic cuts need to be made. Conservative politicians need to lay out the case for making these cuts quite clear. Obama and the democrats are not going to make this easy but hopefully most American's are aware of the lies this administration is telling. Let's say we want to cut our debt in half in 5 years, well this means 1 of 2 things needs to happen. Every taxpayer needs to pay half of their $115,000 over a 5 year period or they must be willing to accept cuts to things such as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and now Obamacare.
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All good questions. The trouble with balancing the budget is that to say we must balance the budget is shooting at the wrong target. What we really need is to run surpluses, which boils down to bigger spending cuts, but the biggest problem with balancing the budget is that there is no enforcible spending cap. Another problem is that that most conventional budgeting systems base current-year spending on prior-year outlays, zero-based budgeting(ZBB) being one well-known exception. The problem with ZBB is that, while it encourages sunset clauses for programs, rigorous annual scrutiny, and alternative funding, all of which are good, it depends on politicians coming up with objective performance criteria in order to work. Absent these, spending caps are the only viable option, but not based on prior-year outlays.

The spending cap approach most often proposed is prior-year outlays plus inflation and population growth. Given that outlays are now typically 30% bigger than revenue, higher than that in some years, and that the debt is poised to exceed 90% of GDP, this pure growth approach will not work. if we increased outlays for 2009(3.518 trillion) by any amount, sat 3% to put a number on it(3.624 trillion). Receipts(2.104 trillion) must go up by 1.52 trillion just to break even. If they staid the same or went down, the deficit would increase. This simply can't work. Looking at the problem in terms of receipts like this actually suggests a viable, though initially painful long-term solution.

Limiting spending increases, in terms of receipts, by any amount is essentially the same as taking prior-year receipts as the budget baseline and assuming they'll increase by a certain amount. If they increase by less than whatever amount is assumed, remain neutral, or fall, we get a deficit. Why must the report assume that we can't aim for surpluses? Probably because they are assuming traditional budgeting and prior-year outlays as the base. But what if we threw that out? What if we decided to use receipts as the baseline and assume they would fall by some amount each year rather than rise? In that case, we would have a surplus whenever receipts fell by less than the amount we assumed, and the surplus would be larger if they staid the same or rose. Nominal receipts typically fall during recessions, and usually by around three percent.

Here is a quick example using a cap of 90% of previous-year receipts. 90% allows for 3% drop in receipts due to a recession, another 3% to cut taxes when receipts fall, and 4% to accommodate unusually severe recessions, natural disasters, and the odd natural disaster or terrorist attack: 2006 receipts were 2.407 trillion. 90% of that is 2.166 trillion. That's the spending cap for 2007. Actual receipts for 2007 were 2.568 trillion, giving us a surplus of 402 billion. 90% of 2.568 trillion is 2.311 trillion, our spending limit for 2008 and an increase in spending of 145 billion. 2008 didn't do so well. Receipts were 2.524 trillion, basically unchanged, giving us a surplus of only 213 billion. The spending cap for 2009 would be just slightly lower, 2.524*90%=2.272 trillion. This small cut would not have been enough to avoid a deficit in 2009 receipts were only 2.104 trillion, resulting in a deficit of 168 billion. It would also have dictated a spending cut of about 17% to 1.894 trillion for 2010. Accorsing to the monthly treasury statement of receipts, the treasury has colected just over 800 billion in receipts for the first 5 months of the current fiscal year, putting us on track to have a somewhere between a 20 billion dollar deficit and a 10 billion dollar surplus by the end of 2010. This assumes that the increased costs inherent in the newly passed healthcare bill doesn't derail what might have been a weak, debt-laden recovery in revenues, which historically has not been a good bet.

For those who are interested in exploring these ideas more, read my book available at
http://www.amazon.com/Blueprint-Prosperity-Mark...

Either approach will require spending cuts, The first to get us down to a balanced budget, and the second to get us consistent reliable surpluses that can be used to pay down debt quickly, cut taxes, and reduce unfunded obligations, preferably by helping privatize Social Security and most other entitlements. Spending could be increased in any year receipts increased with no danger of running a deficit. Spending would need to be cut in years when revenue went down, but nominal receipts seldom go down by more than 3% in the years they fall.

Please, pass this around!!!!!

This is the next step, before the full fledged revolution that is coming our way! Threaten our government with this before things get violent:

To: Congress, the House and the President

Re: Taxes

Sign this petition at:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/irefusetopay/


Over the past year, you’ve ignored the will of the people in many respects. You’ve pushed a monstrosity of a health care bill on us, which we’ve begged and pleaded you stop pushing. You’ve ignored the welfare and security of the people’s ability to find work and instead tossed them enough crumbs to get by through the intermittent passage of a UI bill that barely feeds a family of two, depending on where you live. You’ve pushed every possible anti-small business legislation in an order to crush the middle class and rich to help even out the dire needs of the poor. This is not America. This is class warfare, this is redistribution of wealth, this is tyranny and this is soon to be anarchy. In order to prevent anarchy, in order to prevent the violence and uprisings which we all feel are on the brink of happening, WE THE PEOPLE would like to present you with an alternative. The outcome of this alternative would end up keeping the peace, something we all want, something that is necessary to a civil society. This alternative would also help CONTROL the fanatical and power hungry desires of an out of control government. What is the alternative? Paying taxes. Or not paying taxes!

The government needs OUR tax revenue for the overall general welfare of the country, which includes the upkeep of America’s infrastructure as well as the funding of our military, something we can all agree brings every man, woman and child protection. The problem that we all understand is that once this health care bill/education passes, among other anti-business bills such as cap and trade, the unionization of all businesses and other atrocious anti-business bills, NO AMOUNT of tax revenue will be enough to feed this out of control beast riddled with social program after social program. Just as Medicare costs were thought to be in the millions when the program first surfaced in the 60’s, in only a few short years we learned that the costs were potentially back bone breaking and today we have somewhere between 50 to 100 trillion in unfunded Medicare and social security liabilities. If it weren’t for the full faith and backing of the Chinese, Japanese and other countries who buy our treasuries and if weren’t for the productivity of the US worker whose pay check the government receives FICA taxes from, we’d had found ourselves in third world economic status in no time. But now that the government is taking away our economic freedoms, our ability to push this country forward without being swamped by social programs that tax us to death, now that the country is on the verge of losing its triple A bond rating, the possibility that those countries stop funding our liabilities is great. The fact that the US economy will be burdened by these bills and thus slow even more is no secret. And these problems equate to the death of the United States. It also means that no amount of tax revenue will keep our head above water and paying even a dollar in taxes will be a dollar wasted.

So we come to you with this idea. Should you pass health care, should you continue to destroy the economic freedoms this country has enjoyed for two hundred plus years, we will not pay our taxes. If you think that you can control millions and millions of Americans through the IRS, then you’re sadly mistaken. Your IRS agents will be swamped with a convoluted mess of never ending paperwork, case loads and aggravation which means the revenue to the US government, which is drastically dropping due to the recession we’re in, will continue to drop and drop and drop. And let me assure you that soon enough, the US government won’t even have enough tax revenue to put gas in Air Force One.

So we now present you with two options. The first, continue pushing through your despotic nonsense and chance losing the tax revenue of millions and millions of tax paying citizens. The second, come back to the center and start governing how WE THE PEOPLE want you to govern. I can assure you that should you choose the latter, the country will continue as it has for the past couple of hundred years but should you choose the former, you’re essentially risking civil unrest throughout the country, your political careers and potentially the life of this country. So I leave you with this… The choice is yours…. Choose wisely.

Truly and Sincerely,

The People of the United States

If you would like to sign but don’t want to sign your own name, then sign “Susan B. Anthony” or “John Adams”. If an email is asked for, use ‘[email protected]’ or any other fake email. The point is to get as many signatures as possible. Thank you for your political patronage AND please, pass this around to anyone you think would be interested in signing it. Thank you!

Sign this petition at:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/irefusetopay/

In 2012 I hope the Republicans get back in power. They must reduce the size of government by laying off civil service workers, reduce the size of the military, freeze or repeal social security and medicare benefits. As Jim Bunting is doing no more unemployment benefit extensions. People, does anyone get it! Life for the average family is going to be hell under the next Republican President but you will get what you asked for! SARAH PALIN....

I have my own 6 questions about the budget.

Why are we paying more than all other countries in the world combined on our military and it's taken us nearly 10 years to to fight to a draw with people who are not all that far removed from fighting with spears on camel back? When do I get a friggin' refund?

How come we're still giving Blackwater and Halliburton no bid contracts...or any contracts for that matter? Halliburton pays taxes in Dubai. I see no reason why they should be eligible for federal contracts at all.

Why are we still funneling money into corporate America's pockets with every bill that gets passed while people are starving in this country instead of getting rid of all private funding for elections and making the politicians answer to us and not the corporate paymasters?

Why can I call myself a church and skip paying property tax or income while you have to pick up the slack?

Why do republicans only manage to be fiscal conservatives when it comes to programs that don't benefit corporations, military contractors, rich people and contributors to the republican party?

Why is it that when republicans whine about spending they are only concerned with the spending that goes to help poor people?

The answer if you are interested is that conservatives like poverty. They have no plan, nor even a desire to end it. Their whole platform is aimed at a permanent underclass to serve at the whim of the priviledged class they facy themselves ever being.

They vote against the very programs aimed at bringing the poor into the working class and the working class into the middle class and the middle class into the upper class.

The poor and working class do it because they are stupid, easily manipulated sheeple who can be bought off with guns and God and racism. The middle class do it because their fantasy that some executive is going to pluck them out of middle management and give them the key to the executive washroom...not.

The rich...they vote against the rest of the country because they plain don't like you. They like their positition and they don't want to work too hard to maintain it. They have no interest in more middle class people getting wealthy. They like class stratification. They don't WANT you in their country club. They only want people with a "worthy" upbringing who "understand" their "values". They have no interest in dealing with people who work themselves up from the bottom ranks of society. They actively work against it with every policy decision they make.

Name one republican policy that doesn't service to maintain the privilege for the few at the expense of the rest. You can't do it. Name a policy that is aimed at reducingt poverty. There are none. Name a policy that increases social mobility. Can't do it.

Sir,

This is one the most brilliant commentaries I've ever read and I'm old. Thank you for understanding what's at hand and the smarts to express it!

Do Liberals or Conservatives give more to charity?
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Do Liberals or Conservatives give more to charity?
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