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02/11/10 7:50 PM

#92171 RE: Alex G #92165

w, I assume you have an income, you spend less than you make or you have to borrow to enhance, right? Gov gets x in revs and then spends y. If y is more than x, it is a deficit, right? I am not spouting some philosophy here, it is basic math. And history. No matter how much revs the govs get they always spend more. I am not saying gov spending is all bad or even deficts bad, just saying the govs are good at some things and not so good at others. Borrow to build the Panama Canal and that is money well spent because tremendous cost savings on shipping was the result. Govs created the internet in the military and what a boom to mankind. Please get the gov to work on what to do next, I am all for it, that will grow our nation's abilities and effeciencies. But a nanny state replacing the decision making process for millions of people is not productive or "progressive", it is regressive. And we can always count on fraud, waste, good ol' boy payoffs, when any gov gets their paws on the money. It has always been and will always be.