Quote: scottfromiowa
Randy,
You are high on slogans. We spent more on air conditioning last year in Iraq, $22 billion than on NASA, 18.7 billion. Social Security, the giant red evil, brought in $819 billion, with only $695 billion paid out. How is that for a surplus. We collected a total of $1.1 billion of federal income taxes and spent most of it between the DOE (663 billion), Homeland Security (42 billion) and Justice (26 billion), three departments that really have no reason to exist other than to line up pockets of the 'socialists' like GE.
Now, in full interest of disclosure, the company I co-own currently is riding high on USDA related contracts and I'm loving it. So as far as I am concerned, the feds can all go away other than crop insurance and farm subsidies ;-) Pays for my personal Mooney Bravo, my two houses and company's King Air 350 charter. Looking forward to our next 'company meeting' in Jackson Hole.
We all have money to buy airplanes and fly them specifically because the government provides a framework and services in which to make and keep our money unlike say Haiti or Afganistan and it all costs a pretty penny. And on top of everything, they have to keep the poor from feeling like the world would be a better place if all of the sudden most of us would find ourselves about a foot shorter. There is a lot more of them than us.
Let's all be glad our poor so dumb and high on the lord, unlike let's say the greeks that nobody is burning our hangars quite yet. Nowhere else in the world do the poor vote against their interest like they do in the good old US of A country after all founded on the idea of all man are created equal other than the pesky African visitors who upon arrival felt that the work schedule and pay rates were a bit gruelling.
Andy
