What is the solution, you liberal geniuses? Seizing the wealth of the Forbes 400 would only pay off about 17.5% of the current national debt. You can't tax, grow or steal your way out. The chickens are coming home to roost. We have chained our grandchildren to a life of poverty.

What will we do when unemployment goes even higher? When tax revenues decline further? When interest rates jump above 10%? When gas goes above $4? When our currency is worthless? When massive numbers of Americans retire and expect freebies?

There are no solutions. We are broke. We just haven't faced up to it, yet. Perhaps our poverty will teach us something. The only problem is, you need a strong economy to finance defense spending. With a dead economy, we are fair game for China, Russia and terrorists.

Economics always dictates global political power.

Now that we have a Democratic president an Congress, we will see the same thing. Only, there is no Reagan on the horizon; not hope to get us through and inspire us.

The debt has gotten out of control Excluding the $50 + trillion in debt related to CURRENT promised Social Security and Medicare benefits, we would have to grow our economy by double digits annually for the next 75 years just to pay off the current and proposed debts.

During the 90's, we averaged just over 3% GDP growth. We cannot grow our way out. We cannot afford contined spending increases. We may not even be able to afford annual debt payments.

For all intents and purposes, we are broke.

The annual Social Security surplus has been used by every President since LBJ to mask the size of the deficit. Even Bill Clinton had a $2.7 trillion surplus over 8 years, all of which he spent to show a budget "surplus".

Take away Social Security receipts and Clinton ran a deficit just like every other President since Andrew Jackson.

You talk of paying back that money. Where will we get the money to do so? We cannot even finance next year's spending without borrowing money through the sale of bonds. With a weaker dollar, investors will demand a higher rate of interest on their bonds. This will cause an even greater budget problem. We owe about $11 trillion right now and pay about $360 billion per year in interest. What happens when Obama grows the debt to $20 trillion and interest rates jump to 10%? We will pay $2 trillion per year IN INTEREST just to finance Obama's wild spending.

The money is not there and it will not be there.

Maybe in the world you populate, cost is not an issue. But in the real world, those of us who work have to worry about such costs. Those who put their money into a business, and create jobs, have to worry about costs.

Only the government, or a fan of government, would believe that money is not an issue.

Bush left a $100 trillion debt for the war? We actually spent about $850 billion on both wars, from Sept. 2001-Jan. 20, 2009. You need to get your numbers straight.

Government doesn't "give" you a tax break. YOU (okay, people who work) pay taxes. The government tells you how much you will pay in taxes. Passing a tax cut is not a gift.

If you are carrying $500 and I rob you of $250, did I "give" you $250?

See if your limited brain can follow this: tax cuts and free health care are not both expenditures. Free health care is SPENDING. A tax cut is a TAX CUT. Passing a tax cut does not take money away from others. Passing free health care DOES.

Yeah, that Medicare is working out great, with $26 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities.

Where will the money come from?

Maybe you, being the genius that you are, can tell us where we will get $24 TRILLION for Social Security, also, as well as $12 TRILLION for our current debt and $11 TRILLION for the debt that Barry Sotero is adding on-PLUS the $2 TRILLION in new interest payments over a decade.

Add it all up? $75 TRILLION. Total net worth of all US households and non-profits is less than $51 TRILLION. So, even if you seized the assets of everyone and everything in the country AND put the whole of a year's GDP towards our debt, it still would not be paid off.

So, Smart Woman, WHERE WILL WE GET THE MONEY? Why don't you tell us?

Obviously you can't ever quit your job or you will never get health insurance again. Good thing that at 65 you are guaranteed health care by that government run program.

Stay well my friend.

Why would you attack myself or Former on this subject? I am happy that this man is cancer free and that he is enjoying his life. I hope he has many, many good years ahead of him and I wish him nothing but the best.

As to your attacks, I don't get it. Are you referring to believing in our Great Leader, Barry Sotero? Are you implying that his failure as an elected representative should be overlooked, that we should have "faith" in him? That he is entitled to the benefit of the doubt when we face danger each day, and he has done nothing but make us less safe?

I really do not believe in that cliche of "faith". It is actually "hope". If you want something to happen, but have little to no control over the outcome, that is Faith/Hope.

I want to be QB of the Pittsburgh Steelers. I am too old, too short, too slow and I lack the arm strength necessary. Will my "faith" make my dream come true or will a combination of birth, luck and

Here's something neither Ellis nor Former know anything about.