As far as the meltdown is concerned, you are correct we almost completely imploded. If Paulson and the FDIC did not guarantee everything that Sunday night, banks were closed on Monday, the entire banking system would have collapsed. However, that may have been what we needed, I know it is radical thinking, but I am not alone in this theory as Elizabeth Warren also believes it would have been bad, but not as bad as most people think. Fortunately or unfortunately we will never know. The stimulus did help, I admit that, but not as much as Obama and Co. claim and we did steal a ton from future demand. My issue is with the fiscal issues as we just fork out money for everything when we are essentially broke! There will be a time when we can no longer kick the can down the road, I think we are almost there, and then 50% unemployment might be the ‘good ‘ol days.’

Health care reform needs to get done, but just not the way they are doing it, we agree on this just in different ways. I agree costs are out of control, but let’s put together a real plan that will control costs. We cannot control costs without being able to shop over state lines and dropping all the goodies insurance companies get, i.e. exemption from anti-trust laws, etc. Medicare does work, but we cannot control costs and any doctor will tell you that if it was not for private insurance they would not even take Medicare, they reimburse $26-$50 an appointment versus private insurers which is much higher. Do not get me wrong I am not siding with insurers, not at all, but I am saying we need them to a degree as the government cannot afford Medicare any longer. We know what we need to do, raise FICA taxes to help fix Medicare and get rid of fraud, even though fraud is a small amount it pisses me off!

We got tough issues and we have bad leadership, across the board, which is a recipe for disaster. I think we are heading for a Greece situation, but there is no one to bail us out. Perhaps if we got a real leader, one who does not care about reelection or their political future, in Washington we might be able to fix out problems, but I fear it is too late.

I also do not think you can say all Tea Party people are racist, we cannot generalize or I will be forced to call Reid a racist as well if we go down that road. I re-read that sing and it was wrong, but his point was about the government controlling us, again I disagree with what he wrote. Whether or not we head for social chaos is not even a question, we are one way or the other. But I do not see one party being the direct cause f it, it was both parties. Hell, they are the same thing on any given day using us as pawns. In my opinion all stimulus plans should be cancelled, I hated Bush’s as well as Obama’s, I am bipartisan on my feelings about waste.