Obamacare needs to be scrapped and replaced with a balanced approach.

  The Obama/Palosi/Reid partisan piece of legislation brings a sixth of the U.S. economy under federal control. This unconstitutional blatantly Socialist attempt of large government takeover is going to collapse under its own weight. Health insurance premiums rose in 2011 to more than $15,000 per family.  The Congressional Budget Office acknowledges that Obamacare actually increases the national deficit by $540 billion over the next 10 years.

  Americans without health insurance has increased since Mr. Obama took office and since he signed Obamacare into law. Health care costs are going up because of Obamacare, and more adults are uninsured since it began.

Most of the American people oppose the government plan to take over healthcare. It costs too much; it borrows too much; it taxes too much; it's inefficient; and it gives government bureaucrats the control of our personal medical decisions. But aside from the obvious, it also goes far beyond the restraints set forth in the Constitution. The Constitution sets limits on what dictates of pain the federal government is allowed to inflict on the rest of us. The people decide what is best for themselves and our country, not the government. When our forefathers set forth to create a free and democratic republic, they wanted to make sure that they created checks and balances within our government to prevent one party or one body of government from having absolute power over the people. Our leaders would be wise to remember this.

"A trove of just-released internal Obama Administration documents reveals that the President's top health care advisors were fully aware that a key component of ObamaCare presented a massive taxpayer bailout risk, but they chose to suppress the information in their frenzy to push the controversial legislation through CongressThe documents, quoted extensively in a report released yesterday by the House Energy & Commerce Committee, reveal a shocking level of cynicism by the President's team -- cynicism that will cost Americans hundreds of billions unless the unpopular ObamaCare law is repealed. " quote from a Dean Clancy article.
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/report-hhs-suppressed-evidence-of-massive-health-b 

"The leadership in both chambers of Congress penned their bills under lock and key and far from the eye of not only the public, but the rank and file members of their own party. And after a public scolding for those that disagreed and promises that our path forward would be different, the President rolled out his bill written again by a secret select few." Rep. Ted Poe

Tea Party Group Casts National Debt as a Household Budget

Tea Party Group Casts National Debt as a Household Budget
By Perry Chiaramonte
Published September 27, 2011
FoxNews.com

The National Debt

America’s ever-growing debt crisis is in the trillions — more than $14 trillion, give or take a few billion.
That’s a lot of zeros, numbers so large they’re sure to make Americans numb when trying to get their arms around what it means to them.
But what would the federal debt crisis look like if you set it up as a household budget?
A heck of a lot simpler, according to new figures from one Tea Party group, which estimates the government “household” spends nearly twice as much as it takes in every year, has a credit card bill nearly seven times annual income and cuts back less than 2 percent of that spending in an effort to control the debt.
The Judge explains how we got to the point of a government so large its fiscal woes threaten it with a shutdown if it can’t borrow more.
“We had discussed about how any citizen needs to understand what the proposed cuts mean,” said Laurie Newsom, president of the Gainesville, Fla., Tea Party. “One of our members had figured it out and put it in terms of a household budget. If you ran a household with these numbers, you would see that it’s simply not enough.”
The group looked at some key figures, mainly tax revenue, the current federal budget, debt and budget cuts, and divided each figure by $100 million, in an effort to break it down into simple terms that most Americans can comprehend. The group posted its findings online and came up with a household with an average family income of $21,700. But that “family” spent nearly twice that — $38,200 — and has an existing credit card balance of a whopping $142,710.
“Everyone tries to keep things extremely simple for these things meant for general public consumption and of course there’s a give-and-take with that,” said Seth Rabinowitz, a partner with Silicon Associates, an economics-focused management consulting firm based in California. “I would make it clearer for the layman.They used the line ‘Money the family spent’…but really that means, ‘Money the family spent (last year and intends to spend this year again).’ “
“However, when you remove those eight zeros, the $385 spending cuts obviously aren’t even visible. They don’t even make a dent,” he said.
The bottom line, according to Newsom: “Cuts won’t take care of it. You need business growth, which we wouldn’t have in a regulatory environment.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/27/tea-party-group-casts-national-debt-as-household-budget/#ixzz1ZBTVnoWw

Julia Gillard speech “IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT . . . Take It Or Leave It.

Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard allegedly made this speech that has to be read.

“IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT . . .
Take It Or Leave It.

I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.
This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.
We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!
Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.
We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.
This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, THE RIGHT TO LEAVE.
If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.”

To bad it is actually a hoax. I how ever do wish that a politician would indeed say this. Most people would agree with this. I am so fed up with all the lefts PC bull crap. I lived in Quebec as a teenager and was forced to learn french as 80 % of the people speak the french language and this is the way it should be. Why should they be inconvenienced and forced to conduct their business in my foreign language or customs?

I always welcome any input on these matters especially from the Leftists. Just keep it civil, factual and truthful and I will not remove it (I know many of you Liberals struggle with a civil, factual and truthful discussion see
Why Liberals Always Resort To Name-Calling?). 

How much exactly is a fair share?

The Socialists are at it again with the class warfare argument. How much exactly is a fair share?


The top 10% pay 70% while the bottom 48% pay no income taxes at all. This is not fare by anyone's measure except fore the extreme left that any amount is ever going to be enough till their is no wealthy left at all.

Most families making over a 100k these days are paying a tax burden of over 50% once you add the state taxes, county taxes, fuel taxes, phone taxes, sales taxes, VATs, corporate taxes that are passed on to us in the selling price and all the other well hidden use taxes. In reality it is closer to 60 %!

The statute of limitations has worn out on blaming Bush. We need to progress into the future with compensation based on merit and factoring the required productivity to live decent. Large overreaching inefficient government and organized labor are the problem. We need more freedom and independent thinking or at least a level playing field and our productivity!

Obama, the Liberal elitist's and the Marxist's must all be defeated if their is any freedom to be had for the common man.
The bottom 50% have no income tax while the bottom 25% get a redistributed asset (Marxism BTW) the top 50% pay at least 40% if you want to raise taxes then raise them on the bottom 50% as they are either paying nothing or less. There should be no representation without a little taxation and all should have some skins in the game even if it is only a token amount. This country does not have a tax problem it has a spending problem!

Common Sense dictates that the government cannot spend more than it takes in forever. If they print more money it will cause inflation and devalue savings and pensions. If they raise taxes any higher it will reduce revenue due to the Laffer curve effect as we are already well into the prohibitive range. The only logical course is to massively cut spending across the board. A simple common sense solution to a tough problem is to just vote conservative.

Our Education System is Broke and Needs a Reset

Teachers Unions are ruining our Schools. They represent the workers not our children or the taxpayers. We need to have someone representing the students interests.

"One of the things I’ve always liked about charter schools is they aren’t bound by onerous labor agreements that hamper innovation.  Traditional public schools get boxed in with union contracts that literally stipulate when a teacher arrives in the morning and when he or she must depart.  And that’s just the beginning of union-imposed regulations.
In charter schools, the interest of the students comes first, so adults oftentimes find themselves going above and beyond to ensure that students succeed.  In the documentary “Kids Aren’t Cars,” the story was told of Tindley Accelerated School in Indianapolis.  The principal said his teachers stay late and work Saturdays if necessary because they do not accept failure." a quote from an article by Kyle Olsen.

Their intent is clear.  Consider what United Federation of Teachers Vice President Leo Casey said at the recent socialist Left Forum, courtesy of EAGtv:“If we do not figure out how to organize charter schools and if we are not successful in doing that, we will end up in the same place as the auto workers. So there is no more key question before us as a union and a broader labor movement with regard to education than how we approach charter schools and our ability to organize them.”

Tax dollars pay for the teachers to teach and not to do an Organizing America AstroTurf protest. The recent fight in Wisconsin, and across the country, is really about: money for government unions. The government unions themselves are admitting this every day the fight drags on. 18 states have all ready restricted public sector collective bargaining. All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

In this day and age with the internet (unless the government some how gets control of that) the masses will never allow the corporations to exploit their workers again. In fact it is the big labor
public sector unions along with help from the Democrats that are exploiting taxpayers and students with a monopoly Public service unions support democrats. Democrats in turn support unions and their benefits this is a monopoly. Pay to play. Time this immoral Astroturf is stopped.

One must investigate Community organizing if they are to understand Obama and the Unions. But what does that say about him? Look at a man’s deeds not what he says. Community organizing is a tool of Communist/Liberal/Progressive radicals. The reason socialism is doomed to failure is that it punishes hard work and innovation and creates nepotism and corruption as proven by the democrats and unions
on an almost daily basis.

Unions were needed back in the days of sweat shops, killing mills and mines of 100 years ago. But now they are mostly lazy, greedy and corrupt beyond redemption and living in the past. We need to progress into the future with compensation based on merit and factoring the required productivity to live a decent life. Large overreaching inefficient government and organized labor are the problem. We need
more freedom and independent thinking or at least a level playing field and our productivity will bury them in the end!

Charter Schools and Vouchers are the best way to achieve longterm improvements in the American education system. The common working man has as much right to a quality education as a wealthy man.The current system of Teachers Unions with all their minions is fighting these great and proven ideas help our children to the bitter end and so they must fought with equal vigor in order to be defeated.

Governments take one-third of everything you earn through direct taxes.

Governments take one-third of everything you earn through direct taxes.
Then governments take half of what's left to you (your two-thirds) through indirect taxes.
That means that the total burden of government taxes you pay is about two-thirds of everything you earn.
This tax burden causes many wives to take a second job. This destroys the family, the backbone of Civilization. Sam Adams, John Hancock, and other members of "the Sons of Liberty" tossed tea into the Boston Harbor rather than pay a tax of 3 pence per pound. We pay ten times more in gas taxes. Total taxes in the colonies in 1776 were 2 or 3%. We pay 10-20 times more today. America's Founding Fathers would be totally outraged at the burden the federal government places on families. Are you outraged?

911 Ten Years later. We must Remain focused on the prize.

9-11-01 was a wake up call for America. Those of us who ignored the fanatical Islamofascists that in their own words seek our demise. I generally carefully listen to ones words and their actions back up their threats. They are weakened but in no way defeated. We must remain vigilant using surgical military strikes when the opportunities present themselves. If we follow the lead of the pacifists in our own country then we will become victims of the Islamofascist terrorists once again.

"A war has been declared on all of our nations. Our futures depend on determination and unity in the face of the terrorist threat that Chancellor Merkel has so correctly labeled "the greatest challenge to our security in the 21st century." And the world's great democracies - anchored by NATO - must stay united to meet this challenge. Have no doubt - the terrorists intend to kill still more of our people. They have said so.

• An al-Qaeda operative in Afghanistan said of civilians in Europe and America: "Their wives will be widowed, and their children will be orphaned".
• A radical cleric said after the London bombings: "I would like to see the Islamic flag fly, not only over Number 10 Downing Street, but the whole world".
• And the leader of the Khobar Towers attacks boasted: "We tied the infidel [a Briton] by one leg [behind the car]  The infidel's clothing was torn to shreds  We found a Swedish infidel. [We] cut off his head, and put it on the gate so that it would be seen by all those entering and exiting. We found Filipino Christians and Hindu engineers and we cut their throats, too".

No fewer than 18 organizations - loosely affiliated with al-Qaeda - have conducted terrorist acts in places such as Israel, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Somalia, Algeria, Russia, and Indonesia. And it is worth noting that those nations were attacked by terrorists even though none had forces in Iraq. So any argument that Iraq might have been a trigger is inconsistent with the facts.

According to their own words, they seek to take over governments from North Africa to Southeast Asia and to re- establish a caliphate they hope, one day, will include every continent. They have designed and distributed a map where national borders are erased and replaced by a global extremist Islamic empire. Today, they call Iraq the central front in their war against the civilized world. And they hope to turn it into the same sort of haven for training and recruitment that Afghanistan once was for al-Qaeda. That is their strategy. But we and our friends and Allies have a strategy as well.

• First, to use all elements of national power to try to prevent them from obtaining weapons of mass destruction
• Second, to defend our homelands, through sharing intelligence, law-enforcement, and more integrated homeland defense
• And third, to help friendly nations increase their capabilities to fight terrorism in their own countries"

quoted from Donald Rumsfeld

Labor day is for the workers not the Unions!

The labor Unions represent less then 10% of the workers in this country. The rest are all free and independent workers who do not wish to be represented by the Big Labor.
Obama's warmup speaker Jimmy Hoffa Jr. for the Labor day ceremony in Detroit had these gems that were put out there just before our president spoke "We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They've got a war, they got a war with us and there's only going to be one winner. It's going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We're going to win that war," said Jimmy Hoffa Jr. then he followed up with this clear threat "President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let's take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,". So much for civility and toning down the rhetoric!
The Unions served an honorable service 100 years ago when the Companies where hiring thugs and killing workers. Those days are long gone and the only thugs left are working for the Unions.

http://workplacechoice.org/state-map/
Is a great map showing the areas where independent workers are treated fairly. It is no coincidence that the pro Big Labor areas are the one s with the worst economic conditions.

Happy Labor Day: Top 10 union thug moments of the year.http://michellemalkin.com/2011/09/05/happy-labor-day-top-10-union-thug-moments-of-the-year/
This as always is another great post by Michelle Malkin.

Representative Colonel Allen West threatens to quit Congressional Black Caucus

Tea Party-aligned Representative Colonel Allen West, the only Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), sent a letter to CBC Chairman Emanuel Cleaver
"All of us, especially Congressman Carson, Congresswoman Waters and others who have engaged in racially-motivated rhetoric, should follow the example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., not the example of Reverend Jeremiah Wright," was included in Colonel West's letter.
Following is some of the offensive inflammatory rhetoric from some members of the CBC.
"This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned -- the Tea Party can go straight to hell," said Representative Maxine Waters.
"Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now of this Tea Party Movement would love to see you and me, I'm sorry, hanging on a tree." said Representative Andre Carson.
There has not been any racism coming from the organizers of the TEA activists and the few times anybody  at one of their events showed improper actions they were quickly and thoroughly denounced and barred from the event. In fact almost all such incidents were indeed proven to be the work of anti TEA agent provocateurs attempting to discredit the TEA movement.

Tea Party Manifesto as defined by the Tea Party Patriots

Tea Party Manifesto as defined by the Tea Party Patriots 1. Protect the Constitution Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does. (82.03%) 2. Reject Cap & Trade Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. (72.20%) 3. Demand a Balanced Budget Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax hike. (69.69%) 4. Enact Fundamental Tax Reform Adopt a simple and fair single-rate tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words — the length of the original Constitution. (64.90%) 5. Restore Fiscal Responsibility & Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in a complete audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities, or ripe for wholesale reform or elimination due to our efforts to restore limited government consistent with the US Constitution's meaning. (63.37%) 6. End Runaway Government Spending Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth. (56.57%) 7. Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health Care Defund, repeal and replace the recently passed government-run health care with a system that actually makes health care and insurance more affordable by enabling a competitive, open, and transparent free-market health care and health insurance system that isn't restricted by state boundaries. (56.39%) 8. Pass an All-of-the-Above Energy Policy Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation, lowering prices and creating competition and jobs. (55.51%) 9. Stop the Pork Place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. (55.47%) 10. Stop the Tax Hikes Permanently repeal all tax hikes, including those to the income, capital gains, and death taxes, currently scheduled to begin in 2011. (53.38%)

The Democratic spin has already started regarding the lowered AA+ rating, S &  P said “political brinkmanship” in the debate over the debt had made the U.S. government’s ability to manage its finances “less stable, less effective and less predictable.” It said the bipartisan agreement reached this week to find at least $2.1 trillion in budget savings “fell short” of what was necessary to tame the nation’s debt over time and predicted that leaders would not be likely to achieve more savings in the future".
Spending in Washington is out of control. The Democrats are trying to blame every Republican in or out of office, but at the obvious truth is that out of control.
CBO Baseline budgeting is the problem as every department gets a 4 to 12 percent increase regardless how much they need If they only get a 2% to 6% raise then they say they have cut their budget by 50%. The budget's not being cut; the deficit really isn't being cut. It's only being refinanced with lower interest rates for a short time.
"Here is how the hocus pocus works," explains Mr. Ferrara, who's currently director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute. "The CBO assumes a 'baseline' for federal spending over the next 10 years that includes federal spending increases of $9.5 trillion over that time. Any increase in those 10 years of less than $9.5 trillion will be reported by CBO as a cut in federal spending.

Big Government has failed now more then ever we need to be TEA Conservatives.

It looks like many are coming to the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) conclusion that government is to big and must be reduced. The US gross debt is presently at 83 percent of GDP as of 2009. With a debt per citizen of $39,283 or more importantly a debt per taxpayer of $111,224 as realistically it is only taxpayers who will be able to pay down this debt. Even the most Pollyanna Progressive looking at the facts thru their rose colored glasses will have to admit this is unsustainable.

The top 10 percent pay 70 percent of the income tax burden while the bottom 49 percent pay no income taxes at all. What is fair about that? Raising taxes has been proven repeatedly over time to not proportionally raise revenue. The only obvious choices are as follows.

1. Raise the number of taxpayers by getting government regulations out of the way of the private sector and letting them do what they do best and that is they create jobs and wealth that can be taxed.
2. Reduce the size and scope of our parasitic overgrown large Government cutting their budgets across the board.
3. The most difficult choice for all of us is to address entitlements but this must be done by adding means testing and raising retirement age for future retires reflecting our increased lifespans.

If we continue to stick our heads in the sand as we have done to get thru the next election these choices will be forced upon us in the most uncomfortable ways as is currently happening in Greece.

S&P Downgrade shows the need to deal with our Long-Term Fiscal Problems

This was the predictable result from to much debt in relation to our income. Now that our credit rating downgrade has become reality it is time to actually reduce the debt not just slow down the growth as was recently done by our government. There is only one viable option and that means real cuts to spending including entitlements. We can not raise taxes significantly as that will not result in increased revenue.

The TEA activists get it and now have to be taken seriously as they have the guts to push for the uncomfortable necessities to get us all out of this unsustainable Progressive Liberal mess that all big government politicians have created.

Unions were needed back in the days of sweat shops, killing mills and mines of years ago. But now they are lazy, greedy and corrupt beyond redemption and living in the past. We need to progress into the future with compensation based on merit and factoring the required productivity to live decent. Large overreaching government and organized labor are the problem. We need more freedom and independent thinking or at least a level playing field between free independent workers and unions!

Public service unions support democrats. Democrats in turn support unions and their benefits. Pay to play. Time this stops. We used to think of government workers as underpaid public servants. Now they are better paid than the people who pay their salaries. Who serves whom here? People understand that they have to lay off their workers or they don't have the money for their family. What they don't like is when there is a certain group that doesn't like to make the sacrifices.

Why should the AstroTurf unionized 11.9% of the workforce have such an overbearing effect on the other 88.1% free and independent workers! The majority of taxpaying voters have spoken. Governors Christie and Walker get it as this is what the silent TEA majority is screaming for. We need to progress into the future with compensation based on merit. The taxpayers and student do not need to be trampled upon for a few that feel entitled to excessive compensation and protection exacted by Big Labor!

Here are some enlightening poll numbers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters think teachers, firemen and policemen should be allowed to go on strike, but 49% disagree and believe they should not have that right. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure. Thirty-seven percent (37%) say, in terms of its impact on the nation, it’s a good thing that most teachers belong to public employee unions. Forty-six percent (46%) disagree and say it’s a bad thing that most teachers are unionized. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure. Sixty-one percent (61%) of all voters believe that members of public employee unions should contribute the same percentage to their health care and pension plans as those in the private sector pay. Only 16% disagree, but another 23% are not sure. (from rasmussenreports.com)

Judge declaires Obamacare unconstitutional

 It is about time someone reads and adheres to the Constitution when some members of Congress refuse too. If this is so good for all and necessary then amend the Constitution are is the left too afraid to let both sides have input and we would end up with a truly bipartisan non-economy wrecking bill that most Americans could stand behind instead of the wholesale Marxist piece of crap that we could not read before it was rammed up our backsides!
  Any time when the productive are oppressively punished by unfair amounts of their assets being forcibly taken then given to the unproductive (AKA SOCIALISM either World or National, Progressivism, Communism or any other form of Marxism) is doomed to failure. When you take a little a few of the productive turn unproductive or leave, then you have to take a little more so more turn unproductive or leave eventually the system runs out of other peoples assets and all will starve as their is not enough to go around!
  Obama's intemperate remarks, including: "They bring a knife, we bring a gun," "Get in their faces," "I don't want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry. I'm angry!" "Hit back twice as hard," "A Republican victory would mean hand-to-hand combat," "I'm itching for a fight," "Sit down, shut up and get out of the way," and his famous advice to Latino voters: "Punish your enemies." It's not exactly in the style of Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King.
  Obama in his first two years as president, he's taken us to 11 in so many ways. Under Bush and the Republican Congress from 2000-2006 federal spending was bad, and many people groused. But Obama has turned it up to 11, running up trillion-dollar-plus deficits that dwarf the worst we saw under Bush and the congressional Republicans, and producing open revolt from TEA Protester and others. Under Bush, and previous presidents, government regulation was creeping up steadily, year by year. But under Obama, the regulatory knobs have been turned to 11: New health care laws, a new financial regulation bill, proposals for carbon taxes and new Environmental Protection Agency regulation of carbon dioxide — the list seems endless, made even worse by the near-body-cavity-searching now being done by the TSA. (Tufnel's grand opus, a bondage-themed album titled "Smell the Glove," sounds all too close to air-travel reality now. . . .)

Here is a novel idea cut spending not raise taxes or print money

Typical leftist ivory tower elitist convoluted argument against simple common sense. The best answer is usually the simplest. We do not have a tax problem that the Progressives would solve by raising taxes but the Laffer curves proves that income would go down so their next solution is to print more money but that will cause inflation. Here is a novel idea cut spending I know it is to simple and it is what most households do to avoid bankruptcy.

Civil Union abuses and public education

  I would agree that unions are necessary as they prevent abuse by employers, but they should not be favored over others as the playing field should be level for all. An entrepreneur, small business, large corporation, free worker or a union should never be favored over the other. The situations when a condition of employment is to join the union productivity is stifled, breeds incompetence and inefficiency. When a union decides how to run an entity it is inherently corrupt and mismanaged. Just look at our public schools and anything else that is government ran. You can not argue that in the public sector the protectionism and collusion with government has gone to far a constitutes a monopoly. It has been proven time and time again that a monopoly leads to ruin for the majority.
  We have spent an inordinate amount of resources on public education with very little positive results. I am not saying we abandon the public schools just that we minimally fund it so that all can have a basic education and allow vouchers so that there is an alternative to the failed union organized leftist ran public schools. Not all Americans want to have their children indoctrinated.

The Tragedy Of The Commons

The Tragedy Of The Commons
  quotes from ZACTech, Daniel McFadden and Tibor Machan

Immigrants to New England in the 17th century formed villages in which they had privately owned homesteads and gardens, but they also set aside community-owned pastures, called commons, where all of the villagers' livestock could graze. Settlers had an incentive to avoid overuse of their private lands, so they would remain productive in the future. However, this self-interested stewardship of private lands did not extend to the commons. As a result, the commons were overgrazed and degenerated to the point that they were no longer able to support the villagers' cattle. This failure of private incentives to provide adequate maintenance of public resources is known to economists as "the tragedy of the commons."

Contemporary society has a number of current examples of the tragedy of the commons: the depletion of fish stocks in international waters, congestion on urban highways, and the rise of resistant diseases due to careless use of antibiotics. However, the commons that is likely to have the greatest impact on our lives in the new century is the digital commons, the information available on the Internet through the portals that provide access. The problem with digital information is the mirror image of the original grazing commons: Information is costly to generate and organize, but its value to individual consumers is too dispersed and small to establish an effective market. The information that is provided is inadequately catalogued and organized. Furthermore, the Internet tends to fill with low-value information: The products that have high commercial value are marketed through revenue-producing channels, and the Internet becomes inundated with products that cannot command these values. Self-published books and music are cases in point

Is this stuff with Greece and, soon, with Portugal, Spain and Italy, and the rest of us all that surprising? Has it not been clear for ages that when people draw their support from a common pool, the resources will soon vanish?
Aristotle already noted this phenomenon when he said, “For that which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill; as in families many attendants are often less useful than a few.” (Politics, 1262a30-37) Biologist Garrett Hardin reaffirmed the point in an influential essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” for the magazine Science, on December 13, 1968.
The gist of the tragedy is that commonly held (important) resources will be depleted and will not be replenished. And this doesn’t apply only to how the wilds are being ruined by being held in common but also to national treasuries which everyone in a country believes is there for him or her to dip into indiscriminately. And then, with international communities, the tragedy isn’t contained by national borders.
One of the largest commons these days is the European Union. Everyone in Europe is fighting to take from its common pool of stuff — mostly funds through such outfits as the IMF, the World Bank, etc. — but few are eager to replace what they have taken. And this applies to the citizenry, clearly, not only the politicians who want to please them. (The IMF draws a lot of its funds now from the USA! How long can that go on?)
And the same is happening in the USA, of course, what with common pools such as the so called Social Security fund slowly being drained. What are all those lobbyists doing in Washington? Looking to dip into the common treasury as deeply as they can. Getting stuff from the government is always enthusiastically pursued while refilling its coffers is not—who really volunteers to pay taxes, let alone more than one must fork over? That is just what the tragedy of the commons amounts to, get as much out as you can, and put as little back as possible.
The best way to deal with the tragedy of the commons is privatization! But of course that would help put an end to this constant promise of a free ride. Moreover, once people get used to getting a free ride, at least for a while, they regard it as a God-given right for them to continue. And there you have Greece today and the rest of the welfare states of the globe tomorrow. (Actually, most of them are merely postponing their comeuppance.)
Privatization — making the stuff of the world private property instead of held in common — solves the problem because it imposes discipline. Everyone must cope with the limited stuff he or she has, can produce, can obtain through peaceful trade, nothing more. No one may dump his or her waste on the neighbor! No one may rip off the neighbor once out of private resources. Maybe in a few drastic emergencies such transgressions will be tolerated but not as a rule, which is how it goes now. Such discipline as privatization brings about would also handle most environmental problems. Even a fiasco such as the oil mess in the Gulf of Mexico would be more likely to be contained if the oceans itself were privately owned — without very serious assurance of safety, drilling would not be possible because private parties would be vigilant about protecting their rightful interests!
On numerous fronts, then, we see that the problems that keep showing up in the daily news are the result of reliance upon the commons. Hardin himself thought that a strict administration of the commons might solve the problem but he didn’t take public choice theory into consideration — people “in charge” have their own agendas and will not really guard the ever elusive public interest.
One way to deal with all this is to come up with a sound constitution for a country! Constitutional economists, like James Buchanan, have been advocating this for years but the public and the political class knows that it would mean the end of their free ride. Never mind that such a free ride will end anyway. But folks do think they can continue eating their cake and having it, too. Not a promising picture!
True Conservatism needs to prevail not Progressivism by either the Democrats or Republicans. Limited Government = True Freedom and Large Government by either party = Oppression!