[Lancey Howard]

Forcing the “sequestration cuts” to happen would be a good start.

[FlingWingFlyer]

They also said that Republicans had a lot of “leverage” in the fiscal cliff debate. That didn’t work out. Right now, I believe the GOP will surrender on the debt ceiling too. I don’t have much faith in our side. They are scared to death of the media.

[Hoodat]

It's more likely House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama will hammer out a "grand bargain" that heaps trillions more debt on future generations of indentured state servants

If they were actually borrowing the money, then this statement would be true. However, this is not the case. Instead of borrowing money, they are simply expanding the money supply. So instead of heaping debt on future generations, they are simply stealing value from current generations.

The next time you go to the grocery store, take a good look at what sits in your shopping cart. If you spent the same as you spent this time four years ago, then you will have only two-thirds the groceries you were able to purchase then. And where did the other one-third of your groceries go? They ended up in the carts of all those people with EBT cards. One third of your grocery money has been stolen from you and given to others in exchange for political power. This isn't about future generations. We are getting ripped off right now.

[q_an_a]

In order to stop government it is important to show, via TV advertising, where it does not work PROPERLY. Start with rules for spotted Owl, the forest industry lost 90,000 jobs but there are fewer owls today. Next go to car mileage, cars get better milage, the cost of repairs for a minor accident is twice the cost of gasoline savings and more people DIE from cars today than 20 years ago. Now try electric lights - the old one was cheap and worked, it was easy to throw out when finished. The new ones are expensive, and a health hazard.

This is three from me - I bet if we start a chain we can list many hundreds of "bad ideas" that cost us because government gets it wrong ....try some things for schools!