I don’t know what happened. The html worked fine while in Preview but once posted, the colors changed, the links stopped working from the Free Republic links, but work well from the original post. Sorry about this.
Right now, the US is $16 trillion in debt, and rising. A large portion of what the government spends each year is borrowed money. As on not, the currency and financial system hasn’t collapsed. Has anyone done an analysis of what the breaking point is?
Is the tipping point $20 trillion in debt? $25, or $30 trillion? Or, is it when the country has to borrow to cover more that 50% of its obligations?
Does anyone have a guess as to when TSHTF?
Political squabbles over ‘cost’ and the tax burden are less than meaningless to this element.
They have never worked and it was always free for them! So it's laughable that the issue of 'cost' would ever enter their heads?
WOWSERS!! This is a “stop the presses!” moment if ever I saw one.
Who knew that spending more than you receive in income would lead to a debt crisis!?? And (let me catch my breath), how could ANYONE determine that reduced revenue, overspending and borrowing against future earnings was an economically unsound system!!???
I may have to get an oxygen treatment. I’m hyperventilating with all this new information. After I get my oxygen treatment, I’ll have to try to figure out what it all means.
The author states: Reducing government spending might close the budget gap this year, but it would still leave our healthcare system struggling with inefficiencies.
So what? If you are conservative, you believe the market will deal with the "inefficiencies" much better than any government policy yet article concludes that we need a new government healthcare policy. Any time the government gets its grubby hands on any part of the private sector, it creates a disaster. Just think of housing as another example. Housing would have been better off with NO government policy. Healthcare would be in better shape than its in today with no government policy.