You have said how its spent, by electing people to represent you.
This is a doorway--the only way to cross to the other side is to play their game; but, once on the other side, WE make the rules. Yes, WE. Fine, it's your money, but under THEIR rules, YOU have no say in the matter. Now that we have the opportunity, their very ability to determine how YOU spend your money is diminished! They can't spend your money on social programs if the social programs DON'T EXIST. How can we get rid of the social programs if not this way? Realistically? How likely do you think it would be that Bush could retool social programs in the country if not thru Federal enforcement? It started on the Federal level, and must END on the Federal level--use the Fed against itself. Use the money and time to build programs that don't require or NEED Federal help. THEY have been rebuilding it in the reverse all along--rebuilding to ENSURE that the Fed is needed. Now, we have the opportunity to rebuild to destroy the "need" for the Fed! I think that is far more preferable than pissing and moaning about "encroachment on states' rights" and "MY money" nonsense. This is THE opportunity, and it MUST be seized! Play the game THEIR WAY, AGAINST THEM! How can the Left object to more Federal spending when that is all that they have pushed for for 60 years? They will LOSE, both in policy and with the public. Suddenly, the Left is the one calling for less spending--THEY become the ones that hate the poor, THEY become the ones that hate women. Then WE get to rebuild it the way WE want it...
No, I elected people to leave me the he-(double l) alone.
Other people elected representatives to take my money and give it to them.
All your doing is just dreaming up better ways for the thief that just stole my money to squander it.
There is nothing outside of national defense, international trade, and interstate trade that the federal government can do better than the people.
You sound like a drug pusher. I'm not buying.
Except that as far as I can see Bush ISN'T spending all of that money and putting us deeper into debt to build alternative social programs that will begin to wean people off of government assistance. In fact, all I've seen is more 'the government will take care of it'. The federal governemnt will take care of your security, the federal government will make sure your kids are educated, the federal government will bail you out after a storm, the federal government will take care of you in your old age, the federal government will fund every little project in every little town. Where are these programs you seem to think they're spending all of this money on that will fix this? All I've seen is the federal government taking more and more responsibilty for taking care of things and making sure everyone has 'everything they need' and spending us into oblivion in the process.