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By the time we finish this series, some of you will share my belief that America will be unlikely to survive either the election of another Democrat to the Whitehouse or the recovery of both houses of Congress by the Democrats

This should be a neat trick, since Republican control of all three branches has so far yielded:

Expanded federal role in education
Massive increase in farm subsidies
Campaign Finance Reform
Tarriffs on steel and agricultural products
Tax refunds to people who don't pay taxes
Prescription drug benefit for Medicare (pending)
Federal budgets that have exceeded our economic growth rate every single year, even after accounting for defense

If this is conservatism, please count me out. I don't remember anything this radical happening when we had divided government. Sure, there was Hillarycare, but it failed. Today's Republicans are likely to dust it off, a call it their own and go ahead and implement it.

Please, please let's go back to stalemated and impotent government. The power has corrupted the party.

You didn't request it, but I have taken the liberty of adding your name to the ping list for this series. If the problems facing America are to be solved, Democrats must be defeated and relatively powerless. The second leg of of this effort will be to bring the Repbulicans back to reality. We need more comments and thoughts on this effort. Your voice will be welcome. Stalemated government will end badly.

And for the benefit of LS, keep your eye on this series. You are going to find out that we don't have decades to deal with this problem. The boomers start reaching retirement age in the fall of 2008 and become eligible for Medicare in 2012. If we haven't dealt effectively with the problem by then, some Americans are going to be hurt and maybe badly. Instead of responding, please read the SS trustee's report and the Gokhale and Smetters study. After that, here is a link (http://www.socialsecurity.org/pubs/testimony/ct-jp062697.html) to the Cato model for SS. I am sixty. Social Security is going to end in my lifetime. This series is about seeing that the end benefits America instead of destroying it.

I'm really not interested in this ping list, but thanks for thinking of me.

I completely agree that the country will be bankrupt in my lifetime without a massive reform (I am 50). While your faith in the party is laudible, you are completely misleading yourself. The neocons are bigger panderers than the Demoncrats. They aren't going to reverse course. Just look at what they've done so far.