If you think CFR and prescription drugs are what the country needs, then Republicans may win the election, but we lose the Constitution and bankrupt the US. If you are going to vote Republican and your candidate will not agree to support the Contract with Congress, I suggest that you buy gold on the dips. On an ever increasing scale, you are going to need something you can use for money by the time 2012, and beyond, begin to roll around.
Another thing, it is not me that is burning the Constitution. Put the monkey where it belongs. It is Republicans who are acting like democrats and who are pandering to voters who traditionally may vote for democrats. And if you believe that I am wrong about the financial consequences of left leaning republicans, then you have nothing to worry about. The tax and spend, borrow and spend, inflate and spend merry-go-rounds will never stop. And if the music never stops, no one need worry about there being enough chairs.
I have no problems with anyone who wants to live in a socialist's world. But I am opting out. The current income tax burden is being borne by an increasingly smaller per centage of the population with a larger and larger per centage of our population escaping the income tax. The burden for SS and Medicare; however, is increasingly being shouldered by escapees from the income tax. Now that the income music is slowing but the number of would be dancers or sitters are increasing, who and how will the deck chairs on the Titanic be shuffled? How long do you think you can keep the musicians from jumping ship? The better musicians are the most likely to jump ship first. The top 5% pay half of the taxes. Does this look like a stabile situation to you? Linear thinking can be very dangerous to your well being when times and things are clearly changing in major ways. If you believe that there are no free lunches, how long do think the income tax, Social Security and Medicare ponzi free lunch schemes will last?
Until someone offers a better plan than the Contract with Congress, I suggest you give some serious consideration of how to fund a twelve trillion dollar unfunded liability in a country where two thirds of expenditures are for transfer payments to individuals, and the country is running several hundred billion dollar annual budget deficits and a 1.5 billion dollar a day current account deficit. Just where and how do you think the US government is going to be able to fund these liabilities? When the golden geese have fled who will pay?