but some people have not quite understood how broke we are and what radical activity needs to be done.
I'm with you in almost everything else you've said but I can't agree with this. In 2013 we will spend
58%, (yes, almost 2/3rds), of our GDP on Welfare, (15%), Health Care, (17%), Pensions, (19%), and interest, (7%)* because we've done so many things wrong in the past. We spend a mere 6% on defense... Hell, Goverment itself costs us 2%. We spend twice as much on the sick, lame and lazy, as we do in defence of the country and we spend more paying back debt than we do in defence.
The money is there but the self serving politicians don't get votes for doing the right thing, in fact it's quite the opposite, they maintain power by doing precisely the wrong thing and pandering to the wasters!!!
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