[Bartruff1]

I look in here about every 6 months or so and see the same thing over and over. It's a free country (mostly) so you can spend your time as you can afford or wish, but I don't understand why someone without a advanced academic degree and decades of experience in analysis would get themselves so worked up about the socio economic impacts of the Goverment . If you don't understand Quantum Physics or Thermodynamics are you delusional enough to think you could send a person into space and bring him back safely ?? Of Course not. Now I suspect VP Cheney was using hyperbole when he said that deficits don't matter, they do. People without the training and background usually relate the federal budget to their household or business budget but that analogy is misleading. You and I are not the Goverment and we do not have their obligations, opportunities and time frames. The Gov. does not spend money in the sense that you and I do, it simply reallocates resources from one sector to another according to the publics priorities as expressed in the elective process. Now you might not agree with those priorities and so you have a right to express your opinion and vote your values but you should recognize that you probably don't have all the facts or all the solutions . Again, quit driving your wife nuts and get a hobby. See you in 6 months...