Your comment only shows you've never understood what government and citizenship is. You want some authoritarian nightmare where government is only for a few people and not everyone.... you don't get that. Government and society is for everyone. You get some things you like, and other people get some things they like.

Here's one of the big differences between conservatives and liberals... liberals understand that for their entire lives, they've benefited from the investment in society that previous generations have made; conservatives seem to think the the world started yesterday, that they did it all by their lonesome, and they don't owe anyone for anything. The true thieves are those who don't want to make investments for future generations after using all the benefits that previous generations sacrificed for them... those are some very sick, greedy, self absorbed, and fundamentally morally challenged people.

Conservatives always seem to hate "social programs," but they always take advantage of them when they need them. It's too bad they don't seem to have the forethought to understand that if they had their way, those programs wouldn't even exist when they ended up needing them. Self-centered, shortsighted, and narcissistic is an ugly way to go through life.

Yeh, but not to worry, i'm sure a handful of the rabid conservative trolls will come along shortly and mod it down to nothing; censoring reality is their nature.

Actually, liberals do want to pay for government programs... that's WHY democrats have a more favorable view of taxes; as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr said: "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society."

Conservatives, on the other hand, don't want to pay for government. They consistently enact policies and tax cuts that hamper, disrupt, and destroy the machinations of a civilized society, while shirking the responsibility to pay for government, and foisting it onto future generations.... usually all the while complaining that government doesn't work.

Increase taxes, fixing the corporate tax system, and making cuts to our massively bloated military are positions that liberals take, and conservatives hate. The problem isn't with liberals here, it's with conservatives that, once again, hate government.

As for your actual debt bullshit, which is what it is, you're citing a radical conservative who want's to do away with medicaid, medicare, and health exchanges, and replace them all with vouchers; supports requiring banks and financial institutions to all be changed so they have no liability for the financial vehicles they sell; and eliminate the entire tax structure and replace it with the most regressive form of taxation in the misnamed "fair tax" flat tax system, where the poorest people are the most heavily taxed.

What this individual does is hype the "debt they're keeping secret" by trying to get people who don't understand basic (VERY BASIC) accounting to think it's all some sort of conspiracy. It's not; he's preying on the ignorance of those he talks to, most of whom probably already hate the government, and filling their heads with bullshit. In the most basic terms, there's two types of accounting for money you'd decided to spend: as you spend it, or all of it at once when you decide to spend it. BOTH are legitimate accounting methods. In the US, we account for it as we spend it. What this guy is saying is that we should be accounting for ALL of it the second we decide to spend it.

Why we don't do it his way: As an example, in 1996 Lockheed and Boeing were given contracts to produce concepts that were the first phase of the F-35 program. That's 1.5 billion dollars. If we had to account for the total cost of the F-35 program, as in HAVE THAT MONEY IN THE BANK, we'd have needed almost a trillion dollars right from the get go. Every time that the program is re-assessed, it's cost goes up... that would mean that every time those 100's of billions it's projected cost went up, we'd have to come up with RIGHT THEN. Nothing would ever get done, nothing would ever get started, because while that project might get underway for a smaller amount every year for a decade, coming up with that entire decades cost before anything was even started, and packing it away never to be touched, would be a massive waste of resources.

If you don't think i'm right, go rent an apartment. Figure out how many years you're going to be living there, then pay ALL those monthly rental costs up front. Or how about your electric bill. Sit down, figure out how much electricity costs you this last year... now figure out how long you're going to be alive and pay the electric company for all that electricity you're gong to use in your lifetime RIGHT NOW. That is as absurd as what this Kotlikoff's schtick is.

The biggest generational theft ever to happen is the tax cuts conservatives have enacted over the last 35 years that have caused the national debt to explode.

But your planets historical documents clearly show them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

For a more than a decade now, NASA and the National Research Council have been saying that the loss of weather tracking satellites without them being replaced will affect the ability to monitor and predict weather events in the country. Some idiots in this country, instead of replacing these critical satellites, prefer to funnel even more taxpayer money to the extremely rich. Now, those same idiots complain when weather forecasting is off a little, suggesting it's all the governments fault.

There is a glint of irony to be had, if you can manage to not be blinded by the extreme stupidity.

Is a good clean view and commentary on Abell 1689, the place where any comments on gravitational lenses should end up.

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I have to admit, Eve of Destruction is more from my age groups music, but i've loved the REM song since Independence Day.

You're almost correct.... the complete message has been deciphered: "Drink more Ovaltine"

Ah, so your problem is you're just a stupid fucking prick. Got it. Let me guess... you're a "libertarian," one of those too embarrassed to admit they voted for Bush... twice.

Points moot, and obviously over your head. You made stupid fucking assumptions about people, and tried to distract from the problem being discussed. You ARE part of the problem. on top of being a childish fucking idiot.

Well, he quite clearly has his political head up his ass... as well as being a fucking idiot for making assumptions about people. His fucked in the head type thinking is why this country has so many problems, and his attempts to distract from the problems by making stupid fucking comments and stupid fucking assumptions about people he doesn't know aren't part of the solution, they're part of the problem.

The politician in question, if he was 47 years old, probably shouldn't be hanging around with 17 year olds in the first place; but saying that people must agree with his actions BECAUSE he's a democrat means that the poster agrees with Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo raping a 5 year old boy BECAUSE Stumbo and the poster are both republicans.... it's twisted, stupid as fuck thinking.

Beings as he was the ONLY president not to use them, regardless of the circumstances why, i'd suggest your assumption is correct.

Harrison. Just saying.

Are you seriously so fucking stupid you think the guy slept with a 17yold BECAUSE he's a democrat? The problem is that because of tribal identity, and complete fucking ignorance, the republican for the last three plus decades have been pulling this country farther and farther to the radical fascist right. This is simply another attempt to rig the system against the people, and let corporations leech more money out of the population. Then we have stupid fucking idiots like you who keep trying to shift attention away from what's going on so YOUR "tribe" never has to take responsibility for anything they do.

This isn't about some totally disconnected fucking idiocy you want to weave around to distract people... it's about peoples basic rights to information thats not censored and fabricated by the few with enough resources to control them. Pull your head out of your ass for once in your life.

But, if you want to talk about pedophiles and sexual criminals in office, fine, here yah go:

http://www.democraticundergrou...

http://ringoffireradio.com/201...

http://www.911review.org/Alex/...

http://articles.latimes.com/20...

Objectively looking at it, we're not in immediate danger of AI, nor are we in danger of willfully ignorant, bombastic journalists. What we are in danger of is the same thing we've been in danger of for a very long time.... intentionally ignorant people who believe everything they're told and then making incredibly stupid decisions that effect lots of other people in a negative way, AND greedy, self serving sociopaths willing to exploit those intentionally ignorant people to gain power or money. The odds of one of that latter group using advanced computing systems to wreak havoc within society is much greater than AI becoming sentient and deciding (rightfully so) humanity is a bane to the existence of pretty much everything else on the planet.

The problem is, you have to go through that "advanced computing" stage of development before getting to AI.... that, and there seems to be a plethora of greedy self serving sociopaths running around these days, and more popping up every day.