Sure, and when all the cars (powered by Windows) get the BSOD and millions of people are injured the trial lawyers will have ALL our money,

Good point, but the real problem is that we're spending more money on infrastructure today than we were at the peak of the Interstate Highway construction and getting less and less and less for it. Why? The legalized money laundering systems that the politicians have spent years and years and years building...

Case Study: Detroit. Wisconsin. Most blue states. Many Red States.

Get rid of legalized theft from the taxpayer and put all that money into actual roads and they would be paved in gold, every year.

Huh? So printing money by the boatload... to finance an absurd deficit... doesn't create inflation? The U.S. Treasury would need to collect about $1.33 for each and every day since the Dawn of Time to be able to pay off the hard debt racked up in just the last six years. A buck-thirty-three a day may not strike one as a lot of money, it’s considerably less than what some folks pay for their daily latte, but the payment schedule would be spread out over “eternity.”

The CBO re-rated ObamaCare at 2 trillion dollars... $55,000 per person to provide the insurance. So while the Military budget is staggering, and the Iraq war was a horrible waste of money, ObamaCare certainly ranks at the top of the most over-hyped totally insane later Federal Program ever created.

And no, if you budget a 5% increase, and you are borrowing more than you take in, and the rate of increase is only 3%, that is NOT A TWO PERCENT SAVINGS!!! Only governments can get away with this nonsense. It's like saying "Well, I didn't borrow $100,000 I don't have anyway, so TODAY I SAVED $100,000 dollars". Which is exactly what you hear politicians saying in flowery terms every single year.

And as long as I am ranting I am not sure sure about CPI, as everything in the grocery store is a lot more expensive than CPI says it should be...

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Sir, with all due respect, you're not being terribly honest. It's also widely reported (Outside of liberals blogs like thinkprogress.org, dailykos, etc.) that almost ALL the new jobs created since Obama took office have gone to immigrants.

So why does Obama's proposed NASA budget take money away from some programs to finance a way to get astronauts to the Space Station?

The line item veto was fought tooth and nail... by the Democrats.

Correct. And I would add:

It wasn't long ago that Obama heralded the glorious "privatization of Space". He handed out big money to all his friends. There was big fan fare about the dawn of a new era. Private companies were going to replace those nasty rooskies charging us an arm and a leg to get into space, remember?

What happened? The new NASA budget shifts money into... wait for it... A way to get astronauts to the Space Station.

But I am sure the bribes were repaid handsomely, and a nice chunk of taxpayer dollars found their way back to the Democratic Party coffers. Because at the end of the day, that is what this Administration and party truly excel at.

I said nothing of the kind. You don't seem to have very good reading comprehension.

I AM A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER. Therefore I think I am qualified to have an opinion.

Using a tool called "The Google" you can easily find out that small business creates the majority of the jobs in America.

Worshipped? Of course not! Punished? A very bad idea... We need to ENCOURAGE people to start businesses, otherwise we have no growth. And you're ideas about how business works... they are really strange.

Simple. People are generally risk averse. To start a business, you have to give up all your free time, work insane hours, and invest a substantial amount of your own money. The odds are, you will fail (99% of all small business startups fail in the first year)

People talk big talk, but very few people have the motivation to actually work this hard and take these risks.

Which is why people who take these kinds of risks, and create jobs for everyone else, should be rewarded, not punished. When you teach people that success is evil, you are doing great harm to society. Where will the next generation of risk takers come from?

Where do you get such foolish notions?

The way business actually works is you hire good people, treat them like gold, respect their families and beliefs, pay them well, give them good benefits... and they, in turn, share your values about customer service, treat the customers well, and grow the business. Screwing your employees and fucking over your customers is how you go broke, quickly.

It's a fantasy to think that someone large groups of people organized as "corporations" are, by default, evil, and large groups of people organized as "government" are benign. It is also a fantasy to believe that government will redistribute wealth equally. Throughout history, the exact opposite has been the case, each and every single time.

For your sake, I hope you are very young....

Thanks for agreeing with me Bob. But I don't think it has anything to do with a poorly optimized engine, or U.S. vehicles in general. The efficiency of the internal combustion engine these days is remarkable, and the ability to modify the programming to match different fuel types is anything but a compromise. What you have with an electronic engine is a programmable machine with impressive flexibility. You may not remember the days when you drove a car to high altitude and it barely ran...

On the bright side Americans are finally beginning to realize that Diesel is a better choice. I drove Diesel's for years until the ULSD mandate made them un-economical relative to gas. Diesel's have the compression you're looking for, of course.

The truth is that alcohol just doesn't have the same energy density in terms of btu/kg as does gasoline, so there's no way you're going to get anywhere the same mileage. So the consumer was sold a big bag of hype, under the assumption that they were all idiots, and couldn't calculate miles per gallon. And of course in the foolishness of governments, they mandated that a fixed amount of the stuff had to be produced every year, regardless of demand. So now the refiners, and the oil companies, are sitting on gallons and gallons of the stuff. Here in the Midwest once the subsidy expired I have not seen a single vehicle at the E85 pump. And down at the local refinery, they are building storage tanks. The result: biofuels will be set back years.

It's not that we shouldn't be working very hard to produce biofuels. It's that we are trusting the wrong people to do it. The government, particularly politicians, are too corruptible to be in charge of anything this important. Just my two cents...

Your absolutely correct, but you need to explain WHY the government is bankrupt, starting with unfunded liabilities. As the majority of young liberal arts educated posters here just don't have a clue about how economics actually works, and how years and years of quid pro quo pay to play deals eventually drains all the money out of the host.

I say, have 'em come and live in Detroit, Brush Park would be a fine address, after six months they will completely understand how we have legalized bribery and sanitized it.... And how we are quite literally killing the goose that lays the golden eggs...

Where, pray tell, do you think the money for this "free education, healthcare, roads, police, and judicial services" actually comes from?

One wonders if Obama is so petty that he is working doubly hard to make sure Shrillary looses. It sure seems that way. I think she would make a horrible President. Obama lies really well, Hillary not so much...