Comment Re:You're doing it wrong (Score 1) 200
It is the debt and "entitlement" and social security obligations that are going to kill us down the road.
SS sucks, but it's only about 3% of your paycheck (it's part of the FICA tax). It doesn't even come out of your regular IRS taxes, in theory. And as I understand it, Federal welfare was cut way back in the Clinton years. There's still a lot of welfare spending, but I believe it's mostly at the State and local levels. Don't live in California and it shouldn't be that big a problem.
You obviously didn't listen to grandparent poster when they told you Google federal spending. If I take the federal government budget for 2009 and look at the total DoD spending it only comes to 21% of the budget. Conveniently that matches pretty well with Social Security spending. You seem to want to exclude that since "it's part of the FICA tax," which comes no where close to covering its (projected) cost. If federal welfare was cut way back, why is it still the single largest part of the federal budget, and we haven't even started including Medicare, Medicaid, and all the other welfare programs?