Social Security and Medicare and the 53 trillion dollar asteroid. Okay, I’m not a financial genius, in fact, what I know about finance couldn’t fill a page using 20 point text. But I do know that you need to put more money in the bank each month than you take out. We’ve all got a personal interest in this one though.. We’ve paid for it. It would be nice if it was there. It may not though.

CNN wrote:Well there may not be a space asteroid heading toward us, but there is an economic one -- and the threat to our future is just as severe

You might think that I'm talking about the recession (sorry: potential recession) or credit crisis, but I'm thinking bigger. Much, much bigger.Let me give you three numbers that will put this economic asteroid into perspective: $200 billion, $14.1 trillion, and $53 trillion.

For the full story, You’ll have to read the article…

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/....html

Comments?

And the current glamor boy of the Dem party is wanting to further expand welfare/poverty based initiatives to a global level.

As long as they feel good about it I guess it's OK? Seems to be to them.

I know I'm starting to sound like Telcoman and his 87 octane wonder-G35, but does anyone else see over population as one of the roots to many of our problems?

Specifically over population of low-class, ignorant people (I don't mean that in an offensive manner, I mean true ignorance)?

I think we need the technology, just not the reverse darwinism that accompanies it.

I know there are 20 million people here that we could get rid of