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>Commitments and Obligations  - James Howard Kunstler - 
Hmmm, yeah, Social Security and Medicare and it's all such a waste, big waste. Uh-huh, big waste. Speaking of big waste - the Pentagon and its associated manufacturing enterprises have come up with a sure fire approach to our fiscal difficulties: The F-35 fighter plane. A mere $365 million dollars per plane, it will most certainly insure our victory over the rowdy and hungry masses of peasants now assembling their strike force hordes (underground apparently) in order to disrupt the American Dream and a dream it certainly appears to be as they want to build only 2200 of them. These same military geniuses have also developed a $650 million warship (which doesn't quite work properly at this point of production) which will insure that the hungry hordes with their fleets of sliced-in-half lengthwise fifty-five gallon drums will be intercepted before they reach our pristine shores. The Navy only wants 600 of these still to be perfected craft. Uh-huh, blame it on Medicare and Social Security, foodstamps and nutrition programs for mothers who don't have the ability to share drinks with the members of congress or have been laid off their jobs because guys like Corzine took down a few hundred small businesses on his way to the bank. Personally, I'd rather go broke feeding someone who's hungry or paying for someone's grandma to receive medical treatment that could save her life or funding a special prosecutor to deal with the likes of Corzine. The constant thread? Going broke. Seems to be all the rage these days. Guess it will ultimately come down to having to make a choice. Hmmm...

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Beginning of the headline :Conservatives have a legitimate gripe about America's excessive "commitments and obligations" to "unfunded liabilities" but their focus on Medicare and social security misses the larger point: our disastrous commitment to the current national lifestyle, in particular suburban sprawl and everything it entails.     This point came across vividly in a video recently released by the usually level-headed David McAlvaney titled "The Fuse Is Lit Part 3 - an American Reckoning." In it, the smooth and ar... Read More
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