PRODUCERS, MOOCHERS & LOOTERS: This is too good not to pass on

SEE IF YOU CAN WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND THESE NUMBERS

By Neal Boortz, December 7, 2009

Are you really aware of just how much politicians - and I'm talking politicians from both parties - have trashed the future of your children and grandchildren? Are you sitting out there just blissfully thinking that since this country has been here all of your life, in generally the same shape it is right now, that it will always be here in something resembling its present form for your children and grandchildren? Have you ever heard that all good things come to end? Well then, what makes you so sure that this saying doesn't apply to this country? Do you think we're somehow bulletproof? Has it occurred to you that the citizens of the Soviet Union might well have thought the same thing?

Over the weekend I picked up a copy of Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto." Levin's book truly is just what is purports to be: "A Conservative Manifesto." It's brilliant. If I could write like that I might take a stab at another book ... but I can't. Leave the brilliance to Levin.

Here ... let me show you something from Levin's book. This comes from Chapter 7 "On the Welfare State." Levin was writing about the costs of entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. All of these programs are piling financial obligations on future generations of Americans (that would be your descendants) that they simply will not be able to pay for. Read this paragraph:

"In 2008, David Walker, then the comptroller general of the United States, reported that the total burden in present value dollars of these and other entitlement programs, including the federal government's liabilities, commitments and contingencies, is about $53 trillion. He added, 'Imagine we decide to put aside and invest today enough to cover these promises tomorrow. It would take approximately $455,000 per American household - or $175,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States."

Did that catch your attention? Right now there is NO MONEY, not one single cent, set aside to pay for these entitlements. We are paying for all of them as we go .. and at the same time we have to pay for the normal costs of operation of our federal government. You know, pesky little things like courts, transportation infrastructure, law enforcement and a bit set aside for national defense. That figure you see above "per American household?" That assumes the average household size of 2.6 people. If you're household is larger than your share of this burden increases. Husband, wife and two children? Try $700,000.

So ... what's the big deal? Well maybe you can tell ME just how we're going to meet this obligation. Frankly, I don't see how we can do it. Besides ... in case you haven't been paying attention, the Democrats just got through working through an entire weekend trying to add yet another entitlement program to the mix ... and this one, your entitlement to healthcare, will make Medicare and Medicaid look like a friendly game of checkers.

Do you really think the Looters are being honest with you about how much this is all going to cost? Come on, you have to be kidding me. Here's just one little trick they're pulling that I'm betting they've completely slipped by you. They're going to start collecting taxes, penalties and fees for ObamaCare as soon as they get the bill passed. BUT ... They're not going to start to provide benefits under the bill for three or four years. So the Looters are giving us a figure for what ObamaCare will cost during the next ten years ... without really explaining that spending on benefits will only take place for six or seven of those years. Can you just imagine what the second ten years will be like?

Let me try to give you an analogy here. You're buying a new home. The builder tells you that for a certain annual payment he will give you a 100% warranty on the home. He tells you that it will only cost you $1000 per year, or $10,000 for the first ten years. What he doesn't tell you is that you start paying your $1000 per year immediately - with the first $1000 collected at closing --- but he's going to wait for four years before he'll fix anything. You're getting eight months of coverage for one year's payments. That's exactly what the Democrats are doing to you with the so-called health "reform" bill they've been dealing with all weekend. You didn't really know that, did you? Surely you don't think the ObamaMedia was going to explain that to you.

Let's cap this rant off with this:

In spite of the numbers I've outline above, it won't matter a bit to a huge percentage of Americans. As I've said before, we have three basic classes of people in our society. There are the producers that create the wealth. Then there are the moochers that seek to consume the wealth created by the producers; and finally we have the looters who seize the wealth from the producers to transfer to the moochers in exchange for votes ... which is the same thing as saying\ in exchange for power.

There are tens of millions of Americans out there right now who do not give a flying fornication what sort of debt we're piling up for future generations of American to pay. They're not going to be around to help pay that debt off, so it means nothing to them. What they do so earnestly care about is their free ride. They can't give you one good logical reason why anyone other than themselves should be responsible for their health care, but as long as the Democrats are willing to relieve them of that burdensome responsibility, they're more than willing to go along. Too many of these people it's just more money for iPhones and PlayStations.

This country is being killed by the moochers and the looters who pander to them.
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