Ron Paul is a tin foil hat wearing kook. If he likes his gold so much why doesn't he marry it. Being in massive amounts of escalating debt for the rest of your life to a group of people you'll never be allowed to know their names while fighting inflation along with lower consumer good values is the cool thing to do. So quit being lame. Future generations depend on us looking cool. Fiscal responsibilities are for hippies. You're not a hippie are you?
You called?
There are only 2 solutions to this. Decrease spending or increase taxes. Bush has been so ridiculously irresponsible with his tax cuts and massive spending it's a joke... although not a very funny one.
Where does the money go? Well, how much have they just approved for Iraq? Another $150bn or something?
In my view, to start getting herself out of this hole, America should slash military spending. No one wants to sign-up anyway, so take the opportunity to reduce troop numbers. When your country is dying financially there is no need to have the latest greatest weapons (as the USSR learnt eventually), so cut back on development - don't worry, if you do get attacked it'll be by kids with home-made bombs, or by your own planes. The next generation of stealth fighters or super-bombs won't help you.
America should also increase taxes across the board. You (arguably) elected these people, you are all responsible. Doesn't the declaration of independence say something about taking down bad governments - you haven't done that. It's political suicide in the US to argue for increased taxes, although it is the logical solution I don't expect it to happen openly.
The other thing that would help massively, but unlikely to happen, is to stop the war on drug users. Legalise and tax. Stop spending money providing for people incarcerated for only harming themselves and allow them to contribute to the economy rather than being a drain. Stop wasting millions destroying crops and allow the farmers in Columbia and Afghanistan to sell their produce legally, taking a big cut in taxes. Spend on education and harm reduction, insist on quality control and strongly deal with any unlicensed production and sales. I can't be fucked to dig out the figures, but if this multi-billion dollar economy was taken away from the black market we would all benefit financially (not to mention socially).
Sort this shit out guys, it's fucking up the world and we can't do much about it.
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