Unemployment

[kandrathe]

Private debt was out of control, and public debt threatens to swallow the budget in about twenty years. You know what's driving both things? Health care. You know how you can fix it? Health care reform. Fix that, and you're more than halfway out of the hole before you even need to start on anything else.

Actually, entitlement ponzi scheme. You cannot sustainably outlay more services to the present generation than you take in in taxes, and finance it with debt from subsequent generations. We blew through the social security trust fund, through the ability to tax people and corporations, and now we've run out of credit. Health care costs are just something the government should abandon, and let the private sector resolve in whatever manner it can. The answer is to get government out of the health care business entirely. States can focus on helping their own poor, but the feds should get themselves out of citizens lives.