What is Digg?Sponsored by Sony Pictures
Do you believe the 2012 Mayan Prophecy? view!
whowillsurvive2012.com - The Mayan Calendar predicts the end of time: 2012. See the trailer for 2012, opening November 13.
285 Comments
- themonkman, on 01/10/2008, -6/+77We are totally screwed as a nation if we don't cut every unnecessary government program, bring our troops home from all places overseas, and reel in pork barrel spending to be a bare trickle. We were warned of this sort of thing hundreds of years ago. Now we are living it.
- winstonb, on 01/10/2008, -16/+82Ok, so Glenn Beck…not good enough… want another source? Steve Kroft ran basically the same story on 60 Minutes about a year ago.
Here’s the big problem… what will the government do? Print more money? Likely. And what does that do? Causes inflation and the further devaluation of the dollar. Remember that the dollar isn’t actually worth anything but the promise from our government that they’ll honor it. The estimate I have heard is that it’s actually worth 4 cents in gold. That’s why Ron Paul and others are advocating a return to the gold standard. That way the money is actually worth something. It makes people more confident to do business with us.
We are currently spending 62% of the government budget on Social Security and Medicare. I just don’t understand where we’re going to get the money from to pay for health care for everyone. - zackmario, on 01/10/2008, -5/+55S T O P . T H E . S P E N D I N G
- 86thefed, on 01/10/2008, -53/+97We the people of America have been lied to and are being lied to by the any Candidate who promises universal health care as part of their platform. It's sounds great but we don't have the money to pay for it. We don't even have the money to pay for this illegal war we started. We need real change in Washington not the same empty promises of change that candidates in past have promised.
Ron Paul 2008 - phoobaar, on 01/10/2008, -4/+46I've seen Walker on a few other programs and really admire his candor. We need more government officials like him.
- Yeshuas, on 01/10/2008, -31/+65Our economy will destroy us before any terroist will. Wake up America we need Ron Paul now!
- nathanaver, on 01/10/2008, -10/+39The easiest solution nobody is talking about (except sort of Ron Paul) is to cut military spending to about $120 Billion a year from the current level of $720 Billion. At $120 Billion we would still be spending double that of the next closest country. We can no longer afford to be the world's police and I don't know why we would want to be in the first place. The only people we really hurt by cutting military spending that much is the military-industrial complex, and unfortunately that probably the reason it will never happen.
- airiox, on 01/10/2008, -13/+40WAKE UP AMERICA! This election matters more than any other election in the history of our nation. If we elect the wrong person to the office this year. There will be no turning back. Rome will fall! You cannot elect patsies like Hilary, McCain and Rudy, otherwise we are doomed. I will leave this great country. Anyone have any recommendations for an alternative that is founded upon what America once was? Civil Liberties, Right to Arms, Low Taxation, Freedom of Religion, Right to Property, with a solid legal system?
- stutteringp0et, on 01/10/2008, -4/+30When I talk about the economy and fiat money and the problems that are coming up from not only the failing housing market but the out of control spending, I'm argued with and berated but I never give up. Now I have some proof to show that I'm not just being paranoid! We have some hard times coming and it's about time that someone is coming forward with some sanity!
- AtHomeBoy2000, on 01/10/2008, -5/+29I appreciate Social Security. but people need to start saving their money. People have become so dependant on the government for everything that they have no self-accountability
- wclass, on 01/10/2008, -6/+27"I just don’t understand where we’re going to get the money from to pay for health care for everyone." How about start with reading the constituion. It is not the duty of the federal government to pay for health care. If we just followed the constituion, we would not have these problems.
- Jeffmr1, on 01/10/2008, -3/+22I don't really see why Glenn Beck wouldn't be good enough, seeing as how it's the head US Comptroller that he's interviewing.
- BamaStangGuy, on 01/10/2008, -9/+28You're right. ***** those eveil corporations. Let's turn it over to those nice gentleman politicians.
- thecoolestguy, on 01/10/2008, -1/+18@PHiZ187,
The US spends more per capita on education that almost any nation in the world, yet the education is crap. The Constitution does not permit the federal government to provide education. The federal government has sole control over the education of one city: Washington DC, and that city has the worst schools in the country. It is time to stop trying to micromanage and homogenize the lives of 300 million people from Washington. Each locality should control its own domestic policies, as the Constitution intended. - greenamp, on 01/10/2008, -4/+20Option 3: Kill all the baby boomers.
- wayzup, on 01/10/2008, -5/+21Um, Ron Paul and others like him have been aware of this problem for years. Welcome to the party, Mr. Beck....better late than never.
- fartbuttes, on 01/10/2008, -3/+19NOT dugg because he mentions Ron Paul, but dugg because it's the truth no matter what! If anyone knows what they're talking about it would be the Comptroller General, and here he is saying what logical people have been saying for years, what Al Gore was made fun of for talking about: this country is royally ***** pretty much any way you look at it. Things might seem great for the average American right now (personally I don't think they are and it's more of an illusion than anything) but in 25 years and maybe sooner the ***** is seriously going to hit the fan and this country WILL have a major collapse in financing and probably society in general. Protip: Get your money out of US dollar-based capital and into foreign investments and currencies or precious metals.
- detlefsj, on 01/10/2008, -5/+19Ron Paul has been talking about this for 30 year!
- jask0, on 01/10/2008, -6/+20Even though I am for Ron Paul...... Ron Paul or not, NO ONE else is talking about this deficit. People are retarded.
- someguyouknow, on 01/10/2008, -1/+14Additional sources are always good.
- thecoolestguy, on 01/10/2008, -1/+14The only way to save America is to dilligently educate every American so that they don't fall prey to opportunistic politicians and their 30 second sound-bite lies. Cut spending and keep spending low. The government CANNOT be in charge of providing services for people. It inevitably leads to debt, pork-barrel spending, higher taxes, lobbies, opportunistic politicians promising to solve everyone's problem with the wave of a government wand and, ultimately, economic collapse.
- Nosnevets02, on 01/10/2008, -4/+16Roads, education, fire protection and disaster recovery were supposed to be the jobs of the STATES. End of story, period.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." - jlbarber, on 01/10/2008, -1/+12wow. People are burying this story. Perhaps it's making people too uncomfortable. The truth hurts so lets try to sweep it under the rug.
- brjohnson789, on 01/10/2008, -3/+14I think people need to realize that it is almost a certainty for the US dollar to eventually be totally worthless due to inflation from overspending. There is no way an elected official is going to want to raise taxes enough to pay for this, not if they like their job. The alternative, cutting spending, would require such massive cuts that special interest groups (I'm looking at you military industrial complex) would complain enough to get the elected folks fired...and on top of that massive cuts in gov't spending would lead to a recession (just in the short term, long term its better for the economy) and people are too dumb to realize that its a good thing and they'd fire the guy then too. So, from an elected person's point of view, if they want a short career they can try to stop this thing. Otherwise, they can just talk about it to get elected, and continue to borrow money to cover the shortfall each year, until our money supply has runaway inflation and there's riots and chaos and bears, oh my!
- jmpeagle, on 01/10/2008, -7/+18because eliminating their drug patents and allow any generic drug maker to make them will sure make pharmaceuticals more profitable...
/sarcasm - awhiteflame, on 01/10/2008, -4/+14He's interviewing the Comptroller General of the United States. If you even think to neglect it because it's Glenn Beck, you're part of the problem.
- LeadOffMan, on 01/10/2008, -1/+10"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury."
-Alexander Tyler
Universal (socialist) Health Care, Social Security, entitlements I'm looking at you - SiNN4R, on 01/10/2008, -2/+10Economic collapse is hands down the greatest threat to our freedoms. If you think the government is being oppressive now wait until our spending catches up with us. The scariest part is people will welcome the oppression as their saviour from starvations.
- BabyWookie, on 01/10/2008, -1/+9Donate to Ron Paul? Am I missing something here? From what I know, he already has more money than most other candidates and yet, was completely irrelevant in the primaries thus far.
- darladoon, on 01/10/2008, -4/+11gee, glen, perhaps you shouldn't have been cheerleading for those trillion dollar wars these last 7 years!
- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -4/+11If things continue as they are, it won't be much longer until all social programs collapse for all people anyway. You're the one being unrealistic.
"The fact is that I’m the only one trying to save Social Security and Medicare. The current administration has stolen all the funds to pay for the war. There’s nothing left. When I end the war, those funds will be returned to our social programs. And I’ve introduced a bill in Congress that would guarantee that those funds can never be taken again." -- Ron Paul
By the way, what's so horrifying about his plan? The real horror is how many people think we can continue on the same path. - SiNN4R, on 01/10/2008, -2/+9I've been waiting to hear those words all my life.
- chessmasterjoe, on 01/10/2008, -16/+23Gold is $890.00 an ounce. Silver is at $16.15 an ounce. If you have money in the bank it is losing value every day. Invest in gold or silver or donate to Ron Paul. This video needs to go viral. Help spread the word. In 1971 gold was $35.00 an ounce.
- greenamp, on 01/10/2008, -1/+8Instead they are discussing ways to spend more money, ie, universal healthcare. I could not ***** believe my ears when I heard Fred Thompson ridicule Ron Paul for saying the diminishing American dollar is the real problem and gov't is making it worse by printing money when they need it.
And yet the rank and file keep trucking on. This country is *****. - inactive, on 01/10/2008, -1/+7You seem to ignore the fundamental truth that is ever present in a capitalist society which is that government involvment = disaster.
Look at Oil, HEALTHCARE, pharmacuticals, TSA..
When the government controls a business sector, competition disappears. When competition disappears, so do low prices and quality of service. Just walk into the DMV or airport security if you don't believe me.
You have it backward, sir. - SpykerSpeed, on 01/10/2008, -0/+6Exactly, just like during the Great Depression when FDR took advantage of America's weakness to implement many of these programs and offices.
- pintomp3, on 01/10/2008, -2/+8glenn beck wants to cut spending, just not war spending. he's been an avid war supporter from the start.
- BuzzFriendly, on 01/10/2008, -1/+6Ever been to a VA Hospital? This is how your "free" health care would end up. The US Government has a poor track record of managing programs. Look at social security, Medicare and Medicaid. Be careful of what you ask you you might just get it.
- BabyWookie, on 01/10/2008, -2/+7I'm curious: where would you go, if you do leave? All the rest of the civilized world is pretty much social democratic, the system which you "libertarians" seem to hate so much. They embrace such "evils" as universal health care, nationalized industries, welfare, etc.
- pintomp3, on 01/10/2008, -1/+6not if the interest is lower than inflation.
- thecoolestguy, on 01/10/2008, -2/+7Corporations are answerable to the consumer and to the shareholder. Politicians can borrow as much money as they want on the country's good faith and credit and let future generations pay it off.
Politicians can get as much money as they want from you by taxing you, corporations can only get money from you IF you choose to buy their product. - MoneyShot, on 01/10/2008, -1/+6I stopped reading after you said that the "dollar is worth four cents in gold". You might want to alert the commodities market of your economic research. They're under the moronic impression that a person can buy a dollar's worth of gold for... a dollar.
- iTorrey, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5Ok, then amend it. The founders knew that they couldn't envision every possibility so they have a system by which you can amend the constitution. So do it! Don't just ignore it because you like the benefit you gain. If you allow the government to ignore it whenever it suits you they are likely to do it when it doesn't. You can't just pick and choose when you want it to be followed and when you don't.
- BuzzFriendly, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5If you are for "free" health care you need to ask yourself who is going to pay for it. Then you need to visit a VA hospital to see what your are going to get. Then you need to look at how the government runs social security, Medicare and Medicaid they do a great job with those socialist programs I am sure they will do even better with your "free" health care. And while you at it why not free food? I am healthy and really don't need medical insurance but we all need food so why not have the government give us free food? Myself I am a free individual and do not need or want the government to do my part to take care of myself.
- ThomasPaine23, on 01/10/2008, -3/+8Actually you are smoking crack. Each and EVERY person owes roughly 30 thousand dollars on the "official" nation debt of ~9 trillion dollars.
Estimated debt with entitlements is between 40 to 70 trillion dollars, or between 150 thousand to 240 thousand dollars per person. Remember this is on top of the taxes you already pay. There are only two ways out of this, cut the programs or print money. We are beginning to see the results of the second one. There are no free lunches...... - baproamerican, on 01/10/2008, -2/+7VERY INTERESTING!!!! Watch Glen Beck closely when he mentions the name Ron Paul.. He looks away from the camera 2 times as if someone was telling him to shutup about Ron Paul.. the only true economic conservative we have running.
- Tiak, on 01/11/2008, -0/+4Seriously, think about what you're sayiing for a moment... Think about everything you've ever heard Ron Paul say about fiscal policy... How detailed is this? How much of a plan is defined?... He knows how much money would be saved by getting out of Iraq, and will say random numbers for cash that would be saved by getting out of the rest of the world too... But he doesn't have any defined plans for taxes. If you take away all income tax revenues, the fact of the matter is, even if we pay for the absolute minimum on the federal level, we will never pay off our debt... This is just how it works, when you owe 10 trillion dollars, plus interest, payments of 100 billion a year (half of our are never actually going to get you there...
Paul caters to people who want low taxes, but really, that only digs us a deeper hole, paying off our debt as soon as possible is the best possible scenario, and we should work towards that, not selfishly demand that we be able to keep a slightly larger percentage of our paychecks while ultimately dooming the nation. - WhiteRaven, on 01/10/2008, -1/+5What's your point? The fact remains that you will need to past an amendment to make it legal. And also the fact remains that a lot of us think that handing control over our health care to a federal bureaucracy is ***** STUPID.
- WiseWeasel, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4Cable companies are heavily regulated by the FCC, and spend so many resources lobbying representatives, that they are practically another branch of government at this point. They would not be an ideal model for the health industry (though we're certainly close to that now).
- awhiteflame, on 01/10/2008, -3/+7Buried you because you are an idiot.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 285 discussions
Browsing Digg on your phone just got easier with our enhancements to the 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is