ft.com — The US is at risk of losing its top-notch triple-A credit rating within a decade unless it takes radical action to curb soaring healthcare and social security spending, Moody?s, the credit rating agency, said on Thursday.The warning over the future of the triple-A rating granted to US government debt since it was first assessed in 1917
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enriJan 12, 2008
It's called stimulating the economy.
jstoneJan 12, 2008
No. Because they'll whine about how he was robbed in the primaries for about a year.
bosssmileyJan 14, 2008
The Serbian operation was hardly a war. A war is *two* sides fighting. Clinton spent his eight years in office using the US military in a 'wag the dog' capacity to distract from awkward news at home. Bitch-slapping Eurotrash tinpot dictators and swaggering around failed states like Somalia and Sierra Leone in the UN blue helmet != wars.
silveracidJan 14, 2008
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Clinton caused the Social Security crisis?!? Absolutely incorrect. The federal government has been spending that money for years before Clinton was in office. Congress sees it as sort of an IOU to themselves. The deficit that is normally referred to is the number that assumes that the money held for Social Security is actually there. Ridiculous, I know, but you still can't blame Clinton for that - Congress controls the money. Congress controls the money. Congress controls the money. That's how our government is set up by the founding fathers. Not the president. If you want to blame someone, blame Congress for messing up Social Security. That is not to say, of course, that the President has no power over Congress' expenditures - Bush, after all, has managed to plunge us almost irrevocably into debt in a meager 7 years. Universal health care is not impossible, it's hard. For you, it may seem impossible, or at least too hard, but then again, I doubt that you have problems paying for your medical bills. My girlfriend has not health insurance and she was hit by a truck last year, found out she had a deviated septum, fractured her spine, among other things. How is she supposed to pay for that? Even a lawsuit wouldn't get her the money soon enough for it to matter (How is she supposed to pay for a lawyer though? She has one, but is going into debt for it.) For her, your argument sounds hollow, insensitive, and uniformed. In my opinion, we should drop Social Security - or at least someone has to take the political hit and actually fix it. That's not to say that our federal government doesn't have a responsibility to take care of those who need it. We can't trust the government with our money?? WE ELECT THE DAMNED POLITICIANS!! If you don't like it, change it! That's the whole point of a democratic republic - quit bitching about it and speak with your voice and your vote. ...but please, spare me your privileged and holier-than-thou bulls**t.
Closed AccountJan 16, 2008
How bout spinning it like the American people actually get something out of those programs besides being dead, or fattening the pockets of international bankers and Raytheon.
tumppiFeb 4, 2008
So helping people is wasting money and your answer is to end these programs.Maybe I'm wrong, but I have understood that half of your federal tax money goes to military.
Closed AccountSep 26, 2008
LOL dems= tax and spendrepubs = BORROW and spend
Closed AccountSep 26, 2008
Nationalize AIG but not healthcare?
aabjoraMar 5, 2009
But not on social services. It's spending on warfare that usually threatens the United States' security.<a class="user" href="http://www.mortgagerefinancingloanz.com/">http://www.mortgagerefinancingloanz.com/</a>
dan2600Mar 15, 2010
NOT NEWS: US's power of 24 hour global destruction still keeps them at top
dan2600Mar 15, 2010
you have no idea what you are talking about
dan2600Mar 15, 2010
High tech job? what the hell are you talking about. Manufacture is in china, but 80-90% of US companies have pulled out almost all R&D and programming from India and East Asia. Look at Windows Vista (programmed mostly in India) and Windows 7 (programmed state side)...its a grand experiment, that went wrong. Companies realized having 2nd rate R&D lead to 2nd rate end products. Also, what do you think would happen to China if the US ran out of money and they had no one to buy their products. Corporations are multinational, you can invest even if you are not from that country anyway, so its not as black and white as saying...the products are made in X so X gets all the money.These issues are much more complex then these black and whites you are presented.I'll let you get back to your fear mongering network news now.