[TheRealVille]

I agree that's a hard way to go. I worked 40 hours a week and any overtime I could manage when I started my career, minimum wage back then was 65 cents an hour. My check was somewhere around 30 dollars a week. With that 30 dollars I was able to buy a car and attend college for 3 years before I decided to enter the work force as a union carpenter. It never occurred to me to foam at mouth because the government hadn't done enough for the poor.

I remember when the worm turned for the financial fortunes of this country. Lyndon Baines Johnson threw a noose around the growth explosion of those days when he encumbered those that worked with the financial burdens of those who didn't. The idea was that we were going to have to help them anyway so why not organize welfare into something that sounded better, The Great Society sounded noble enouglh and we bought the troubles of the poor at that point. The trouble with that idea was that there was no way to limit the give aways, and no way to draw a line in the sand.

Now we see the end of the story. After 75 debt ceiling hikes and a natiional debt that soared from around 500 billion in the late 60's to 14.5 trillion at present. Then the straw that broke the camel's back was 9/11, we lost 3 trillion dollars from our economy and that used up all our slack. That added to the snail paced financial growth of the last several years and we have hit the wall.

Democrats and republicans went along with the whole thing. We have seen the noose tighten since LBJ first threw it and now we have to react. That's where we are right now with all the theatrics provided by politicians. The only way this country can survive and maybe even return to the prosperous days I remember from the 60's is to revive GROWTH. When jobs are available America functions well. Think about it. We just threw 800 billion dollars down a rat hole trying to revive the enonomy Obama's way. I believe we should get back on the horse that brung us, and quit experimenting.

If you are referring to the "stimulus package" of 762 billion, how soon you Republicans forget that the stimulus package was Bush's baby.