Fortunately for us in SC, manufacturers are expanding, because of a market-friendly state - and in spite of Obama and his thugs at the NLRB, etc. Unfortunately, Obama has already claimed credit for 5000 jobs (Boeing) that he tried to kill. In spite of Obama's FDR style corporate bashing, these companies have to look at the long term (beyond Obama) in their decisions as to where to invest their money for best return. Thank God we still have a few state governments that realize that government doesn't create jobs, entrepreneurs and corporations do.

I've been hearing the myth that "there aren't enough young people to take the jobs of retiring boomers" for over a decade now. But my eyes see a different picture. When I graduated high school in 1969, my school had about 390 students. Now there are almost 800 - in a rural county in SC. And I've heard news stories of similar growth across the country (with the exception of the rust belt and California) for years. It's not that there are fewer employees, it's that there are so many more freeloaders getting on the social security disability. And Obama's latest ploy, to make the unemployment numbers look good, is to move hard core unemployed onto the disability roles, to the tune of 2+ million, according to a recent report.

What makes the "supreme" court supreme? The states created this court, as they did the whole Washington debacle. We, the People, should still be able to rein in even the supreme court.

My wife downloaded the birth certificate from the white house website. Even with our home desktop publishing software we can see that areas of the form have been erased and Obama's info inserted in separate layers. This is clearly not an unmodified photocopy of an original document. The president and his minions are using the ridicule threat to keep us from forcing the truth to come out. By succumbing to this threat, we may find 50 years from now that Arpaio was right - and that many members of our national congress were complicit - the others being afraid to seek the truth for fear of their political futures. As for me, I know the certificate presented by the White House is a fraud - where's the real one, Hawaii or Kenya?

In his book, "Radical Son", David Horowitz states that his parents, who immigrated from Russia to escape Stalin, still believed in the myth of communism. They, and many like them, called themselves "progressive democrats" to avoid the persecution that they'd receive if they admitted to being communists. So are today's "progressive democrats" really communists?

The argument of corporate personhood has been around since the beginning of our republic. Once the income tax was created, the debate ended. Corporations are people, subject to income tax. Then when they give some of their (after tax) profits to their stockholders in the form of dividends or capital gains, it's taxed again. Who came up with the income tax? Although it was used temporarily during the Civil War, it became permanent in 1913 with the 16th amendment - along with the creation of the Federal Reserve system - started under the Taft administration and ratified under Wilson. Two of our founding progressives.

It's now over 1000 days since the Democrat ruled senate passed a budget, and the house went 3 years (under Democrat John Spratt's budget committee leadership) before the newly elected Republicans finally passed one. So, to me biennial would actually be an improvement - but only if they followed a budget at all. Right now it's spend all you can get your hands on as fast as you can - let the grand kids worry about paying fir it. Only serfs like you and me really need budgets, and the banks and landlords force us to live within our means.

You're wrong in your statement, "one of the consequences of not putting that extra 2.0% of your paycheck into Social Security is that the program will run more deeply in the red, which will force the government to have to borrow more money just to pay benefits to today's Social Security recipients." They'll instead recalculate our benefit amount based on the lower input, and I'll bet they'll reduce our benefits $2 for every $1 we're not paying in today.

We had a large shovel ready job in our state - digging up nuclear waste from one side of SRS and burying it on the other side. We taxpayers paid for over 1300 people about 18 months, then these people went back on unemployment. It would have been much cheaper to have left them on unemployment the whole time.

And how is the debt ceiling deal not a fantasy? Obama gets to spend $2.4T in 16 months in exchange for saving the same amount over ten years. That's $150B/month spending increase and $20B/month spending cuts. How does all this not increase the debt ad infinitum? His instruction to cut 10% from "projected" (read increased) spending, is just a word game. If I'm going to increase by $100, and I cut that by $10, I'm still increasing by $90 - only in politics could I call that a cut, and get the media, and some leftist "economists" to admire my frugality.