I think it would be better if we just quit paying politicians and let them serve as long as they want. Maybe contribute $3000 to a retirement fund and a small per deim. Making politicians professionals, separates them from the rest of us.

I think is unfair to characterize DWS as gaffe-prone. I think she does as well as Jay Carney or Robert Gibbs. When you try to defend the indefensible you just look like a fool.

Julia 65: Medicae has already gone backrupt due to Obama's gutting of medicare to pay for Obamacare. She will probably only receive end of life counciling. Julia 67: Julia has managed despite her poor health of live to 67. Having to pay high taxes all of her life she has never managed to save for her retirement. She ends up living in a community garden and suddenly end of life doesn't seem so bad.

Julia 27: After years of poor choices Julia will likely be unemployed due to low cost webtools that allow novices to design their own webpages. Julia 31: Julia has no job prospects is pregnant and taxpayers are footing the bill. Julia has spent too much time under Obama, maybe he should pay her medical bills. Julia 37: Obama wastes more taxpayer funds on programs that have a low return on investment. Julia 42: Julia has likely been her own boss since 23 and if the only one who will finance her is the SBA, she is clearly not a vetran so she must be from an economically distressed area.

Julia--the real story Julia 3: Under Obama taxpayers will spend money on programs do not to work. Julia 17: taxpayers will spend money on programs shown not to. Julia 18: Taxpayers waste money to inflate college costs and make college a bad investment. Julia 22: Julia receives sub par medical coverage at twice the cost of more comprehensive private insurance. Julia 23: Employers are forced to pay the same rate to employees with the same job title regardless of ability or productivity reducing incentives to be productive. Julia 25: Julia is paying off overpriced student loans for the rest of her life--taxpayer lose as well.

Economic education in this country is abysmal. Most of the economists who have endorsed the fair tax are University professor types. I have read the "Fair Tax: The truth: Answering the critics" book and I found it lacking. For one it would escalate housing prices due to differences between how companies and individuals are treated. It would lead to increased black market activity because the rate is high enough to make it profitable--google cigarette smuggling. 1 While people cheat on all taxes, the sales tax is one of the oldest taxes and its a bad tax due to enforcement costs 2 you are wrong voluntary property taxes stimulate the economy.

Structurally there is no difference between the income tax and the fair tax, however the fair tax would cost more to enforce and enlarge the government more. People have been cheating on sales taxes for thousands of years. You are right that the fair tax is marginally better than a vat tax. We should look to taxes that aren't a drain on the economy.

Another welfare program for government bureaucrats--it costs more to administrate the program than the cost of benefits.

Obama's solution is to make sure older people cannot get medical care at any price.

Government insurance costs twice as much as private insurance and has a much lower level of success. Despite the money they spend they demand the lowest payments and pass the excess on to those who self insure or use private insurance. If we really want lower costs we should 1) get government out of funding medical research because the create and environment where fraud runs rampant 2) tort reform so that loser pays--if the client can't pay then his lawyer does 3) then encourage hospitals to establish an ISO type quality system so when a problem is found a root cause can be found and the system fixed 4) establish a minimum copay when insurance is provided by a government entity 5) you cannot declare bankruptcy to avoid paying for services