MatthewwolvesAyn: trying to say you're wrong in your conclusion is probably a waste of time and effort. "spending on things the government has no business...etc. is not what you've listed. Taking the money from those programs that were set aside for the elderly and the disabled, was for the benefit of this nation's people. But when those in office have sticky fingers and reapportions funds which were not to be used for their personal pet projects, and other so-called moneymaking enterprises, let alone never paying it back, you can guarantee a "short fall!" And if you keep doing this over and over you create a black hole that no one can get out of. Just like the lie that the "tarp Money" was paid back while a gaping hole of missing funds
In form, President Obama came back strongly in Tuesday's debate with Mitt Romney, but substantively he continues to lag behind the Republican candidate. That's because the president has a record to defend and it isn't a good one.
Television being what it is, the president looked and sounded good, but the air seems to have gone out of his messianic balloon as voters focus more on facts and less on spin.
If promises mean anything -- and they don't to most politicians -- Romney hit the president where it hurts: on his failure to live up to most of his promises.
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Before 1937 there were charitable churches just as there today which helped but the grow of this nation and directly related to the Civil War the need for orphans and widows were great and more than churches and organization could support. What happen in the depression was a wake-up call to set something up to assist this nations' elderly. That's was the intent of SSI, not what it's become, or how it's been used.
http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/walter-williams-is-secession-the-answer/
As I posted yesterday, the nine scariest words a person can hear, "I'm from the government, and I'm hear to help.