Comments on: Listen to Yourself, Obama http://www.blurtdaily.com/2009/05/25/listen-to-yourself-obama/ | opinion and more opinion | Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:52:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Eric B. http://www.blurtdaily.com/2009/05/25/listen-to-yourself-obama/#comment-5138 Eric B. Wed, 27 May 2009 18:55:39 +0000 http://www.blurtdaily.com/?p=988#comment-5138 It blows my mind that the government cannot find a way to significantly reduce its expenditures...ever! Are there really that many NECESSARY programs? And let's not forget the unfunded promised made for tomorrow. Government programs are like shopping cart covers and all the other "safety paraphernalia" that target moms-of-today to keep their kids safe and germ free... We all survived without all this extra crap. Our parents survived without the government funding many of the gov't programs in place today. As for explanations of gov't costs - let's look at the unemployment rate: Private sector = over 9.5%, public sector (incl gov't) = 2.8% (WSJ). Looks like the gov't has GM and Chrysler as their business models... It blows my mind that the government cannot find a way to significantly reduce its expenditures…ever! Are there really that many NECESSARY programs? And let’s not forget the unfunded promised made for tomorrow.

Government programs are like shopping cart covers and all the other “safety paraphernalia” that target moms-of-today to keep their kids safe and germ free… We all survived without all this extra crap. Our parents survived without the government funding many of the gov’t programs in place today.

As for explanations of gov’t costs - let’s look at the unemployment rate: Private sector = over 9.5%, public sector (incl gov’t) = 2.8% (WSJ). Looks like the gov’t has GM and Chrysler as their business models…

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