UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA

As hard as I and many others have been fighting against the gradual turn to socialism / communism, it seems we are losing badly. Sadly, we have come to the point that more people want / need the government to take care of them than don't.

An estimated 59% of the 308.7 million people in this country today are receiving one or more forms of government payments every month. That's not QUITE as bad a statistic as it first appears, because that includes social security, medicare, and VA disability payments, but after removing those categories, it's still startling. And as I've said before, I do not consider social security / medicare to be an "entitlement". We have paid for that all our working lives.

42.4 million people get Medicaid. (Do not confuse that with Medicare, Medicaid is free healthcare for the "poor") 36.1 million receive food stamps. 12.4 million get housing subsidies. And while I don't have exact figures for this, many millions of working "poor" get the Earned Income Tax Credit, the government paying them for working instead collecting welfare, and state medical "cards" - more free healthcare.

Besides the fact that all of this is part of the huge federal deficit we're running, maybe the more important fact is we have created the snake who eats it's own tail. How many people are going to vote out of office the very people who are putting that cash in their pockets every month? Remember, overall, we are at the point where 53% of the people are supporting the other 47%. So already, come election time, they are very close to a majority. Then add in the millions of so called "independents" who are really uneducated on the issues, believing every thing they hear in campaign ads, and we're in serious trouble folks. Witness the inability of Congress to come together with any viable concrete plan to fix the problems. Again, because all they truly care about is getting reelected, even at the expense of running us into bankruptcy.

Again I remind you, we are right in the middle of the most crucial time in American history since the Civil War. If we don't solve these deficit / debt problems in the next several years, we're done. America will become a "Third World" country. That's why it is so critical for each and every one of you to not only be politically active, writing emails to your Congress people etc, but to take every opportunity to educate everyone you know on the issues.

The war is not lost yet, keep fighting,
Dumb Farmer