Here you go. Just to prove how screwed up the “health care” system is in Canada. The ‘Junkification’ of Canada by the Left.
It talks about giving free heroin to addicts. What a stupid idea. Here’s a snippet on Canadian Journalism:

Every leftist politician I’ve spoken with, and every Canadian media report I’ve seen, parrots the “success” of the same Swiss study as justification for this lunacy. Hardly surprising, given that the Canadian media usually behave like high school seniors doing term papers: One guy writes the story directly from a press release and praises a particular study, and the rest just copy it.

And here’s the truth about the study that the Canadian press is so glowy about:

What no one has pointed out is that this Swiss study that the lefties rave about was deemed to be an abject failure in 1999 by a World Health Organization External Evaluation Panel report.

The rest of the article goes on. I especially like how the article starts out with the author being a fitness instructor. When confronted by an obese person with no willpower, instead of helping the person develop some self-worth and willpower to change their life, the Canadian way is to hand them the keys to a McDonald’s and say, “Drive.”
Here’s the true despair about the Canadian system:

Leave it to the Canadian “harm reduction” leftists to advocate in favor of using Canadian citizens as guinea pigs to essentially duplicate a failed experiment. And while the government is funding heroin injections for junkies, diabetics can’t afford needles and addicts who want into treatment centers to get off heroin end up on a waiting list. [emphasis mine]

So the people who don’t need the “help” get first bite at the apple, but those who really need help in a life-threatening way, are told, “Sorry, all of your resources are used up by this other program.”
Pitiful.

I just might sign up for HBO for this. From the Drudge Report:

HBO is set to air a behind the scenes look at the launching of liberal radio network AIR AMERICA.
The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a director’s cut of LEFT OF THE DIAL, a grossly entertaining docu-drama of life on the other side of the AIR AMERICA microphone.
The doubts. The lies. The bounced checks. The heartbreak.
The viewer is taken upclose to witness the ugly business of media ambition.
The main character, Evan Cohen, founding chairman and main investor, is depicted as a complete fraud.
The documentary shows Cohen arriving in the middle of night at AIR AMERICA offices to sign over the company and disappear again, but not before lying about how many ads have been sold and how much money is the bank [zero].
Dead Air.
It shows how AIR AMERICA executives lied and lied again about not bouncing checks to their Chicago and Los Angeles affiliate owners. [The network was quickly thrown off the stations.]
The film captures AIR AMERICA staff first learning about the Chicago and LA nightmare by reading a DRUDGE REPORT exclusive on their computers.
It shows midday host Al Franken at a staff meeting being told there is no money left, hilariously, just moments after ranting about George Bush’s ethics.
The HBO crew is told to shut down their cameras — but they don’t — and the ‘We’re Broke!’ meeting is filmed raw.
LEFT OF THE DIAL shows an angry meeting of the writing staff being told how money was deducted from their checks to pay for health care — but the money was never paid to the HMO and they were never covered!
Host Janeane Garofalo looks suicidal in nearly ever scene which she appears.
“What am I going to do, just ramble on and on,” panics stand-up-comic-morning-drive-host Marc Maron, as he deals with the reality of becoming a talkshow host.
But every drama must have a hero: Enter Randi Rhodes.
Highlight. The camera captures pm drive Rhodes in her classic PMS mood, but this time at home, in her newly rented NYC apartment.
Wearing a leopard-spotted robe, bra-less, smoking and crying “I’m so f*ckign lost,” the relocated Floridian steals the show.
Talking to herself in the bedroom mirror, Rhodes whispers “You can do this.”
She bemoans throughout how she is not being featured in any AIR AMERICA press. “No CNN. No USATODAY. No YAHOO wire story.” How she is the only one hired at AIR AMERICA that’s even been on radio before.
When she attempts to introduce herself to director Michael Moore [rushing out of a Franken Radio interview], Rhodes quickly realizes he does not even know who she is.
The heartbreaking scene is easily a frontrunner for this year’s EMMYs.
The HBO film is set for air March 31.

Actually, there’s no way I could afford the hookup fee to get HBO, then the unhookup fee for taking it off after I’ve seen the movie. If anybody has HBO out there, I am willing to buy a tape and postage if you would record it for me.
Thanks.

From The Museum of Left-Wing Lunacy:

“We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion — guilt-free at last!” — Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue)

Of course, there is nothing from preventing these people from living like that now, except their own laziness. They like their Central Heat and Air houses, SUVs, health care and supermarkets right down the street. These people would be the first to die from starvation if such an event were to occur. They can only imagine a “pristine” world, not the dirty reality of no clean water, not enough food, 50% of babies who die in their first year because of childhood diseases. Not to mention all of the women who die in childbirth.
These people are freaks. Despite all of the cars and factories today, our air is way cleaner than it was 30 years ago, and that was way better than it was 100 years ago. Medical technology is letting us live longer and longer lives, even with obesity breathing down our necks.
Besides, they were predicting an Ice Age about now, from Global Cooling. When that didn’t work out, the switched to Global Warming. They’re wrong about that one as well. The Earth will get warmer and colder according to its own schedule, not from any contribution from Man.

As we discussed yesterday in “The plan to destroy the US,” one of the ways to stifle the discussion was for the pro-illegals to call the normal citizens “racists.” Well, here it is in black and white, from Frosty Wooldridge:

Two weeks ago, after hearing 28 Colorado citizens speak in favor of Representative David Schultheis’ H.B. 1271, which prohibits illegal aliens from gaining taxpayer benefits—Democrat Terrance Carroll stood up and announced that all 28 men and women in favor of upholding the law—were racists.

But again, these people, illegal immigrants are invading my homeland. They steal our cars, take our medical services (which bankrupt the hospitals), our social services, sell drugs, murder and all kinds of heinous things.
Their very existence in this country poses an extremely grave security risk. Something must be done and it must be done now.
Locate your representatives over there to the right. Write them and demand action against the tide of illegal immigrants. There are plenty of ways this crisis can be brought under control by using existing laws and not violating any Constitutional rights.
The tide of unassimiliated illegal immigrants will tear this country apart if something isn’t done about it very, very soon.

From Fox News: PC Protects Predator.

The Arizona Daily Star paints a chilling portrait of a sexual predator who ran amok at the University Medical Center in Tucson in part because staffers who suspected foul play were afraid to speak up for fear of being labeled racists.
Daniel Lugo Perez, a former UMC patient-care technician, was convicted of sexual assault for raping and sodomizing a number of patients during the 23 months he worked at the Arizona hospital.
Investigators attempting to figure out how he was able to do this under the staff’s noses said one of the reasons is political correctness. At least three UMC nurses thought Perez was staying too long in female patients’ rooms, but the one who spoke out was immediately pegged a racist and shouted down by the rest of the staff.[emphasis mine]

Just how crazy can Political Correctness get? I mean, you have suspicious activity by a person and yet you don’t check up on it because he’s a minority? And the majority of the staff ostracizes the lone staff member that dares bring it up? I hope when the lawsuits come piling in the people who did the shouting down get named as co-defendants.

I found this on The Political Digest and since it was at the bottom and ready to be deleted, I would save the whole thing and let you read it.

We all know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado.
In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week
there was an immigration-overpopulation conference in
Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of American’s finest
minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor named Victor
Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, “Mexifornia,”
explaining how immigration – both legal and illegal was
destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march
across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The
American Dream.
Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm
stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy
America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight
methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, “If
you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich,
then let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation
in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee
observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that ‘An
autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit
suicide.’”
“Here is how they do it,” Lamm said: “Turn America into a
bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country. History shows
that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism
of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a
blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse
for a society to be bilingual.
“The historical scholar Seymour Lipset put it this way: ‘The
histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not
assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.’
Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon all face crises of national
existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not
independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria
suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with
Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans.”
Lamm went on: “Invent ‘multiculturalism’ and encourage
immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article
of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural
differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black
and Hispanic dropout rates are due to prejudice and
discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of
bounds.
“We could make the United States an ‘Hispanic Quebec’
without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather
than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly
recently: ‘The apparent success of our own multiethnic and
multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by
tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once
dictated ethnocentrically and what it meant to be an American,
we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us
together.’” Lamm said, “I would encourage all immigrants to
keep their own language and culture. I would replace the
melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is
important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups
living in America reinforcing their differences rather than as
Americans, emphasizing their similarities.”
“Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group
the least educated. I would add a second underclass,
unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our
population. I would have this second underclass have a 50%
dropout rate from high school.”
“My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big
foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I
would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of
‘Victimology.’ I would get all minorities to think their lack of
success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance
industry blaming all minority failure on the majority
population.”
“My sixth plan for America’s downfall would include dual
citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate
diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than
similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in
hating each other – that is, when they are not killing each other.”
“A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical
precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation
together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that
they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common
language and literature; and they worshiped the same gods. All
Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy
Persia threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not
strong enough to over come two factors: local patriotism and
geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece
fell. “E. Pluribus Unum” — From many, one. In that historical
reality, if we put the emphasis on the ‘pluribus’ instead of the
‘unum,’ we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo.”
“Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits ~ make it
taboo to talk about anything against the cult of ‘diversity.’ I
would find a word similar to ‘heretic’ in the 16th century – that
stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like ‘racist’
or ‘xenophobe’ halt discussion and debate.”
“Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having
established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund
the doctrine of ‘Victimology,’ I would next make it impossible to
enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That
because immigration has been good for America, it must always
be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric
and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them.”
In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his
brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said, “Lastly, I
would censor Victor Hanson Davis’s book Mexifornia. His book
is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel
America deserves to be destroyed, don’t read that book.”
There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an
ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every
American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated
was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively
across the United States today. Every discussion is being
suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of
our educational system and national cohesiveness. Barbaric
cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as
we celebrate ‘diversity.’
American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as
corporations create a Third World in America – take note of
California and other states – to date, ten million illegal aliens
and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell’s book
“1984.” In that story, three slogans are engraved in the
Ministry of Truth building: “War is peace,” “Freedom is
slavery,” and “Ignorance is strength.”
Governor Lamm, walked back to his seat. It dawned on
everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this
great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we
don’t get this immigration monster stopped within three years,
it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in
its path, especially The American Dream.

We must stop illegal immigration and stop it NOW. Stop giving American citizenship to children born in the US of illegal immigrants and cut off ALL services to them. Then start enforcing the law at all levels and get these people out of here! They are a drain on us, morally, culturally and financially. They will tear the US to pieces like Canada if nothing is done about it.
I am not a racist. I am trying to protect MY HOME against foreign invaders who are not wanted here. I don’t care who they are, if they enter this country illegally, then they need to be branded and booted back across the border as quickly as possible.
You heard me right. Branded. With a big “I” on the cheek where they can’t hide it. If that is what it will take to keep them out, then I’m sorry to say that those are the measures that are required. As of today, an illegal that is caught and deported can be back in his LA apartment in less than a week. He just sneaks across the border like he’s done several times before.
Sure the government of Mexico will be outraged, but they are the ones complicit in the flood of illegals we are getting. They are telling their own citizens how to sneak across the border.
Something drastic must be done to stop this. If you don’t like my idea, feel free to present one of your own.

An interesting article from Vin Suprynowicz at Review Journal.com:

Las Vegas police Lt. Steve Franks is concerned about the midnight smash-and-grab theft of 1,700 blank Nevada driver’s licenses from the DMV office on Donovan Way on March 7 — along with a digital camera and all the other paraphernalia necessary to turn them into realistic IDs — asserting last week the purloined documents could easily be used to pass through airport security checkpoints, etc.
Kind of like the way all those Arab hijackers got through our security checkpoints by showing their fake IDs, three-and-a-half years ago?
This follows the conviction last year of a Nevada DMV clerk who took $300,000 in bribes to sell unauthorized licenses and IDs to some 1,000 illegal aliens — that they know of.
So, do we have this straight?
1) All that billion-dollar “check-your-ID” crap at the airport has improved our safety and security not one iota, instead accomplishing nothing but creating jobs for thousands of new blue-gloved butt-gropers-in-training while further conditioning the American populace to be ready to show our “government-issued photo ID” on demand, any time, anywhere, and …
2) The “driver’s license” is nothing of the sort, but rather constitutes the nine-digit nationally coded “internal passport and travel document” which Franklin Roosevelt solemnly promised our Social Security numbers would never be turned into?
Just checking.

I had a commenter a while back on one of my other posts about the “slippery slope” and his words were, in essence, “just because they can doesn’t mean they will.” Then you look at this and all I have is a mental picture of several lawmakers on a toboggan taking a running start to get down to the bottom of that slippery slops as fast as possible.
Yeah.

Well, Mike and I attended the “Ides of March” Epic:Armageddon tournament Saturday at the Memphis World of Battle.
We were judged on a variety of matters, not only on winning or losing, but by army appearance and composition as well. Below is a picture of my army (click on picture for larger view):

I actually won 2nd place (I missed 1st by a tenth of a point!) in the painting and composition part of the competition, something I was totally unprepared for. It makes me want to repaint everything to add even more detail.
Anyway, onto the battles.
My first match was with Neil, who traveled 3 hours from Nashville to play in this tournament. His orks wiped me from the board in the first turn. It was a slaughter, the only high point was my terminators teleported in behind his main force and killed his supreme commander.
Battle two was with Ben, who also played Space Marines. We slugged it out, doing major damage to each other only to tie on objective points. We had to go to victory points where he won by a slim margin.
The third battle was with Danny, also from Nashville, who played Chaos Space Marines. This one was marred by Danny failing several activation rolls, severely hampering his plans. I managed to engage his titan with my Assault Marines and Devastators, giving it a total of 4 points of damage, out of the 6 that it had. If you know how tough titans are, this was a remarkable effort for infantry to inflict that much damage. Danny made a critical mistake, however in two things: He didn’t summon daemons to help out with his combat, and he teleported his terminators into combat with one of my tactical detachments instead of trying to take an objective. This gave me a 3 objective point victory, worth a whopping 20 battle points!
I went 1-2, my first ever losing tournament record, but that hit-it-out-of-the-park third game coupled with the “magnificent” painting I did, it catapulted me into a tie for 5th place, but I got 6th place out of 11 after a dice roll-off. Not perfect by a long way, but something to be proud of.
And I had fun, which was the object of the exercise. I need to save up so I can participate in the E:A tournament at Nashcon this Memorial Day weekend.
Mike also had a wonderful time, but I’ll let him tell it to you when he posts it on his blog.

Senator McCain really stepped in the dog doo now. He wants a new Kyoto Protocol, one that will include China and India. Second Global Warming Treaty Makes Less Sense Than First.
Here is the meat of the story:

The vast majority of the greenhouse gas effect — perhaps 99.7 percent — is beyond human control. There’s no direct evidence that the minuscule manmade contributions of greenhouse gases to the environment are having any measurable or significant impact on global climate.
In addition to the scientific shortcomings of global warming hysteria, the economic consequences of the Kyoto Protocol can be summed up as “all costs and no benefits.”
The global warming treaty is estimated to cost 100 trillion real dollars for the hypothetical prevention of a 1 degree Centigrade rise in the average global temperature.

For those of you who don’t know how many zeros it takes to represent 100 Trillion dollars, here it is:

$100,000,000,000,000

The British would probably refer to this as “A hundred Million Million.” While not quite a googol (1×10¹⁰⁰) the number is still staggering. With that number you could give 1 million dollars to about 1/4th of the people in the US. But Kyoto is a cost, so it would cost that many people a million dollars to have no appreciable benefit.
Here’s some more science for you:

Climatologist Tom Wigley, a global warming disciple from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, reported in the journal Science this week that even if we could somehow magically “freeze” the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases at today’s levels — an unrealistic scenario where greenhouse gases are not added to or removed from the atmosphere — global warming would still occur because of the heat stored in the oceans.
Because the ocean responds relatively slowly to climate change, it will continue to contribute to global warming even if we do stabilize greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to Wigley. He estimates the ocean’s “warming commitment” to be 1 degree Centigrade by the year 2400.
Wigley further estimates that, even if we freeze greenhouse gas emissions at current levels — another unrealistic scenario — average global temperatures will rise between 2 degrees Centigrade to 6 degrees Centigrade by 2400.
But then Wigley disingenuously concludes that, “in order to stabilize global mean temperatures, we eventually need to reduce emission of greenhouse gases to well below present levels” — even though his own data purport to show that global warming would still occur even if we completely stopped emitting greenhouse gases.

So the global temperature is going to go up even if we shut down all greenhouse gas emissions. The only way we could dependably do that is to wipe out 3/4ths of the world population and reduce the rest to a caveman level of survival. Without the nuclear war.
So this stuff is going to pretty much happen, even if we don’t want it to. The question is, is this a bad thing? Is global warming a bad thing, and if so why? This will take place over the next 400 years, so I don’t think it will sneak up on anybody, but what does it mean for and to us?
We need these answers before we go off screaming like Chicken Little.

Soon we will be inflicted with Episode III, and according the news is, Lucas calls new ‘Star Wars’ a titanic tearjerker.
I’ve already posted the storyline on it a week or two ago, so you can decide for yourself.
But what I haven’t revealed is a secret held so deeply that only a few outside of LucasCorp has any access to it.
Do you want to know what it is?
Episode IX will be a musical. Yes, the wrap-up of the final trilogy, released 19 May 2020 will be a musical. Why not? After eight of these movies, Lucas can get away with anything.
Don’t believe me? I’ll be around to take your money. Bet on it.

Something interesting from Students Walk Out on Race Warlord.
You know the story, but here is the entire entry, so it doesn’t scroll off:

An interesting development out of the Paul VI Catholic High School in New Jersey. New Jersey Secretary of State and race warlord Regena Thomas was there giving a speech last week on “racial justice” (whatever that is.) Apparently, in her speech, she blasted one student for not knowing his black history, and insinuated that the students were racist.
So what did the students do? Did they cower in the face of the mighty scepter wielded by the race warlord? Did they accept being made to feel like guilty white liberals? Nope.
At an assembly Tuesday where the principal supposedly tried to heal the rift, the students let the administration and the secretary of state know exactly how they felt about their multicultural psychobabble: they walked out.
By the way, many students are reporting that the racial problems began only after the speech on race. True to form, race warlords never want the problem of racism to go away, for it is where they draw their power. Nice to see the kids not putting up with this nonsense.
By the way, Regena Thomas has an interesting background. She was sworn in as the Secretary of State by the now-disgraced former Governor of New Jersey James McGreevey. She’s also worked for Senator Corzine, and for The Torch, Senator Slimeball himself, Robert Torricelli. But if you inch just a little further back in her bio, you find that she worked for 12 years for…..drum roll please! … The National Rainbow Coalition, and its founder, Jesse Jackson.
It always comes back to the same place, doesn’t it? [emphasis mine]

Racism is trying to die, I know it is. But these “black leaders” won’t let it die, because that would mean that they would be out of a job. Just look at MoveOn.org. They were founded to get people to “move on” during the Clinton Impeachment. That is long over, but they are still around. They just won’t close the doors and go away, or come back as something else.

This is extremely disturbing. Property seized to pay drug tax.
Tennessee has started collecting taxes on illegal drugs, and are seizing property without due process and surrendering the proceeds to local law enforcement (75%, 25% goes to the general fund).

The rate of the tax is as follows: $3.50 per gram for marijuana, $50 per gram for cocaine, $200 per gram for meth and crack cocaine, $50 “per 10 doses of low-street-value drug not sold by weight, and $200 per 10 doses of “controlled substance not sold by weight.”

The mere possession is enough to trigger the tax, like I said, without due process. I don’t know of anybody stupid enough to walk up to the Department of Revenue and say, “I’m here to pay the taxes on my illegal drugs…” I doubt they will get any amnesty for paying the taxes.
This is outrageous. This may sound like a good idea, but there is a big difference between ideas that sound good and good, sound ideas. This is a bootstrapping way to punish anybody they want. It’s been known for years that you can’t travel with large amounts of cash, because it will be seized as “drug money,” again without due process, and you will never see it again.
Of course, they say, “If he pays the tax, the property will be released back to him,” but the legalistic hoops they will have to jump through will be nearly impossible to do before the property is sold off and lost forever.
Bad, bad idea.

It’s been suggested that I don’t blog enough about Epic:Armageddon.
This is a variant of the wargame Warhammer 40,000, but where everything is in 6mm. You can see a comparison here:

Instead of dealing with units of men, you deal with entire companies and armies. Strategic thinking, instead of tactical thinking, is a must. I actually prefer this to the regular 40k game as you have to think in chess terms, several moves ahead, and remember your objectives. I have won more games by my opponent not paying attention to the objectives than I have by straight up fighting. For example, I got mauled last night by my opponent. but he didn’t pay attention to the objectives, and left two unguarded, enough for me to capture them and win the game.
Anyway, I bought real-life friend and fellow blogger Mike a Space Marine Battle Company and took him out to play his first game last night. He used to play the old Avalon Hill board games, but hasn’t played in years. Both of us had a great time and Mike ended up in a tie with his opponent, who this was also his first game, so Mike is quite pleased with himself, as he should be.
Anyway, he’s hooked now. Like I said, the first hit of crack is free, then you have to pay for the rest. I’ve got him wanting to flesh out his “Black Sun Legion” with more stuff and get into the thick of the fighting.
We’re heading out to a tournament Saturday and I suspect Mike and I will make this a semi-regular habit.

Social Security reform is a hot button issue with everybody today, and it should be. But as Dave Ramsey says, this is a math issue, not a political issue. Social Security Reform: A Cost-Benefit Analysis.
Roosevelt himself said the Social Security program would have to be fixed or ended in the 60′s. He himself saw the inherent flaws in the system and knew it was a short term solution.
Like the article says, if we would have started Bush’s program in 1982 (or better yet, 1962) then we wouldn’t be facing this crisis today. And believe me, it is a crisis. It is a crisis of politics, where the Socialists want to go around the merry-go-round just one more time, after the power has been cut.
In navigation, when you see a problem on the horizon, it is an easy fix to correct your course by just a degree or two to miss the rocks ahead. But the closer and closer you get, the bigger course change you need, and the danger of you not making it also increases.
Every day we wait now means less money when we retire. You should get out of debt as soon as you can, and once you are out of debt, invest all of that money and by the time you retire you will have enough to live on the interest alone. Plus a nice nest egg to pass on to your family.
No one can guarantee the future, and that includes the politicians who “promise” that SS will be there when I retire. I don’t think so. I am on the tail end of the baby boomers and I don’t think I’ll be able to retire like my parents did.
Get off your butts and start investing every penny you can now, because you will need them later.

I found this article, Deficits Make You Poorer, written by a member of the US House of Representatives. He details how the government generates money and how all of them are bad for the People.
The printing and borrowing of money increases the total pool of dollars and makes each dollar less effective in its purchasing power. That is exactly what inflation is, the destruction of the worth of your money.
The Federal government spends almost half the tax money it takes in as transfer payments, i.e. taxing many people to give to a few. By and large, this has to be brought under control, as this “bread and circuses” will lead to our downfall.
Socialism doesn’t work. Oh, it does in the short term, but not in the long haul. You can’t sustain the transfer payments indefinitely. Eventually something has to give, be it the currency, the tax rates or the people being taxed.
You work from January 1 until some time in May or June exclusively for the government. Don’t believe me? Take a look at your last paycheck and extend it out for the year. Then figure in sales taxes, sin taxes (if you smoke, etc.) gasoline taxes (~70 cents a gallon) and property taxes. It’s a staggering amount when you see it as one number, as a percentage of your total pay.
The government needs to be reined in. But more importantly, we need to be weaned off the promise of Federal Tax dollars coming from Washington. The more we look to Washington to solve our problems, the more we are diminished and the worse the problem will get.