Originally Posted by NoSocialism.com

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Now for the real deal,

Click on the link above to get all the hyper links, I don't feel like doing all that over again.....

As for the Deficit, it's less than 20% of our spending, the biggest problem is that since the 1970's we've increased spending a bit over 13 Fold. While Net inflows of cash to the government has grown slightly less than 13 fold. I go into detail on there on my website.

As for the Poor in this country, Well there's an article here by the Heritage foundation
Here's some quotes from that Article:
* Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage and a porch or patio.
* Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
* Six percent of poor households are considered overcrowded; two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
* The typical poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens and other European cities. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
* Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
* Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
* Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
* Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and a more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

Here's another one by the American Enterprise Online.

And then of course there's the in depth analysis done by the Swedish Think Tank Timbro, it's long at 49 pages, but one of he most eye opening things that I've read in a long time.

You can continue to live as you have with your head buried in the sand, or you can choose to open your eyes and take a peek at the links, but don't blame me if you can't sleep at night because your entire world view has just been shattered.

Basically, if every country in Europe, except your Money Center, Sweden were a U.S. State, you would be considered poorer than our 4 poorest states.

Originally Posted by NoSocialism.com

U.S. receipts have grown almost 13 fold since 1970, while spending has grown just over 13 fold since 1970. Problem is, household income has only grown at half that rate. Obviously, the U.S. Government needs to curtail spending.

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Originally Posted by thedreamer

See Danish American's can't quite economic reality, in many ways there still stuck in the 19th century tariff mindset. Plus they are convinced there economy is the most important when in fact its far less so now than 20 years ago. Europe and China are more economically important than the states.

Originally Posted by BuckNaked

Originally Posted by fifthofnovember

Antimatter!

Originally Posted by White Fox

Sadly, the US has yet to develop an antimatter bomb. But that would be sick...

Originally Posted by DanishDynamite

Sorry, not sure I understand your post. Are you claiming that the US economy is not smaller than even the economy of the 15 Euro-countries?