The Rant

 After 10 years, I have decided to continue to comment on the idiots in this country and support those individuals who appear to be getting no public support from the "silent majority" who are afraid of the lunatic right.

Jesse Watters is Bill O'Reilly's bitch

I have been distracted but continue to be pissed off. If anyone hasn't noticed, the recent Anti-Wall Street, 99% movement is a symptom of something similar to the tea party movement, even if the two movements wouldn't admit it. Ordinary Americans know they are being screwed by someone. Is it the liberals, the Republicans, the Democrats.....or is it the 1%?

Do Americans under the age of 55 intend to pay for all of their own retirement and health insurance? The Republicans think so. I am sure that those 55 to 65 probably recognize the limitations of their ability to fund their retirement without any help from the system that they have paid into for 30 to 40 years. But anyone between 20 and 40 better just look at what happened to the net worth of most Americans in the last 3 years. Without programs like social security or medicare, you may be forced to spend your last dime to live and pay your medical bills because you won't be able to afford your medical insurance...then you get sick, and then you are f...........

The first problem with the public sector is that there is not enough money to pay for all of them. The get retirements which are unlike anything seen in the private sector. Since there is no competition for most of the private sector, there is no economic incentive for efficiency (until the state goes broke, which is happening now). The problem is not of who to blame. The problem is budgeting. Man's desires are infinite. Our resources are finite. We cannot buy more than we have resources to buy. Reality is the problem with the public sector.

Bob: Hope you and yours had a good Xmas and New Years. My son Steve was up here last night and launched an attack on public sector employees. Steve, like most younger private sector workers has been subject to a pay freeze for more than 3 years and has a 401(k) plan rather than a pension plan. Steve launched an attack on Social Security, Medicare, and pension plans for public employees. These, he has be convinced, are the bogeymen which are dragging the economy into the hole. Lest we forget years of unending war, the Bush tax cuts and the bursting of the real estate bubble, why is it that all the aged and the public workers are lazy, union members, public employees, welfare queens, etc.; but the idea like raising taxes both income and estate taxes on those who can afford to pay them are viewed as socialist and not a legitimate area of discussion. I don't have a problem talking about raising retirement ages or the taxation of social security benefits...etc., but any discussion o