U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

The Spending Trend is Not Sustainable

http://perotcharts.com/category/challenges/social-security/

So true, good on ya. But what's the answer ?

I have a little different take on why so many oppose universal health care. I believe it originated with the puritans. They believed in the concept of predestination, that is a person's salvation is determined even before his or her birth. there were the chosen, and everybody else. The chosen were gifted with wealth. Been wealthy was evidence of been among god's chosen people. Been poor meant spiritual impurity. Puritans have gone, but their influence is felt today, even among secular concervatives such as Ayn Rand. To them morality is determined only by wealth. If you are poor then you are bad. There is very little effort, if any, in understanding the circumstances that create poverty. Therfore universal health care is seen as rewarding the unfit, the "sinners" who should instead die. Either you survive by becoming wealthy, or you die, that is how they define morality. Even among the posts presented here some reffer to those wihtout health insurance as "deadbeats". Letting the poor die is the moral thing to do. it is Social Darwinism. Very much like what Hitler had in mind, but rather than exterminating people on the basis of race they do so on their ability, or lack of, to compete in a free market system. Of course that ability is not earned, as they preach, but determined by our genes and environment. There is no such a thing as the "self made man", that is only a myth they tell themselves in order to fell better about the whole affair