Federal Failures

looks to me like you aren't missing a beat in this one :P

I don't exactly know the real situation, but when talking about government spending and policies, we should not consider just the economical point of view, medicare was not created to make money, it was created to help a certain part of the population to have medical assistance, etc. If you are telling that those services don't work i completely understand your position, but judging them wrong just because they lose money seems not right to me.

I could be wrong but doesn't the fed also run the Postal Service? I know it's small but they are so far in debt that the PS is thinking about stop delivering mail on Saturdays to make up the money.

Nothing. The federal government cannot do as good of a job as the local government can do, and they cannot even compete with private industry. Social Security, Medicare, and Education is not something the Federal government is authorized to handle under the Constitution. Medicare and Social Security are income redistribution and government healthcare programs which have proven to be failures, while Education is supposed to be handled at the Local and State levels. Medicare is a fine example of why government healthcare will not work. There are very few things that the Federal Government is authorized to do, and it should stick to only those things.

yes,it is the very common of the development to the certain degree in the society.the good and bad things are mixed up to the certain quantity,the result must be happened certainly,do not worry about this situation so much. you are the single man so that you can not be agrainst this current trend.that you have only thing to do it is to aviod this crisis,and get the lost to the miximum, the better state,you can be maintain to good state,then you are the best in such this situation.do not think so high standard in such a bad case.you also think horrifiedly about the case seriously.it is not necessary for this.the situation can develop further more to degree go on....

i know it's small but are so far in debt that the PS

Good day.. I could understand and even accept that government can make mistakes specially in circumstances wherein it has limited control like what happened in our economic downturn. At least it was an honest mistake. What I can't tolerate is when graft and corruption is the cause of the problems in a country.

LOL, I love this post. "The Federal government runs Social Security" Remember the "Social Security Lock Box"? Before George W. Bush, Social Security had a huge surplus. But, George though it would be a better idea to give that money to his rich friends. That sure worked out great didn't it? "Education runs through tens of billions of dollars each year and yet somehow manages to produce worse results virtually every year (and always demands more as a reward for utter failure)" I thought that No child left behind was suppose to correct this problem? Another Bush idea that didn't work (see a pattern yet?). "The Federal government funds Amtrak which bleeds through money every year for the U.S. taxpayer. In 1970 when Amtrak was founded, $300 million was approved by Congress to run it. That was 39 years ago and over $30 billion dollars in losses!" You are 100% correct about Amtrak, But Amtrak is run by a corporation that has a CEO. George W. Bush thought that one of men that ran this company into the ground did such a good job that pick him to become the secretary of the treasury (John Snow). Mr. Snow ran the company into the ground and walked away with $72.2 million in income 2003. So, now you know where $72.2 million of that $30 billion came from.

You're not missing anything. And the really bad thing is that the Federal government is gaining control over more and more, so you know what will happen to the car industry, the banking industry, etc. And many Americans don't see anything wrong with the government taking control of everything.