The Real Issue

I have been keeping up with the presidential campaigning and now suffer from "electile dysfunction"—meaning I am not aroused by any of the candidates. I have a bad case of it. I am serious as a heart attack about this. The would-be candidates argue about everything except the most dangerous thing facing our country. They argue about who is the biggest liberal, the biggest conservative, the biggest liar, biggest racist, the biggest this and the biggest that. Yet none of them (except Ron Paul) talks about the real sword hanging over our heads. The easiest way to learn about this grim reality is to watch a video of our comptroller general, head of the General Accounting Office David Walker on the Glenn Beck TV show. If you are the type to discount any talk-show host, then don’t listen to Beck. Just listen to David Walker (then listen as Walker agrees with Beck). The video can be seen at http://www.paulunteer.com/videos/comptroller-general-david-walker-on-glenn-beck-video/. David Walker explains that Medicare and Social Security obligations loom ahead of us like a huge cloud. Watch the video, but here are a few facts according to Walker: Every family in the U.S.A. carries a "mortgage" of over $400,000 just for Social Security and Medicare. We cannot—repeat, cannot--solve this problem with tax increases or a rework of the two programs. We must use both and we must do it fast. As we are going now, by the year 2040, Social Security and Medicare will require the total income of the U.S.A., with nothing left to run everything else. In the face of this problem, our candidates insanely discuss universal health care. We have totally bungled Medicare, that part of healthcare currently left to the guvmint, yet these people want to take over the whole healthcare ball of wax? They talk like idiots. But don’t take my word for it. Watch the video. We’d love to post your comments. Please click the comment tab at the top.