Buffalo Boy's Blog

This administration has screwed up a lot of things and probably the most devastating screw up will not be the Iraq war, although that is certainly contributing to this country's financial problems. It will be how it mishandled social security and medicaire.

Before Clinton/Gore left office they left with a huge surplus, one that was there to save those programs, within a year of taking office, Bush drained it. He drained it with his first stimulus package back in 2001 giving away money at a time when the country was going broke.

And so here we are again talking about both programs being drained. How many of us would gladly give back the $600 we are all getting in May to know that those to programs would be saved? I know I would. No questions. Instead this administration is being anything but conservative. Throwing money away on the Iraq debacle which with that money, could have saved social security, medicaire and created a universal healthcare system and then throwing money around for tax rebates.

For a country that is going broke, the last thing that should be happening is tax rebate checks and spending on a needless war. The next president is going to have a lot on his/her plate, and we can add social security and medicaire to the list.