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Hello, I am Scott the future guy, I am 85 years old and I just got off of a ten hour shift and now I am going to baby sit my grand children while my son goes and works his ten hour shift (can't afford a baby sitter).  Unfortunately for me there is no longer any social security left because all our taxes are going to make the interest payments on the national debt.  My 401K plan, which I thought would help me through, all but evaporated after successive blunders by executives who were running it.  By the way, they all now live on some island they built using the money they collected from the

Recently the republicans have been making a big deal about Obama's tax plan.  They are claiming that it is socialist in nature since Obama will increase the taxes on the wealthiest and cut taxes on everyone else.  The republicans claim that 40% of US citizens do not pay income taxes but this is just a matter of how you define taxes.  In truth, no matter what your income, we all pay FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act aka Social Security Tax) and FMHI (Medicare) taxes, although the republican's call these “fees”.  I, like many hard working people are tired of the play on words, an

What if the supreme court had not stopped the recount and Al Gore really did win the 2000 election.  How the last eight years would have been different.  The United States definitely would have been in a different situation than it is in today.  The nation's military involvement, its debt, dependence on foreign oil, and even the current political race would be drastically different.