[Newsbot]

Title: National debt inspires a patriotic corps of individual donors
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: DanSC
Date: 2011-11-27 14:42:31

[Strutz]

Wow. I honestly had no idea that so many people contribute towards the American debt... by donation too.

[jeff744]

Find the donors and put them in charge, maybe something will actually get done.

[QBall]

What a silly program. You don't cure a heroin addict's addiction by giving them more heroin. You should be legitimately trying to keep as much money away from the government as possible. The government is the worst person in the world to be spending your money. Giving them more only encourages them.

[BartSimpson]

QBall wrote:

What a silly program. You don't cure a heroin addict's addiction by giving them more heroin. You should be legitimately trying to keep as much money away from the government as possible. The government is the worst person in the world to be spending your money. Giving them more only encourages them.

This.

[DanSC]

QBall wrote:

What a silly program. You don't cure a heroin addict's addiction by giving them more heroin. You should be legitimately trying to keep as much money away from the government as possible. The government is the worst person in the world to be spending your money. Giving them more only encourages them.

True, but when a heroin addict quits cold turkey, the process isn't pretty; at least not as pretty as with a program. That's fine if it's just one person, but if it's an entire society, not so much. I'm a deficit hawk, but I realize that paying of the debt would be a multi-generational process.

Besides, politicians receive way more money in campaign donations than this program could ever hope to raise; money politicians actually care about. That's where you should cut the funds.