http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=1950_2010&view=1&expand=&units=b&fy=fy11&chart=40-total&bar=0&stack=1&size=l&title=&state=US&color=c&local=c

Go to the site and look in the section called: “Use table below to change data series.”

Pick a time period, say 1900 to present. Then click on a data series you want to measure. Make sure all are measured as a pct of GDP.

So, pick health care expenditures. After 65 years of managing to live without government intervention, in 1965 “The Great Society” programs came in with medicare and medicade. After 65 years of spending less than 1% of GDP, with government interference health care expenditures exploded to 7.5% today. They, alone, could bankrupt the country.

Govt spending on Pensions? After decades at less than 2% they are now at 7%. Education? Skyrocketing.

Why hasn’t the country financially exploded already? Because two categories of govt expenditure that have declined have paid for it (plus the debt build-up). First, plug in defense. A favorite whipping boy of the left, defense expenditures take far fewer resources today than ever before. (Oh, and for you anti-Reaganites, I dare you to look at that graph and show me the “massive defense buildup” often claimed to be a problem.)

And finally, look at transportation expenditures, often cited as a core function of government, and a shining example of what it can do, despite the awful state of the road system. Declining expenditures for 45 years. Neglected, while the government gives away goodies.

Government intervention into transfer payment programs has us on the precipice of national financial ruin. The data are right there in front of your face. Is it any wonder that yet another foray by govt into a major financial sector is opposed?

The Vanessa’s and Thousand Flowers of the world could use just a few minutes inspecting the history, the data, the facts on the results of government intervention, rather than whine about CEO’s like a couple of blithering idiots.

Further, it is YOU who really should be concerned with the unborn! You need all the help you can find to pay for this boondoggle! Seems it should be YOU making the murder of the innocent unborn illegal!

One other point – Democrats can’t get THEIR act together! They are are the clear majority (presently) and don’t need one Republican vote to push it thru! And, they won’t get one! However, it is desention among the majority that is the saving grace for America! Not all of your ‘D’ heros are in secure seats – and they KNOW the numbers are growing against them. Grassroots in CT rose up and Dodd is retiring, rather than face defeat in November! We are going to do the same for at least 3 of the 5 Comgressional Reps, as well! They know they vote for this at the risk of their career! Others around the country know it, too!

That some changes in health care are needed is not in dispute! Even on its worst day, however, we have the best system in the world! So to give FedGuv control of 1/6th of our GNP is not the way to fix what needs tweaking! That, friends, is Stupidity – and a total lack of common sense!

Call your Congressman. Tell him Don’t walk away from the millions of Americans who need health reform. People are dying every day because of insurance company terrorists!

I remember Christmas Eve. We all thought health care was finally for real then. Then they told us it can’t be done because one Senate seat changed from Democrat to Republican? ONE SEAT! They can’t get anything done with a Obama in White House, Democratic House and Democratic Senate because they got 59 instead of 60 Senators?

Nonsense!

Call you Congress person. Tell him or her to turn Republican corruption and obstructionism back on the bastard Republicans with a public option that will put their insurance company CEO pals in the same homeless shelters as the poor workers who paid for insurance and then got kicked out for being sick.

No point in trying to reason with the reactionaries on this site. They’re throwbacks to Robber Barron days. They don’t recognize progress. They are happy to let Big Insurance collect Trillions and then decide who lives and who dies.

The time has come for health care for all in this great country! For such a wealthy country to have so many dying because they have no health care is truly immoral.

And then you have the pro-life people so worried about the unborn -what about life for the living?Such Hypocrisy!It is time for the change that was promised- Obama ran on this issue and is now our president.

It is time for health care. I don’t believe in the bogus polls that Americans do not want coverage and all the reforms this brings so Get with it or Get Out of the Way!

Pass the senate bill and use reconciliation to make it better and Deal With It! What is the GOP going to say in November about siding with the insurance companys? They truly are the party of no and we wouldn’t have to go this route if they weren’t OBSTRUCTIONISTS