Funding Our Own Bankruptcy
By Doug Patton
January 22, 2008
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Think of all the heroes serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Think of the hardship they are enduring on our behalf. We sent them there. They risk being shot or blown up on a daily basis, and yet they are grossly underpaid. Many have families living on a shoestring in the United States. Social Security and Medicare will be bankrupt after a few years of supporting the Baby Boomers. With all the promises we have made and all the demands we have placed on ourselves, we really don't know what will happen to our economy in the years to come.
But we know how a silly twit from Brooklyn feels after having lived for three weeks (or was it two?) pretending to alter time in Omaha. We know because we paid for it.
It's almost enough to make a guy want to join the Ron Paul for President Campaign.
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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy advisor. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online, TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
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