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The only problem with your points are they have lead other countries to financial ruin. The one thing keeping this country from being Greece or Ireland or even worse Egypt (all I expect would rank higher on government sponsored entitlements) is that the dollar is the world's backup currency. When that stops and it will, there are already signs such as Russia, China and OPEC have met to discuss getting off of the dollar. Our government will no longer be able to just print money to pay for the growth of our government.

The clear lesson with Europe and now Japan is we cannot continue to over tax the capitalists and raise the entitlements.