Who is going to pay for it all?
 

Well?

your mom

I'm sorry (us liberals are always apologizing.) I couldn't help it. I'm still giggling like an idiot. :blush:

We are going to pay for it. And so will our kids. But we and our kids will also reap the benefits.

Which particular thing are we talking about?

you know, the communist takeover. ;)

Socialist! Socialist takeover! SHHHHH! We don't want them to know it's communist until after the midterm elections.

Actually, I just got finished with Christmas shopping for my kids... but hey, the economic future of our country is important too.


So, on that subject you're ok with throwing another metric asston of debt on your kids and their kids and so on because they are getting some benefit? What benefit do you consider to be worth the burden to your kids?

But for the Christmas stuff we did really good this year. We decided we'd only use our change jar for Christmas this year. No exchange with parents/siblings this year, just kids. The money the adults usually spend on eachother was pooled together with donations from our clients and we adopted a couple families from a local battered mothers shelter.

They can have the benefit of paying off the debt I incur buying their Christmas presents.

So many are having to scale back in ways they never dreamed of: dormant are the days of easily acquired jones-rivalling houses and nice cars (two apiece!) and never doing without all the latest in everything one could wish to acquire.

Its about time that the ungrateful little brats cowboy up. ;)

Christmas has basically been canceled at my house. :(
I told my older kids that yesterday when I asked what they wanted. Made sure they put some real thought into it as they are only getting one thing with a much lower dollar limit than in years past. The good news is that my time spent shopping will be severely reduced and I won't be dealing with the crowds.

It's open enrollment time at work, and this time of year always pisses me off. The rates go up and the benefits go down. My employer just switched health plans, and the new plan is so bad, my wife and I had a conversation about maybe not covering her and the kids this year. Looking at the numbers, it's clearly not even close to being worth it to have health insurance, but there is always that little chance that one of them will get cancer or something. So we are going to pay an arm and a leg to keep the worthless insurance.

It's hard to know what will happen with health care reform. The devil is in the details and they are not set yet. But it's hard to see how it could be worse than what we have now. If more people start paying into the system, then maybe what I pay to cover sick strangers will be reduced a little bit.

That's the goal, but do you really believe any solution they come up with will genuinely be less expensive/invasive/frustrating in the long run?

Jusht put it on my tab. :hic:

Pay for what? the wars?