Mired in Waste

The United States is boiling in a cauldron of superfluous spending. From more than five million dollars spent by the State Department on super-expensive Swedish crystal stemware to the countless millions wasted by the Treasury on mailings telling that the Census would be arriving in one week, and an advertising campaign on television promoting said census that started with an ad aired at the most costly possible time- during the Super Bowl, are just three examples, the tip of the iceberg when it comes to our government squandering our tax dollars. Today, it was announced that for the first time since the Reagan-era fixes, Social Security would be paying out more than it was taking in from withholding tax revenue. As a nation, we are already leveraged past the point of breaking and for several years have been monetizing our own national debt. We can not afford to indulge frivolities like fancy wine glasses. Let the multi-millionaire or billionaire Obama-supporters who essentially buy their appointments as ambassadors with political contributions buy their own brandy snifters. We can not pay for all this and Obama care too.