Broke Part 2: Glenn's charts, my words

I intended to get this one posted yesterday, but damn it, I had to clean the bathroom and refrigerator. How come I can't I get the government to do this?

What is a better government than one formed under the verity: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness? I say there is not one, for when men proved to be free of the whims of others, whether they were kings, dictators, oligarchies, potentates or democracies, men secured in life and liberty thrived in the pursuits of freedom. (5000 Year Leap)

Are we free? Some of you have yet to make the connection between bigger government and smaller individual. We are no longer free when the government dishes out “entitlements". What the government gives, and we depend on can be taken away. Entitlements are not free. They come out of our very souls, robbing us of our self-determination.

Let’s look at some numbers. Some scary numbers.

In this chart compliments from that right wing radical organization called the Heritage Society, but based on data from The White House and Treasury Department (who are you going to believe?) the following organizations are examples of big government spending. All for your benefit.

• Department of Education: Our kids now place 30 to 40 nations behind China in math, science and reading. I saw this on the news last night. On ABC! It's not "no child left behind", it is "everyone left behind."
  
• The Department of Housing and Urban Development: Have you been to Detroit lately?
• Department of Homeland Security: Been to the airport lately?
• The Department of Agriculture: Can you say Monsanto?
• Department of Labor: Can you say SEIU?
• Environmental Protection Agency: Here’s a good one. Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant.

Supporting all these programs cost you your freedom, because you have less and less of your own hard earned money to spend. In essence, you've traded your sweat, your time, your efforts for a bigger government. (Oh, by the way House Democrats just turned down keeping your takes from going up January first. Lame Ducks, aren't they great?)

But the kicker is that the government spends more and more of your money on servicing the national debt. It is one thing to say you traded your dollars for a poorly run education system. It is quite another to say you gave up your pay check for interest.

Notice that the middle bar is in red. That’s because that is a monthly number, not annual like the others. In other words, multiple that by 12. Yes, servicing the debt is $31.9 billion dollars a month or $382,800,000,000 a year.

But wait. The big entitlement programs everyone is talking about is Social Security and Medicare. And coming soon to a government-run clinic not so near to you, ObamaCare. But let’s just look at the old pieces of this sweet entitlement deal.

Medicare and Medicare along with Social Security costs about the same amount of money as most nation’s economies. Okay, let me not exaggerate. Let’s just say we spend more on these programs than Russia’s entire economy. And that is just this year. By 2020 we will dish out over $2.5 trillion for these goodies.

You see when our rights come from God, they can never be denied when government’s job is to protect those rights. But when government declares you have a right to an education, and housing and food and the damn internet….

So I ask, “do you think we might be in some serious shit?” Don't be afraid to say yes. Be afraid to deny it. By the way, did you see the riots in England today? Why? They raised tuition three fold. What government gives...

What you can do about it, next. I know the suspense is killing you.