Funny that left wing people think that creating a state in which people are dependent on the government to keep them fed and taken care of medically that the government when it's all said and done won't be able to pay for and therefore won't be able to have in the long run is a good thing. That's a real window into their souls. Get them dependent and then take it all away when the financial house of cards comes crashing down. It's not military spending or two wars that a creating the massive deficit crisis to come...it's runaway entitlement programs. When the credit runs out, so do those programs. I care too much about my fellow Americans to stand by and watch while the left wing tells everyone that the government will take care of everyone...when that's just not true in the long term. Don't talk about raising taxes on the richest Americans; true fact: even if you took it all...it wouldn't be enough. The government can help create the environment in which people can stand on their own two feet and survive. The government can build the skeleton around which communities of individuals build the American body. We have a name for governments that have tried to be the skeleton and the body...failures. When those systems fail, who suffers? The same people that those systems claimed to be helping. The left wing would rather give people fish than teach people to fish.