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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2031280, member: 112&quot;]You say you want to know where all the money really goes. Well, I can&#039;t fault you for that, but think for a moment. If you, or any other citizen, has access to all of that information, then anybody, including our enemies, also has access to that information. Does that sound like a good idea ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m not saying that the right of the citizens to know where their money goes is wrong. But common sense tells us all that in order ensure security there are just some things, some information, that we cannot know, that we cannot have access to. Because if we can find out, anybody can find out. And reality is, that cannot be allowed to happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is information that the President doesn&#039;t know, there is information that most of Congress doesn&#039;t know, and they cannot know. For the only way to keep something secret, is to actually keep it secret.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s pretty simple, our system of govt. is based on trust. We elect people into office to do a job, and we have to trust them to do that job. And that job includes spending our money. And if for whatever reason we as the citizens do not think they are doing that job to our satisfaction then it is our duty to elect somebody else to replace them. And then we have to trust them to do the job.</p><p><br /></p><p>The people we elect into public office are accountable to us. And we as citizens, to a large degree, can find out much of what they do and what they spend our money on. And it would probably take years, many years, just to read all of the material that we do have access to. And an army of accountants to figure it all out. But there are always going to be those things we can&#039;t find out, that&#039;s where trust comes in. And if we don&#039;t or can&#039;t trust them, then we have to elect somebody we can trust.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As for this, there are only 2 ways, and it&#039;s very, very simple - stop spending more than we take in, or increase what we do take in. That&#039;s it. Which one do you want ?</p><p><br /></p><p>And therein lies the problem because we, as the citizens, don&#039;t want either one. We want the govt. to continue doing all of things for us that they do. To do that, they have to spend money, our money. But we don&#039;t want to pay for it, we don&#039;t want to have to pay them enough of our individual money, in the form of taxes, so they have enough to actually pay for everything they do for us. We want our money in our pockets.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only thing that&#039;s left, is that the govt. goes into debt. Just like we go into debt when want to buy something when we don&#039;t have the money in our pockets to pay for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>So like I said, which one do you want ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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