Today it was reported that Social Security will pay out more than it takes in. Fortune Magazine recently wrote a cover story about how this recession will a much quicker demise to the program as we know it. Contributions will have to go up; distributions will have to go down; money will have to be printed.

60 Minutes did a report on the war in Afganastan. According to Lt. Gen. Stanley McCrystal we have been doing it wrong for 8 years, and that without more troops, we will not win. The same program highlighted the many crimes of Bernie Madoff (SEC did a great job on that one). If only we had more regulation...

Its a wonder with all the great things government does, so many are against them running our health care system.