My dear kids,

I am so very sorry that my generation has decided to steal your future from you. You will probably not be able to gainfully support yourself in this future we made for you, because we stole your chance to be able to have enough money to buy a house, buy a car, to properly raise your own children.

The President that my generation voted into power, the congressmen/women and senators that my generation voted into power, the hell that my generation voted into power has decided to take over a trillion dollars from you and your children and invest it into questionable political groups such as ACORN ($2 billion) and to save mice in California ($30 million) as well as other projects across the formerly great nation, the United States of America...instead of investing it in retaining/creating jobs and giving tax breaks to help jolt the economy.

For our mistakes, I am truly sorry and hope that you will forgive us. There really isn't one individual that can be blamed, but an entire generation that bears the blame. You see, we previously voted in a Federal Government that sent our jobs to other countries, sent our money to assist some far off military faction to fight our enemy from within, only to be attacked by that same military faction, gave away our freedoms for the comfy cozy feeling of safety. Boy did we ever screw up.

My generation's grandparents had what it took to be self reliant, to be self sufficient, to have that attitude that if we can't buy it with cash, then we don't need it. I just wish my generation had that same kind of gusto, that same kind of intestinal fortitude that they did...Perhaps we wouldn't be in this mess so much that we had to steal from you.

My one and only prayer for your generation is that you study history better than we did, to make sure that this doesn't happen again to this nation in which you live...so that it may one day become the Great Nation that it once was, standing strong in the face of adversity, standing defiant in the face of fear, standing proud in the face of the rest of the world. That is the USA that once was, and with your understanding and education, will be again.

As I write this, I can promise you that I have no feelings of pride in what we did, no feelings of accomplishment in what we did. The only feelings I have right now are feelings of sorrow for what we did and feelings of shame for what we did. What we did was wrong...My generation's greed was too great to have common sense overcome it.

Please forgive my generation of all of it's mistakes...we weren't smart enough to get it right, perhaps someday you will. And please don't take your anger out on us during our waning years...even though we deserve it.

I still love you and hope you will forgive my generation,

Jon Linville

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

Well that's just depressing.

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1993 300E 2.8 185k miles
2006 Mustang Convertible 4.0 Eaton Supercharged

I want my MTV!

I hope to die broke.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

Obama is helping us all achieve your goal.

at a lost for what to say other than. AMEN!

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1986 xr4ti
For any given large, complex, hard-to-understand, expensive problem, there exists at least one short, simple, easy, cheap wrong answer.

Give me a break. We'll recover, just like we have from every other massive $^&%up in the history of our human race. I'm only 27, but I've read, you know, books and stuff, which is enough to know that this isn't the first crisis in mankind's history. I'm terribly discouraged by the state of our nation, and the new stimulus package has only made it more depressing ... entitlement at its worst has taken over the country. But we aren't doomed. It won't work, and a lot of people will be hurt, but eventually people will go back to work because they'll have to. The kids of today have plenty of time to recover ... and in 50 years, %$^& it up again.

Still, just in case, I'm not going to have any kids.

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1987 300D, arctic white/palomino--314,000 miles
1978 240D 4-speed, Euro Delivery, light ivory/bamboo--370,000 miles
2005 Jeep Liberty CRD Limited, light khaki/slate--140,000 miles
2018 Chevy Cruze diesel, 6-speed manual, satin steel metallic/kalahari--19,000 miles
1982 Peugeot 505 diesel, 4-speed manual, blue/blue, 130,000 miles
1995 S320, black/parchment--34,000 miles (Dad's car)

Well said. You guys spent us into the poor house.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

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Question Authority before it Questions you.

Let's give the credit to where credit is due: Choke on this.

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Question Authority before it Questions you.

If you message is that the two parties are hell-bent to budren future generations with an insurmountable deabt-load, I couldn't agree more. Vote with me for 3rd party candidates.

BTW, the final bar is a summation of the previous ones -- that's misleading.

Your bar graph is a few days out of date. Isn't that graph missing a new datum? How does the new graph look?

I thought the President only signs the budget into law. Does he write it now?

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99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

Dick Cheney to Paul O'Neill in November of 2002: "You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter."

The President has traditionally sent a budget to Congress. Congress then messes with it.

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1984 300TD

http://www.rules.house.gov/archives/jcoc2w.htm

Characterized as ``probably the greatest landmark of our administrative history,''7 the Budget and Accounting Act required the President to submit a single, consolidated budget proposal for congressional consideration each year.

From what I am reading, it means that he sends a "wish list", if you will, to congress. He does not send them a budget. He sends them a "I'd like to see these 100 items.". IOW, he doesn't have much real control. His only option is to say "Screw you! I veto it down.". Unfortunately, that means he has just tossed the baby out with the bathwater. Also, it means that if things get snarled up, somebody will get more blame than others. IOW, the heat is more on him to come up with a resolution.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow