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May 29, 2011 in Opinion, Letters
Buried in debt at 14
The amount of U.S. debt is $14,282,216,958,399. In one minute it will have increased by $7,000,000. As a student and a child I find it an injustice that I’m enslaved by the government and its leaders promising more than they can deliver without spending what they don’t have.
The government has spent more than I’m capable of earning at 14. At 14 I owe $177,000. The government promised the money we gave them with interest. For example, the government has taken 7.5 percent from each citizen’s paycheck for Social Security. They promised that it would be given back to us at the age of 60. That age is now 67.
They pay us back by taking money from younger generations and giving it to the elderly because they spent our money. It’s a cycle. The cycle is starting to fail as people aren’t working, the population is aging, and as costs are going up faster than the amount of money coming in.
Just Social Security will run a deficit starting in 2015.
My parents wanted a better life for their children. The government has already spent my earnings, my children’s earnings and enslaved the nation to debt.
Ashlyn Lewey
Spokane
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Common_Sense on May 29 at 1:03 a.m.
Ashlyn, stop listening to your parents who are obviously very opinionated and have scared you into thinking these things.
You my dear are not enslaved, you were born in this great nation where you can have an opportunity to achieve greatness and even great wealth if the opportunities present themselves and if you make it happen. Nothing is guaranteed in life except for death and taxes, the latter of which you seem to detest already and you’ve yet to contribute anything to this society except for a negative attitude based solely upon fear.
The great Republican party, the one which I’m sure your parents are proud members of, have ensured that you will maintain this burden the duration of your life, whether it be a tragic end from cancer at the age of 30 because you cannot afford health care or whether it be at age 80 and living in a cardboard box downtown under the railroad tracks because Social Security will have by then been obliterated by Republicans in their almost decade long crusade against any form of socialization.
Trust me Ashlyn, the best thing for you to do is ask your parents why taxes have been decreased, placing this overwhelming burden upon you, and your children and “enslaved” you. Think for yourself, do not listen to your parent’s hateful tantrums about how this country is going to hell in a handbasket, find out why they’re so angry first. Do they listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck? Do they have FOX News on 24/7? There is more out there than what you’re being told and believe me, without any social safety nets, your wonderful upbringing could have been very different, whether your parents admit to it or not.
And Ashlyn, you’re welcome for the education we’ve provided you and haven’t whined about how you have yet to pay us back for it at the age of “14”…if you are in fact 14.
Common_Sense on May 29 at 1:07 a.m.
Excuse the typo, the line should have read:
Social Security will have by then been obliterated by Republicans in their almost century long crusade against any form of socialization.
Dazzeetrader11 on May 29 at 2:42 a.m.
Ashlyn…Common is a far leftwing Democrat. THEY are responsible for thishuge debt. Don’t worry. Tell your parents to vote in a slate of conservative Republican and the deficit will be gone. You’ll be safe. Obama has generated more debt in 2 years than the 4 previous presidents combined.
Very much the villain. Ask your parents. They’ll confirm my words of wisdom. Best wishes and be sure you go to school!
Daisy.
Diana on May 29 at 6:00 a.m.
What Daisy writes is a great example of why you should think for yourself. Her post is full of what are called talking points, which are untrue, but she repeats over and over again anyway. Sometimes what Daisy writes is word for word what some conservative right-wing pundit has said.
Don’t believe the propaganda like Daisy does. Do your research and think for yourself.
detroitdude on May 29 at 7:58 a.m.
I will echo Diana and say the most important thing is to think for yourself. You will not be given the whole story on anything if you rely solely on one media outlet. Be wary of any “news” outlet that says very little, but says it well. If you are 14, take solace in the fact that you have your whole life ahead of you, and once you finish high school, you can determine your destiny. National debt or no debt, you are beholden to no one.
hawken on May 29 at 8:18 a.m.
Ashlyn
You are absolutely correct. Keep doing your homework. You in fact will bear the burden of our gluttonous debt. Below are today’s numbers. As you point out, they will be exponentially larger by the time you are a working adult.
As of Today, this moment:
In fact, you must consider that liberals, most Democrats, Marxists and Socialists, all of whom post on this blog, will reject what you have written and call your parents idiots. Don’t be fooled. These, selfish, greedy, people are Nanny State, Big Government tax, spend and borrow advocates. The very people whom will “enslave” you if they are allowed to do so.
Be diligent and remain informed. Also, you will need to educate your peers as well. Never give up and never give in to such people.
Also, you must prepare yourself to be called some of the most vile, grotesque, sexually explicit names you can imagine for what you are saying and doing. Nevertheless, never give up and never give in.
Common_Sense on May 29 at 8:56 a.m.
That’s true Ashlyn, once you learn that the far right is only about scare tactics, hawken and dazzee will call you names.
kma on May 29 at 9:54 a.m.
Well said Common Sense, well said. hawken never has anything good to ever say about anything. But, that is the Republican party anymore.
There is no doubt that Ashlyn, if even if a real person and undoubtedly NOT 14!!, wrote this letter. Just the typical Republican fraud they have forced down gullable people’s throats for years and years.
They campaigned on the notion of LESS GOVERNMENT. Now, tell me folks…what have you seen so far. MORE STATE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF YOUR LIVES. It won’t get any better either. Soon, they will be telling you when can poop and pee.
Do as I say, NOT AS I DO.
Common_Sense on May 29 at 11:17 a.m.
And dazzee, this huge debt is largely do to outrageous military spending which started under Reagan and exploded under GW Bush, let us not forget the huge tax cuts that have put us even further in the hole.
We know you don’t care about facts, only hateful fearmongering which is all you’re capable since you’re an academic fraud and admitted racist who hates having a black man in the White House who isn’t scrubbing toilets.
Dazzeetrader11 on May 29 at 11:25 a.m.
Common…what you lack in brains, you also lack in a sense of history. . It’s your BOY who’s killed of this country. Clinton inherited a sweet situation from Bush Sr……Republican. He tried to mess it up but finally Newt made him veer right to save his skin.
Bush Jr spent too much. no doubt. But Obama and your beloved marxist communist democrats are presently trying their best finish off young Ashlyn and her generation.
The worst part is that obama has sent our money to other countries in the trillions. Obama’s trying to favor his muslim roots at our expense. Ashlyn has quite a problem on her young hands. HUGE debt…biggest in history created by Obama. There’s no denying it. And the jackasses bray in approval as the country (and Ashlyn’s future) dies off. Nice going!
Ash..tell your parent to vote Republican and you WILL be saved.
hawken on May 29 at 12:09 p.m.
Ashlyn
I failed to point out that you should also be prepared to be called a “liar,” as you’ve seen above. Also, expect, “racist.” That is as prominent as “liar,” from the left.
Here’s the way it works: If you oppose a liberal, Democrat, Marxist, Socialist, world view, as you have done, “liar” is an “ad hominem” of choice for them.
Specifically, they are calling you a “liar” because you say you are 14. Welcome to the sick world of adult, American Liberalism.
You’ll learn more as you go. You and your generation really do pose a threat to American Liberalism, since you are now beginning to understand that your generation gets left “holding the bag” for the greed of American Liberalism..
One final thought for now. As you read this blog, pick any string, then notice who is doing the vitriolic, grotesque, sexually explicit, name calling. This in itself is very telling.
Hang in there.
Common_Sense on May 29 at 1:33 p.m.
This is typical and absolutely disgusting.
Marksman on May 29 at 2:17 p.m.
Telling any Fourteen year old to NOT LISTEN TO THEIR PARENTS is the most ridiculous thing of all the ridiculous things you stated today!
kma on May 29 at 2:27 p.m.
Wow, hawken, who called this boy/girl a liar. See there you go again hawken….putting words out there that were never said.
Ashlyn, you need to do some research about people like hawken and Dazzee…….But, you know that because you know them.
Don’t people find it weird that this supposed 14 year old is that informed to write this? And, that this 14 year old is being backed by hawken and Dazee? I truly think they are in cohoots. If you stir up controversy and you hope to make people angry…you are in bed with the Tea “stupid” Party….like Ashlyn. Maybe we need to find out who Ashlyn truly is. Look at the posts between Ashlyn and hawken…makes you really wonder
I am asking that the Spokesman Review find out who Ashlyn really is.
kma on May 29 at 2:38 p.m.
Dazzee…………………tell everyone here what you and your hawken would do right now to make our country better? What Dazzee and hawken? What?
You talk the talk but have no walk…Show me the yellow brick road!
Common_Sense on May 29 at 4:16 p.m.
Marksman, you’re the foolish person that thinks most 14 year olds listen to their parents in the first place. If I was 14 and had teabaggin, FOX Noise watching, white hood wearing parents, I would be counting down the days until I could move as far away from them as possible.
misjustice on May 30 at 3:11 p.m.
By using the word “BOY” Dazee inched closer to using the N word; way to go Dazee old gal! A word that our young Ashlyn likely hears on a regular basis…as her parents rail about all that is wrong with ‘Merica.
Dazzeetrader11 on June 01 at 1:22 p.m.
kma says…..”Dazzee…………………tell everyone here what you and your hawken would do right now to make our country better? What Dazzee and hawken? What?”
Rid us of liberals and liberal democrats simple!
misjustice on June 01 at 6:39 p.m.
How would you do that Dazzee? Poison? Bombs? Hand to hand combat? Detention camps? Please expand oh dazed one!
Quixote on June 03 at 1:21 p.m.
No way was this letter written by a fourteen year old girl.
Betsy Cowles? Perhaps. But not a 14 year old. They care about texting, texting, and then texting some more, not the amount of debt they’ve been saddled with.