This also reminds me of marching band days...you know your band is bad
when it's positioned in the parade *after* the horses.

Blah... horribly worded... correction below:

Given the projected growth of current programs of the US federal
government, it could tax everyone and every corporation at 100% of
income and not meet them. Estimates range from 60 to 90 trillion
dollars of obligations.

problems just go away.

I also agree about the ethynol. I'm semi-retired, but I run a small
farm.  Because every farmer has gone to growing corn, and stopped
growing other grains, as well as hay, and other food crops, we now
face a shortage of wheat, soybeans, oats, and many other crops.  Hay
shortages are the worst ever because almost all livestock eats hay.
No hay means no beef, and other meats, and no horses to use for
transportation.  Do you see where this is going.  It's a full circle
with no way out.  At first the big farmers saw huge profits, and they
actually did make some rather large money in the beginning.  But
that's done and over now.  What they earned as a windfall, is now
being used up to power their oil burning tractors, their fertilizers
are produced from petroleum, so they have tripled in price, and the
cost of hay and grains to feed their animals is out of control. At the
same time, large amounts of trees are being destroyed to use that last
stance of tillable soil, which is often on hillsides, which is eroding
away because the trees, or hay fields held back the water after rains,
but not cornfields.  Of course the more land that's damaged from
improper planting, means there will be less usable land in the future,
and more demand for petroleum based fertilizers.  It's a catch 22 and
no one is going to win in the end, except the oil companies.

I agree here too, and I am someone who cares about the environment
too.  It's the oil companies that have kept us "addicted" to their
filthy oil all these years.  The technology was there as early as the
1950's to make cars that got much better milage, but the oil companies
bought the inventions and filed them where they would never be seen
again.  These articles have appeared in Popular Mechanics and other
magazines for years, and scientists have agreed.  The days of the
internal combustion engines are way beyond obsolete.  Electric
vehicles are one step in the right direction, using solar charging as
much as possible.  Hydrogen looks promising too.  

One thing I disagree about the OP was his blaming the "liberals".  I
think this guy has been listening to Limbaugh far too long.
Liberalism is a state of mind and thought, not a means to an end for
conservation.  We all need to conserve our lands or none of our future
generations will be eating.  

The thing that gets me is that we constantly keep hearing from the
government that we must conserve.... MUST CONSERVE !!!!
Turn off those lights, stop driving unless absolutely necessary, turn
down the thermostats, etc etc.....  Well, I turned down my thermostat
years ago when I could not keep up paying for the fuel, I turned it
down so much that I became ill from living in the cold.  I turned off
all the unnecessary lights too.  I combine trips to town to save on
gas, and I often now find myself quite lonely because living in a
rural area requires driving to visit a friend, and there is no corner
grocery store, no city busses, and riding a bicycle 5 miles to town in
the dead of winter is not even practical.  I have found myself riding
my horse to town, since I feed her (expensive) hay anyhow, but there
again, that's only in warmer weather and when I'm only going to buy a
saddle bag full of groceries.  When I go to buy a couple tons of hay
to feed the horse, I have to use a gas powered vehicle.

The govt. can harp all they want about conserving, but many of us have
conserved as far as we can and there are no more corners to cut,
unless we become ill, and cut ourselves off from the rest of the
world.

The bottom line is this:

If the government REALLY cared, they would tell the oil companies to
take a flying leap off a cliff and start doing something about
alternative energy.  But they keep taking the payoffs from Big Oil,
and do little except bring us these public service announcemnts
telling us to conserve.  They're not doing their jobs !!!!