[fabsroman]

Skeet,

I'm just busting your chops. I know you don't buy many new guns and I knew you got one heck of a deal on that Extrema because you either PM'ed, e-mailed, or called me about it and said I should get one too at that price, but by buying people's old guns, that allows them to buy new ones.

As Americans, we have a lot of excess. Look at me, I am almost finished building a new road bike, and I am already looking at a time trial bike and a crit bike that I want, but do I really need them, that is the question. I want an AR-15 and an AR-10, but do I really need those? The way I look at it with the guns, it is better to have them and not need them, than to need them and not have them. I just see way too many people buying way too much crap.

This is why people nowadays will never be in a position to retire comfortably. They will never have their house paid for. They will never have enough saved for retirement. Now, I know you aren't like that because your house was paid for a long time ago, but Americans are just not saving like they should.

Did you know that the National debt is at $8 trillion+. That is $8,000,000,000. The amount spent on the Iraq war is almost $400 billion. The tax gap/shortcomings (i.e., people that didn't pay what they should have) is about $340 billion a year. I am scared to look at what the trade deficit is. As a nation, I think we are in for some tough times in the decades to come.