Progressivist liberalism is inside out and upside down.  Liberalism is a barrel of laughs once you understand the liberal hustle.  For example, Medicare is broken.  Doctors are refusing new Medicare patients.  Why?  Progressivist liberals attack all problems by spending money.  First Liberals spend then liberals start to think about stealing money to pay for all their insane spending.  Progressivist liberals love all government-run charities.  Liberals always over promise.  Liberals always over bribe democrat voters.  Liberals must scramble to steal money from taxpayers or borrow cash from the Chinese to pay for all their wasteful, government-run, charity programs.  This liberal world-view is insane.  The liberal, 'Tony Soprano' world-view is the opposite of the real world.  Eventually, even totalitarian liberals run out of other people's money to steal or Chinese to borrow from.  No person in the real world uses the American, progressivist, liberal spending model.  In the real world, working people first have to figure out how much money they have.  People in the real world start to plan how much they can spend only after they've earned cash.  In the real world, the USA must determine how much taxpayer money was collected.  Next the USA must spend less money than was collected.  Progressivist liberalism is too humorous once you understand the liberal hustle.  Really comical.  According to the USA TODAY --- http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-06-20-medicare_N.htm