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Questions for you: What was the state of the economy when Bush took office?
What is the difference between when Bush and Obama took office?
Hint: Instead of continually blaming Clinton over and over for the first year plus of his tenure in office Bush went about his business and took ownership of the office.
Then he proceeded to blow up the federal deficit by cutting taxes, getting into an unecessary war in Iraq and spending like a drunken sailor.
I said this once on another thread, teabaggers think paying the deficit is like cutting a credit card and considering it "paid in full", even though there is still a high balance on it! Is this how they handle their household budgets? They live beyond their means and don't pay their bills. I can see it now:
"Honey, I bought a wardrobe, luggage, and reserved a hotel and airline for a vacation we can't afford!"
"No problem sweetheart, just cut the credit card in two and no worries!"
Why can't you just come out and say that deficit spending, by 0bama and the democrats, is increasing our national debt?
The national debt is $13.6 trillion, almost all of this new debt came from 0bama's deficit spending. Cutting up the credit card, as you put it, would have prevented $3 trillion in new debt. Sounds like the TEA party that you reticule has a good first step. The second step is to kick all the big government, tax and spend progressive dems and repugs out of government, then we can start ending wasteful government programs.
Then he proceeded to blow up the federal deficit by cutting taxes, getting into an unecessary war in Iraq and spending like a drunken sailor.
So democrats are in favor of a smaller, more fugal government? Which spending bills did the dems vote against?
Spending like democrats is why we stopped reelecting so many RINO republicans, its why the dems won the house in 2006. Its not the spending you guys object to, it was the war and the tax cuts, and that is all dems made a fuss about in Washington.
Even in 2003, McCain was upset about the out of control spending, and since the dems took over the purse strings in 2007, they have increased the debt by $5 trillion dollars.
So democrats are in favor of a smaller, more fugal government? Which spending bills did the dems vote against?
Spending like democrats is why we stopped reelecting so many RINO republicans, its why the dems won the house in 2006. Its not the spending you guys object to, it was the war and the tax cuts, and that is all dems made a fuss about in Washington.
Even in 2003, McCain was upset about the out of control spending, and since the dems took over the purse strings in 2007, they have increased the debt by $5 trillion dollars.
Considering the fact we are in an economic downturn the WORST thing to do RIGHT now is stop the government from spending money. Until consumption and business spending start to pick up again the economy will get WOSE not better. The time to cut government spending is when the economy is on solid ground NOT NOW.
Don't get me wrong at some point the deficits NEED to be addressed. But addressing them NOW is going to prolong the recession. The United States Government takes in over $2 trillion a year in tax revenue. We need to stabilize and grow the economy FIRST and attack budget deficits NEXT.
If SS is an entitlement, and every wage earner pays into it, why do they restrict the payouts for those who are of retirement age who still have other sources of income? If it were an "entitlement" wouldn't they get what everyone else gets? Was their money not good enough? I mean, they likely even maxed out the pay ins to the system. I pay a lot more SS tax than the average american does, and if I have high income when I retire, I shouldn't get what everyone else gets?
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