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Oh please. Talk about financial illteracy...like the GOP which doesn't think the US should pay its debt or housing - the GOP supported this entirely and Bush signed it.
No one suggested the US shouldnt pay its debts. Will you stop with the hyperbold and try to have a serious discussion.
Thread isnt about the GOP, nor the tea partiers.. stop hijacking my thread to spread your hate.
But Obama was elected by the masses because he ran on fiscal responsibility, claiming he was going to fix the budgets, the spending, everything they believed the GOP didnt stand for, and now several pages into the thread, they cant even list these responsible Democrats..
Oh please. Talk about financial illteracy...like the GOP which doesn't think the US should pay its debt or housing - the GOP supported this entirely and Bush signed it.
Who owned the house and senate the last 2 years of Bush?
Well... promises... promises... we hope they keep them but instead they break them... you think Americans would learn after all the broken promises but no, I guess they wanted to hope things will be different... that's just foolish... I haven't met a politician I didn't want to toss in the middle of the ocean...
I look back at the 2008 elections and I remember hearing all of the responsible things that the Democrats supported. Cutting spending, going through the budget, line by line, cutting waste, fraud, abuse. They were voting against the out of control spending, the massive budget increases, the deficits, the debt.
Now 4 years later, we have a complete opposite call from Democrats, that if you believe in cutting spending, you are a terrorist. If you oppose increasing the debt, you want to bankrupt the country.
Why the 180 Democrats? You cant tell me its because of the economy, because the economy in 2008 sucked just as much.
What I find ridiculous is that neither party is truly embracing a plan to address rising health care costs, aka the most problematic issue in addressing our debts. The Tea Party plan consists of shifting the cost to the individual and or state via medicaid or a voucher system. That may fix the federal problem by cost shifting, but it won't fix individual or state debt issues. We need to either agree to some sort of national health care system or we need to move to an a la carte system where insurance covers only catastrophic care and everything else is out of pocket. This private/public mix we have currently is not going to be fixed by cutting discretionary spending.
As far as I know the Tea want our budget balanced by cutting spending.
LOL!
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Originally Posted by Rggr
Of course everyone wants their projects funded. The only difference is that the Tea Party wants to balance the budget which means that there has to be some choices as to what actually does get funded.
Yeah, right. See my comments at the end of this post.
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Originally Posted by newhandle
What hogwash. Fact is both parties especially the Tea folks are for unnecessary spending for their pet projects. I notice South Carolina's GOP Tea folks don't want to cut their govt. handouts and Cantor and conservative Virginian's sure don't want to stop getting Federal money so they can refurbish the waterfront at Va. Beach. Why should someone in Nevada pay to support Va. tourism?
Exactly!
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Originally Posted by Casper in Dallas
PARTICULAR spending, not anything they like. As the saying goes, the devil is in the details.
Casper
Republican Rep. Glenn Thompson's rural Pennsylvania district includes the Bradford airport and another on the list to be cut. He says he's as fiscally conservative as anyone, but he insists these subsidies give taxpayers a good return on the investment.
So you support subsidizing airports? I thought we were trying to be responsible, not cry because someone supports people paying their fair share...
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