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Nope, credit will come at a high cost until we get our house in order. Unfortunately there is only one way, cut spending. I ain't making it up, look ay Greece and Italy.
He can't do that because it looks too much like Obama and Geithner.
When we started legislating illegally with the wrong people writing bills and tis last time the President was involved which shouldn't have happened. None of the killer laws Obama has had passed were passed properly and that makes it appear that our Constitution is probably dead.
Ask yourself a question. How big is our problem? Where do we spend the most money? Doesn't it make sense to address that problem first? In the past, the answer has been raise taxes. We have never, ever made meaningful cuts to entitlements. We have made meaningful tax increases, yet we are where we are. Let's try meaningful entitlement cuts. If they are done and we need tax increases, I'm on board.
I endorsed the bipartisan Gang of Six deal that addressed nearly 4 trillions of cuts to entitlement with 1 trillion tax revenue.
What you prefer is all cut in spending. Cut, cut, cut. We all had the chance to score 3 apples, but then ended up with paltry of one rotten apple with worms.
Compromise for the GOP was the dirty word until the 11th hour.
and lets not forget the TP's in congress that kept saying they wanted the US to default and not raise the debt ceiling no matter what. You don't think that has any thing to do with it?
Exactly. And said, that this how they want it to play out even time the Debt Ceiling needs to be raised.
The TP has started the ruin of our credit and economy.
Look...everyone is panicking like it's the end of the freaking world. We need to vote all those lunatic Tea Party freshmen out of office and get to work.
We don't need people hi-jacking the growth of our economy.
And the moderate Republicans need to grow a set of balls and tell the TP people to step back.
I think that you have no idea what is happening if you think that this downgrade happened due to the TEA Party. The US has been on a downhill slide for years due to entitlement programs.
I don't just blame the Tea Bags, evil. I also blame Bush.
Better be blaming dumbass clown Obozo who threw away trillions of taxpayer dollars and increased our debt so greatly that a graph of the increase looks like a rocket launching to outer space.
Very, very sad for the U.S., and the worst part is that there's no change on the horizon. Our leaders are weak, and any potential leaders are too. And you know what's going to happen Monday? They'll all be at it again. It's Obama's fault. It's the GOP's fault...the ship is sinking, we're on it and the crew can't make peace long enough to save the ship.
A hundred years from now, when our decline to a second rate power will be analyzed by historians, they will say that our politicians, with their pettiness, their weakness, their indecisiveness, and their selfishness brought down our country while the citizens just shook their heads in anger and disbelief. Shame on them!
And I'm not voting again for *anyone* already in Congress.
How do you know that any of us will be allowed to vote in 2012? I fear this may kick off some dictatorial crap from the czars and their boss?? .
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