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What'd you do in your early 20s? Were you helping unemployed factory workers get their lives back together or something of equal or greater merit? Lay off the childish "community organizing" insults until you educate yourself on what that even means.
So far, my taxes have gone down under Obama. I get a bigger paycheck now that he's in office. So, one must take all this radical conservative propaganda with a grain of salt.
Until Republicans are willing to really dig into defense spending, it's just empty rhetoric.
Another one that seems to think the only tax they pay is income
We do need to cut more. But it seems that members from both sides of the aisle aren't willing to tackle the big budget items.
Social security is easy enough to figure out. Raise the retirement age, enact means testing, and you can balance that part of the budget.
Medicare is the bear in the room really. The problem is that Republicans ran on a platform of not cutting medicare, remember all of them saying that the new healthcare law would take away from medicare? So they can't touch that politically.
Really if we are going to balance the budget, we are going to have to cut defense, cut medicare, and at least balance social security by raising retirement age.
That goes for either side of the aisle folks, so I urge you to write your congressmen and women.
We are going to have to get there eventually and we will. Until then there is the political battle going on. A lot lot of those posting here, believe the rhetoric going back and forth is about the Budget. It isn't. It is jockeying for position, and frankly the Pres is out maneuvering the GOP. The Budget gets created by Congress, the President provides a proposal. Conspicuously absent from the President's proposal is spending cuts Medicaid, Medicare and Soc Sec. We all know eventually those areas will have to be involved, it's just that the political impact against those that bring them up, is what is at risk. The Pres is forcing the Repubs to bring it up and they will. After all is said and done, it is the House that will have to create the Legislation to try to deal with Budget and Deficit. The Senate will have to approve it and the President will have to sign it. But shhh, don't tell some of the people on this forum, they are all happy the Repubs are showing such "backbone".
Where have Republicans supported serious medicare or military cuts?
They haven't. They are concentrating on the 20% of the budget that is easy to cut, but not going to fix the problem.
Everyone in Washington is screwed up. Well, there are a few like Rand Paul preaching the truth, but they are few and far between.
Agreed not to mention, they feel the need to lie about the budget. It clearly states $1.1 trillion (which agreed is still too high), but lets actually tell the truth in these titles instead of lie.
So far, my taxes have gone down under Obama. I get a bigger paycheck now that he's in office. So, one must take all this radical conservative propaganda with a grain of salt.
You mean you disagree with the numbers on his budget?
You disagree that the deficit next year will be $1.6 Trillion?
That he will add $23 Trillion to the debt in 10 years?
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