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We wouldn't be in this spot if the tea party didn't shoot down the Obama/Boehner grand bargain.
Oh, right. The Tea Party. Well that's interesting because there have been suspicions and threats of a credit downgrade since early on in Obama's presidency. The Tea Party folks didn't get elected until less than a year ago. What did Obama do to prevent it prior to the 2010 elections when he held both the senate, house, and the presidency?
Oh, right. The Tea Party. Well that's interesting because there have been suspicions and threats of a credit downgrade since early on in Obama's presidency. The Tea Party folks didn't get elected until less than a year ago. What did Obama do to prevent it prior to the 2010 elections when he held both the senate, house, and the presidency?
We've never got downgraded until after the tea party came to DC.
We've never got downgraded until after the tea party came to DC.
You can't blame the Tea Party. That was only 6 months of House majority.
A country doesn't get downgraded on who belongs to which party.
We've been spending more than we take in for some time now and there is no end to it. Our revenue is down and our spending is up and how many times have we raised the debt ceiling now ?
And you blame all this on 6 months of Repub House majority ?
The US economy imploded in 2008 and all we've been doing for the past 3 years is spend, spend, spend to keep this Titanic afloat.
You can't blame the Tea Party. That was only 6 months of House majority.
A country doesn't get downgraded on who belongs to which party.
We've been spending more than we take in for some time now and there is no end to it. Our revenue is down and our spending is up and how many times have we raised the debt ceiling now ?
And you blame all this on 6 months of Repub House majority ?
The US economy imploded in 2008 and all we've been doing for the past 3 years is spend, spend, spend to keep this Titanic afloat.
Who shot down the Obama/Boehner deal? The tea party did because it had 800 billion in tax revenue increases.
So, what's Obama doing to avoid yet another credit downgrade?
Good question. Let's see, since the last downgrade, he's come up with an amnesty for foreigners living here illegally who are brought in to bring wages down and displace American workers. He's expanded NAFTA so another chunk of Americans will be soon out of work. Yes, he's got some big tax hike planned for a few people but with all the expansion of unemployment and welfare that will accomplish nothing at all.
Oh, right. The Tea Party. Well that's interesting because there have been suspicions and threats of a credit downgrade since early on in Obama's presidency. The Tea Party folks didn't get elected until less than a year ago. What did Obama do to prevent it prior to the 2010 elections when he held both the senate, house, and the presidency?
The credit downgrade was clearly pointed out by S&P because A) the tea party and GOP held the nation hostage to force through extending the tax cuts to the rich which was suppose to expire. This added over 700 billion in new, unpaid for spending.
and B) during the budget negotiations Obama bent over backwards for the GOP willing to make 3 trillion in cuts and only asked the tea party/gop to pitch in one trillion. They absolutely refused as it would require scaling back the tax cuts for the rich which is the biggest pork barrel spending the nation has next to the war spending.
We've never got downgraded until after the tea party came to DC.
Ah, correlation without any understanding of causality.
If the Tea Party had never existed, we STILL would have been downgraded. Standard and Poors clearly stated that $4 trillion need to be cut in order to indicate fiscal responsibility and avoid a credit downgrade, and our brilliant leaders could come up with less than half that. In effect, our leaders PROVED that they could not be fiscally responsible, no matter what the consequences.
On the other hand, if the Tea Party got what it wanted--a return to financially sane government by the only way feasible, significantly cutting government spending--we WOULDN'T have been downgraded.
Yet in perverse, Bizarro-World "logic," the politicians blame the Tea Party for the downgrade.
And the sheeple swallow the Bizarro-logic hook, line and sinker. I guess they couldn't possibly understand a logical argument, anyway. The schools don't teach it, and we don't value intelligence as a society anyway. Instead, we train youngsters to listen to the Talking Head, instead of thinking for themselves. When they are adults they choose a political party and then accept the views of THOSE authority figures.
If we could scientifically remove the human tendency to simply accept the opinions of an authority figure, we would make mankind infinitely smarter in an instant.
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