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I can to Argentina. Maybe you never looked into is, but Argentina is a very recourse rich country with a once very diverse economy that was driven into the ground with excessive debt and spending. What makes the US so special?
As opposed to Argentina? Lack of any history of military dictators for one thing. Low likelihood of everyone trying to withdraw all their money from banks and convert it into US dollars for another.
Just out of fairness, you perhaps should have noted that substantial portions of those numbers already do enter the US economy through the recipients' subsequent purchases of US goods and services.
they are in other countries where the money mostly stays, which is why it is called foreign aid.
All I know is that Democrats have proclaimed to be "fiscal responsible" when they passed paygo, while enacting bills that ignore paygo..
Name a bill they have enacted that has ignored paygo. Paygo rules apply to certain bills that do certain things. Paygo rules also allow a 3/5-vote to waive the applicability of paygo requirements entirely. Thus any bill with a waiver complies with paygo rules automatically.
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I dont need to know what the rules say, but clearly Bunning is more educated on the topic than you.
What in God's name would lead you to a conclusion like that?
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Otherwise you wouldnt have your panties in a bunch whining and crying about how he is using rules created by Democrats, to stop Democrats from violating THEIR OWN RULES.
Unanimous consent is not a Democratic rule. Paygo used to be a rule but is now a law.
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All you've done is proclaim "You havent read paygo" and then whined about the fact that Bunning is using paygo..
I was addressing YOUR attempts to make paygo pronouncements. Pronouncements for which you now admit there was no foundation or basis of any sort.
Democrats in 2007 proclaimed they were going to have a balanced budget by 2011, and surpluses by 2012.. I want to know where this is? All we get is excuses from Democrats and "blame Bush", after THEY admit they were passing spending bills..
Can't you be any more disingenuous than that? Everyone knows what intervened between 2007 and today. All bets are off, thanks to Bush. Meanwhile, it is Congress' JOB to pass spending bills. Without them, government comes to a halt. Very few good things happen when that does. Just ask the Newtster...
A bargain, absolutely today.. but you ignore that it might again be 6.39% in 10 years when these debts again need re-financed..
I don't ignore the possibility at all. I noted earlier today that nobody can tell you what yields will be ten years from now. I haven't changed my mind.
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Are you now crediting Bush with providing us with "a bargain" interest rate? Of course not!!
Well, of course I am. By precipitating the worst global financial catastrophe in 75 years, he created so much fear and distrust in any investment vehicle other than US Treasury securities that these can now be sold in very large volumes at historically very low rates. The price we had to pay to get to this point was on the steep side, however. So steep that it stands as one of the various major factors suggesting that W might well have been the absolute worst President in the history of the republic.
Name a bill they have enacted that has ignored paygo. Paygo rules apply to certain bills that do certain things. Paygo rules also allow a 3/5-vote to waive the applicability of paygo requirements entirely. Thus any bill with a waiver complies with paygo rules automatically.
Do I have to be the first person to tell you that we are discussing one of those bills?
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What in God's name would lead you to a conclusion like that
Bunning isnt here whining about spending money that doesnt exist... You are..
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Unanimous consent is not a Democratic rule. Paygo used to be a rule but is now a law.
I know.. But all you do is keep talking about violating the law and spending the money even though the money hasnt been allocated..
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I was addressing YOUR attempts to make paygo pronouncements. Pronouncements for which you now admit there was no foundation or basis of any sort.
YOU JUST admitted there was a foundation, ITS THE LAW.. Man you keep flip flopping on your own postings..
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