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   mickey1339 said, 4 months ago

   Considering that Washington lives in fantasy-land so much of the time, why should a magical coin be thought outside the realm of reality?
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   mikefive said, 4 months ago

   @mickey1339

   Washington? Reality? In the same sentence? Unfortunately we have to live with their “reality”.
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   dtroutma said, 4 months ago

   “Reaganomics” but helium under the expanding “tent” we call “the debt ceiling”.
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   mickey1339 said, 4 months ago

   @dtroutma

   HUH???
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   Stipple said, 4 months ago

   Everybody talks but nobody hears the insanity.
   Its OK though, we are past fixing.
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   Rottiluv said, 4 months ago

   Isn’t this from a Simpsons episode? Oh right, that was the Billion dollar coin.
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   Maybe our governments shouldn’t get their ideas from TV shows.
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   M Ster said, 4 months ago

   @mickey1339

   Actually, dtroutma’s statement is accurate. The US deficits and debt began to warp out of control during the 1980s. Prior to that, the total US debt was under $1 trillion, and was $2.8 trillion in 1989. That’s in 1989 dollars. We (as a country) also dramatically stepped up our borrowing from the Social Security Trust Fund in the 1980s and now owe it $2.6 trillion.
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   I’m not excusing any President or Congress of either party. But the numbers clearly show that we as a country lost control of our debt and deficits in the 1980s and have never regained control.
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   onguard said, 4 months ago

   A REAL Budget would render a Debt Celling Superfluous. But then we have Dem Libs to deal with………They must play their games…………….(redundant toon)
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   Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

   Someone has been reading my comments about dems feeding rainbows to unicorns.
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    Dycel said, 4 months ago

    @onguard

    Yep cantor’s idea of a “budget” is a joke. Of course its congress’s ball creating the budget, the president can only request, heavy on request what he wants in it or he won’t sign it.
    If you live on the faux noise bus you forget these things and blame the president for “not” “creating” a budget instead of going after the real culprits and the jackoffs.
    Those who have refused to create a workable budget are the repubby’s in the house after all they control the purse strings!
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    Radish said, 4 months ago

    

    http://comics.dailykos.com/
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

    @dtroutma

    The debt ceiling is what has been spent so the idea of not paying it is stupid. A direct means of undermining our Republic by its economy.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

    @M Ster

    Debt was okay under Reagan in fact he liked the idea as did the Republican party and wanted everyone to do it. We became a debtor nation after being a credit nation. The beginning of the end of the Republic.
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    TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago

    @Dycel

    Don’t forget under Obama everything is his fault, never the intransigent obstructionist republicans in Congress, but under bushy and reagan EVERYTHING was the Democrats fault even though it was what the president asked for. To recap nothing was bushy or reagan’s fault but instead it was congress, but now nothing is congress’ fault instead it’s President Obama’s fault. Can you see the double standards? The ONLY standards the republicans have.
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    TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago

    @Radish

    I love tom tomorrow. It is in a local weekly newspaper and I always read it. Sure he’s a left-winger but he is always spot on. Never knew he was on DailyKos though. Mostly because I NEVER read DailyKos and have only been to the site once following a link from GC a few days after I told another member I had never been there or knew what it was.
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