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   dtroutma said, 28 days ago

   Sure am glad Afghanistan and Iraq didn’t cost us a single penny!!

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   petergrt said, 28 days ago

   That’s OK, not to worry.

   This is one of the newfangled green technology flying ‘things’, akin to a flying pig.

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   Ken Warren said, 28 days ago

   8 years ago we had a balanced budget and a budget surplus, now we owe trillions to China, and are spending billions to try to get out of the hole the Republicans dug for us.

   When you take over a house that the former owners not only let got to rot, but trashed you have to spend a lot of money to try to fix it.

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   scottfreitas said, 28 days ago

   You lefties just stay in denial right until the day your precious government deflates your currency, collapses the entire economy, and winds up unable to add enough funds to your EBT cards to enable you to eat. Then when the food riots begin you’ll blame lack of gun control on what happens next… ;)

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   petergrt said, 28 days ago

   Spend your-way into prosperity - new ideas you can believe in.

   You should try it at home - works like a charm. Just ask you neighborhood banker.

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   churchillwasright said, 27 days ago

   KEN: We never had a budget surplus; In 2000 we owed $5.6 Trillion in Debt, or 58% of GDP. That included Trillions to China. We had a balanced budget because Repub in Congress forced Clinton to do it.

   Just another person who doesn’t understand the difference between a budget, a deficit and debt.

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   4uk4ata said, 27 days ago

   @ Church: The Congress wasn’t the only one who pushed for balanced budget, Church. Clinton’s own cabinet wasn’t entirely hostile to traditionally right-wing economy policies itself.

   Also, I think Ken was right partially right in his claims on the budget. There was surplus in the budget itself, as well as the overall debt that you talk about. One year of surplus does not a decades-long debt erase, after all.

   BTW, I will indulge myself and nitpick a bit more: there are no “trillions” being owed to China, at least not yet. China’s share in the total US debt was around 800 billion this summer.

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   Buzzy-One said, 27 days ago

   scotty, did you have a plastic window installed in your stomach ?

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   lalas said, 27 days ago

   Buzzy – Frito has a plastic brain in his head and a plastic heart in his chest.

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    propellerdiver said, 23 days ago

    It’s time we stopped being the world’s police. Notice China doesn’t invade anybody, and their economy is more robust than ever. Instead of spending 1,000,000 per year per soldier to invade a chaotic tribal territory, they are building a 600,000,000 dollar high speed rail system. The over seas adventuring isn’t benefitting citizens at all- only Halliburton and Blackwater. Pretending to be a patriot while you’re sending our boys to die is putrid. We should be using those boys to build hurricane control levees from Louisiana through Mississippi, and on the Northern Mississippi River where all those towns have been flooding out every year. There’s lots of important civilian work to be done at home. Bring ‘em back alive and put them to work where it can benefit the US.

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    comYics said, 22 days ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!