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   tundrasea said, 4 months ago

   So, more debt is a good thing?
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   cjr53 said, 4 months ago

   @tundrasea

   Probably not. The house r/w really are doing nothing. That is not the answer either.
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   And it is all to discredit our President. I think that makes it criminal. Vote the r/w and tea party out.
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   mickey1339 said, 4 months ago

   I’m a little confused here. I’m an accountant so I’m pretty good with numbers and such. I must be missing the obvious (again) because a few things don’t make sense to me. The Rep’s are avoiding another “crises” and are looking to work on a bi-partisan spending reduction program. Some frightening plans to put together a budget was suggested? I presume the Dem’s just want to keep borrowing money and not worry about it. Since we are over 16 Trillion in debt we can’t finance our expenses without continual borrowing. Obama says we don’t have a spending problem. I know he inherited a war and a deficit, of which he continued the war and increased the deficit substantially. I always thought when you spent more money than you took in that was considered irresponsible. I have looked in detail at some of these government debt reduction claims and most are pretty weak and involve a great deal of government accounting manipulation.
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   We are adding another unpaid entitlement program, continue with the war, gitmo, expired tax cuts, etc. I know both parties are complicit in debt and spending, but what are the democrats proposing as debt reduction and avoiding escalating government spending? Links to data is good for me, since I like real data over partisan explanations or rancor.
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   tundrasea said, 4 months ago

   @cjr53

   “And it is all to discredit our President. I think that makes it criminal.”

   So dissent is criminal? A few years ago we were told it was patriotic.
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   Radish said, 4 months ago

   The Republican nattering nabobs of negativism will be voted out in two years if they keep on destroying the country. What have they gained politically by their current course?
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   ConserveGov said, 4 months ago

   What a dumb toon.

   I hope Rogers has career plan B.
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   Michael wme said, 4 months ago

   @mickey1339

   First ‘entitlements’ are those things for which people must pay in, and are then guaranteed payouts. As David Brooks points out (frequently, read his columns) they pay out more than people pay in. Also, the payments, FICA, are mandatory, so are not investments. So unemployment, social security, and Medicare must be limited to paying back no more than the person paid in (and, in practice, these entitlement payments MUST be reduced to pay out much less than was paid in, as I’ll explain below). As Aristotle said, money is sterile and it is immoral for money to pay any interest.

   
   It would seem analogous that no interest should be paid on government bonds, but this is a false analogy. The money people paid to buy the bonds was voluntary, not mandatory like FICA, so those who buy bonds deserve a good return on their investment, while those forced to pay FICA and unemployment insurance should realise that this is a tax, and the uses of all tax revenues must be prioritised, and after paying to keep America safe from dangerous, jihadist goatherds, there isn’t anything left to pay out unemployment payments or social security or Medicare, so, if America is to remain safe and solvent, 100% of FICA MUST go to our military and government bureaucrats!
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   ODon said, 4 months ago

   @Michael wme

   I am glad you’ve seen the light. If we put all revenue into the military we will be safe. Unhealthy and uneducated, but safe.
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   treesareus said, 4 months ago

   Social Security and Medicare are the world’s largest Ponzi schemes. The “trust fund” is made up of IOUs signed by Congress and the President.
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    mikefive said, 4 months ago

    @treesareus

    They are actually signed for by the Treasury Department in the form of non-transferable bonds. A few months back I was in the Treasury site looking for something and saw where one of these bonds was issued to the Social Security Administration for $67 billion, basically confiscating that month’s SS surplus.
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    Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

    The democrats are upstairs having a loud party and dancing, ruining the ceiling the Republicans are trying to extend.
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    TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago

    @ConserveGov

    Given that it was the republicans who pushed for the extension instead of actually addressing the issue, the cartoon is spot on. sadly it is you who is dumb, or more accurately stupid.
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    TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    Only if it’s in the unstable, poorly constructed house of cards the republicans built. Or are you complaining about the ceiling the republicans built that’s not up to code ( you know those evil regulations) and therefore was built to substandard dangerous quality?
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    Gresch said, 4 months ago

    The Republicans control the House ( the voice of the people) the Dems control the Senate ( once the voice of the states, now the voice of the millionare Dems pretending to be poor) and of cource BHO who is somewhere between a Tax-and Spend socialist and a community shakedown activist… How is the over spending of the USA’s money the GOP’s fault?
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    ODon said, 4 months ago

    @Gresch

    “the voice of the people”… Talk about a shakedown, no it’s the voice of gerrymandered districts. The people voted for democrat candidates over republican candidates.
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