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   Wabbit said, 3 months ago

   YES!
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   ConserveGov said, 3 months ago

   The signatories to this coalition are former government officials who have served during eight Presidential administrations, Democratic and Republican, and “strongly believe that our long-term debt is the single greatest threat to our national security”:

   - Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Coalition Chairman and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

   - Samuel R. Berger, former National Security Advisor

   - Sam Nunn, former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services

   - Ike Skelton, former Chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services

   - Madeleine K. Albright, former Secretary of State

   - Harold Brown, former Secretary of Defense

   - Robert M. Gates, former Secretary of Defense

   - Paul O’Neill, former Secretary of the Treasury

   - Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve

   - James A. Baker, III, former Secretary of State and the Treasury

   - Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor

   - Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor

   - George P. Shultz, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor

   - John Warner, former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services
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   genkichin said, 3 months ago

   They should take an economics class.
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   russell5419 said, 3 months ago

   He’s got that right, but it would be nice also to get rid of the illegals in our country. Deport them instead of rewarding them.
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   masterskrain said, 3 months ago

   I hate to play devil’s advocate here, but a question…if we deported ALL the illegal immigrants, do you think that a bunch of middle class white kids that spend a bunch of time hanging around the food court at the mall complaining that they can’t get a job would want to go into farm fields and pick
   produce? Or work in a chicken processing plant for minimum wage?
   NO, I’m not saying that illegals should be given a free ride, but seriously, how many unpleasant, or repetitive jobs would go unfilled without people willing to work them?
   And, if you had to pay these mall rats $10 or $15 an hour to do that work, what would happen to the prices of produce, or other goods?
   Just a thought…
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   californicated1 said, 3 months ago

   @russell5419

   So how did your family get here and do you have the papers to prove it?
   …
   If you are like most Americans, the answer is “no”, you don’t have the papers and you can’t prove that your family came here legally, especially if it was before Ellis Island and Angel Island opened up to process all those incoming immigrants.
   …
   Before there were believed to be “too many Mexicans”, it was also believed that there were “too many Jews”, but World War II changed that thinking.
   …
   Before there were “too many Jews”, there were “too many Asians”.
   …
   Before there were “too many Asians”, there were “too many Italians”.
   …
   Before there were “too many Italians”, there were “too many Germans”.
   …
   Before there were “too many Germans”, there were “too many Irish”.
   …
   And when there was “too many Irish” out there, there was also “too many Chinese”.
   …
   And before that, there were “too many English” coming from the wrong classes coming over here, spreading their Wesleyan views and just turning the place into yet another slum.
   …
   So which group applies to you?
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   Too late, hillary is now just an old, bitter, fat unemployed woman.
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   masterskrain said, 3 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   Who is sitting back, enjoying retirement, and being offered multiple speaking engagements by people interested in hearing about the Foreign Policies of the U.S. by someone who actually knows about them!
   At quite a large sum of money a speech, by the way!
   Just because YOU are more then likely an old, bitter, fat unemployed woman does not mean you have to project YOUR problems on other people!
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   magicwalnut said, 3 months ago

   Yup indeedy! I’m sure the founding fathers are spinning in their graves!
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    Stipple said, 3 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    Paste the same comment in multiple forums, now you are Nos Nevets?
    .
    You forgot the name change part first.
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    motivemagus said, 3 months ago

    @ConserveGov

    Gee, too bad they didn’t come out during Reagan’s administration. Or Bush’s. or Bush II’s. Kind of undermines them when Obama is trying to reduce the deficit and the GOP is doing its best to prevent it.
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    masterskrain said, 3 months ago

    @motivemagus

    Of course, during the boy blunder’s administration, the prevailing belief was voiced by Darth Cheney himself: “Deficits Don’t Matter!”
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    jflyn123 said, 3 months ago

    What happened to “Deficts Don’t Matter”. Oh it’s just a part of the 2 Santa Clauses of the Repubs. Cut taxes and spend like crazy then when a Dem gets in office blame him. Repubs trying to bankrupt this country so they can start from scratch and make all of us 99% indintured slaves.
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    Rickapolis said, 3 months ago

    A failure to pass a budget should be a firing offense.
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    jflyn123 said, 3 months ago

    And replace with who? Another group bought by the 1%? Same result different people.
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