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   Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

   Liberals want to give them money… other people’s money that is.
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   Clark Kent said, 5 months ago

   Look, down in the sewer, it’s a turd, it’s a pain, it’s…ima…
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   Bruce4671 said, 5 months ago

   Come on people, surely we can agree that this cartoon is making a valid point?
   
   The last time the United States Congress passed a budget was in April of 2009. I wanted to give a few examples of the things that were happening at that time in American history.
   
   Gas was on average $2.06. A movie ticket: $7.20 popcorn: $4.75. Gallon of milk: $2.49
   
   But even that budget was not a “balanced” budget as it planned to spend more than the revenue projected and did indeed spend almost 1.7 trillion dollars more. The last “balanced” budget passed was in 2001.
   
   Further, we practice “base-line” budgeting by all departments. What is it? " Baseline budgeting uses current spending levels as the “baseline” for establishing future funding requirements and assumes future budgets will equal the current budget times the inflation rate times the population growth rate."
   
   So if you do not specify the budget, each department can
   add around 6% to 10% a year to it’s budget requests. Further, each department will spend all available funds to ensure that they can show the need to have the increase.
   
   This is the reason we are in such a “crisis” today. Even though the current law states that every funding bill must be “paid” for (pay-go) and the current law “requires” congress to pass a budget.
   
   It is not a “party” problem. Blaming democrat or republican is a ruse, a distraction. The inmates are in charge of the asylum.
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   echoraven said, 5 months ago

   The problem is people don’t get the choice to give more money; it will be taken from us.
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   win said, 5 months ago

   Who are these “people”?
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   Bailey said, 5 months ago

   @win

   … the 99% perhaps….?
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   Bailey said, 5 months ago

   After all… we all DO owe them — the 1%ers — so very much! Don’t we?
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   Robert Landers said, 5 months ago

   @

   I do not think that such name calling by either side in a debate is really useful, and makes the credibility of such name callers very suspect at the least!!
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   Stipple said, 5 months ago

   @

   All things are relative.
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   Mulch has excrement in it and pretty flowers grow.
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   Stinking liberal philosophy of “room for all” includes the smelly.
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    I Play One On TV said, 5 months ago

    We deserve what we get. We voted the bums back in.
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    Mhic Dhu Ghaill said, 5 months ago

    Feds been tellin’ VA to spend the money we “gave” you for homeland “defense”….
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    Bailey said, 5 months ago

    … “Stinking liberal philosophy of “room for all” includes the smelly.”
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    While stinking reeking “neo-conservative” philosophy of ALL mine (MINE… mine… MINE… hairball…gollum, gollum… ’where’s their money Precious…? Where is it? We asks….‘) and NONE for YOU… doesn’t include YOU does it?
    (A genuine 1%er ever-so-delightfully stupid-enough to be posting here…?) Danged unlikely… considering that their handlers — lawyers — hope to keep their jobs!!
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    Fool… you… much? Definitely.
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    Think about it. Scratch your head if necessary! You might… only might… catch a clue!
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    Bailey said, 5 months ago

    @

    … and we can call you “Mike Dugall”…? Hmm?
14. 

    rightisright said, 5 months ago

    PRAY FOR REVOLUTION.
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    braindead08 said, 5 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    Bruce, I absolutely agree that the cartoon is making a valid point.
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    I also agree with your comments about baseline budgeting.
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    I strenuously disagree that it’s not a ‘party’ problem. Republicans are willing, if not eager, to damage the credit rating of the United States again because they want to use ‘leverage’ to protect the interests of the wealthy.
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    Republicans claim they really realyl want spending cuts, but cannot name any. Boehner claims he is willing to ‘look at more revenue’ and then claims he has compromised and now it’s up to the president to cut spending. But, Republicans cannot even pass plan B.
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    BTW, the Tea Party is NOT a grass roots phenomenon. It is well financed, in secret.
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