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   Rad-ish said, about 1 month ago

   Its part of the Fox outrage industry.
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   Michael wme said, about 1 month ago

   Back in October, the debt ceiling wasn’t raised, it was suspended until 7 Feb ‘14. The debt kept going up. But the Treasury says it has finagled, and will finagle, so the old, pre-October debt ceiling still hasn’t been hit. But it will be. The Treasury says definitely before the end of February.

   
   Of course, no one has any idea when the Treasury will REALLY hit the ceiling. Jeffrey Dorfman says we have months left, and it won’t be a big problem if we do hit the ceiling. Senator Reid says May, ‘14 before the Treasury REALLY hits the ceiling.

   
   The Treasury keeps saying that we have no idea how bad it will be if we really do hit the ceiling, but it will definitely be terrible.

   
   Polls showed the Republicans in Congress apparently lost a lot of support from the October ’slimdown.’ (But we know those polls were biased, just as the one on November 4, 2014 undoubtedly will be.) So now the Republicans are promising a debt-ceiling showdown redux. As Fox correctly points out, the Republicans will not have the slightest responsibility if the debt ceiling suspension isn’t extended before 7 Feb ‘14, it will be entirely the fault of the Democrats.

   
   Of course, ’What Republicans see as a good opportunity to do something for the country, Democrats view as a “ransom” ’
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   richardelguru said, about 1 month ago

   Rethuglicans are daft little twits aren’t they…
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   CCNJ's say the sky is falling said, about 1 month ago

   You can’t tell a liberal ‘no’ without them going into a hissy fit.
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   DaSharkie said, about 1 month ago

   Though both parties are full of crooks and liars, someone has to do something about the ridiculous amount of debt that this nation is carrying.

   Someone has to say we need to live within our means.
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   Enoki said, about 1 month ago

   The Progressive Left and Democrats love rising government debt, rising taxes, and deficit spending. All of that increases poverty and increased poverty begets more dependence on government.
   That results in the now impoverished wanting their government handouts so they vote Democrat / Progressive to get more government. In the end they get a dictatorship where the 1% and government run everything and have all the money.
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   TheTrustedMechanic said, about 1 month ago

   @CCNJ's say the sky is falling

   And we haven’t been able to tell the CONservatives “yes” or expect them to behave responsibly without them throwing an all out tantrum.
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   Newenglandah said, about 1 month ago

   @Enoki

   Did you ever check into what Reagan, Bush 1, and Bush 2 did to our national deficit?
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   Genome Project said, about 1 month ago

   @Enoki

   Your hasty generalization about Democrat / Progressives fails to explain the spending in the Clinton white house years as compared to the W Bush years.
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    Adrian Snare said, about 1 month ago

    The conservatives here have yet to do the first thing to convince me that the debt is a bad thing ….All they seem to be able to do is wring their hands, cry and insult……Now, if we had a conservative RT, GP, or Mechanic….this might help…
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    singlespeed said, about 1 month ago

    What’s is pointedly sad both among the people in Congress and especially among the Right (and I dare say the majority of Americans) is that they think government deficit spending is out of control when it isn’t. But in reality, the Federal debt and spending levels have dropped considerably since Obama took office. That initial spike in 2008 through 2012 was the direct result of the economic collapse and Federal government steps to perform economic triage. The only thing that kept the US from plummeting into complete meltdown depression was the ability of the government to step in where private industry couldn’t or wouldn’t.

    Continuing to cut spending (that actually has real stimulative effects) will only hold our economy down for a much longer time frame. Now that the FED will be easing it’s bond buying and emerging markets are weaker than first thought and a stronger US dollar entering the mix, the global economy will be slow to recovery.

    If anything, the US should maintain current spending levels but shift spending from military to infrastructure investments – domestic job growth, education, physical infrastructure, etc., that would be smarter spending than the continuing the largesse that the Pentagon, NSA and HSA seem to get every year.
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    Rad-ish said, about 1 month ago

    Reagan proved that debt doesn’t matter.
    At least thats what all the Republicans said at the time.
    GW Bush ran up the debt with two unpaid wars and tax breaks.
    It’s OK when a republican does it.
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    ARodney said, about 1 month ago

    @DaSharkie

    If you aren’t willing to discuss taxes, you’ve proved that the debt is not your biggest concern. So quit worrying about it.
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 1 month ago

    I’m not sure I understand this cartoon.
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    Is he saying that legalizing MJ and collecting the taxes will alleviate the Debt Ceiling crises by raising revenue? (Which is interesting in that I don’t hear the right choking on their outrage that legal MJ is just a scheme to get Young America to pay our bills ala the bile they spew about how terrible it is that they be expected to buy insurance so the insurance pool is filled.
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    Which brings us to the idea that, with MJ legal, the youth had better have insurance because they are going to be doing stupider and stupider things that will require Dr.s with needle and thread. But I digress).
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    If so then is Toles anti this in that he says “Try one with fewer victims” refers to the reefer users?
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    Or is he saying that Shouting about MJ Legalization allows them to argue about something other than the Debt Ceiling?
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    Or is he saying that the side effects of the debt ceiling “crises” is the creation of more victims? (Much like the side effects of prescription drugs are worse than the Side Effects of MJ.)
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    The cartoon is just too ambiguous.
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    Maybe it depends on the Phunt…
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    I don’t get it.
15. 

    Kris Jackson said, about 1 month ago

    The opiate of the dumb-masses.
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