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   hy80 said, 11 months ago

   so I guessthe social pograms have noting at all o do wit the deficit
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   Noreen Klose said, 11 months ago

   @hy80
   The problem is that no one SEES the CONNECTION.
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   motivemagus said, 11 months ago

   @hy80

   Very little. Two major unfunded wars coupled with a major tax cut for the rich accounts for most of it.
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   dtroutma said, 11 months ago

   The elephant only cares about profit for it’s corporate friends, not “people”(and NOT as defined by SCOTUS).
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   ARodney said, 11 months ago

   The GOP has no problem increasing the deficit (see defense spending and tax expenditures on corporations and the rich). But as poverty increases and population increases, we’d sure better cut education, police, firefighters, welfare, and health care! Otherwise, we might end up like the countries that are out-competing us!
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   Ms. Ima said, 11 months ago

   Yawn… the Republicans are powerless to do anything yet get blamed for Obama’s failures.
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   sw10mm said, 11 months ago

   @motivemagus

   Math wasn’t in your educational plan?
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   Craig Linder said, 11 months ago

   @sw10mm

   And history apparently wasn’t in yours. As motivemagnus said, understanding the causes of our current deficit requires understanding the history of it. The math follows pretty naturally from that understanding.
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   walruscarver2000 said, 11 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   Oh the poor powerless House. Sob
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    Doughfoot said, 11 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    If the Republicans are powerless do to anything, as you say they are, then aren’t they the real failures? Isn’t being powerless and accomplishing nothing the definition of failure in politics and government?
    
    
    But you slander the good old GOP.

    They haven’t done anything? They’ve just been passive victims of the all-powerful Democrats? Oh, come on! The GOP has been very successful in the last four years. They have blocked or watered down every one of Obama’s initiatives, and consistently hammered and hammered the same few points until the majority believe most of them, and in the process have captured more seats and gained more power by far than they had four years ago. If Obama is a failure, it is because the GOP, through filibuster and other means, have largely rendered him powerless, and made his administration look bad. That was their goal, and they have in very many ways accomplished it. They have had one over-riding goal, and that has been to make Obama, who stands for everything they despise, a one-term president. And they have a very good chance of doing just that!
    
    You give the Republicans too little credit. They have a right to pat themselves on the back and take credit for Obama’s failures.
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    hippogriff said, 11 months ago

    And to think it is all due to one illegal Australian immigrant whose $20,000,000 bribe to the salamander got the GOP a full-time propaganda machine.
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    Wabbit said, 11 months ago

    @Doughfoot

    You are right about that! even if it was one of their own bills, once Obama agreed it was good, they would bring that bill down

    . But don’t bother with Ima, she has only one opinion and that opinion seems to be she really likes giving money to the 1%. and that any one down on their luck is a lazy bum.
    Doesn’t matter that more half of the poor are either children or the elderly who have paid into social security and medicare most of their lives.

    Yeah the GOP did a lot of damage, to our country by making their number one priority to make Obama a one term president! They put that first over jobs, the needs of states and people and the budget. They have told people to "Don’t hire until he is out. I wish people could see that.
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    1opinion said, 11 months ago

    @Wabbit

    “But don’t bother with Ima, she has only one opinion and that opinion seems to be she really likes giving money to the 1%. and that any one down on their luck is a lazy bum.”
    Dang it,Dang it,Dang it, now I have to change my name. It meant 1opinion among many, now you have defined it as I belong to Ima.*
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    wbr said, 11 months ago

    linder you just got an F in history defense is one of the few items spelled our that is fed responsibility — yes afgan and iraq and lybia were mistakes – question we are borrowing from saudi to defend saudi ?
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    spelvin2002 said, 11 months ago

    @wbr

    Your response to Linder is incoherent and incomprehensible. You might employ a dictionary, some historical reading, and some thought. But no, of course not.
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