Steve Kelley for April 04, 2021

There goes SKelley again, casting aspersions on what it cost to fix what the Republicans ignored and fought against for decades, while stacking up $Trillions in debt and deficits for tax cuts for corporations and billionaires as well as generational wars and flaky military aircraft. #Hypocrite

Kelly simply does not know the difference between assets and liabilities in government spending.

We probably should have done ten trillion. Dick Cheney could tell you that deficits don’t matter.

The only thing conserves want to do with money is to give to themselves and their rich buddies.

When you have a shot at a good long term investment, you should take it.

This is money we have to spend anyway — it’s like the man on the TV commercial say: “You can pay me now or you can pay me (more) later.” We’ve been kicking this can down the road for decades, and our roads and bridges are falling apart. Thousands of bridges have been declared dangerous. What IS irresponsible is what the last administration did by putting a trillion dollars in the hands of the very richest just so they can have more than they already did, with no hope of it being spent on the good of the nation.

There is a front page article in today’s NY Times on how the Trump campaign drained people’s bank accounts by surreptitiously making recurring donations their default setting. So those deluded Trump supporters who gave, say $100, found that the campaign was making multiple $100 withdrawals unknown to the donor. Right down to a zero balance, in some cases. Kind of like the ReQublicans kept raiding the Treasury for their tax cuts, bailouts, and mystery “grants” to their buddies. They are, quite literally, thieves.

They are in no position to talk budgets, as they raised the deficit 40% in four years. Instead of using Treasury funds to improve our nation and keep it functioning, they used it to enrich themselves. This is the tipping point in responsibility and accountability.

Repeat after me; “debt is only bad when Democrats are in charge”. The unerring Repugnican mantra.

Only four things wrong with this cartoon: 1. She did not say, as Kelley implies, that it wouldn’t increase the debt. 2. There is no science involved. 3. Since when do Republicans care about deficits; they are the party of deficits. And, oh, 4. Kelley didn’t criticize GOP deficits when they happened.

as well as a failing infrastructure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqvYOqB0LuE

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James 2:24

Funny, Mr. Kelly, the national debt increased $7 trillion under former president Trump. I must have missed the cartoon strip you did blasting him and Congressional Republicans for that.

Thanks to the magic of “shadow banning,” no one but me can see this comment.

Maybe that explains the “echo chamber” here.

About time America started dealing in metric numbers. Increments of ten are so much easier to understand.

Tax Cut.

Investment in infrastructure is expected to raise the middle class and return double to the treasury.

AOC is very young and idealistic but she’s probably right about the $10 trillion over the next 10 years. When you look at the sheer size of all that needs to be done and then factor in inflationary costs, $10 trillion might not be enough. They were talking about infrastructure back in the 1990’s and couldn’t get anything done. Now all those projects are more urgent and more expensive. Look at how much the price of houses have increased in the last 25 years. If they had started all this in the 90s they would be finished by now at a much lower cost. The longer they keep pushing this down the road the more expensive it gets and less like to get done.

From the math challenged party that brought you “the largest Inauguration”, “we were robbed” and Alternate facts.

We have unlimited funds, readily available, to be able to travel anywhere on this planet and kill people in large quantities. We have no funds available to keep ourselves alive, healthy, and safe.

This sort of mindset got us here. Perhaps it’s time to change things up a little.

Reagan tripled our National Debt, Bush2 tripled it again, and tRump buried it. Every Republican/conservative administration since 1929 has had a recession or depression, some had two. Republican/conservatives proved they are not the “party of fiscal responsibility”. The Republican Party is not the “Party of Lincoln”, Lincoln having been a Liberal and the Republican Party having started as the Liberal party in 1854.

Republican/conservatives have proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that they cannot govern, and cannot manage an economy.

Heck, last I heard the Woke mob cites Math, with it’s insistence on correct answers, as a tool of white supremacy and oppression. Science won’t be far behind in their condemnation. My best advice is don’t board a spaceship bound for Mars that was designed and built by any of them.

Deficits only matter to Republicans when a Democrat is in the White House and deficit spending can be used as a weapon against Democratic programs that Publicans hate, like Social Security and Medicare.

And it has been pointed out that Biden’s proposals, however much Mr Kelley may disapprove, are truly bipartisan: three-quarters of the American people, Republican and Democrat alike, applaud them. In congress, where the only things that matter are raising money and getting on Fox News, Publicans fold their arms and hold their breath until they faint. And the administration’s ideas seem to be “extreme” because the Publicans, through the charismatic Mitch McConnell, announce in advance that they will not work with Democrats nohow noway nossir.

Dems are the party of the people, republicans are the party of the racist billionaires.

Apparently Kelley is upset that Biden is not pushing for the Green New Deal…

Steve, the party of “alternative facts” wants to tease anyone else about math? The “tax cuts pay for themselves” folks? The “deficits don’t matter” folks? The party that makes it FOUNDATION that 81 million is a smaller number than 74 million?

How much will useful infrastructure add to the economy in wages, tax revenue, lifestyle improvement?? The money spent to fix a bridge pays workers, improved business for the local businesses by increased traffic, increased tax revenue, reduced shipping costs, etc. Unlike a tax cut to the wealthy and corporations that produce nothing and just increase profits, this money will be recycled into the economy.

Without comments on how much is needed, let’s not forget that this money is to be spent over a period of 8 years – the annual cost would be less than the DOD funding. So, ask yourself – which is more essential: Funding to build the country up or funding to blow stuff up?

I’ll bet in 4 years there will be less debt than what Trump, W., Reagan left us in their turns, where they always left with more debt, the Democrats always leave less debt.

Maybe Kelly will be driving across one of the crumbling bridges when it collapses? See what he thinks then of low taxes and no services/upgrades.

Absolute right-wingerism: BE bad at math and BLAME the Democrats.

I’m surprised these two clowns, or any of the morons that voted for them, can even spell science.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was among the least effective members of the last Congress, according to a study from a nonpartisan group.

While AOC introduced 21 ‘substantive’ bills to Congress, her legislation failed to progress any further, according to the Center for Effective Lawmaking – a joint project between Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.

None of the legislation received action in committees, floor votes, nor did any become law, according to the data collected from Congress.gov.

Ocasio-Cortez ranked 230th out of 240 Democrats across the country and was dead last among the 19 that are in the state of New York.

What a joke. The Republicans are the party of fiscal irresponsibility. Reagan, Bush, Trump…subsequent Democratic administrations have had to dig us out of the fiscal holes each time!

The reason why Republicans are opposing the bill isn’t because of what it builds, they’re opposing it because of the “math” of getting the rich to pay their fair share for it.

Kelley, “the party of the farced part”, is the one not “of math”.

He neither looks at the actual numbers nor understands the ones he sees.