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Originally Posted by spence
It was pretty impressive to see the Tea Party threaten the House leader with the spectre of default. Hell, they pretty much terrorized...oh great, now you just made me do it as well...
What's pathetic is how little they really gained. The can has been kicked down the road and the tax fight is not settled. The politicians think they have scored a win but the economists are saying the spending cuts could do more harm than good. Had we had a productive bi-partisan bill the benefits could have been much larger...
I think we may see the GOP distance themselves from the Tea Party in the run up to the 2012 election.
-spence
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what is pathetic is that you continue to try to make a point and cite "economists" as some sort of validity for your statements...the people that you support have absolutely no intention of reducing the size, scope or cost of government with the possible exception of the military....if we are downgraded the reason is
debt....debt is not solved by raising taxes, the only way to avoid accumulating more debt is to reduce the amount of current spending ...the people that you suport view raised taxes as new opportunities for increased spending....raising the debt ceiling, raising taxes(PARTICULARLY IN A DISMAL ECONOMY) and citing some phony "cuts" in an environment of baseline budgeting is no way to become fiscally responsible....
the tea party terrorists succeeded in making cuts the main focus of the debate rather than simply allowing Washington to raise the country's debt and tack on some new taxes to try to keep up with the increased spending....given the road that you, those that you support would like to take us down and the scary possibilities had the democrats actually held the house last time around...it might be proper to ask,
WHO exactly is intent on blowing things up??????
Are the democrats "-----ists" for ramming Obamacare up the nation's backside? Are teachers union members terrorists when they strike at the start of the school year, are nurse's union members terrorists when they walk out of a hospital on strike? municipal/transit union members terrorists when they shut down garbage collection and transportation ?
is this
"terrorizing"???
"I cannot guarantee that those checks(SOCIAL SECURITY) go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it," Mr. Obama said in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley.
and why Spence, would there be no money in the coffers to send out the checks ?? Didn't you tell us that there is plenty of money in the "Social Security Trust Fund" to continue to pay out SS, even one round of checks ??????