Iclubbabyseals
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You are cowect, of course.Yikes I thought it was Elmer Fudd.
You are cowect, of course.Yikes I thought it was Elmer Fudd.
Well, the TSA and the experts are wrong. Or, rather, the headline is misleading.Tsa's Spot Program Not Scientifically Grounded Gao Told Congress; Tsa, Experts Disagree
... we have the wrong people in Congress.
And only about 530 or so more incompetent congressional members and an executive administration that still need to be thrown out for allowing a 15 trillion debt and a 1.5 trillion budget deficit. That's not counting the $7.7 trillion in loan guarantees to troubled banks or the $115 trillion in unfunded entitlement expenditures we now have as an anchor around our collective necks.Barney's decision not to run for reelection is a start.![]()
I'd love to see the present administration go, but, man you have no idea what you are talking about.And only about 530 or so more incompetent congressional members and an executive administration that still need to be thrown out for allowing a 15 trillion debt and a 1.5 trillion budget deficit. That's not counting the $7.7 trillion in loan guarantees to troubled banks or the $115 trillion in unfunded entitlement expenditures we now have as an anchor around our collective necks.
Are you saying there aren't 435 member in the House of Representatives and another 100 members of the Senate? Are you saying they aren't responsible for creating the debt, deficit, and unfunded liabilities? Or are you saying that the US isn't $15 trillion in debt with projections to grow to at least $21 trillion in the next four years? Are you saying that the US doesn't have a $1.5 trillion budget deficit against $2.4 trillion in total receipts? Or do you not understand that the total unfunded liability (no source of revenue to pay for the projected obligations isn't $115/$116 trillion)? Or are you saying that thhose unfunded liabilities are not made up of Social Security, Prescription Drug, and Medicare/Medicaid expenditures?I'd love to see the present administration go, but, man you have no idea what you are talking about.
Austerity, now, will only lead to a downward economic spiral. More jobs will relieve the deficit and debt.Are you saying there aren't 435 member in the House of Representatives and another 100 members of the Senate? Are you saying they aren't responsible for creating the debt, deficit, and unfunded liabilities? Or are you saying that the US isn't $15 trillion in debt with projections to grow to at least $21 trillion in the next four years? Are you saying that the US doesn't have a $1.5 trillion budget deficit against $2.4 trillion in total receipts? Or do you not understand that the total unfunded liability (no source of revenue to pay for the projected obligations isn't $115/$116 trillion)? Or are you saying that thhose unfunded liabilities are not made up of Social Security, Prescription Drug, and Medicare/Medicaid expenditures?
www.usdebtclock.org
We have had a balanced budget in five of the last sixty years. The problems go back way past any of the previous ten congresses and four presidential administrations. We have a 9% unemployment rate and a underemployed rate much closer to 20%. Putting all of those people back to work requires a growing and expanding economy which even the liberals admit that can't happen by raising taxes. Taxes kill economic activity and punish the very people who are needed to take risks and hire people to make them more money. If taxes are too high economic activity slows which only widens the gap between the lower income segments of society and the ultra-rich segments. The best and most proven way (as shown by both Reagan and Kennedy economic policies) is to cut taxes and get government out of the way of free enterprise.Austerity, now, will only lead to a downward economic spiral. More jobs will relieve the deficit and debt.
Cutting taxes while funding three wars was the catalyst to our present problems. Hobbling our economic and environmental watchdogs certainly did not help and allowed much of our infrastructure to degrade to unacceptable degrees, which should provide one of many solutions to our joblessness. Put people to work and you will be on the road to recovery.
-- There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
BTW, we haven been at war since WWII. Let me know when Congress issues a declaration of war as required and defined by the Constitution. Until then you just have a bunch of politicians acting contrary to further entrench their own power.
Tell that to the families who lost loved ones in Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
That war wasn't declared won't bring back the ones who died on those battlefields.
If you don't like your Congressperson go buy another one.
You speak fluent gibberish.
I thought the media was your enemy?
Those weren't wars. They were, Uh, disputes. Like marital arguments killing a couple hundred thousand people.