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Pres.Obama/Romney Presidential Debate, What question would you like to see asked?

Pres. Obama, howcome you hate this country?

Mr. Romney, explain to us how you would act towards the constitution.

Mr. Romney, you say you're against abortion with an execption of rape and incest. What fault was it of a child in rape or incest? What makes their life less than others?
 
Amigo said:
Mr. Romney, you say you're against abortion with an execption of rape and incest. What fault was it of a child in rape or incest? What makes their life less than others?
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Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't most cases the child is born with birth defects due to incests?
 
Would you both be willing to take a million bucks, a seat on the first civilian charter space shuttle and lifetime cards for free Domino's pizza and Disney World to vanish from the public eye and never again run for political office?
 
Sparky said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't most cases the child is born with birth defects due to incests?
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No, I think you are mistaken. I would say a more accurate statement is that children born due to incest have a higher rate of birth defects. However, the overall birth defects of children are not due to incest.
 
VanceMack said:
Would you both be willing to take a million bucks, a seat on the first civilian charter space shuttle and lifetime cards for free Domino's pizza and Disney World to vanish from the public eye and never again run for political office?
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LOL, the sad part is even with all you're willing to give them is chump change to what they get by remaining in the public eye.
 
PeteEU said:
1. Mr Romney, you claim you are registered to vote in Massachusetts, and yet you have no home there, barely visit the state, and your own wife has claimed several times that her home is in California. How is it then that you still are registered in Massachusetts and vote there, yet do not live up to the rules in Massachusetts that govern residency. Are you sir not committing voter fraud and have you not been committing voter fraud for years?

2. Mr Romney how many homes do you have?

3. Mr Romney what is your annual income and your tax rate?
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So you think only one candidate should answer questions? Why wouldn't you ask them both?
 
Why do you two suck so bad?
 
Governor Romney: In Fiscal Year 2011, the federal government ran a $4 billion budget deficit on mandatory spending programs alone. What are your legislative proposals to reform these mandatory programs and in the event of an opposition Congress, how would you ensure they will be enacted within your first term?

President Obama: In your Fiscal Year 2010 budget titled "A New Era of Responsibility", you projected a 2011 budget deficit of $912B on receipts of $2.71T and a $581B deficit in 2012 on receipts of $3.08T. Your most recent budget reveals that the deficit in 2011 was $1.3T (up from $0.91T) on receipts of $2.3T (down from $2.71T) while your deficit projections for 2012 rose to $1.33T (up from $0.58T) on receipts of $2.46T (down from $3.08T). What deficit reduction measures do you propose that would generate results in your second term and don't rely on these types of projections?

Both: Both of you have claimed you will go after China for "currency manipulation" and other trade abuses. Meanwhile, they've reduced their US Treasury holdings by approximately $200 billion year over year. During your term in office the United States will have to rollover more than $5 trillion in treasury securities while the CBO projects a 2% rise in short-term interest rates. Considering that net interest payments on today's debt would surpass the entire budget for Medicaid ($535 billion): what is your plan to manage mandatory interest payments and maturing treasury securities should interest rates rise to 5%?

Sources:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/def...2010_new_era/A_New_Era_of_Responsibility2.pdf
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/budget.pdf
Review & Outlook: Uncle Sam's Teaser Rate - WSJ.com
 
Jetboogieman said:
Yeah ah.

Mr. Obama, Mr. Romney this is a double barreled question.

How can either of you be president when Mr. Obama you were born in Kenya, and Mr. Romney you were born in Mexico?

:lol:
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LOL. You can ask them if they are christian as a follow up.
 
Catawba said:
Social Security is separate and self-funded."
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FY2011:
SS Payroll Taxes: $566 billion
SS Outlays: $725 billion

Medicare Payroll Taxes: $188 billion
Medicare Outlays: $480 billion
Medicaid Outlays: $275 billion

SS, Medicare, and Medicaid budget funded by non-payroll taxes: $726 billion
Defense: $699 billion

:eek:
 
Rhapsody1447 said:
FY2011:
SS Payroll Taxes: $566 billion
SS Outlays: $725 billion
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Right, that's why they use the SS surplus intended for that purpose. It is still self funded through its surplus.

Medicare Payroll Taxes: $188 billion
Medicare Outlays: $480 billion
Medicaid Outlays: $275 billion
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A fraction of what we spend on the military and Veterans care.

And to top it off, the GOP not only want to increase our military spending and our means to pay for it, they do not even have a plan to lower health care costs.


Thanks, but no thanks!
 
Catawba said:
Right, that's why they use the SS surplus intended for that purpose. It is still self funded through its surplus.
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The surplus consists of short-term Treasury securities. The only thing sitting in those coffers are IOUs from the Treasury Department.

Catawba said:
A fraction of what we spend on the military and Veterans care.
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Medicare and Medicaid Outlays: $755 billion
Defense: $699 billion

Time to relearn your fractions :2wave:
 
Rhapsody1447 said:
The surplus consists of short-term Treasury securities. The only thing sitting in those coffers are IOUs from the Treasury Department.
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Treasury notes are as good as gold for as long as the US exists.



Medicare and Medicaid Outlays: $755 billion
Defense: $699 billion

Time to relearn your fractions :2wave:
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Your figures are out of date, and unless you are planning on eliminating veterans care, you also have to include that, which makes M/M a fraction of our military spending.

"we often neglect one of the biggest growth drivers of the U.S. defense budget: health care.

“Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive,” said former Defense Secretary Robert Gates in 2011. Military spending consumes over half of all federal discretionary spending: $712 billion out of $1,277 billion in 2011 discretionary outlays. Defense analyst Todd Harrison calculates that military health spending is about 9.5 percent of the base defense budget: $52.5 billion out of the $559 billion that the Defense Department requested for fiscal year 2012. On top of that, the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has a separate budget, seeks to spend $51 billion of its $132 billion 2012 budget request on health care."

How Health-Care Spending Strains the U.S. Military - Forbes


Romney Calls for Defense Boost
GOP Candidate's Hawkish Stance on Spending and Afghanistan Puts Him at Odds With Some Rivals


3 GOP candidates' plans would increase debt, study says
 
:roll: you do realize that "discretionary" means "once you take out Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid"?


and that your own numbers give the lie to your claims?
 
Catawba said:
Treasury notes are as good as gold for as long as the US exists.
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Except payment requires transfers from the general fund in the form of interest and maturity repayments. Where do you suppose that money comes from?

Your figures are out of date, and unless you are planning on eliminating veterans care, you also have to include that, which makes M/M a fraction of our military spending.
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You're right. The figures were from Obama's FY2013 budget proposal which was published on February 14, 2012. I updated the correct net Medicare Outlays from the March 2012 CBO report. As for actual FY2011 defense outlays your report is from October 26, 2011. My figure comes from this data published on January 31, 2012. You should probably go to the source instead of those far right-wing rags that you are always posting.
 
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Rhapsody1447 said:
Except payment requires transfers from the general fund in the form of interest and maturity repayments. Where do you suppose that money comes from?
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Since the money from SS was borrowed to make up the difference in revenues from the tax cuts to the wealthy at the same time we had two wars going, the logical thing to do would be to increase the tax rates for the wealthy. Indeed, Economist Robert Reich has determined that increasing the FICA cap to $180,000 fixes SS for the long term. Problem solved!!!


You're right. The figures were from Obama's FY2013 budget proposal which was published on February 14, 2012. I updated the correct net Medicare Outlays from the March 2012 CBO report. As for actual FY2011 defense outlays your report is from October 26, 2011. My figure comes from this data published on January 31, 2012. You should probably go to the source instead of those far right-wing rags that you are always posting.
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Regardless, we spend more on defense than we do M/M, and like I said before which you haven't addressed, the GOP plans to increase defense spending and the ability to pay for it, and has no plan to cut health care costs.

Been there, done that! But thanks just the same!
 
Catawba said:
Since the money from SS was borrowed to make up the difference in revenues from the tax cuts to the wealthy at the same time we had two wars going, the logical thing to do would be to increase the tax rates for the wealthy. Indeed, Economist Robert Reich has determined that increasing the FICA cap to $180,000 fixes SS for the long term. Problem solved!!!
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At least you came off your original false premise and are back to your partisan rants!

Catawba in another post said:
Social Security is separate and self-funded
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Regardless, we spend more on defense than we do M/M
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Still impervious to facts? Here's ANOTHER report for you to read:

Gross Medicare/Medicaid Outlays: $835 billion
Total "Defense" Outlays: $826 billion
Gross Defense Outlays: $700 billion
Veterans' Benefits portion of Nondefense Discretionary: $55 billion.
Veterans' Benefits portion of Mandatory Spending: $71 billion

Since you're so keen on lumping veteran benefits (e.g. burial benefits, disability compensation, life insurance) in with the "military industrial complex" I've calculated the numbers for you. M/M's still got 'em beat! We've already taken action to cut more than $1 trillion from our troops, when is your side going to give a little?

Let's not forget the $468 billion in Income Security or the $725 billion in Social Security either!
 
Rhapsody1447 said:
Gross Medicare/Medicaid Outlays: $835 billion
Total "Defense" Outlays: $826 billion
Gross Defense Outlays: $700 billion
Veterans' Benefits portion of Nondefense Discretionary: $55 billion.
Veterans' Benefits portion of Mandatory Spending: $71 billion

Since you're so keen on lumping veteran benefits (e.g. burial benefits, disability compensation, life insurance) in with the "military industrial complex" I've calculated the numbers for you. M/M's still got 'em beat! We've already taken action to cut more than $1 trillion from our troops, when is your side going to give a little?
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Now add in the cost of previous wars that we put on the national debt credit card that we are still paying for:

Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Historical Costs of Previous U.S. Wars


And you want me to choose the guy that want to increase military spending and cut the means to pay for it?
 
Mr Obama, have your Cabinet secretaries paid their taxes this year?
 
wow. Catawba, I have to admire you for this: Just because you've been utterly spanked in a thread doesn't mean you won't come back for more. props :thumbs:



(fun hint: if you want to start adding in the cost of the interest on the debt, that knife cuts both ways ;))
 
cpwill said:
wow. Catawba, I have to admire you for this: Just because you've been utterly spanked in a thread doesn't mean you won't come back for more. props :thumbs:
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Empty flaming certainly proves your point there Cp. Very impressive!



(fun hint: if you want to start adding in the cost of the interest on the debt, that knife cuts both ways ;))
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Do you mean the interest on the war debt we have because we didn't want to eliminate the tax cuts to the wealthy to pay for the wars?


And now you are thinking seniors are going to go along with the GOP plan to cut their benefits so the rich can get even bigger tax cuts?
 
Mr. President, with the economy gaining ground, it is likely that debt will become the focus of the election. Can you describe how your "balanced approach" will reduce the nations debt. When and how much reduction do you expect to see, and where are your real spending cuts coming from?

Governor Romney, Republicans have continually insisted America has a spending problem and not an income problem driving the debt. Can you explain your approach to reducing the debt, and how do you justify those means to working class Americans that pay a higher tax rate than their wealthy bosses? How do you justify to the poor, underemployed, and unemployed Americans that government can't afford to help while the nations top earners are paying all time low tax rates. When and how much reduction do you expect to see, and what programs would take the hardest hit to achieve your goal.

For both candidates, how bad does our situation at home have to get before we stop being interventionist in other nations affairs and focus on repairing our country? Please outline your policy in the ME, and give examples of how that policy is beneficial to Americans today.
 
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