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How much do you care about balancing the US federal budget?

How much do you care about balancing the federal budget (in the medium/long term)?


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lets hope they eliminate the ones that are not useful.

Point is that Republican legislators are almost always gas bags. Ohio is undoubtedly a big winner in farm subsidies. Have you called your legislators?

Which are the top cotton growing states and recipients of generous tax subsidies? -Kind of a who's who of staunch Republicanism-Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and S. Carolina, home of that Tea Party darling, Jim Demint. Hmmm? I wonder if Jim has protested the fact that tax payers are providing welfare to his state's cotton growers? U.S. cotton growers were so adamant about retaining their subsidies that a dispute over this practice with Brazil was resolved by having the U.S. taxpayer subsidize Brazilian cotton growers, as well!
 
Point is that Republican legislators are almost always gas bags.
I cannot believe that people still take you seriously after contuned remarks like these.
 
I cannot believe that people still take you seriously after contuned remarks like these.

Unlike most people (hint hint)I don't make insulting remarks about people who post on forums. The Biggest problem with conservativism, in gov't, is that too few practice what they preach. I guess you must hate to have that sort of hypocricy pointed out since you have no reponse except a pointless derrogatory remark.
 
Unlike most people (hint hint)I don't make insulting remarks about people who post on forums
Wondering aloud why people still take you seriously when you post such partisan dreck isn't an insult - except to maybe those that still take you seriously.
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Wondering aloud why people still take you seriously when you post such partisan dreck isn't an insult - except to maybe those that still take you seriously.
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Actually, I don't waste my online efforts "wondering out loud" about non specifics. If you care to point out a single falsehood I have expressed, be my guest.

I posted some facts to which you are rendered mute. I am not particularly partisan- the Dems are guilty of ladeling out corporate welfare- certainly- I should think it was obvious that I am picking on Repubs because they are the ones campaigning (and winning) on the small gov't /frugality mantra. I don't much bother with forums, any longer. I returned for a visit because this forum lists starboard and, post election, I wanted to try to understand why/ how voters think anything will change w/o fundamental changes to the system. I have failed to get much of a response. C'est la vie.
 
Actually, I don't waste my online efforts "wondering out loud" about non specifics. If you care to point out a single falsehood I have expressed, be my guest.
Point is that Republican legislators are almost always gas bags.
 
Reducing the deficit is easy. Just stop spending so much money on war. Defense (military) accounts for 20% of federal spending. Our enemies have to blow themselves up while we fly in airplanes. We could easily chop off 25% of that budget without impacting our ability to protect ourselves from our enemies. And maybe we can stop killing Anghani or Iraqi civilians in their own country.
 
Reducing the deficit is easy. Just stop spending so much money on war. Defense (military) accounts for 20% of federal spending.
FY2009 spending........$3518.2B
FY2009 revenue.........$2104.6B
FY2009 deficit............$1413.6B
FY2009 DoD spending..$655.0B (18.6%)
Cut DoD spending to $0 and you still have a $758B deficit.
 
Point is that Republican legislators are almost always gas bags.

Try again. I used a colorful adjective to describe the way that legislator's actions do not match their rhetoric You have nothing substantive to say on that topic, I guess.
 
Try again.
No need, as I cited a falsehood.


I used a colorful adjective to describe the way that legislator's actions do not match their rhetoric You have nothing substantive to say on that topic, I guess.
I addressed this many many posts ago. You failed to respond.
 
No need, as I cited a falsehood.
You are whistling in the wind, demonstrating your own partisanship since you clearly cannot prove that Repub legislators are never gas bags. I would not challenge such a statement if it was made about Dems



I addressed this many many posts ago. You failed to respond.

No you did not. You asked me a question, I answered in post #92. You did not address any of the points I made.
 
Rest assured that most of them are unaware that the deficit cannot be reduced w/o significant cuts to medicare.
Hardly. Medicare is one of the more obvious things to cut.

Like I said, before- Repubs have said they will focus on tax cuts, job creation and reducing the deficit. These goals are incompatible...
No, they are not. All three of these things can happen at the same time; noen of them are necessarily anthemic to deficit reduction.

especially as they are on record opposing "H.C. rationing" and have already expanded medicare w/o a funding mechanism.
That was the previous GOP congress, not this one. Apples/oranges.
 
You are whistling in the wind, demonstrating your own partisanship since you clearly cannot prove that Repub legislators are never gas bags. I would not challenge such a statement if it was made about Dems
The burden of proof here is on you, not me. Prove your claim.

No you did not. You asked me a question, I answered in post #92. You did not address any of the points I made.
Taken care of.
 
I oppose renewing the Bush tax cuts for the rich and the middle class. I think there are better ways to stimulate the economy than tax cuts.
 
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