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Title: Biden: Democratic base should 'stop whining' (look at the alternatives)
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Published: Sep 27, 2010
Author: HOLLY RAMER
Post Date: 2010-09-27 20:28:42 by Hondo68
Keywords: urged Democrats to, stop whining, look at the alternatives
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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Campaigning for Democratic candidates in New Hampshire, Vice President Joe Biden said Monday the party's base should "stop whining." Biden attended a fundraiser for Rep. Paul Hodes, who is running for the Senate; Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, who is seeking re-election to a third term; and the state Democratic Party. He said Democrats can win both races if they draw clear distinctions between themselves and their Republican opponents, and he urged Democrats to "remind our base constituency to stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives. This president has done an incredible job. He's kept his promises." The event was hosted by yogurt manufacturer Stonyfield Farm, whose president, Gary Hirshberg, is a longtime Democratic activist and fundraiser. Speaking to voters at a Manchester home earlier in the day, Biden said the "Pledge to America" House Republicans are promoting would do nothing but increase the national debt and eliminate government services critical to the nation's health and prosperity. Republicans last week unveiled their plan to cut taxes and spending, repeal President Barack Obama's health care law and end his stimulus program if the GOP retakes the House in November. Biden criticized its lack of specifics and offered his opinion on what would happen if the plan was implemented. "If they did everything the pledge calls for, it will add a trillion dollars to the debt and that would require them under their program to eliminate every program in the government from the FBI to highways and a whole bunch of other things to meet the goals they state," he said. Biden spoke about the economy to about a dozen voters at a home in Manchester, where he was joined by New Hampshire's three Democrats in Congress: Hodes, Shea-Porter and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. Biden said Democrats will lose if the November election is a referendum on how people feel about the economy, but they'll win if they emphasize the progress they've made and plans to build on it. He said he understands that someone looking for a job doesn't have time to track the details of the new health care law or stimulus program, but he said Democrats should remind those voters that many of the benefits haven't kicked in yet. "We've made great progress, but to the guy or the woman sitting at their kitchen table without a job it doesn't matter — they're in trouble. We owe them an answer as to how we're going to ... now that the economy's been stabilized, build it again," Biden said. That answer includes increasing tax credits for small business, giving companies incentives to manufacture their products in the United States instead of overseas and focusing on creating jobs in renewable energy and other green technologies, Biden said. Republicans, meanwhile, have become the "party of repeal and repeat," he said. "What they're offering is not only going to keep us in the ditch, it's going to drive us back down further into the ditch," he said. Parish Braden, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said Biden's trip to New Hampshire should remind voters that Hodes and Shea-Porter "are in lockstep with the Obama administration's failed economic policies that have hurt small businesses, raised taxes and put our country further into debt."
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
he's right.
Really? How so? Break it down for me and show me how "he's right".
(sneakypete)DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Mad Dog's reply) I don't know or F ing care. Pete, MD doesn't know or care what Palin says or writes, he'll support her no matter what.
Sounds good. Let's keep the highways, and eliminate the bunch of other things.
GO65???? BBBBWWWAAAAHHHHAAAAAAA!!!! The shills' lightweight thought processes are figuratively measured in femtograms per year. The only "breaking down" that particular dimwit is going to do will come Nov 3rd......you might as well have asked mental vacuum chambers like whiningskank, fred jerx or abdulaboner to do the analysis...... BBBBWWWAAAAHHHHAAAAHHHAAAAAA!!!!
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. Famous Dwarfisms : "the shorts and bibs I wear are of a carbon/lycra/nylon composition...and maaaaaannnnnn....just letting everybody know that makes my balls SWELL... #2. To: e_type_jag (#1) "I hate that you're off the plantation" 9-03-2010 Sheets Jerx .........(Why Fred???why the hate???....was it because my left Vibram sole made a lasting imprint on your face as I stepped over your constantly prone body and hopped the plantation wall .....:):)
Around June of 2011, ole Joe will resign the office for some yet to be known reason and Hillary will then be VP of these United States.
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
Sounds just like Yukon and the other Party People when they talk about Boy Jorge and John McLunatic,doesn't it?
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
LOL! How slack do you have to be to admire the alleged intellect of Uncle Joe Biden? BTW,both he and you are wrong. Of course,so are your brothers,the RINO's. We could balance the budget by killing useless bureaucracies like the Dept of Education,foreign aid,eliminating ANY form of SS payment to any non-citizen,eliminating anchor babies,and instead of cutting taxes right away,use the tax money collected to pay off some of our bills. I understand why "cut taxes" is the mantra of the faux right as well as the actual right. All you do when you give Washington more money is encourage them to find new things to spend it on without paying the bills they already owe. Taxes SHOULD be cut,but only after we get the budget under control by paying down our obligations,not creating new obligations,and reducing the size of government.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Math isn't your strong suit, is it?
Do the math. If you follow the GOP budget approach, you would have to eliminate everything save defense, SS, and medicare to balance the budget. Look at Paul Ryan's roadmap, he balances the budget by 2080 by raising taxes on 95% of Americans.
No chance. Odds are better she challenges Owe-bama than takes that dead end job.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
rotflmao! Not exactly a Democrat strong suit, GO.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Doesn't look that way to me. Show me how you did the math to arrive at your conclusion.
(sneakypete)DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Mad Dog's reply) I don't know or F ing care. Pete, MD doesn't know or care what Palin says or writes, he'll support her no matter what.
Show me how you did the math to arrive at your conclusion. OK, the 2010 budget estimates about $3.6 trillion in spending and $2.3 trillion in revenue, leaving a deficit of $1.3 billion. All discretionary spending = $1.38 billion If you follow the GOP approach of protecting defense, SS and Medicare from cuts and extending the Bush tax cuts, you would have to cut all discretionary spending - meaning no more VA, DEA, military/government pensions or benefits, FDA, roads, NASA, border patrol, national parks, and so on. You would also have to shut down the federal prison system and turn everyone loose. And note that it gets worse over the next few years as entitlement spending increases due to an aging population.
No,it's not. It's still better than yours,though. Hell,you listen to Uncle Joe Biden,the Obama version of Goober Gore,and so freaking stupid that even Obama doesn't want to be around him.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
uhhh,the government has a MANDATE to support defense and SS. Not saying they can't make serious cuts in the defense budget,though. They could save hundreds of millions just by cutting things like airplanes the Air Force doesn't want,and other equipment the other services don't want. Congress won't do that though because the industries that build those military goods provide jobs for the workers in the districts were influential congresscritters originally came from,and those jobs provide the money the manufacturers and union members in those districts use to make campaign contributions with.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
That's the way I see it,too. She will step in to "save the Dim Party" when/if Barry Soetoro's poll numbers are too low for him to win reelection. Besides,she has already served two terms as a "co-president",so why would she step down to accepting a VP slot?
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Not saying they can't make serious cuts in the defense budget,though. They could save hundreds of millions just by cutting things like airplanes the Air Force doesn't want,and other equipment the other services don't want. they could, but Republicans oppose such cuts. I happen to agree with you.
OK, the 2010 budget estimates about $3.6 trillion in spending and $2.3 trillion in revenue, leaving a deficit of $1.3 billion. If you follow the GOP approach of protecting defense, SS and Medicare from cuts and extending the Bush tax cuts, you would have to cut all discretionary spending - I will grant you that you may have a point buried amongst the nonsense,there. The point you have is that the GOP is doing wrong to try and cut taxes with the budget so far out of balance. I admit to not being a math whiz,but the one thing I do know is that if your budget it out of whack you have three options. 1: cut spending and increase your income. 2:Increase spending and punish people who don't spend more than they make by trying to bankrupt them,and hope the whole thing goes way if you ignore it long enough. This is the Dim plan. Which leaves you with 1 option. Option number two will do nothing but make the economy worse because consumers will have even less money to spend,leaving option number one as the only rational one. You increase your income by creating a stronger economy that has more people working and paying taxes that are now out of work and drawing tax-payer money as financial aid of some sort. meaning no more VA, DEA, military/government pensions or benefits, FDA, roads, NASA, border patrol, national parks, and so on. Uhhhh,none of those are discretionary spending. All are government mandates. Which does NOT mean their budgets can't be trimmed. ESPECIALLY for the defense department. Other than the pensions,of course. Those are promises the government made that are carved in stone. They can reduce the pension percentage for future government employees,but not for the ones already vested in the system or retired. DISCRETIONARY spending is such nonsense as foreign aid,government grants,minority set aside programs such as no-bid contracts and affirmative action hires,etc,etc,etc. You would also have to shut down the federal prison system and turn everyone loose. Wrong once again. Don't you ever get tired of this? If the federal courts sentence a criminal to a federal prison,they are mandated to provide the federal prisons. They CAN cut this budget by throwing out a lot of the insane laws making everything federal crimes,though. For example,if you get caught bringing a couple of ounces of pot into the country you have committed a federal crime and they are going to spend 25 thousand or more of the taxpayers money each year for 10 years or so to keep you locked up. Yet they allow illegal aliens like Barry Soetoro's Kenyan aunt and uncle to not only remain out of federal prison after violating our federal immigration laws,but even provide them with "free" housing,food,utilities,medical care,and even a retirement check from a system they never paid a dime into. YOU tell ME who is a greater danger to the country.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Exactly. Uhhhh,none of those are discretionary spending. All are government mandates. they all fall under the discretionary budget. You have four areas of the federal budget: defense, entitlements (SS/Medicare), interest, and discretionary spending (the areas Congress must approve each year).
they could, but Republicans oppose such cuts. ROFLMAO! You are such a Dim tool! Why not point out to us all the cuts made in defense industries in the northeast (where most of them are) by the Dim politicians from those areas? Do you remember the supreme irony of Fat Teddy Kennedy supporting Colt Firearms and Smith and Wesson because they both provide union jobs from defense contracts and both are in the NE with Dim representatives? I happen to agree with you. It may have been the only one he ever made,but Eisenhower made a brilliant observation when he warned us all to "beware of the military industrial complex!"
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
LOL! Conservaties,unlike Dims and their RINO brothers,understand that the only jobs government creates are government jobs that produce nothing of actual monetary value. Those jobs just suck up taxpayer money like a sponge. Conservatives understand that the only PRODUCTIVE jobs are those created by private employers,not government bureaucrats that are empire building. Conservatives understand that once the budget is balanced and most of the discretionary spending (outhouse inspectors for OSHA,anyone?)is eliminated,the dollar will be so much stronger that fewer will be required to purchase the same goods and services,so individual income taxes can then be cut for everyone,and the government can still function and meet it's constitutional obligations. BTW,businesses should have NEVER been taxed to start with because they have never in the past and will never in the future ever actually pay a tax. Only PEOPLE can pay taxes. If you tax a business,the business will have no choice but to raise the prices of their goods and services to the consumer in order to cover these costs. Raise these taxes so high the good and services are higher than the consumer can support,and the end result in businesses close here and move to foreign countries with fewer tax and other punitive laws. There is no one or even two other things you can do to hurt the US economy more and to hurt consumers and taxpayers more than raising taxes on businesses.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
And the VA,military/government pensions or benefits come under the Defense Department. "FDA, roads, NASA, border patrol, national parks, and so on." Come under legislative spending,or entitlements. Some of their money even comes from the defense budget. In the case of the DEA and border patrol,the funding comes from the Justice Department. The national parks comes from the Dept of the interior. Roads comes from the Commerce Dept,and most or all of that money comes from fuel taxes.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
This isn't true. Price is set by supply and demand. And since Corporate tax is on profits, not sales, the tax hits companies in very different ways. So profitable corporations will pay more taxes, but they can't raise their prices because their not so profitable competitors won't raise their prices. Many times their competitors aren't even in the US and thus don't even pay US income tax.
"FDA, roads, NASA, border patrol, national parks, and so on." Come under legislative spending,or entitlements. Some of their money even comes from the defense budget. In the case of the DEA and border patrol,the funding comes from the Justice Department. The national parks comes from the Dept of the interior. Roads comes from the Commerce Dept,and most or all of that money comes from fuel taxes. I'm not sure about Veteran's spending, but FBI, DEA, Coast Guard, National Parks, the entire Justice Department, Commerce, roads and even a large chunk of war funding for Iraq and Afghanistan are listed as discretionary under our budget. Legislative spending is discretionary.
And even the Defense spending is technically discretionary, but it's just separated out because it is more long term in nature, and because it is the conservatives golden calf.
I think its 'more likely' than her taking the VP spot, sneaky. I don't think it will happen.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Nope, military pensions are run by the Department of Veterans Affairs and are budgeted separately, the budget this year was about $88 billion.
This isn't true. Yeah,it is. Price is set by supply and demand. And price is one of the factors that determine if a product will sell or not. Once you raise the price above the level where consumers are willing to pay for your product,you either go out of business or move offshore. There are no other options because you can only lower your prices so much before you go bankrupt. And since Corporate tax is on profits, not sales, the tax hits companies in very different ways. This is the government we are talking about. When tax revenue goes down due to falling profits,the government had a tendency to raise the taxes in order to keep the big bucks rolling in so they can continue to buy votes. So profitable corporations will pay more taxes, but they can't raise their prices because their not so profitable competitors won't raise their prices. Say WHAT? Are you seriously trying to claim corporations won't raise their prices in order to recover from a increased cost of doing business? You REALLY think they will take a lower profit margin to keep paying more taxes? BTW,just exactly how did the mythical corporation you are talking about become so successful and profitable they didn't have to raise their prices,when all their competitors did? Many times their competitors aren't even in the US and thus don't even pay US income tax. That's true. It is also true they have a higher profit margin than their US counterparts despite selling their products at cut-rate prices.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Some is,and some is mandatory.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Yeah,because there are no defense plants or bases in districts and states governed by Dims,right?
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
I think you are confusing military pay and retirement pay with Veterans Administration disability pay and budget.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Yeah,because there are no defense plants or bases in districts and states governed by Dims,right? I didn't mean to insinuate Democrats don't like Defense pork, but Republican's refuse to cut the defense in any way, even outside their district. Their new contract with America backs that up. Because paying for war is capitalist and paying for social programs is communist.
And price is one of the factors that determine if a product will sell or not. That is precisely why the taxes come out of the profits. They would if they could, but they can't be they charge as much as they can already. You aren't understanding. Their competitors who make little money wouldn't have to raise taxes because they wouldn't be taxed much, if anything.
YOU are the one that doesn't understand. Their expenses do not go down because they are making less money. They still have wages,benefits,pensions,insurance,utilities,rent or mortgage,etc,etc,etc to pay. Also,let us assume for the sake of argument that a corporation/business has very weak earnings,so they end up "only" paying 30% on profits of 100,000 bucks. That only leaves them 70,000 bucks to pay the expenses mentioned above. A rival corporation/business that makes 1,000,000 bucks a year pays out a MUCH higher amount of cash at the 30% tax rate,but they still have 700,000 bucks in profit to pay the other costs of doing business. Granted,that is a lot more money,but don't forget their costs of doing business are higher also because they have more capital equipment to purchase,maintain,and operate,and they have a larger work force to pay wages and benefits. BUT......,they still end up with a hell of a lot more money than the corporation/business that only pulled in 100 grand. The end result is the 100 grand profit business goes out of business because they just aren't making enough money to make it worth their while.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Rino tries to fight, but suffers from a severe condition... The current members of the "You're a worthless sack of shit" list includes WAR, lucysmom (empty-headed bimbo), calcon, e_type_jack-off, mad-dog (more like rabidly stupid), ibluafartsky and the fascism-shill no gnu taxes (aka 400 bucks, happyfunball, 50yardline, etc, etc.) If you're on the list, don't bother writing, 'cause you're a waste of flesh.
Esimates. Also known as wild-ass-guesses. Just like everything else in Washington, these figures are bullshit. Only in Washington D.C. is a 5% increase in a budget called a "5% cut in a budget" because it wasn't the 10% that was expected. That's the hilarious part of watching all the bullshitters from both branches of the one party pontificate authoritatively about the budget. One knows they're bullshitters from the simple fact that NO ONE has any idea of the truth about how much money is going where in D.C.
(sneakypete)DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Mad Dog's reply) I don't know or F ing care. Pete, MD doesn't know or care what Palin says or writes, he'll support her no matter what.
"If they did everything the pledge calls for, it will add a trillion dollars to the debt and that would require them under their program to eliminate every program in the government from the FBI to highways and a whole bunch of other things to meet the goals they state," he said.
And the Conservative plan to create jobs is......?????
#2. To: go65 (#1)
he's right.
#3. To: go65 (#1)
eliminate every program in the government from the FBI to highways and a whole bunch of other things
#4. To: Wood_Chopper (#2)
Break it down for me and show me how "he's right".
#5. To: hondo68 (#0)
#6. To: hondo68, yukon (#0)
"remind our base constituency to stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives. This president has done an incredible job. He's kept his promises."
#7. To: go65 (#1)
he's right.
#8. To: sneakypete (#7)
BTW,both he and you are wrong. Of course,so are your brothers,the RINO's. We could balance the budget by killing useless bureaucracies like the Dept of Education,foreign aid,eliminating ANY form of SS payment to any non-citizen,eliminating anchor babies,and instead of cutting taxes right away,use the tax money collected to pay off some of our bills.
And the Conservative plan to create jobs is......?????
#9. To: Wood_Chopper (#2)
Really? How so?
And the Conservative plan to create jobs is......?????
#10. To: Brian S (#5)
#11. To: go65 (#9)
Do the math.
#12. To: go65 (#9)
Do the math. If you follow the GOP budget approach, you would have to eliminate everything save defense, SS, and medicare to balance the budget.
#13. To: Wood_Chopper (#12)
(Edited)
Doesn't look that way to me.
And the Conservative plan to create jobs is......?????
#14. To: go65 (#8)
Math isn't your strong suit, is it?
#15. To: go65 (#9)
Do the math. If you follow the GOP budget approach, you would have to eliminate everything save defense, SS, and medicare to balance the budget.
#16. To: Badeye, Brian S (#10)
Odds are better she challenges Owe-bama than takes that dead end job.
#17. To: sneakypete (#15)
uhhh,the government has a MANDATE to support defense and SS.
Congress won't do that though because the industries that build those military goods provide jobs for the workers in the districts were influential congresscritters originally came from,and those jobs provide the money the manufacturers and union members in those districts use to make campaign contributions with
And the Conservative plan to create jobs is......?????
#18. To: go65 (#13)
#19. To: sneakypete (#18)
The point you have is that the GOP is doing wrong to try and cut taxes with the budget so far out of balance.
And the Conservative plan to create jobs is......?????
#20. To: sneakypete (#18)
meaning no more VA, DEA, military/government pensions or benefits, FDA, roads, NASA, border patrol, national parks, and so on.
And the Conservative plan to create jobs is......?????
#21. To: go65 (#17)
Not saying they can't make serious cuts in the defense budget,though. They could save hundreds of millions just by cutting things like airplanes the Air Force doesn't want,and other equipment the other services don't want.
#22. To: go65 (#19)
And the Conservative plan to create jobs is......?????
#23. To: go65 (#20)
they all fall under the discretionary budget. You have four areas of the federal budget: defense, entitlements (SS/Medicare), interest, and discretionary spending (the areas Congress must approve each year).
#24. To: sneakypete (#22)
Only PEOPLE can pay taxes. If you tax a business,the business will have no choice but to raise the prices of their goods and services to the consumer in order to cover these costs.
#25. To: sneakypete (#23)
And the VA,military/government pensions or benefits come under the Defense Department.
#26. To: All (#25)
#27. To: sneakypete (#16)
#28. To: sneakypete (#23)
And the VA,military/government pensions or benefits come under the Defense Department.
And the Conservative plan to create jobs is......?????
#29. To: Rhino (#24)
#30. To: Rhino (#25)
Legislative spending is discretionary.
#31. To: Rhino (#26)
And even the Defense spending is technically discretionary, but it's just separated out because it is more long term in nature, and because it is the conservatives golden calf.
#32. To: go65 (#28)
Nope, military pensions are run by the Department of Veterans Affairs
#33. To: sneakypete (#31)
#34. To: sneakypete (#29)
Say WHAT? Are you seriously trying to claim corporations won't raise their prices in order to recover from a increased cost of doing business? You REALLY think they will take a lower profit margin to keep paying more taxes?
BTW,just exactly how did the mythical corporation you are talking about become so successful and profitable they didn't have to raise their prices,when all their competitors did?
#35. To: Rhino (#34)
You aren't understanding. Their competitors who make little money wouldn't have to raise taxes because they wouldn't be taxed much, if anything.
#36. To: sneakypete (#35)
YOU are the one that doesn't understand.
Mad dog gets
"calibrated..."
#37. To: go65 (#13)
OK, the 2010 budget estimates
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