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Title: Tea Baggers: Where Were You When Bush Demolished U.S. Economy?
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URL Source: http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2010/2/27/144914/532
Published: Feb 28, 2010
Author: Bill Hare
Post Date: 2010-02-28 17:45:21 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 4899
Comments: 34

If you want a stern dose of reality I recommend visiting an important website, one to keep you in touch with the real world in a society where media and political spin abound.

The site is USDebtClock.Org and all you need to do is look at the steadily changing, ever flickering numbers that literally jump out at you to get in touch with the real economic world. As I write this the grand total stands at over $12.4 trillion.

That encompasses $40,239 owed per citizen. While this figure has been quoted frequently when this verboten topic has been discussed the real figure of overriding importance that has tended to be overlooked is the amount per taxpayer.

While $40,239 is a far from insignificant figure, it is nowhere near as calamitous as the salient number determined by taxpayer in that the aforementioned figure includes a large population of children as well as numerous other citizens not paying current taxes.

The amount owed per taxpayer stands currently at $113,496. This leads us into another important category as the situation gets worse, not better.

Let us be sober realists and move into the staggering realm of U.S. total debt. That current figure is $54.76 trillion and climbing so fast that I dare only put the decimal and carry over to .76 when moving from trillions to billions. In that staggering context the total debt per citizen is currently $177,380 and $678,882 per family.

U.S. trade numbers are looking anything but good. U.S. debt held by foreign countries is a staggering $3.82 trillion. The U.S. trade deficit is $80.28 billion.

For those Tea Baggers eager to take slams at China, the economic reality is that the current U.S. deficit with that nation is $36.33 billion. In terms of the mounting debt in the foreign oil realm that stands currently at $52.6 billion.

Bearing in mind the foregoing numbers, did all this begin when Obama took office? One would think so since that is when the Tea Bag movement began.

While some in that movement realize that they must say something negative about Bush, where were these same individuals when he exploded the deficit with his irresponsible tax cuts for the rich carried out in his name?

There was no Tea Bag movement during Bush's eight years in office. Most of these same individuals, following media role models such as Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity, were preoccupied rehashing Bill Clinton's administration and perpetually asking why and how he could win two presidential elections.

On the subject of the exploding deficits of Bush you will find that the same crowd now fulminating and castigating non-stop and ardently demonstrating at Tea Bag rallies were those defending him and denouncing as unpatriotic those who dared utter a disparaging word at someone they then extolled as the hero of 9/11.

We know from history that this is a staple Republican right stratagem. Realizing that they cannot stand up to free debate because the facts lie elsewhere, they condemn as unpatriotic those who dare to point out who and what they really are.

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#2. To: Brian S (#0)

Tea Baggers: Where Were You When Bush Demolished U.S. Economy?

They were singing his praises and saying that anyone with a dissenting opinion was un-American.

Bartcoprules  posted on  2010-03-01   9:47:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Bartcoprules (#2)

Totally false.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-01   10:09:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Badeye (#7)

Totally false.

Ron Paul WAS the dissenting opinion. And you can look at forum data bases all over the country and see how the BUSHBOTS treated his supporters. They were marginalized in way that would of made old Joe Stalin proud.

Goldi and JR banned his supporters en masse. Oreilly said his candidacy would not be discussed on Fox calling him and his supporter loons and from that day on there was no mention of him other than a few offhand insults.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-01   10:50:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: mininggold (#10)

Ron Paul's a kook. Nuff said.

And sorry, nobody was a 'bushbot' thats pure bullshit. Especially in the summer of 06.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-01   11:38:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Badeye (#17)

Ron Paul's a kook. Nuff said.

And sorry, nobody was a 'bushbot' thats pure bullshit. Especially in the summer of 06.

LOLOLOL

You are again trying to rewrite history, but the various data bases don't lie. Stalin would be very proud.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-01   11:49:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: mininggold (#19)

Prove your point, kookie.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-01   12:18:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: Badeye (#23)

To: mininggold Prove your point, kookie.

You are saying there was no such thing as self described Bushbots? That's too funny for words.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-01   12:53:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: mininggold (#26)

You are again trying to rewrite history, but the various data bases don't lie. Stalin would be very proud.

You are saying there was no such thing as self described Bushbots? That's too funny for words.

Your assertion in the first line above.

Your demonstrating you can't back it up as asked in the second line.

And yes, I'll now state catagorically there is NO ONE thats a 'self described' Bushbot.

That was a bullshit term, used by lightweights. Which is why you can't produce a fuckin thing to back up your first lightweight claim.

Thanks for playing.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-01   12:58:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Badeye (#27)

And yes, I'll now state catagorically there is NO ONE thats a 'self described' Bushbot.

Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...)

war  posted on  2010-03-01   13:21:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: war (#29)

And sorry, nobody was a 'bushbot' thats pure bullshit. Especially in the summer of 06.

The gall of that guy.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-03-01   13:46:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Fred Mertz (#30)

You have anything to support the assertion, ethel?

mininglead doesn't...you don't...nor does my anti groupie.

Its always been a bullshit throw away line from the brain dead.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-01   14:03:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#34. To: Badeye (#33) (Edited)

Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...)

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