Our profligate ways aren't changing, though. We continue to piss away wealth on military adventurism while we follow a ruinous economic ideology that has delivered illusory gains to the economy from the service sector and a further hollowing out of industry. Put another way, we're sapping the economic vitality which underpins our standard of living. Unless that changes this latest row will simply be followed by another in the near future as the economy becomes ever weaker, necessitating another round still until the dollar simply implodes.
As to the CBO, straight-line projections beyond a few years are crap. And if this particular one used data from before the NASDAQ crash in 2000, then it's not even worth that.
As to the CBO, straight-line projections beyond a few years are crap. And if this particular one used data from before the NASDAQ crash in 2000, then it's not even worth that.
南無阿弥陀仏!
Debt Ceiling Debacle: Are Republican Leaders Spinelessly Selfish, or Cluelessly Selfish?
- 14/07/2011 04:57:30 PM
925 Views
funny how people only believe polls that say what they want to hear
- 14/07/2011 06:08:21 PM
470 Views
Actually, I believe the polls regularly showing Romney ahead of Obama now.
- 14/07/2011 09:30:01 PM
653 Views
watch out you almost made rational argument there
- 15/07/2011 02:47:02 PM
513 Views
Watch out, you completely ignored my arguments there.
- 15/07/2011 04:20:44 PM
627 Views
Didn't Obama sign the tax cuts we are operating under now? He deserves some credit for that
- 15/07/2011 07:16:14 PM
609 Views
Actually, I agree; granting the Republicans demands does make him partly culpable.
- 15/07/2011 09:33:50 PM
526 Views
I have yet to hear anything about any actual proposal
- 14/07/2011 06:23:16 PM
475 Views
I think you have to be there to get a detailed spreadsheet, but the general terms are known.
- 14/07/2011 08:36:39 PM
711 Views
Your entire response is lacking actual answers.
- 15/07/2011 03:42:04 AM
660 Views
There were answers, just very general ones; the specifics aren't being publicly released.
- 15/07/2011 04:19:47 AM
605 Views
That kind of headline doesn't really help, you know?
- 14/07/2011 06:33:43 PM
570 Views
I second this. Definitely need less antagonism *NM*
- 14/07/2011 07:36:54 PM
203 Views
I admit I too readily meet antagonism with antagonism these days.
- 14/07/2011 09:56:45 PM
415 Views
"I have no idea what we're talking about, but my opinion is important anyway!"
- 14/07/2011 09:03:10 PM
571 Views
just because you believe the silly rhetoric doens't mean it isn't rhetoric *NM*
- 14/07/2011 09:27:08 PM
176 Views
I can't think of anything else to call it.
- 14/07/2011 09:17:42 PM
611 Views
I just think that you could have said all that in a much more less antagonistic way.
- 14/07/2011 10:16:49 PM
604 Views
I do see your point, but it often takes a shock for people to question reflexive views.
- 14/07/2011 10:53:07 PM
557 Views
it is selfish to demand tax increases to allow needed spending reductions *NM*
- 15/07/2011 02:48:11 PM
326 Views
It's shamefully selfish to demand others sacrifice their existence for your luxury.
- 15/07/2011 04:14:04 PM
438 Views
that woulkd be shameful thank god it isnothing but rhetoric *NM*
- 15/07/2011 07:17:44 PM
207 Views
It's the simple sad truth.
- 15/07/2011 09:36:34 PM
374 Views
so if it was your family you'd only cut expenses and not find a way to make extra income?
- 15/07/2011 07:45:21 PM
474 Views
if you think silly comparison to family budget are valid then you need to ask yourself that question *NM*
- 17/07/2011 06:51:06 PM
189 Views
And you haven't even gotten into the cries for a "balanced budget amendment."
- 14/07/2011 09:17:04 PM
420 Views
I think they're doing exactly what the people who paid to put them into office are expecting them to
- 14/07/2011 09:23:45 PM
456 Views
Sadly, that's so, I just keep expecting them to put the countrys survival ahead of greed.
- 14/07/2011 09:38:14 PM
651 Views
You know, if I pretended like I didn't have a family to support, I'd say, "Fuck it. Default."
- 15/07/2011 03:50:30 AM
431 Views
Maybe you can't be that cavalier, but the House majority clearly can.
- 15/07/2011 04:56:03 AM
626 Views
these are the same tax increases that were extended by the dems
- 15/07/2011 02:49:35 PM
470 Views
EDIT: Wait, I get it now; you're just trolling me. 
- 15/07/2011 04:14:00 PM
712 Views
- 15/07/2011 04:14:00 PM
712 Views
no I am just pointing out simple facts but your partisan blinders refuse to allow you to see them
- 15/07/2011 07:22:03 PM
504 Views
Republicans didn't just "support" tax cuts: They demanded them then and won't relinquish them now.
- 15/07/2011 09:58:37 PM
643 Views
Did the Mitch McConnel thing remind anyone else of Jar Jar Binks appearing before the Senate...
- 15/07/2011 07:38:52 AM
526 Views
It probably would have if I didn't do everything I could to avoid thinking of Jar Jar Binks *NM*
- 15/07/2011 11:20:09 AM
220 Views
*NM*
Clueless only in the sense that they aren't heeding the signals of their owners.
- 17/07/2011 06:46:42 AM
671 Views
Coaches have to do things fans dislike to win games, or get fired anyway when they lose.
- 17/07/2011 04:11:38 PM
668 Views
Here's to hoping I'm wrong.
- 18/07/2011 08:46:13 AM
609 Views