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Here's to hoping I'm wrong. Vodalus Send a noteboard - 18/07/2011 08:46:13 AM
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.
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funny how people only believe polls that say what they want to hear - 14/07/2011 06:08:21 PM 450 Views
That kind of headline doesn't really help, you know? - 14/07/2011 06:33:43 PM 544 Views
I second this. Definitely need less antagonism *NM* - 14/07/2011 07:36:54 PM 194 Views
"I have no idea what we're talking about, but my opinion is important anyway!" - 14/07/2011 09:03:10 PM 553 Views
just because you believe the silly rhetoric doens't mean it isn't rhetoric *NM* - 14/07/2011 09:27:08 PM 167 Views
Rhetoric can be right or wrong, but it's still rhetoric. *NM* - 14/07/2011 09:56:32 PM 278 Views
I can't think of anything else to call it. - 14/07/2011 09:17:42 PM 590 Views
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I do see your point, but it often takes a shock for people to question reflexive views. - 14/07/2011 10:53:07 PM 535 Views
there's a difference between shock and antagonism - 14/07/2011 11:43:20 PM 437 Views
Fair enough. - 15/07/2011 12:27:44 AM 608 Views
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It's shamefully selfish to demand others sacrifice their existence for your luxury. - 15/07/2011 04:14:04 PM 424 Views
that woulkd be shameful thank god it isnothing but rhetoric *NM* - 15/07/2011 07:17:44 PM 199 Views
It's the simple sad truth. - 15/07/2011 09:36:34 PM 356 Views
so defalting for tax increases is OK? - 18/07/2011 04:28:34 PM 430 Views
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Did the Mitch McConnel thing remind anyone else of Jar Jar Binks appearing before the Senate... - 15/07/2011 07:38:52 AM 507 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 211 Views
Well said. *NM* - 15/07/2011 01:46:46 PM 200 Views
Pretty much everyone in the Tea Party, I think. - 15/07/2011 04:45:08 PM 446 Views
obama needs to learn when to STFU sometimes - 15/07/2011 08:14:29 PM 480 Views
And make policy. - 15/07/2011 10:08:50 PM 597 Views
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Coaches have to do things fans dislike to win games, or get fired anyway when they lose. - 17/07/2011 04:11:38 PM 652 Views
Here's to hoping I'm wrong. - 18/07/2011 08:46:13 AM 595 Views
I was all set to argue, then I read the other new responses. - 18/07/2011 06:36:05 PM 593 Views

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