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if only the republicans could learn to bring down a debt and refuse borrowing more, why cant they just learn this from obama.Ahhhhh. You poor thing. You have the same naive expectations I had about Republican voters 16 years ago. "No way they will let Bush and the GOP Congress run up our debt every year."1. Can you link that?
2. No he can't pull us out of that.
3. Are you sure that is the case?
Rand Paul laid it out on CSPAN an hour ago. This so called repeal Obamacare bill is really a 10 year GOP budget with $9.7 trillion in borrowing. No spending cuts, no agency cuts or eliminations, no spending reforms.
Rand Paul gave a few examples. $45 million spent on a natural gas, gas station in Afghanistan. Yeah one freaking gas station. No wait for the punch line, there are no vehicles in Afghanistan that run on natural gas.
$85 million spent building an embassy and 10 year lease in Afghanistan...that's surrounded by tall buildings and can never be used as an embassy due to security issues.
$700,000 spent on trying to determine if Neal Armstrong said, "One small step for man" or "One small step for a man" no not a joke. The result of the study was...they are not sure.
Well, they do a budget every year, and I have never seen a 10 year budget; a 10 year projection, yes....budget, no! I will wait and see. Trump will never sign a budget like that anyway, he will veto it. They do not need 10 trillion, they need to cover the deficits until the economy ignites, unless someone is going to spend a lot of cash, and we conservatives will vote them out post haste!
The bill Rand Paul held up has 5% growth in the budget every year for the next 10 years. The GOP leadership are not calling it a budget, its more of their baseline continuing resolution BS but the bottom line is a 5% increase a year.
They won't get it! Maybe for one year, but not ongoing, no way. They will expand the budget slightly for a new President to put his stuff in place for a year, but not indefinitely. They will hear their constituents banging on their doors louder than they did on the leftists.
We will know NEXT year what is going on. I expect Trump to start cutting crap like crazy, positions, personnel, departments. You watch, the people will support him, but Washington won't!
It turned out who was or was not wearing a flag pin was all that mattered to them.
"It's okay when a R does it!"
What are they afraid of? if they dont run up the debt, raise the debt ceiling do they think the democrats are going to have a temper tantrum and shut down the government or something?