Government Spending

[Big Black Dog]

Let's not discuss what the government is spending money on these days. The specific reason for spending the money is not important to this post. Let's just discuss the large amount of money that has been spent and appears to be on target to be spent in the near future. How long can the government continue to spend money that they don't have? When and where does it stop? How long can the government continue to spend money like it's going out of style before we become bankrupt as a country? How's the money going to get repaid and just who is going to repay it? How much longer do you think the average American is going to tolerate this kind of runaway government spending? Are we getting ourselves into trouble with all of this spending? Your thoughts.

 

[Xenophon]

They will spend a lot more, and it will only stop if they can no longer secure loans from foreign powers.

 

[Avatar4321]

They can spend it until the government collapses and the People overthrow them.]

Then they will start all over again. Its a vicious cycle

 

[sealybobo]

Let's not discuss what the government is spending money on these days. The specific reason for spending the money is not important to this post. Let's just discuss the large amount of money that has been spent and appears to be on target to be spent in the near future. How long can the government continue to spend money that they don't have? When and where does it stop? How long can the government continue to spend money like it's going out of style before we become bankrupt as a country? How's the money going to get repaid and just who is going to repay it? How much longer do you think the average American is going to tolerate this kind of runaway government spending? Are we getting ourselves into trouble with all of this spending? Your thoughts.

Are you complaining about the $700 bill tarp, $700 bill stimulus or the $9 trillion the bankers spent in the last 8 months?

One Penny Sheet » Federal Reserve Cannot Account for $9 Trillion video

 

[Oddball]

Toro debunked your tin foil hat YouTube video last week, booboo.

Time to get a new shrieking point.

 

[KMAN]

I think the first couple of responses have nailed it... Obama and his administration will keep spending as long as people keep giving us money. They know that once you get the majority of people dependent on the government it is hard to take those programs away... They are going to try and get as many people dependent on them as possible so they can stay in power forever...it's that simple... It's not about the country it's about staying in power...

Also, the people who depend on the government are always going to vote for the candidate who promises them the most free stuff...which is what Democrats do, so unless people decide they want to take care of themselves instead of rely on the government you will keep getting Democrats in power...

 

[editec]

Let's not discuss what the government is spending money on these days. The specific reason for spending the money is not important to this post. Let's just discuss the large amount of money that has been spent and appears to be on target to be spent in the near future. How long can the government continue to spend money that they don't have? When and where does it stop? How long can the government continue to spend money like it's going out of style before we become bankrupt as a country? How's the money going to get repaid and just who is going to repay it? How much longer do you think the average American is going to tolerate this kind of runaway government spending? Are we getting ourselves into trouble with all of this spending? Your thoughts.

I think the more interesting question is where have they been borrowing these trillions from and how do those lenders get it in the first place?

Of course nobody wants to talk about that because that asks us questions that are so fundamental that if we started to really think about it we'd realize what an enormous swindle the world has been for the last 500 years.

 

[Zoom-boing]

Let's not discuss what the government is spending money on these days. The specific reason for spending the money is not important to this post. Let's just discuss the large amount of money that has been spent and appears to be on target to be spent in the near future. How long can the government continue to spend money that they don't have? When and where does it stop? How long can the government continue to spend money like it's going out of style before we become bankrupt as a country? How's the money going to get repaid and just who is going to repay it? How much longer do you think the average American is going to tolerate this kind of runaway government spending? Are we getting ourselves into trouble with all of this spending? Your thoughts.

Why would they want to stop? Why do you assume that just because people want the madness to stop, that they want the madness to stop? They want us dependent on the government and this is how they are going to do it. You said it yourself in another post -- they want us going out of this world the same way we came into the world, naked and broke.

 

[waltky]

VA reforms held up from spending bill...

VA Reforms Removed from Massive Spending Bill
22 Mar 2018 | WASHINGTON -- A deal collapsed to include multiple VA reforms in a spending bill that Congress formulated to prevent a government shutdown.

Earlier this week, the bill was set to contain a measure to overhaul the VA Choice program, which veterans use to access private-sector medical care. A deal reached between key House and Senate lawmakers on VA oversight also included an expansion of benefits for veteran caregivers, as well as a plan to initiate a systematic review of VA infrastructure, with the intention of disposing of aging and underused facilities nationwide. When Congress unveiled its $1.3 trillion, 2,232-page bill Wednesday evening, the VA reforms had been omitted. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., leaders on the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, predicted earlier Wednesday that the reforms would not be included in the final version of the spending bill.

Tiffany Haverly, a spokeswoman for Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, said Roe's team worked to push for the VA reforms up until the bill was released. House Democrats were opposed to the deal. Griffin Anderson, a spokesman for Democrats on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, said they were against a measure to expand caregiver benefits because it didn't provide a clear way to fund those changes. Benefits such as monthly stipends, respite care and counseling are now only available to caregivers of veterans injured after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which veterans and advocates say creates an unfair discrepancy. Changes to eligibility have been stalled for years in Congress because of the high cost of expanding benefits to more families. For Democrats, expanding the benefits is a top priority, but not without funding, Anderson said. "Yes the program would be authorized, but there would not be any money to fund this expansion," he wrote in an email.

Democrats also worried a measure to create an asset-review commission tasked with making decisions on VA facilities would severely limit Congress' authority to oversee VA infrastructure. They argued the measure didn't include funding to pay for infrastructure improvements. Arguably the most pressing measure -- and most debated -- is the proposed change to the Choice program. House Democrats believe the Choice overhaul included in the deal isn't enough of a revamp from the current program, Anderson said. The Choice program was created in 2014 in response to the VA wait-time scandal to ease demand on VA services by sending veterans into the private sector. Negotiations of potential changes to the program have created disagreements and delays in Congress and highlighted divisions between VA leadership and White House insiders. The option of more choices in health care for veterans was a promise that President Donald Trump offered during his election campaign. The crux of the dispute is how far veterans' health care should be pushed into the private sector.

Everyone involved in negotiations seems to agree the next iteration of the program should do away with the rules that allow veterans to go into the private sector only when they live more than 40 miles driving distance from a VA facility or have to wait longer than 30 days for an appointment. But House Democrats think the Senate's proposal -- the one intended for inclusion in the spending bill -- "makes virtually zero changes to eligibility from the current, arbitrary 30-day, 40 mile rule," Anderson said. Roe wrote a letter Tuesday to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., urging her to support the VA reforms. The measures also had the backing of eight large veterans organizations, all of which signed onto a letter to congressional leaders Monday encouraging the deal. They described the moment as a "historic opportunity" to pass multiple VA reforms at once.

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[sealybobo]

Let's not discuss what the government is spending money on these days. The specific reason for spending the money is not important to this post. Let's just discuss the large amount of money that has been spent and appears to be on target to be spent in the near future. How long can the government continue to spend money that they don't have? When and where does it stop? How long can the government continue to spend money like it's going out of style before we become bankrupt as a country? How's the money going to get repaid and just who is going to repay it? How much longer do you think the average American is going to tolerate this kind of runaway government spending? Are we getting ourselves into trouble with all of this spending? Your thoughts.

Did you know that government spending surged 5% in the second quarter?

U.S. Economy Slows: Trump's 3% Growth Pledge Now In Rearview Mirror

If it didn't Trump would have had under 2% growth. Pathetic.

 

[danielpalos]

Let's not discuss what the government is spending money on these days. The specific reason for spending the money is not important to this post. Let's just discuss the large amount of money that has been spent and appears to be on target to be spent in the near future. How long can the government continue to spend money that they don't have? When and where does it stop? How long can the government continue to spend money like it's going out of style before we become bankrupt as a country? How's the money going to get repaid and just who is going to repay it? How much longer do you think the average American is going to tolerate this kind of runaway government spending? Are we getting ourselves into trouble with all of this spending? Your thoughts.

We have to discuss current fiscal policy. This is the Best, tax cut economics can do:
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

Why is the right wing for tax cut economics but not abolishing our useless and alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror?

 

[danielpalos]

Let's not discuss what the government is spending money on these days. The specific reason for spending the money is not important to this post. Let's just discuss the large amount of money that has been spent and appears to be on target to be spent in the near future. How long can the government continue to spend money that they don't have? When and where does it stop? How long can the government continue to spend money like it's going out of style before we become bankrupt as a country? How's the money going to get repaid and just who is going to repay it? How much longer do you think the average American is going to tolerate this kind of runaway government spending? Are we getting ourselves into trouble with all of this spending? Your thoughts.

Did you know that government spending surged 5% in the second quarter?

U.S. Economy Slows: Trump's 3% Growth Pledge Now In Rearview Mirror

If it didn't Trump would have had under 2% growth. Pathetic.

Government solves all problems for the right wing. They only allege to be for capitalism in the socialism threads.

 

[sealybobo]

I think the first couple of responses have nailed it... Obama and his administration will keep spending as long as people keep giving us money. They know that once you get the majority of people dependent on the government it is hard to take those programs away... They are going to try and get as many people dependent on them as possible so they can stay in power forever...it's that simple... It's not about the country it's about staying in power...

Also, the people who depend on the government are always going to vote for the candidate who promises them the most free stuff...which is what Democrats do, so unless people decide they want to take care of themselves instead of rely on the government you will keep getting Democrats in power...

You mean like social security and medicare? Yes, two very popular programs.

 

[Siete]

Let's not discuss what the government is spending money on these days. The specific reason for spending the money is not important to this post. Let's just discuss the large amount of money that has been spent and appears to be on target to be spent in the near future. How long can the government continue to spend money that they don't have? When and where does it stop? How long can the government continue to spend money like it's going out of style before we become bankrupt as a country? How's the money going to get repaid and just who is going to repay it? How much longer do you think the average American is going to tolerate this kind of runaway government spending? Are we getting ourselves into trouble with all of this spending? Your thoughts.

Trump plans to add $5.088 trillion to the debt in his first term. That's a 30 percent increase from the $20.245 trillion debt at the end of Obama's last budget for FY 2017. If he remains in office for a second term, he plans to add $9.1 trillion. Trump had promised to eliminate the debt during his campaign.

 

[FA_Q2]

We can continue to spend like this for as long as the rest of the world is willing to use the US dollar as the reserve currency.


The day that ends we are in deep shit.