New From CBO: Trillion-Dollar Deficits Will Return In Two Years

[rightwinger]

You mean like not putting more money into the hands of billionaires?

No. I’m talking about rebuilding our military and repairing our infrastructure.

I still can’t understand how obama managed to double our debt while ignoring those issues.

Rebuild our military?
We spend 46 cents out of every military dollar on earth

Where is the threat?

We are treaty bound to protect Estonia from a very large, and heavily armed neighbor, on the other side of the world.


That type of capability is fucking expense.


Indeed, imo, we cannot do it, even now.


As things stand, we are unable to meet our obligations.


That's a big problem, that either requires massive additional spending, or reducing our commitments.

At some point, America has to say
Enough is enough

We are not the worlds policeman and we have almost a zero threat against our home front

Military spending comes at the expense of less money available for infrastructure, healthcare, education and social programs

You’re an idiot who doesn’t understand the importance of having a strong military.
I can’t say that any nicer than I did.

Strong military against what?
Where is the threat?

We spend more on our military than the next eight nations combined. Six of those nations are our allies

 

[bendog]

I spent 4 years waiting for Ryan to put up a middle class tax cuts offset by other revenue and entitlement reform.

first W and then that sack of shit. I hope he goes ice fishing and falls in. LOL

Like that was going to happen

Republicans sold out to their wealthy benefactors

Yes they did. Ryan chose to try and cut entitlements to pay for tax cuts for the 1%. I'm not a big fan of welfare or the Medicaid expansion of Obamacare, but the gop is worse by far.

 

[rightwinger]

You mean like not putting more money into the hands of billionaires?

No. I’m talking about rebuilding our military and repairing our infrastructure.

I still can’t understand how obama managed to double our debt while ignoring those issues.

Rebuild our military?
We spend 46 cents out of every military dollar on earth

Where is the threat?

We are treaty bound to protect Estonia from a very large, and heavily armed neighbor, on the other side of the world.


That type of capability is fucking expense.


Indeed, imo, we cannot do it, even now.


As things stand, we are unable to meet our obligations.


That's a big problem, that either requires massive additional spending, or reducing our commitments.

At some point, America has to say
Enough is enough

We are not the worlds policeman and we have almost a zero threat against our home front

Military spending comes at the expense of less money available for infrastructure, healthcare, education and social programs

I completely agree.

The Cold War is over. We should not be treaty bound to protect Estonia.


We need to wind down our commitments, and reduce military spending.

The EU has an economy the equivalent of ours
They should be responsible for defending their theater with minimal support from the US

 

[bendog]

Social Security and Medicare are the LION in the room on Mandatory spending........it is in these areas that unfunded liabilities are going to take us off the cliff

Yet they don't make up one dime of the two trillion deficit the gop just handed out kids.

 

[Correll]

No. I’m talking about rebuilding our military and repairing our infrastructure.

I still can’t understand how obama managed to double our debt while ignoring those issues.

Rebuild our military?
We spend 46 cents out of every military dollar on earth

Where is the threat?

We are treaty bound to protect Estonia from a very large, and heavily armed neighbor, on the other side of the world.


That type of capability is fucking expense.


Indeed, imo, we cannot do it, even now.


As things stand, we are unable to meet our obligations.


That's a big problem, that either requires massive additional spending, or reducing our commitments.

At some point, America has to say
Enough is enough

We are not the worlds policeman and we have almost a zero threat against our home front

Military spending comes at the expense of less money available for infrastructure, healthcare, education and social programs

You’re an idiot who doesn’t understand the importance of having a strong military.
I can’t say that any nicer than I did.

Strong military against what?
Where is the threat?

We spend more on our military than the next eight nations combined. Six of those nations are our allies

It would be impossible to keep Russia out of Estonia.


It would be very, very hard to root them out.


Yet, that is our task.


Among many others.


Being capable of doing them, is very expensive.

 

[Correll]

No. I’m talking about rebuilding our military and repairing our infrastructure.

I still can’t understand how obama managed to double our debt while ignoring those issues.

Rebuild our military?
We spend 46 cents out of every military dollar on earth

Where is the threat?

We are treaty bound to protect Estonia from a very large, and heavily armed neighbor, on the other side of the world.


That type of capability is fucking expense.


Indeed, imo, we cannot do it, even now.


As things stand, we are unable to meet our obligations.


That's a big problem, that either requires massive additional spending, or reducing our commitments.

At some point, America has to say
Enough is enough

We are not the worlds policeman and we have almost a zero threat against our home front

Military spending comes at the expense of less money available for infrastructure, healthcare, education and social programs

I completely agree.

The Cold War is over. We should not be treaty bound to protect Estonia.


We need to wind down our commitments, and reduce military spending.

The EU has an economy the equivalent of ours
They should be responsible for defending their theater with minimal support from the US

I agree completely.


Yet that is not the policy. Not theirs, not ours.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

87% of all mandatory spending is socialist welfare bullshit.

Sorry, old people. Get back to work. You can quit when you're dead.



No more freeloaders on this bullshit Ponzi scheme that I will never get a piece of. Fuck that shit.

 

[eagle1462010]

Social Security and Medicare are the LION in the room on Mandatory spending........it is in these areas that unfunded liabilities are going to take us off the cliff

Yet they don't make up one dime of the two trillion deficit the gop just handed out kids.

Guess you didn't look at the charts........they are the massive side of the budget.........and the major part of unfunded liabilities........

They were handed over by FDR

 

[tycho1572]

No. I’m talking about rebuilding our military and repairing our infrastructure.

I still can’t understand how obama managed to double our debt while ignoring those issues.

Rebuild our military?
We spend 46 cents out of every military dollar on earth

Where is the threat?

We are treaty bound to protect Estonia from a very large, and heavily armed neighbor, on the other side of the world.


That type of capability is fucking expense.


Indeed, imo, we cannot do it, even now.


As things stand, we are unable to meet our obligations.


That's a big problem, that either requires massive additional spending, or reducing our commitments.

At some point, America has to say
Enough is enough

We are not the worlds policeman and we have almost a zero threat against our home front

Military spending comes at the expense of less money available for infrastructure, healthcare, education and social programs

You’re an idiot who doesn’t understand the importance of having a strong military.
I can’t say that any nicer than I did.

Strong military against what?
Where is the threat?

We spend more on our military than the next eight nations combined. Six of those nations are our allies

Smh
I’m not going to argue the importance of having a strong military with someone of your caliber/ignorance.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

The EU has an economy the equivalent of ours
They should be responsible for defending their theater with minimal support from the US

Stop saying smart shit. You have a reputation to uphold, you know.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Strong military against what?
Where is the threat?

We spend more on our military than the next eight nations combined. Six of those nations are our allies

Shut the fuck up, rightwinger. I am tired of giving you trophies!!!

You better start saying stupid shit immediately!!!! I am not going to put up with you being correct. That's not how you roll.

 

[rightwinger]

Rebuild our military?
We spend 46 cents out of every military dollar on earth

Where is the threat?

We are treaty bound to protect Estonia from a very large, and heavily armed neighbor, on the other side of the world.


That type of capability is fucking expense.


Indeed, imo, we cannot do it, even now.


As things stand, we are unable to meet our obligations.


That's a big problem, that either requires massive additional spending, or reducing our commitments.

At some point, America has to say
Enough is enough

We are not the worlds policeman and we have almost a zero threat against our home front

Military spending comes at the expense of less money available for infrastructure, healthcare, education and social programs

I completely agree.

The Cold War is over. We should not be treaty bound to protect Estonia.


We need to wind down our commitments, and reduce military spending.

The EU has an economy the equivalent of ours
They should be responsible for defending their theater with minimal support from the US

I agree completely.


Yet that is not the policy. Not theirs, not ours.

The Western European countries have modern infrastructure, low cost healthcare, low cost secondary education, generous retirement plans for their citizens

Things we cannot afford because of our extensive spending on a military whose primary focus is defending other nations

 

[Correll]

We are treaty bound to protect Estonia from a very large, and heavily armed neighbor, on the other side of the world.


That type of capability is fucking expense.


Indeed, imo, we cannot do it, even now.


As things stand, we are unable to meet our obligations.


That's a big problem, that either requires massive additional spending, or reducing our commitments.

At some point, America has to say
Enough is enough

We are not the worlds policeman and we have almost a zero threat against our home front

Military spending comes at the expense of less money available for infrastructure, healthcare, education and social programs

I completely agree.

The Cold War is over. We should not be treaty bound to protect Estonia.


We need to wind down our commitments, and reduce military spending.

The EU has an economy the equivalent of ours
They should be responsible for defending their theater with minimal support from the US

I agree completely.


Yet that is not the policy. Not theirs, not ours.

The Western European countries have modern infrastructure, low cost healthcare, low cost secondary education, generous retirement plans for their citizens

Things we cannot afford because of our extensive spending on a military whose primary focus is defending other nations

AND because we allow our trading partners to have large surpluses at our expense.


Time to change that.


Thought to be fair, I'm pretty sure that most of those nations are in nearly as bad shape as we are, long term budget wise, despite those advantages.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

The Western European countries have modern infrastructure, low cost healthcare, low cost secondary education, generous retirement plans for their citizens

Things we cannot afford because of our extensive spending on a military whose primary focus is defending other nations

Who the fuck are you, and what have you done with rightwinger? I am serious. I am going to file a missing person's.

 

[Mr Natural]

You’re an idiot who doesn’t understand the importance of having a strong military.
I can’t say that any nicer than I did.

There’s strong and then there’s ridiculous.

We passed the ridiculous point a long time ago.

 

[tycho1572]

You’re an idiot who doesn’t understand the importance of having a strong military.
I can’t say that any nicer than I did.

There’s strong and then there’s ridiculous.

We passed the ridiculous point a long time ago.

Trump is bringing us back to being strong.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

You’re an idiot who doesn’t understand the importance of having a strong military.
I can’t say that any nicer than I did.

When we can beat the entire world x5, we have overspent and are overstretched. The Roman Empire comes to mind.

 

[Mr Natural]

Trump is bringing us back to being strong.

We’v been strong since the end of WWII.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

We’v been strong since the end of WWII.

Gotta feed that crony military-industrial complex.

 

[tycho1572]

Trump is bringing us back to being strong.

We’v been strong since the end of WWII.

Not strong enough if we ever have a WW3.

Do you live in this country?