On a serious note, anyone know how to fix this?

[BOBO]

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[Conservative]

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a couple well placed resistors in the circuitry would slow it down a might.

 

[Chris]

Repeal the Bush tax cuts, raise the top rate by 3%, and cut the defense budget.

Bill Clinton did it and balanced the budget.

 

[del]

Repeal the Bush tax cuts, raise the top rate by 3%, and cut the defense budget.

Bill Clinton did it and balanced the budget.

did he have a time machine?

idiot

 

[Avatar4321]

yeah cut spending.

 

[Vaard]

easily.....


take all spending for the year, divide by the number of people over 18... add a bit to pay off some of the debt and send each a bill for the amount to make them face the true cost of government......


within 6 months all spending will be drastically cut........

 

[Conservative]

Repeal the Bush tax cuts, raise the top rate by 3%, and cut the defense budget.

Bill Clinton did it and balanced the budget.

He must have been driving one of these...

 

[Avatar4321]

Repeal the Bush tax cuts, raise the top rate by 3%, and cut the defense budget.

Bill Clinton did it and balanced the budget.

He must have been driving one of these...

wow.. would i like one of those.

 

[Chris]

Repeal the Bush tax cuts, raise the top rate by 3%, and cut the defense budget.

Bill Clinton did it and balanced the budget.

did he have a time machine?

idiot

Are you drinking again?

The Bush tax cuts created a huge part of the deficit.

So to return things to the way they were when Clinton balanced the budget, they have to be repealed.

 

[Conservative]

Repeal the Bush tax cuts, raise the top rate by 3%, and cut the defense budget.

Bill Clinton did it and balanced the budget.

did he have a time machine?

idiot

Are you drinking again?

The Bush tax cuts created a huge part of the deficit.

So to return things to the way they were when Clinton balanced the budget, they have to be repealed.

you said Clinton repealed the Bush tax cuts, dipstick. Ron White was correct folks... 'you can't fix stupid'.

 

[Avatar4321]

Repeal the Bush tax cuts, raise the top rate by 3%, and cut the defense budget.

Bill Clinton did it and balanced the budget.

did he have a time machine?

idiot

Are you drinking again?

The Bush tax cuts created a huge part of the deficit.

So to return things to the way they were when Clinton balanced the budget, they have to be repealed.

Ill make a deal with you. Cut spending to what it was during the Clinton administration and Ill consider a tax increase.

 

[rdean]

Funny. When people have jobs. When the economy is growing. When infrastructure is being built. When people are being educated. The debt goes down. When Republicans are elected president, everything, and I mean everything, goes the other way. Odd that.

 

[Avatar4321]

Funny. When people have jobs. When the economy is growing. When infrastructure is being built. When people are being educated. The debt goes down. When Republicans are elected president, everything, and I mean everything, goes the other way. Odd that.

Funny. The above is a lie... Odd that coming from you.

 

[Ropey]

Repeal the Bush tax cuts, raise the top rate by 3%, and cut the defense budget.

Bill Clinton did it and balanced the budget.

No, Bill Clinton did not balance the budget on his own. He had help from the Republicans and even so it was not a success in lowering the debt load, simply a reduction in the penalties of interest on re-packaged debt. He attempted to balance the budget on his own, but his legislation was delayed so that his attempts would not have done any balancing until his term was over, so the Republicans led by Gingrich forced his hand in an attempt to starve the beast on his watch, and lower the deficit interest payments by purchasing debt with a few years left standing and repackaging it for longer term debt in order forgo the earlier debt load payments, so there were some surpluses for a few years however all they did was pay off some of the debt of the interest without any real movement towards a national debt reduction and no real balancing of the budget.

A fairly large portion of Slick Willie's cuts were to civilian infrastructure, maintenance and civil work, and it's a far different financial landscape than when Bill was attempting to reduce the debt load. To attempt this today would be not only be disastrous, but impossible since that method of repackaging was a pyramid structure and has been ended. It was supposed to be used for a short term effect but it was so useful a strategy (so they thought) that it was allowed to continue ad nauseam.

Now Europe might well depress when Italy comes due in another year or so, and the US has dealt with its toxic debt load to a great extent. Europe has stuck their head in the sand and pretended it did not exist.

easily.....

take all spending for the year, divide by the number of people over 18... add a bit to pay off some of the debt and send each a bill for the amount to make them face the true cost of government......

within 6 months all spending will be drastically cut........

^

 

[AVG-JOE]

On a serious note, anyone know how to fix this?
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Fair and simple taxes, a budget that's balanced by law and then build an economy that your kids can drive to the stars.

It ain't rocket science, y'all.

 

[oreo]

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Yeah--get the Federal Government the F out of the way--and let the ingenuity of the American populace--set them free--this economy will go through the roof--and the FIX IS IN.

 

[AVG-JOE]

did he have a time machine?

idiot

Are you drinking again?

The Bush tax cuts created a huge part of the deficit.

So to return things to the way they were when Clinton balanced the budget, they have to be repealed.

Ill make a deal with you. Cut spending to what it was during the Clinton administration and Ill consider a tax increase.

That's reasonable. Too bad the kids playing the game for real in DC are not. But they're not being paid to be reasonable, they're being paid to create a marketplace skewed with favoritism.

 

[AVG-JOE]

Funny. When people have jobs. When the economy is growing. When infrastructure is being built. When people are being educated. The debt goes down. When Republicans are elected president, everything, and I mean everything, goes the other way. Odd that.

It's not odd.

Before he was elected Bush said that as president he would strive to make his rich friends wealthy and his wealthy friends disgusting.

Mission Accomplished!

Say what you want about Bush, the man was a lucky opportunist both intelligent and ambitious.

 

[AVG-JOE]

Funny. When people have jobs. When the economy is growing. When infrastructure is being built. When people are being educated. The debt goes down. When Republicans are elected president, everything, and I mean everything, goes the other way. Odd that.

Funny. The above is a lie... Odd that coming from you.

It's not a lie, it's an opinion. It can't possibly be a lie - and that's not just my opinion, its in the definition of 'opinion'.

 

[AVG-JOE]

Repeal the Bush tax cuts, raise the top rate by 3%, and cut the defense budget.

Bill Clinton did it and balanced the budget.

No, Bill Clinton did not balance the budget on his own. He had help from the Republicans and even so it was not a success in lowering the debt load, simply a reduction in the penalties of interest on re-packaged debt. He attempted to balance the budget on his own, but his legislation was delayed so that his attempts would not have done any balancing until his term was over, so the Republicans led by Gingrich forced his hand in an attempt to starve the beast on his watch, and lower the deficit interest payments by purchasing debt with a few years left standing and repackaging it for longer term debt in order forgo the earlier debt load payments, so there were some surpluses for a few years however all they did was pay off some of the debt of the interest without any real movement towards a national debt reduction and no real balancing of the budget.

A fairly large portion of Slick Willie's cuts were to civilian infrastructure, maintenance and civil work, and it's a far different financial landscape than when Bill was attempting to reduce the debt load. To attempt this today would be not only be disastrous, but impossible since that method of repackaging was a pyramid structure and has been ended. It was supposed to be used for a short term effect but it was so useful a strategy (so they thought) that it was allowed to continue ad nauseam.

Now Europe might well depress when Italy comes due in another year or so, and the US has dealt with its toxic debt load to a great extent. Europe has stuck their head in the sand and pretended it did not exist.

easily.....

take all spending for the year, divide by the number of people over 18... add a bit to pay off some of the debt and send each a bill for the amount to make them face the true cost of government......

within 6 months all spending will be drastically cut........

^

Exactly!

It wasn't the Republicans OR the Democrats who brought you the economies of the 1980's and 1990's. It was The American Government in the 80's and 90's. The one YOU elected.

Why does politics always have to be like a sporting event with a winner and a looser?

Games and stupidity need the triumphant and those the triumphant make to feel like shit..... The American Marketplace simply needs balance.