Recent content by gonewt2012

I'm reminded of that scene under the twinkling florescent lights in "Joe Versus the Volcano". I have 16 trillion reasons to sincerely hope that he can do the job. I have confidence that he'll approach from the perspective on the debt that we have a spending problem ... my concern is...

By definition this lock on the nomination proves you to be the better politician. My sincere wish to you is luck, godspeed and victory in November. My hope is that you distinguish yourself from the two Bush's, Clinton and Obama. My fear is of the existential threat that is the national...

Zander, I'm not jealous of Mitt. I admire him. Tell ya' what man ... I'll hang onto this for posterity and post it in a new thread once we hit the 20 TRILLION dollar mark in '16 with Mitt at the helm. I'll even throw in a picture of my McCain 2000 lapel pin.

It's a big wide 'ole world out there hun' ... there's PLENTY of ways they could spend those dollars. It's the high debt that has put us in the position of needing, what is, by your argument (which isn't quite correct, as the bond and forex markets do not move in lockstep) a conflicting set of...

Compare Romney on the stump and his ads with GW back in 2000 and 2004. Same general platitudes. GW doubled the debt. So will Mitt.

:lol::lol::lol: The only reason Clinton didn't spend that money was because it came in too fast from the dot com bubble for him to redo the baselines. :lol::lol::lol:

Which had nothing to do with a tax increase. They don't have to buy U.S. bonds with those dollars. That's the point. They can buy Eurobonds or Libyan oil leases or real estate in Brazil. Instead they've bought U.S. Bonds. Which they can sell. On a very liquid and fast moving market...

... hmmmm .... geee.... who was it that said this? You know, it might help to debate the lib's here if we nominate someone who is in at least in touch with reality. George Bush doubled the debt and Romney would do the same ... listen to Mitt and go play old tapes of George. They sound like...

Your original point was that since the Europeans are spending more than 39% of their GDP that we were comparatively not overspending. Well that's fine. If you like riots. My guess is that you like riots. By your logic no amount of spending is too much. Hell, why not match GDP 100%? What...

Yes, I agree, the current level of income inequality is likely unsustainable. Good luck trying to fix it with taxation. That might be part of the story. An overall structure that favors aggregation coupled with laws that make it legal to form small clubs that control large swaths of the...

What you say is maybe true, maybe not ... but what is undeniable is that as Speaker, he ushered in the only balanced budgets in our lifetime. It takes two to tango (well, in context, many more than two actually), and do you honestly believe that Bill Clinton wouldn't have spent that money if...

Have you seen what has been going on over in Europe? In Greece? In the U.K.? The relative comparison you are looking for (if you really are honest in such an inquiry) can be found on this chart --> US Government Spending As Percent Of GDP United States 1903-2010 - Federal State Local Data The...

If you think you can get them to pay more, then fine, go ahead. No matter what you do they'll figure out a way to protect themselves. Even if you took everything they had you'd still have your hand out for more. What happens then? I'm not going to defend the upside-down tax system of this...

The tipping point that the debt has placed us at makes a successful true populist movement, one based on substance rather than a mirage, inevitable. The face of this eventual leader will morph over time. In 1992, we had the snappy wise old grandfather in the visage of Ross Perot, somewhat...

1.07*X > 1.02*X Any new money the government taxes will be spent, not applied to the deficit/debt. If you allow baseline budgeting to continue such that every government program grows at 7% while the economy grows and around 2 or 3%, the result is obvious. And that doesn't even account...