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I want to hear an interviewer ask her one question (which of course she won't answer).
"If you had been president, we would not have raised the debt ceiling. That would mean we would not be paying for 40% of our current spending.
Tell us, specifically, item by item, what would comprise the 40% of our current spending you, as president, would want left unpaid?"
Actually, she did put forth legislation that would prioritize the most important payments. It should be up to Congress to decide what does and what doesn't get paid, not the President. Personally, I'd happily support cutting 40% of our spending. Gosh, that would take us all the way back to what we spent in the early 2000s. Remember all the dead people in the streets back then?
Here's question for you: If you were President, you would have raised the debt ceiling. Exactly how do you expect each taxpayer to pay back the $130,000 they owe, while we're adding another $8-10 trillion to the debt over the next decade. That should get us close to $200,000 owed for every taxpayer. How will you pay your share?
I'd like to see that legislation. I'd like to see where she got 40% in non payments as of August 3rd or whenever it was. I'd like to see who wouldn't have gotten paid.
If Reagan was a dismal president, what does that make obamaturd? Obamaturd makes the worst president, carter, look good.Bargain..
Total bullshit.
Reagan's defense spending and backing of Terrorist Osama Bin Laden against the Soviets had very little to do with the decline of the Soviet Union.
What did have an effect was the wheat embargo, the people of Russia backing reform, the reform minded Gorbachev and the promise of economic support from the USA for an orderly break up.
Reagan was a horrible president. And it was George HW Bush that was largely responsible in fixing many of the messes left by Reagan's abysmal performance.
Reagan committed treason, violated the Constitution and broke the law.
Those things alone should put him in the worst President spot without the other crap.
Actually, she did put forth legislation that would prioritize the most important payments. It should be up to Congress to decide what does and what doesn't get paid, not the President. Personally, I'd happily support cutting 40% of our spending. Gosh, that would take us all the way back to what we spent in the early 2000s. Remember all the dead people in the streets back then?
Here's question for you: If you were President, you would have raised the debt ceiling. Exactly how do you expect each taxpayer to pay back the $130,000 they owe, while we're adding another $8-10 trillion to the debt over the next decade. That should get us close to $200,000 owed for every taxpayer. How will you pay your share?
I'd like to see that legislation. I'd like to see where she got 40% in non payments as of August 3rd or whenever it was. I'd like to see who wouldn't have gotten paid.
First, those payments are not all due on August 3rd. We would have to cut over time but be sure, we'd have to cut. All Bachmann did was offer legislation that prioritized debt payments, SS and military payments first, as should be the case. The rest is up to Congress to argue over...what they do best.
Secondly, you didn't answer my question!
Bachmann did exactly what Republicans all over the county have been doing...slamming the stimulus while cashing the checks.
This is just the latest of her hypocrisies...like wanting to cut Medicare, but taking the money at her phoney baloney clinic. Like wanting to eliminate mortgage lending programs AFTER receiving the maximum loan possible from one.
It's our money. Moron.
I'd like to see that legislation. I'd like to see where she got 40% in non payments as of August 3rd or whenever it was. I'd like to see who wouldn't have gotten paid.
First, those payments are not all due on August 3rd. We would have to cut over time but be sure, we'd have to cut. All Bachmann did was offer legislation that prioritized debt payments, SS and military payments first, as should be the case. The rest is up to Congress to argue over...what they do best.
Secondly, you didn't answer my question!
I want to raise taxes and cut spending in a 50/50 ratio, cutting the spending portion across the board, with preferably extra weight on defense cuts, to balance the budget.
[ The money went to those who support Obama, Period.
First, those payments are not all due on August 3rd. We would have to cut over time but be sure, we'd have to cut. All Bachmann did was offer legislation that prioritized debt payments, SS and military payments first, as should be the case. The rest is up to Congress to argue over...what they do best.
Secondly, you didn't answer my question!
I want to raise taxes and cut spending in a 50/50 ratio, cutting the spending portion across the board, with preferably extra weight on defense cuts, to balance the budget.
With Extra Weight on defense lol. Yeah even though Defense spending has shrank to only 20% of total Spending. Down from 50% under JFK. You think we can get all the savings we need by Gutting defense to support the other 80% of spending that is sucking us all dry.
After 2012 when you libs are left wondering how you fell so far, so fast. Thinking like this will be why.
I'd like to see that legislation. I'd like to see where she got 40% in non payments as of August 3rd or whenever it was. I'd like to see who wouldn't have gotten paid.
First, those payments are not all due on August 3rd. We would have to cut over time but be sure, we'd have to cut. All Bachmann did was offer legislation that prioritized debt payments, SS and military payments first, as should be the case. The rest is up to Congress to argue over...what they do best.
Secondly, you didn't answer my question!
I want to raise taxes and cut spending in a 50/50 ratio, cutting the spending portion across the board, with preferably extra weight on defense cuts, to balance the budget.
Fresh from her victory in the Ames Straw Poll, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) had to defend her positions on government spending and economic policy on Sunday. Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Bachmann insisted that her prior eagerness to accept funds from President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill was not in conflict with her vocal criticism of the legislation.
HuffPost's Sam Stein reported last week that Bachmann not only repeatedly sought stimulus funds from federal agencies, but deployed traditional Keynesian economic rationales to justify her requests, claiming that the funds would create jobs and strengthen the economy. Publicly, by contrast, Bachmann has insisted that the stimulus was an act of "overspending" and "fantasy economics" that hurt jobs.
When asked by Fox News' Chris Wallace about this discrepancy, Bachmann claimed there was no conflict.
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First, those payments are not all due on August 3rd. We would have to cut over time but be sure, we'd have to cut. All Bachmann did was offer legislation that prioritized debt payments, SS and military payments first, as should be the case. The rest is up to Congress to argue over...what they do best.
Secondly, you didn't answer my question!
I want to raise taxes and cut spending in a 50/50 ratio, cutting the spending portion across the board, with preferably extra weight on defense cuts, to balance the budget.
We currently collect enough in taxes to cover 60% of this year's budget.
First, those payments are not all due on August 3rd. We would have to cut over time but be sure, we'd have to cut. All Bachmann did was offer legislation that prioritized debt payments, SS and military payments first, as should be the case. The rest is up to Congress to argue over...what they do best.
Secondly, you didn't answer my question!
I want to raise taxes and cut spending in a 50/50 ratio, cutting the spending portion across the board, with preferably extra weight on defense cuts, to balance the budget.
We currently collect enough in taxes to cover 60% of this year's budget.
I want to raise taxes and cut spending in a 50/50 ratio, cutting the spending portion across the board, with preferably extra weight on defense cuts, to balance the budget.
We currently collect enough in taxes to cover 60% of this year's budget.
Okay, then cut 40% out of the budget without touching Defense, Social Security, or the Interest on the Debt:
Which is what, presumably, Bachmann thinks she could have done after she froze the debt ceiling...
Ready, Go!!!!!
We currently collect enough in taxes to cover 60% of this year's budget.
Okay, then cut 40% out of the budget without touching Defense, Social Security, or the Interest on the Debt:
Which is what, presumably, Bachmann thinks she could have done after she froze the debt ceiling...
Ready, Go!!!!!
That would be an incorrect assumption on your part. We MUST cut defense, SS, Medicare/Medicade as well as all bulk of discretionary spending. That or destroy the lives of those yet to be born with crippling debt. I say we live within our means. You?
Just dicking with you. 
Relax. You have had us by the balls for so long you lost your sense of humor. 
Okay, then cut 40% out of the budget without touching Defense, Social Security, or the Interest on the Debt:
Which is what, presumably, Bachmann thinks she could have done after she froze the debt ceiling...
Ready, Go!!!!!
That would be an incorrect assumption on your part. We MUST cut defense, SS, Medicare/Medicade as well as all bulk of discretionary spending. That or destroy the lives of those yet to be born with crippling debt. I say we live within our means. You?
Agree.
That would be an incorrect assumption on your part. We MUST cut defense, SS, Medicare/Medicade as well as all bulk of discretionary spending. That or destroy the lives of those yet to be born with crippling debt. I say we live within our means. You?
Agree.
Instead, how about cutting spending by 20% and raising revenues to pay for the other 20%. That would balance the budget. But, I guess you really aren't concerned with balancing the budget are you?
If Reagan was a dismal president, what does that make obamaturd? Obamaturd makes the worst president, carter, look good.
Reagan committed treason, violated the Constitution and broke the law.
Those things alone should put him in the worst President spot without the other crap.
How ironic that as America debated its debt ceiling all summer and faced a stunning credit downgrade, the nation approached a most timely anniversary: It was Aug. 13, 1981, that President Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Act. Understanding Reagan's thinking 30 years ago is critical to discerning where we are now.
Reagan's initiative was the antithesis of President Obama's $800 billion "stimulus" that didn't stimulate. The 2009 version was the single greatest contributor to our record $1.5 trillion deficit. It was, plain and simple, what Reagan didn't do.
When Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Act at his ranch near Santa Barbara, it was the largest tax cut in American history. He also revealed leadership that Democrats and Republicans alike agree we are not seeing currently from the White House. Even TheWashington Post called Reagan's action "one of the most remarkable demonstrations of presidential leadership in modern history."
Confiscatory tax policy
The enemy that day was America's progressive federal income tax system, birthed in 1913 by Congress and President Woodrow Wilson. It was revolutionary, requiring a constitutional amendment. That tax, which began as a 1% levy on the wealthy, would rocket up to a top rate of 94% by the 1940s.
Ronald Reagan personally felt the toll. In the 1940s, the so-called "B"-movie actor was one of the top box-office draws at Warner Bros. Then a Democrat, Reagan saw no incentive in continuing to work that is, make more movies once his income hit the top rate. He also realized who suffered from that choice. It wasn't Reagan; he was wealthy. It was the custodians, cafeteria ladies, camera crew and working folks on the studio lot. They lost work.
Reagan viewed such rates as punitive, confiscatory "creeping socialism," as he put it. In speeches in the 1950s and 1960s, he blasted the tax as right out of Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Column: The Reagan stimulus vs. the Obama one - USATODAY.com
Reagan doubled the debt, raised taxes multiple times and caused the biggest financial meltdown since the great Depression.
This myth making by the right is absurd.
