SmarterthanYou
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that's because the majority of you are partisan hacks who vilify the opposing side for doing what your side is/has done.This isn't a "you/they" thread. Read it again.
The partisanship on this board is so extreme.
that's because the majority of you are partisan hacks who vilify the opposing side for doing what your side is/has done.This isn't a "you/they" thread. Read it again.
The partisanship on this board is so extreme.
The truly scary part is that we probably have the best informed and best educated citizenry of any Democracy on the planet.
Even assuming that the Democrats raised taxes back in January (which they didn't), the Republicans got larger spending cuts in the 2011 Budget Control Act such that the ratio of revenue increases to spending cuts enacted since the Republicans decided to hold the American economy hostage in exchange for increasing the debt ceiling alreay heavily favors the spending cuts that Republicans want. Having a cuts only deal to avoid the sequester would have made the ratio even more disproportionate.
The above is the type of kool aid drinking buffoons that the idiots in DC love. Dung loves to pretend that taxes weren't increased. So all of you that have felt that 2% increase in your social security withholding over what was held last year... that isn't an increase. All those that earned in excess of $450k... nope... that increase over last year isn't really an increase because the increase was going to happen anyway. For those earning under $450k, you all got a 'cut' in Dungs world, because it technically went up for a day before going back to where it was in 2012. So enjoy all that extra money from your cuts.
The above is the type of kool aid drinking buffoons that the idiots in DC love. Dung loves to pretend that taxes weren't increased. So all of you that have felt that 2% increase in your social security withholding over what was held last year... that isn't an increase. All those that earned in excess of $450k... nope... that increase over last year isn't really an increase because the increase was going to happen anyway. For those earning under $450k, you all got a 'cut' in Dungs world, because it technically went up for a day before going back to where it was in 2012. So enjoy all that extra money from your cuts.
It really wouldn't have been that hard to make the cuts & raise the revenues needed to avoid this past week's disaster. Tip O'Neil & Reagan would have done this in their sleep. It was all kinds of different in the '80's and prior to that; those were the days when the "base" took a backseat to compromise when it came to the good of the people as a whole.
Now, it's only about the base, 24x7. Obama & Boehner & the rest would rather posture and get high marks from their respective stalwarts for "holding their ground" than actually fix a problem.
For this, I blame Rush Limbaugh (and subsequently every idiot talk radio & cable pundit that followed him). He is relentless about the evils of "compromise", and how traitorous those who engage in it are. All to a chorus of "ditto's".
We reward this behavior, and get the gov't we deserve as a result.
True. That said, they didn't have to deal with the 24/7 news cycle where every phrase uttered was publicly dissected.
I think the above is part of it. The other part in my opinion is that they are in over their heads and don't know what to do.
Yeah, idiots like him have certainly done far more harm than good. They have helped demonize the 'other' party to the point that polarization just keeps getting worse.
too true
The budget goes up every year. Do you know why?
It is. Why do you think our founding fathers were so concerned about the rule of the mob. The French Revolution opened their eyes up wide!The thought of that being true is an indictment on the entire human race.
first of all, we haven't had a "budget" for the last four years.....second, spending has gone up by around 9% a year for the last four years, which is considerably higher than inflation, because of the first of all.....we haven't had a "budget" for the last four years....in the absence of a budget funds available for spending automatically go up.....now we both know why.....
so now, for the third time....why is anyone going to lose their job when the government still has 7% more to spend than they did last year.....
the Republicans got larger spending cuts in the 2011 Budget Control Act s
Because there will be arbitrary cuts to programs that will necessitate layoffs. Duh.
nothing has been cut, dumbfuck, it went UP 7%.....UPUPUPUPUPUPUP....get it through your dense head......
dude....the spending cuts we got for the 2011 act are the sequestration we're talking about here
Even assuming that the Democrats raised taxes back in January (which they didn't), the Republicans got larger spending cuts in the 2011 Budget Control Act such that the ratio of revenue increases to spending cuts enacted since the Republicans decided to hold the American economy hostage in exchange for increasing the debt ceiling alreay heavily favors the spending cuts that Republicans want. Having a cuts only deal to avoid the sequester would have made the ratio even more disproportionate.
Hilarious. I've never said that taxes did not increase. I've said that Republicans didn't agree to tax increases and that Democrats didn't increase taxes in January.
Nope. The sequestration is on top of the cuts in the BCA itself.
So when did they increase the taxes Dung? Are you going to pretend that there weren't $600B in increases that passed?
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LMAO... ok Dung... so they got $600B in tax increases... thanks for playing.They voted to increase the taxes in December 2010.
Nope. The sequestration is on top of the cuts in the BCA itself.