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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:22 PM Original message |
The "Spending Freeze" is probably just marketing. Same old "let's clear out waste" with a new name |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. kinda like change you can believe in lol nt |
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Thrill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. So Defense increases and they are cutting Domestic programs. I thought we elected a Democrat? |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:35 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Where are the cuts? |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 01:33 AM Response to Reply #4 |
18. Factoring in inflation and other normal expense increases, a "freeze" is always considered a cut |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 01:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
22. Democrats haven't been for cutting defense spending since Truman |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. Do you like the idea, or dislike it, or what? |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 01:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
19. Not making any value judgement |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
5. Speaking of a freeze, this thread appears frozen....... |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
6. To me it is PR for the Independents/low info voters who say they are worried about the debt |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Are Democrats here that politically totally fucking dumb? |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:19 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. The outrage overload is constant. It is out of control. Full fledged freak out over every |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. Well, Clinton and Gore "streamlined the gov't." |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #7 |
30. ReGo! I loved Al Gore...and his $200 hammer. |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
8. What I would like to see, is for our |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-25-10 11:55 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. It's not an either or proposition...... |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:03 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. No shit? |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:35 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Thank God I came through, ...cause for a while, I couldn't find any |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
13. so, the "cuts" aren't really "cuts"; just as "change" wasn't "change; just hot air! i get it! |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:37 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Who said "Cuts"" |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
16. War spending isn't included, as expected. Warlords will get all want in the meantime. |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 01:17 AM Response to Original message |
17. The more this administration does the more they look like |
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secondwind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 01:37 AM Response to Original message |
20. Exactly what VP Biden's economic advisor was saying to Rachel Maddow tonight. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 01:44 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. That interview is what got me thinking along these lines |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:30 AM Response to Original message |
23. Sounds to me like they've humped the shark |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 10:56 AM Response to Reply #23 |
29. Yes a "stimulating freeze" is what they always seem to fall back on |
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girl_interrupted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:38 AM Response to Original message |
24. Obama has already "Frozen" increases in SS |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 02:53 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. That wasn't his doing..... |
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girl_interrupted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 03:54 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. It was his "doing" |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 06:05 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. So basically, you just throw out the FACTS that I provided on |
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JTFrog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-26-10 06:08 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Oh so he was the one that created the calculation used to set the increases? |
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