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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:43 AM Original message |
“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:47 AM Response to Original message |
1. The Repubs would be the ones dancing in the streets. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. You're so transparent. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Well it looks to me like the Reps are more interested in cutting than the Dems. |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. You're not paying attention |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:37 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Ending the Bush tax cuts brings us back to normalized revenues. |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 05:00 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Limiting Entitlement Spending? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 05:38 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Me? Single payer. What they will actually do is anyone's guess. |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 06:19 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. What??? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 06:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. I'd cut entitlement spending by implementing single payer. |
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ArtiChoke (21 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 09:15 AM Response to Reply #17 |
33. Tentacles? |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 09:46 AM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Lord Cthulu is not amused. nt |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 08:24 AM Response to Reply #33 |
43. No |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 07:08 AM Response to Reply #13 |
31. Excuse me? Medicare is now an "entitlement"? .... |
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louslobbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #31 |
50. I never understand why some people won't use the term "earned benefits" rather than the Luntz type |
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cui bono (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 10:20 AM Response to Reply #4 |
37. You are looking at the problem from the wrong side of the spectrum. |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 09:18 AM Response to Reply #2 |
35. Indeed! |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:55 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Care to elaborate? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:01 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Republicans are the ones who want to shrink government and entitlements. |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:11 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I don't understand your point. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:35 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. I'm saying that controlling the deficit is something Republicans want more than Democrats. |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:51 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. What gives you that idea? |
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IndyPragmatist (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 07:28 AM Response to Reply #16 |
32. Ugh, I hate dumb graphs like this. Read a book on how budgets are approved please |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 07:57 AM Response to Reply #32 |
41. What you hate is of no consequence to me |
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IndyPragmatist (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 08:27 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Certainly |
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IndyPragmatist (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 08:32 AM Response to Reply #41 |
47. Here is another link |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 05:49 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Actually, it is what they say they want to do |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 06:03 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Please provide proof |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 04:14 PM Response to Reply #22 |
49. The Bush Administration |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 05:13 AM Response to Reply #49 |
51. I think I misunderstood you |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 07:15 AM Response to Reply #51 |
53. I was tagging off your statement |
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eomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 05:57 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Republicans want to control our money and to loot it, not to control the deficit. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 06:33 AM Response to Reply #20 |
27. The new batch of Republicans aren't the same. |
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eomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 09:16 AM Response to Reply #27 |
34. They smell blood in the water and it has them in a feeding frenzy. |
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cui bono (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 10:26 AM Response to Reply #27 |
39. Yeah, they are total whackadoodles who don't know shit. |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 05:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. that's funny because the deficit seems to increase when republicans are in charge. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 06:35 AM Response to Reply #21 |
28. You think they care that social programs stabilize the economy? |
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cui bono (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 10:23 AM Response to Reply #12 |
38. Are you joking??? |
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Tunkamerica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. you've been posting for 10 hours or so and every one I've read is incendiary. |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 06:24 AM Response to Reply #14 |
24. So I get it you're saying... |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:14 AM Response to Original message |
8. Nationalize the FED...... put a $1 transaction tax on Wall St. |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:21 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. That's a sentiment I can agree with. N/T |
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ObaMania (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:19 AM Response to Original message |
9. Another excellent suggestion that will get lost.. |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:28 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I hope you're wrong |
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ObaMania (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:42 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. I've already done that. |
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n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 06:24 AM Response to Original message |
25. I kind of think the republicans would go for it |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 06:37 AM Response to Original message |
29. holy crap, Austerity on steroids .... here we go |
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slay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 06:53 AM Response to Original message |
30. That and legalize and tax marijuana |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 08:29 AM Response to Reply #30 |
46. "That and legalize and tax marijuana" |
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MH1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
40. Ok I'm calling bullshit on that article. |
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Speed8098 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 08:05 AM Response to Reply #40 |
42. LOL, sometimes I really wonder about people |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
45. Such a law would of course be unconstitutional |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
48. Fact-check... It's a LIE... |
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mwooldri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 08:45 AM Response to Reply #48 |
54. Yep, Buffett did not write it. But turkeys wouldn't vote for Thanksgiving. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 07:05 AM Response to Original message |
52. It would end the defecit, but probably also end social security, education etc. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
55. Obama could have ended it in 5 minutes too- just Veto the Bush Tax Cut renewal, but he didn't. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-22-11 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
56. Populist rhetoric masking a bullshit ideology. There are going to |
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