speaking of the $1.5 trillion republican tax cut -- remember how much obama's stimulus cost?
that's right, the stimulus that republicans howled about as unjustified and hugely expensive and my, oh, my, the deficits?
the stimulus that was necessary to keep our cratering economy from diving head-first into depression?
that stimulus?
around $800 billion, give or take.
that $800 billion saved us from catastrophe and many economists say it should have been bigger, we might have had a quicker recovery then.
*that*, republicans say, was irresponsible fiscal management and deficits and blah, blah, blah.
but $1.5 trillion when the economy is doing fine and inflation is the bigger danger, oh, that's just peachy with republicans.
don't buy their bull on the deficit *ever* again.
they are partisan liars, plain and simple.
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- cuts to other areas automatically kick in?? - Funds from Medicare..Medicaid..social safety nets..I will research further....ALL for them, none for us...
Santa Claus theory. 
i might be able to get convinced that some politicians aren't economists and don't really understand how things work.
dereliction of duty to not get a basic working knowledge when you're proposing tax policy, but at least they're not trained experts.
alan greenspan was a highly regarded economist and fed chairman.
for him to testify, running around like a chicken with his head cut off, crying the disaster that would come from actually paying off the debt in full, pleading for a tax cut because, hell, we've paid down the debt by like 1%, we might even pay it down by 2%, and omg here's the nightmare scenario if we reach 100% without changing any laws and the economy kept humming along as it was.
as if that had any hope of ever happening.
so he put his "serious economist" stamp of approval on another republican ridiculous tax heist with the express purpose of *avoiding* paying down the debt.
