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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:23 PM Original message |
Sen. Gregg says Obama budget will bankrupt US |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. Bush Bankrupted Us |
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960 (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Bush did, but Obama is in charge now. If Obama follows through on the 10 years of |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. John Maynard Keynes. |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 04:32 PM Response to Reply #16 |
29. "The US cannot go bankrupt as long as it can cut trees." |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 08:37 PM Response to Reply #29 |
43. So every job depends on a tree being cut??!! |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-23-09 11:17 AM Response to Reply #43 |
54. What are hippies |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 10:59 PM Response to Reply #29 |
50. Growth is relative to preceding trend |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-23-09 11:08 AM Response to Reply #50 |
52. What is value? |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 05:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
34. Fall apart? I guess that is what the Republicans.. |
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MetaTrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 05:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
35. Doesn't matter, they'll all be living in the Cayman Islands by then anyway |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 09:23 PM Response to Reply #4 |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
2. And Ray Gun Omicks had nothing to do with it |
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960 (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
3. We've been bankrupt since Bush's wars of aggression.... but Obama's |
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MarjorieG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:29 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Ours are also more honest. |
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960 (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. The budgets are, but the end result is the same. |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 05:09 PM Response to Reply #9 |
33. And we can't afford not too |
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960 (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 08:17 PM Response to Reply #33 |
40. The first step is to stop wasting our money on the wars. |
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David_NSU (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 03:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. True... |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 04:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. "We have to get credit moving again and the market going." |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. Unbelievable that this tool came close to a cabinet position |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. SOMEBODY musta thought Gregg was "new democrat" material nt |
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Azteka (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
7. So glad not to have him in the administration... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. It's funny because they wouldn't give him the census, so he said no to the Commerce job... |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 03:49 PM Response to Reply #8 |
27. Didn't know they gave it back, that is funny, thank you. nt |
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MarjorieG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
10. Other forecasts not as dire; we have priority choices. Fear Congress will fund lobbyist same ol' |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
12. Well, let's increase the GDP. Jobs are the answer. There are plenty of creative and capable people |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 04:36 PM Response to Reply #12 |
31. How about let's not |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 08:33 PM Response to Reply #31 |
42. Okay, you quit your job first and start taking care of people. |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-23-09 11:21 AM Response to Reply #42 |
55. I've allready quite my job |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
13. Not if we cut Defense to levels that are only 2/3 of what they are now. |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:39 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. If you eliminate the entire defense budget, that only knocks the deficit down to $1.2 trillion |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 03:17 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. And if you knock out the deficit, you'd still have the economy Obama inherited. THAT |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
15. Too late. We're 8 years beyond bankrupt. |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
17. Bush and his accomplices (Gregg included) already have. |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
18. 'nother effing 'puke hypocrite who didn't mind the several trillions of dollars of debt piled up |
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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
19. that already happened? |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
20. Debt is still well below where we were were in WWII |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 03:47 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. How important were American manufacturing, free trade, and |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 08:39 PM Response to Reply #26 |
44. Exactly. Times are different. |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 08:51 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. My thoughts precisely. nt |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
21. Then raise taxes on the rich so-and-sos who made off like bandits for Bush. |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
23. OK juddster - here's a quiz for you |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
24. We're already bankrupt |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
28. Well, Senator Gregg needs to clean his own house before he starts |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 04:56 PM Response to Original message |
32. well we're going to have a trillion dollar deficit for the next ten years but I'd like to see anyone |
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mackerel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 05:45 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. There are so many countries that are too expensive to live |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 08:59 PM Response to Reply #36 |
46. Thom Hartmann talked about how those economies paid |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
37. oy...as if bush hadn't already accomplished that! |
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AKing (125 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
38. Note to Obama........ |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
39. Ummm...yeah |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
41. Wasn't he in favor of massive offshoring of jobs too? What a twit. |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
47. Hmm - why did he agree to serve and then change his mind WITH MUCH PUBLICITY?!!! I smell a RAT... |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-22-09 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
49. Gregg says that as a Great Republican on the Revisionist History Team |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-23-09 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
51. More "hard hitting journalism" from John King I see.... |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-23-09 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
53. Gregg who? Someone hand him a watch so he can see his 15 minutes were up a while ago. |
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