Ryan’s new budget plan points the way to saner fiscal future
In February — three years after Barack Obama became president, and 32 months after the Great Recession officially ended — the United States recorded its largest monthly deficit ever: $232 billion. So, last month we borrowed the equivalent of Portugal.
The relatively good news is that February usually features low revenues and high spending. The country is not actually on pace for a $2.8 trillion shortfall this year. Whew!
The decidedly bad news: Washington still is well on its way toward a fourth straight year of spending $1 trillion more than it takes in.
That word, “trillion,” has lost some of its shock value during the past three years. But if you have children, grandchildren or just expectations of living more than another 10 years or so, you must know runaway red ink is the most important issue we face today. And, with apologies to each Republican telling the country that putting him in the White House is the key to America’s future, any steps toward solving this problem must begin in Congress.
Which brings us to the best news so far. In between the Romney campaign’s giving an unexpected boost to Etch-a-Sketch and the Broncos’ trading Tim Tebow to the New York Jets this past week, the most consequential member of Congress tweaked his plan for backing away from the fiscal abyss.
Paul Ryan, the House budget chief from Wisconsin, laid out his revised Path to Prosperity. The plan may or may not be politically practical, but it is vitally important in illustrating the kind of choices necessary to balance the federal budget.
He does this by recognizing two realities Obama still denies, if we are to judge by the president’s plans.
First: Tax revenues during the past 60 years, regardless of tax rates or loopholes, have averaged 18 percent of gross domestic product. So, if we are serious about balancing the budget, we cannot keep spending above 22 percent of GDP, as Obama proposes to do indefinitely. We have to get it to 18 percent or less.
Ryan’s plan does this, in part by holding down spending on Medicare and Medicaid. The program for retirees would be reined in by helping seniors pay for competing, private insurance plans rather than having the government insure them itself. Medicaid would be effectively handed over to the states, which would get less money from Washington but also much more freedom to shape their health plans for the poor.
But he also does it by cutting spending for defense, for education — for everything besides health care and Social Security — almost in half within 10 years. Would that be a shock to the federal system? Certainly. But, just as certainly, it represents the scale of change required to bring Washington’s spending under control.
The second fact is that we will escape our budget hole only by growing the economy. Among other things, that prevents absolute levels of spending from plummeting even as they shrink as a share of the economy, making cuts more politically palatable.
He proposes to do this with a complete overhaul of the tax code. Among other things, the current six income-tax brackets would collapse to just two: 10 percent and 25 percent. The falling rates would be offset by removing the litany of loopholes and carve-outs that favor the well-connected and distort decision-making. Ditto for corporate loopholes, as that rate fell to 25 percent, too.
There is no greater issue for the country than getting control of Uncle Sam’s finances, and no starker contrast with what Obama proposes to do if re-elected.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Linda
March 25th, 2012
1:58 pm
lefty_316@12:57, How many young women do you think there are in the US today who can not afford birth control pills for $9 per month? Only young women who do not want children?
Women volunteered for Komen & walked for miles with bleeding feet, unaware that funds were going to PP. How many women will die from breast cancer with fewer volunteers, fewer donations & funds being used for abortions rather than research?
Linda
March 25th, 2012
2:14 pm
Just@1:57, Many people don’t even know the difference between deficits & debt. Democrats keep harping about Clinton’s budget surpluses without realizing that every year he was in office, the national debt increased. Budgets are only blueprints, guidelines. Once the fiscal year is over, they are history.
The wars & the economic stimulus bill were paid for the same way, by borrowing, by adding the costs to the national debt.
There were no Bush stunts. Budgets are passed by both houses & there was a Democratic congress during the last 2 years of Bush. At least there were budgets back then. The Democratic Senate hasn’t even passed a budget in over THREE years! Obama’s budget last years was voted down in the Senate 0-97 & Reid is afraid to bring Obama’s ‘13 budget to a vote.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
March 25th, 2012
2:23 pm
Just saying..: Ford at $1.61 and Apple at $73 worked well enough.
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Not a sure thing though, like that eeeeeevil oil speculatin’ that the libtards know nothing about.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
March 25th, 2012
2:26 pm
lefty_316: I see you’re against paying for birth control and abortion…are you prepared to pay higher taxes to support the explosion in welfare assistance requests that will bring?
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Of course not. The people who make those poor decisions should bear the consequences.
We’ve discovered what causes pregnancy, it’s no longer a mystery. If you can’t afford a baby or don’t wish to have one, then don’t.
Libatards: Think their bad decisions are everyone else’s problem. Losers.
Maurice
March 25th, 2012
2:29 pm
We have both a spending problem and a revenue problem. Both sides having to recognize that you can’t ‘cut cut cut’ to a solution or that taxing the highest 10% more is going to fix it. Even conservative economist say that taxes are going to have to increase and spending cuts are going to have to be made.
Linda
March 25th, 2012
2:38 pm
gm@1:20, Obama “brought this country back from life support?” Name one thing that Obama has done that is an improvement since he was inaugurated! Unemployment is worse. He’s added $5 TRILLION to the national debt. Gas prices have doubled. We are about to see the second country obtain nuclear weapons on his watch. He’s alienated England, Israel, the Jews, the Catholic Church, Christians, women, over half of the states, the youth. etc. If I was a young black male, I would join the Tea Party.
Just saying..
March 25th, 2012
2:44 pm
Linda: “There were no Bush stunts.”
Let’s disagree there.
“The wars & the economic stimulus bill were paid for the same way, by borrowing, by adding the costs to the national debt.”
As was Medicare Part B.
And Ryan’s plan, eliminating deductions such as mortgage interest and charitable contributions, is a start on reducing that debt. And for providing a wake-up call that there’s going to be unexpected pain.
Now with Ten Percent More Flavor
March 25th, 2012
2:46 pm
Paul Ryan’s plan is to charge an 18% consumption tax on vaseline that the poor and middle class will be needing. There’ll be enough excess tax revenues from that to give his wealthiest supporters all their past taxes back and still double the DoD budget.
Chris Salzmann
March 25th, 2012
3:12 pm
Kyle, you have to be kidding me. Ryan’s “budget” basically destroys education (student loans), and cuts spending on those folks who can least afford it. Plus, tax cuts for the folks who least need it! Please tell me when tax cuts on the rich helped the economy grow? This is the same tired economic plan that has failed to deliver again and again. Here’s my proposal: lets go back to the tax structure of the 1950’s and 60’s when the rich were taxed at 90% of their income above a certain level PLUS add a value added tax (VAT) which every other industrialized country has. We also need to cut defense spending (we currently spend more than the entire world COMBINED). You cannot cut down the deficit by a combination of spending cuts on the folks who can least afford them and on tax cuts on the folks who least need them!!! That’s just complete baloney!
Linda
March 25th, 2012
3:14 pm
Just@2:44, I can’t even remember budgets from years ago. I go by debt. If there were Bush stunts with his budgets, there were Clinton stunts with his budgets. Debt has been added to the debt every year for decades.
Medicare Part B is not added to the national debt. It’s considered an unfunded liability such as social security & Medicare.
No, Ryan’s plan is not a start on reducing the debt. It’s a start on reducing deficits. The debt will continue to increase for years to come.
In my humble opinion, the only way to pay off the natl. debt is through energy independence.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
March 25th, 2012
3:17 pm
Chris Salzmann: Please tell me when tax cuts on the rich helped the economy grow?
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In the early ’60s, when Kennedy cut the capital gains rate.
In the 80’s when our President Reagan dropped the top rate, resulting in two decades of nearly uninterrupted growth.
And again in 2003, when our President Bush’s tax cuts increased revenue, grew the economy, and kept unemployment well below Obozo’s disastrous levels.
Chris Salzmann
March 25th, 2012
3:26 pm
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Linda, you must live on the same planet Fox News lives on.
1) Let’s see, the unemployment rate when Obama became President was growing exponentially due to the financial meltdown and recession that started under Bush. When did the recession start? Early 2008! Who was President then?
2) He added $5Trillion to the deficit to stave off an economic DEPRESSION! Or would you have preferred that??? In fact, the vast majority of economists say he didn’t spend ENOUGH!
3) Gas prices have doubled but presidents do not control that. That’s a fact!
4) 2nd Country going nuclear under his watch??? What are you smoking??? Korea went nuclear in 2006. Who was president then?
5) As far as the rest of your rant is concerned, Obama maintains high popularity ratings among Jews in this country, among the youth, minorities and among women in particular. The last two are especially true since Republicans declared war on minorities (black and hispanic) and women’s rights.
Your rant is a classic example of the misinformed. The part about Obama letting a 2nd country go nuclear under his watch is classic. Where do you get your “facts” from???
Chris Salzmann
March 25th, 2012
3:28 pm
Hey LiL Barry, since Reagan cut taxes, the deficit has also been growing exponentially. In fact, Reagan is called the father of deficit spending for a reason. One reason why the gap between the rich and poor started growing with Reagan, reversed slightly under Clinton and grew with a vengeance under Bush.
Linda
March 25th, 2012
3:32 pm
Maurice@2:29, Revenues need to increase but not necessarily through taxes.
A survey of economists ranked Milton Friedman & John Maynard Keynes as the most popular economists of the twentieth century. The Economist described Friedman as “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century…possibly of all of it.”
Obama has been following a pseudo philosophy of Keynesian economics on spending. (????)
Both economists were opposed to raising taxes. Keynes said,
…to create wealth will increase the national income and that a large proportion of any increase in the national income will accrue to an Exchequer, amongst whose largest outgoings is the payment of incomes to those who are unemployed and whose receipts are a proportion of the incomes of those who are occupied…
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget. For to take the opposite view today is to resemble a manufacturer who, running at a loss, decides to raise his price, and when his declining sales increase the loss, wrapping himself in the rectitude of plain arithmetic, decides that prudence requires him to raise the price still more—and who, when at last his account is balanced with nought on both sides, is still found righteously declaring that it would have been the act of a gambler to reduce the price when you were already making a loss.”
http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/2011/01/john-maynard-keynes-i-was-for-the-laffer-curve-before-i-was-against-it/
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
March 25th, 2012
3:43 pm
Chris Salzmann: Hey LiL Barry, since Reagan cut taxes, the deficit has also been growing exponentially.
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Especially since your Idiot Klown took office in 2009. By the end of his four-year regime, Obozo will have added to the debt almost as much as our President Reagan and our President Bush combined.
What is Obozo doing about his exponential debt growth?
Fail.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
March 25th, 2012
3:48 pm
Anyone who says the Republican presidential nomination is over hasn’t looked at the remaining schedule of primaries-
April 3: Texas, Wisconsin
April 24: Pennsylvania
May 8: Indiana, North Carolina, West Virginia
May 15: Nebraska, Oregon
May 22: Arkansas, Kentucky
June 5: Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota
June 26: Utah
Decent and moral citizenry all.
Sure, Romney probably has KKKalifornia locked up but what difference will that make in November?
Linda
March 25th, 2012
4:21 pm
Chris@3:12,
*student loans: fed. govt. is broke
*tax cuts for the rich: Taxes aren’t based on wealth. Taxes are based on income. Rich people don’t necessarily make high incomes or any incomes. High income people aren’t necessarily rich.
*tax structure of 50’s & 60’s when the rich (high income earners) were taxed @ 90%: You did not read Kyle’s article, which states, “…tax revenues during the past 60 years, regardless of tax rates…have averaged 18% of GDP.” I cited proof with a graph from the White House Office of Management & Budget yesterday on this blog @ 3:43.
*cut defense spending: TRILLIONS for which is protecting our interests in the Middle East because we are too stupid to drill our own oil
@3:26,*Gentlemen don’t try to insult ladies. Only liberals are that crude.
* FOX News: I was betrayed by the corrupt media for over 50 years.
*The unemployment rate has been higher every single month for over 3 years under Obama than it was any single month for over 8 years under Bush.
*The economic stimulus bill of almost a TRILLION dollars was a Democratic celebration. There is absolutely nothing to show for $5 TRILLION of debt except for a credit downgrade.
*I’ve listed on this blog over a dozen ways that Obama has personally caused gas prices to double & quoted his adm.for his intentions to double them. He’s halfway there.
*N. Korea went nuclear in 2009.
*The polls in 1980 in Jan. was Carter 62%, Reagan 33%, Feb. was Carter 60%, Reagan 31% & in Mar. was Carter 58%, Reagan 33%.
*Liberal rhetoric. Obama trashed the constitution by dishonoring religious rights & insulted women by trying to bribe them for votes for $9 per month.
*I obtain my facts from Al Gore’s internet.
Dusty
March 25th, 2012
4:30 pm
Not to worry your lil’ ol’ heads here. Kyle said it all in his closing sentence.
“There is no greater issue for the country than getting control of Uncle Sam’s finances and no starker contrast with what Obama proposes to do if re-elected.”
Keep up the good work, Kyle. Keep the danger signs posted.
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March 25th, 2012
4:56 pm
@Linda
March 25th, 2012
2:38 pm
If I was a young black male, I would join the Tea Party
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Young black males have enough to deal with without joining a hate group where
they would have to watch their back.
Plus young black males don’t wear white hoods with long robes..
A Tea Party is for little girls with IMAGINARY FRIENDS.
Tea Party? WHITE WHINE is more like it.
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March 25th, 2012
5:01 pm
@Lil’ Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
March 25th, 2012
3:43 pm
@I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin…
March 25th, 2012
3:48 pm
@Linda
March 25th, 2012
2:38 pm
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Since you are so ANGRY at Obama, why don’t all of you LEAVE America and START
your own country.
Better yet, RUN FOR PRESIDENT if you QUALIFY.
Chris Salzmann
March 25th, 2012
5:32 pm
Linda@4:21 *N. Korea went nuclear in 2009.
FACT: The 2006 North Korean nuclear test was the detonation of a nuclear device conducted on October 9, 2006 by North Korea.
Look it up Linda. Go ahead. Be my guest. The North Korean Nuclear Test took place in 2006. It’s all over the “internets”. If you cannot admit to such a simple FACT then how the heck can anyone take seriously anything you write here. Are you kidding me???
I won’t even bother arguing the rest with you if you cannot even get simple VERIFIABLE FACTS straight.
Linda
March 25th, 2012
5:35 pm
Mr. WANTED@4:56, What is it that is more important for black male youth to have to deal with than school & unemployment? According to the Dept. of Labor, unemployment for black male youth (16-19 yrs. old) reached a peak in 11/09 of 49.1% & was still at 38.5% in 1/12. They should be mad as hell at Obama.
The Tea Party is nothing more than a fiscally conservative group. Anyone who wants to keep our country from going bankrupt should participate. Anyone who is against this objective is not a patriot. Black youth would only need to watch their backs to prevent soccer moms from scratching them.
@5:01, THIS is OUR country. We want it back. We don’t want it “transformed” to European socialism.
Rafe Hollister
March 25th, 2012
5:44 pm
Wanted
Tell the truth here, didn’t you used to post as the Trash Man Superstar? If not you guys went to school together. Why did you change your name?
Linda
March 25th, 2012
5:45 pm
Chris@5:32, I made 13 points & you could only find one to harp about. There was an earthquake detected in N. Korea in ‘06. It was in ‘09 that N. Korea was declared to have nuclear weapons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
If you won’t quote alphabet corrupt media sources, I won’t quote conservative sources. Good luck.
Rafe Hollister
March 25th, 2012
5:55 pm
Linda @4:21 nice post. Copy and paste it here on every page as most of these libs never read the prior comments, they just jump in and start whining about Fox news, Bush, tax cuts for the rich, raising taxes, Ryan wanting to cut their free stuff, and unfunded wars.
I no longer wonder why so many people get themselves in such personal debt, I now understand they run their household budgets much like they want to run America’s budget. No self control and lots of impulse buying. When you give people things it never satisfies them for long, like a toddler, then they want something else free.
MarkV
March 25th, 2012
6:20 pm
Dusty @ 4:30 pm
Nothing more pointed than that? You must be in a very mellow mood.
Linda
March 25th, 2012
6:25 pm
Rafe@5:55, My father taught me that interest was a thing that was EARNED, not PAID. He never paid a cent of interest in his life & he lived over 80 year. He also taught me that if I didn’t have the cash to buy something, that I had no business with it. Of course, I’ve bought real estate with mortgages, but I have always paid cash for cars, etc.
One of my first savings accounts as an adult was with Decatur Federal. I kept up with my “debt” I owned them to the penny. When money was tight, my church’s 10% was foremost & my 10% to Decatur Federal was second.
The reckless spending by the fed. govt. makes fiscal conservatives like me cry & makes social conservatives like me try to understand why God can settle for 10% & fed., state & local govt. can’t get by on 50% & people like this guy thinks we need taxes at way over 100%.
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March 25th, 2012
7:13 pm
@Linda
March 25th, 2012
6:25 pm
Rafe@5:55,Linda
March 25th, 2012
6:25 pm
When money was tight, my church’s 10% was foremost
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READING your bible should also have been a PRIORITY as well.
Eight times in the Bible we are told to love our neighbor — one of the Bible’s most repeated commands.
Big D
March 25th, 2012
7:15 pm
The so called Bush tax cuts are now the Obama tax cuts. The “Bush”tax cuts resulted in deficits in the neighborhood of 300 billion per year while the “Obama” tax cuts result in more than 1.2 trillion dollars per year. The Democrats want even more spending which is their reason for more tax revenue. How many times has the federal governement increased taxes? Dozens? Hundreds? I don’t know but I know this, if tax increases decreased natonal deby, we wouldn’t have a national debt. One things is clear, to reduce debt we must reduce spending, period. Giving the governemnt more money will not do it.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
March 25th, 2012
7:28 pm
“Eight times in the Bible we are told to love our neighbor — one of the Bible’s most repeated commands.”
Perhaps you should read up on the definition of “love” vs. “support” when trying to use the Bible to make government policy, IQ.
Linda
March 25th, 2012
7:31 pm
Mr. WANTED, AKA TRASH MAN SUPERSTAR & AKA MR. ALL CAPS@7:13, Bible is capitalized, Sir. I love you as a neighbor. What’s next?
tiredofIT
March 25th, 2012
7:35 pm
Linda, you seemed to have missed the most important part of my sentence; “unfunded”
Dusty
March 25th, 2012
7:42 pm
MarkV 6:20
Yes, mellow might be the word. Just don’t feel like making a big fuss on such a nice day. The weather is great and the trees are beautiful. Just wonder why I haven’t seen many birds.
Have you had any feathered friends drop by? Bird feeder? Seems like my little friends are not hungry and don’t need a bath. Now that’s not nice!!.
Linda
March 25th, 2012
7:55 pm
tiredofiT@7:35, You need to do what I just did, reference your comment with a time. I have no idea what you are referencing. There’s now 6 pages of comments. I will be glad to answer you.
MarkV
March 25th, 2012
8:21 pm
Dusty,
We have bluebirds nesting now, three eggs in one bridhouse, not sure about the other one. One male was using the bath today, several cardinals.
Night.
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March 25th, 2012
8:42 pm
@Tiberius – Your lightning rod of hate!
March 25th, 2012
7:28 pm
“Eight times in the Bible we are told to love our neighbor — one of the Bible’s most repeated commands.”
Perhaps you should read up on the definition of “love” vs. “support” when trying to use the Bible to make government policy, IQ.
@.Linda
March 25th, 2012
7:31 pm
Mr. WANTED, AKA TRASH MAN SUPERSTAR & AKA MR. ALL CAPS@7:13, Bible is capitalized, Sir. I love you as a neighbor. What’s next?
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Matthew 7:5
You hypocrites, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Linda
March 25th, 2012
8:58 pm
Mr. WANTED@8:42, All of a sudden, you seem to be a Biblical scholar, after you have called us rabid conservatives, expressed that you are envious of others (against the Ten Commandments), are undoubtedly a racist & put your cat in a bag. Did you go to Sunday School &/or church this morning? WHO is the hypocrite, MR. ALL CAPS?
Steve
March 25th, 2012
9:03 pm
The GOP starved government while spending like fools (Wars, Medicare Part b)…then deregulated the mortage industry to the point where it became so corrupt it pushed the economy in the great recession.
Now, you blame Obama for slowly digging ourselves out of this GOP led hole.
Freaking ridiculous. You people on the “right’ should be ashamed at your idiocy and idiotic posts. This forum reads like a KKK klan meeting, at best.
lefty_316
March 25th, 2012
9:05 pm
Lil Barry:
If they can’t afford to have a baby then don’t…..you’ve hit the nail on the head! Let’s help them out to the tune of $9 a month for the birth contol they can’t afford instead of adopting the policies of the religious right and committing to …..I don’t know, $200 perhaps, the monthly cost to taxpayers for 18 years to help them raise their child.
And let’s stop dishonoring our core Founding Fathers and the founding generaton by attempting to legislate religion. They were Enlightenment thinkers who valued science and reason and placed a low premium on religion. Did they think the New Testament was word-for-word true? Not Ben Franklin, he was a Deist. Not James Madison, he was agnostic. Nor Jefferson, who wrote that the New Testament, in his opinion, was a product of “inferior minds” and parts of it were so outlandish, so divorced from reality they ought to be considered “dung.” John Adams? No, he was a Unitarian. George Washington? According to his pastor William White Washington “never took communion, usually left the service early and never gave any indication that he was a believer.”
Let’s put an end to the dishonesty about our Founders and the idea that America was always intended to be a Christian nation.
lefty_316
March 25th, 2012
9:23 pm
Linda you asked how many women can’t afford $9 a month for birth contol. I don’t know the answer to that but apparently it is in the millions.
The Planned Parenthood annual budget breaks down as follows: 40% for breast cancer screening and other preventative measures, 40% for birth control for the indigent, 10% for miscellaneous and 10% for abortion services, The money for abortion services all comes from private donations. The states match $1 for every $9 the federal goverment contributes to PP.
Last week the state of Texas passed legislation that, due to a technicality, will assure PP in Texas no longer receives federal money. 130,000 women will be effected.
Don Abernethy
March 25th, 2012
9:27 pm
The people of this country are very greedy. No one is willing to sacrifice for the country as far as money is concerned.
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March 25th, 2012
9:36 pm
I guess if the tenets of Christianity aren’t your cup of tea then you gravitate directly to socialism becoming followers of Pol Pot, Mao and Stalin, some of the human “greats” of history.
Notice how all these left wing lunatics always believe in the power of the state, same as Hitler did?
If you can name one marxist that ever uttered the words “Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness,” outside of an election campaign, of course, I’ll become one.
That’s what I thought, looks like I get to stay with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, same as our Founders did.
Linda
March 25th, 2012
9:38 pm
Steve@9:03, Obama appointed a commission to study the financial crisis. They could not agree. The Democrats came up with their own blame game, not taking any responsibility. The Republicans came up with theirs. Here is the Republican side of what happened. The world wide financial crisis began in the 90’s & was predicted by the NYT in ‘99. Read it beginning at the bottom of page 1.
You are brainwashed by the corrupt media.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:VW02a4CHUUYJ:keithhennessey.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Financial-Crisis-Primer.pdf+financial+crisis+inquiry+Republican+report&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShbm8pIt3RiNDfoUl1U51dQXAybDuNLgocyT_S9iyZ0-xFymZfjVs26d1NQLrohH0dScUxomjD0L5kKOXx39Zd8pjUDp5PLUMDekFdb7v3xL6Z1N0mJeWZ-UL0U1ogROed3uv2w&sig=AHIEtbTLPLB7A-mykCQoUFX5hjgNUnxJVg
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
March 25th, 2012
9:39 pm
lefty: Let’s help them out to the tune of $9 a month for the birth contol they can’t afford
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If they can’t afford $9 a month for birth control, they certainly can’t support a baby. So why are they having unprotected sex? Seems really irresponsible.
Sloth, stupidity, and irresponsibility do not entitle anyone to another’s property.
Lefty, how much did you donate to charity last year to provide free contraception to the slothful?
Didn’t think so.
waterstim
March 25th, 2012
9:55 pm
How do Democrats live in such a broken fantasy world. IT WILL NOT LAST. THE DEMISE OF AMERICA IS COMING. The Democrats in the Senate haven’t even had a budget in three years for goodness sake. How can you possible defend that?
Linda
March 25th, 2012
10:01 pm
left-316@9:05, My husband & I discovered that we had been deceived by the corrupt ABC media for over 50 years. One day, you will discover that your education was also deceitful. Not only were our Founding Fathers religious but so were our Pilgrims. They left a message for you at Plymouth Rock. What was it?
@9:23, You just don’t want to answer my question. The answer is that there are no women who can’t afford birth control pills for $9 per month. I do not for a moment believe the breakdown of the budget for PP, nor does it guarantee that taxpayer dollars are not used for abortions. PP was founded by a woman for eugenics, the destruction of the black race. The very name of the institution reveals that it does NOT specialize in anything other than abortion.
Taxpayer dollars should not fund abortions. Taxpayer dollars should not go to institutions who perform abortions. Taxpayer dollars should not go to institutions whose primary business is to wipe out the black race.
Linda
March 25th, 2012
10:23 pm
Regardless of Kyle’s article tomorrow, I will be here to hash out our differences. May God bless all Kyle’s contributors.
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March 25th, 2012
11:06 pm
@I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin…
March 25th, 2012
9:36 pm
I guess if the tenets of Christianity aren’t your cup of tea then you gravitate directly to socialism becoming followers of Pol Pot, Mao and Stalin, some of the human “greats” of history.
Notice how all these left wing lunatics always believe in the power of the state, same as Hitler did?
If you can name one marxist that ever uttered the words “Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness,” outside of an election campaign, of course, I’ll become one.
That’s what I thought, looks like I get to stay with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, same as our Founders did.
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Matthew 7:21 – 23
“Not EVERYONE who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only HE WHO does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. AWAY FROM ME, YOU EVILDOERS!’
WANTED: Bloggers With An IQ Above 52
March 25th, 2012
11:13 pm
@Linda
March 25th, 2012
10:23 pm
Regardless of Kyle’s article tomorrow, I will be here to hash out our differences. May God bless all Kyle’s contributors.
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Et tu, LINDA
Matthew 7:21 – 23
“Not EVERYONE who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only HE WHO does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. AWAY FROM ME, YOU EVILDOERS!’
lefty_316
March 25th, 2012
11:38 pm
Lil Barry you asked the sloth, stupidity and irresponsibility of the indigent.
I’m interested in practial solutions, not the corrupt idiology of the religious right. That why I’m happy to have some of my tax dollars go to Planned Parenthood every year to pay for birth control for the indigent.
Your attitude toward the less fortunate does not reflect or resemble that taught by Jesus in any way whatsoever. I think your claims of being a Christian are dubious at best.