Score one for the voters

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Originally Posted by DarkDefender

So they cut a single spending bill. I would have been far more impressed and actually pleased had they let the tax cuts expire.
Combine expiring tax cuts as well as reducing spending, particularly deficit spending, and I think we're getting somewhere.

So, you'd prefer to increase tax obligations to individuals in a shaky economy, when many folks are already having difficulty paying their bills? I'm with you on the spending comments, however. Frankly, I think it would have been possible to get both spending cuts and tax reductions, but the Repubicans continue to demonstrate that they don't know how to negotiate.

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Originally Posted by noonereal

LOL

Maybe you did not hear about the trillion we are borrowing from china to give the wealth some pocket change.

Yes, we're borrowing at record rates to finance our out-of-control spending. It rather disgusting, actually. Not sure how that gives anyone other than the political class "pocket change".

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by whell

Yes, we're borrowing at record rates to finance our out-of-control spending. It rather disgusting, actually. Not sure how that gives anyone other than the political class "pocket change".

So does this mean you support the trillion dollar give away to the rich or not?

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by whell

So, you'd prefer to increase tax obligations to individuals in a shaky economy,

absolutely

it is those not working that we need to worry about at times like this

[djv8ga]

Originally Posted by whell

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40710315...-capitol_hill/

Apparently, somebody got the message inside the Beltway.

?...sure they did.

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Originally Posted by noonereal

So does this mean you support the trillion dollar give away to the rich or not?

What "give-away" are you talking about?

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by whell

What "give-away" are you talking about?

the latest, the tax cut fiasco that deficit worried cons have no problem financing through China

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Hmmm, you better explain that interesting perspective to all the Dems who voted for it.

By the way, are we financing tax cuts, or the ever increasing appetite for our government to spend money it doesn't have on pork for special interests? These special interests who then pay lobbyists fat checks so that those lobbyists can turn around and make fat campaign contributions? When you're making your class warfare / class envy accusations, don't forget to include our rich and getting richer political class.

[merrylander]

Will Rogers was right.

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Originally Posted by merrylander

Will Rogers was right.

I agree:

Will Rogers: "A fool and his money are soon elected."