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05-05-2011, 10:19 AM
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Reformed Know-Nothing
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We don't have a revenue problem, ...
... we have a spending problem.
This GOP mantra, repeated most recently by Mitch (The Turtle) McConnell is subjected to "The Fact Checker." Guess what? The Turtle is wrong.
"(A)s demonstrated above, revenues have consistently failed to meet the projections that prompted the original tax-cut frenzy in Congress....The nation has a revenue problem and a spending problem — or else there would not be a deficit."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...g.html?hpid=z1
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05-05-2011, 10:56 AM
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Abby Normal
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Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 11,245
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Quote:
Originally Posted by finnbow
... we have a spending problem.
This GOP mantra, repeated most recently by Mitch (The Turtle) McConnell is subjected to "The Fact Checker." Guess what? The Turtle is wrong.
"(A)s demonstrated above, revenues have consistently failed to meet the projections that prompted the original tax-cut frenzy in Congress....The nation has a revenue problem and a spending problem — or else there would not be a deficit."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...g.html?hpid=z1
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did we really need a fact checker for this?
the problem has been all along the tax cuts, Iraq war and drug company gift nothing else
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05-05-2011, 11:01 AM
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Possibly admin. Maybe ;)
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Land of the burning river
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Strange, that's not what it says.
Pete
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05-05-2011, 11:13 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Metro Detroit
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We wouldn't have a revenue problem at all....if we didn't spend so damn much.
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05-05-2011, 11:31 AM
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Loyal Opposition
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Johnson County, Kansas
Posts: 14,401
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And the guy who can't pay his rent because he quit his management job to go to work for McDonalds doesn't have a revenue problem either.
Regards,
D-Ray
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05-05-2011, 11:39 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: Metro Detroit
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Quote:
Originally Posted by d-ray657
And the guy who can't pay his rent because he quit his management job to go to work for McDonalds doesn't have a revenue problem either.
Regards,
D-Ray
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Right, because they're hiring up the street at Burger King.
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05-05-2011, 11:44 AM
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Loyal Opposition
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Johnson County, Kansas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by whell
Right, because they're hiring up the street at Burger King.
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OK, I guess I wasn't clear. It should read:
And the guy who can't pay his rent because he quit his management job to INSTEAD go to work for McDonalds doesn't have a revenue problem either.
Regards,
D-Ray
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05-05-2011, 11:45 AM
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Area Man
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: The Swamp
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Quote:
Originally Posted by d-ray657
And the guy who can't pay his rent because he quit his management job to go to work for McDonalds doesn't have a revenue problem either.
Regards,
D-Ray
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Bingo! The "free traders" who thought we were going to maintain our largess off of revenues generated by a "service economy" are the true jesters in the court of American economics/politics. That, and I seem to recall being told "Everything is going high tech. No more high paying manufacturing jobs." a few decades ago as well. How's that working out?
Little manufacturing = Little prosperity. Low wages = Poor consumerism.
Dave
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05-05-2011, 11:45 AM
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Area Man
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Join Date: Oct 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by whell
Right, because they're hiring up the street at Burger King.
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Which still isn't worth a hoot.
Dave
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05-05-2011, 11:52 AM
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Possibly admin. Maybe ;)
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Land of the burning river
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So, I don't have a spending problem, I have a revenue problem. Who will give me more money?
Pete
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