We all know those Democrats left the party and joined the GOP. We all know this.
You wanna know why? Because they don't dare question military spending. Imaging someone get run over and put in the hospital by JJ Watt but complain to high heaven because the nurse rapped the rubber tube around his arm a little tight. That's what we have here.
Says us!!!.....I'm afraid our "greatness" is now in our rearview mirror
No kidding the military industrial complex is an even larger contributer to the gigantic debt load, but as the "economists" say, we can always print our way out of debt.. seems to be working real well over in Japan 0 percent rates over 20 years, and endless quantitative easing, still no "recovery"
You really need to get your facts straight. Entitlement spending and servicing the debt interest takes up the majority of the budget now. Obama has reduced the size of the military to pre WWII levels.
Robert Byrd was a Democrat to the end and was lauded at his funeral by Bill Clinton.
Get what facts straight? I said contributed ie. Bush
Still wrong. The national debt has doubled under Obama, and still growing. Bush spent plenty, but nowhere near as much as Obama. And you said you can't believe people still blame entitlements. They're the majority of the budget. It's not a matter of how evil entitlements are. It's a matter of realizing we can't keep growing them at this pace. Everything has to be reduced, including waste in areas like military spending. Imagine Greece, only much worse. We're headed there eventually.
You are in the ballpark.
Hello, is my keyboard on, I already said 5 trillion under Obama..
Nope, Almost 9 trillion and growing. You should read about Cloward and Piven, far left liberal heroes who advocated breaking New York City financially and nearly did in 1975. Looks like Obama is trying to do that on a national scale.
But you guys put the cart before the horse. There's nothing wrong with giving a hand up. Social programs have their place. But to pay for them we need a strong economy that brings in the revenue. Government doesn't produce anything, it spends. But unfortunately too many see businessmen doing well as evil(really envy). In our system though you'll never have equal outcomes for everyone. We can only hope that most corporate leaders will act in everyone's best interest, not just their own. Which, with the system we have, is unlikely. That's the catch22, hard work to get rewarded, but no reward for hard work from too many like Smith. This is what leads to failed systems like communism. And a lot of grief all around.
Tax cuts under both Reagan and Bush Jr. caused the country to thrive. The big downturns were the dot.com bust and the real estate bubble(by far the biggest). That last one involved both political parties, Wall Street, and millions of people who had no business getting a mortgage. When too many get greedy, we all suffer.
