This is the option alot of repugs and all Democrats have given us.
1. Balanced Budget
2. 'Murica!
You can only have one.
And this thread is damn good proof of it.
Well yeah, fuck those conservatives. To retaliate, the liberals should show em' up and reveal to the country what real fucked up bloated govt looks like!! Muricka!!!!
You mentioned the iraq and afghanistan war, they're not anywhere near the biggest part of our expenditures. Without vet benefits and pay, our budget for military spending is 18%. It's discretionary and entitlement spending which is growing at the fastest rate and contributes more to it.
Cool, so we slash 7% of the budget (WOT expenditures) and redirect it towards infrastructure. Now we'll have a beautiful bridge where everyone can drive to and from the unemployment office and we'll celebrate our still crippling debt and dimininishing purchasing power because of it (the debt) by...
No it's not. But I'll make concessions, and if govt had to have services besides defense and law, i would say infrastructure would be one of the most important. But the dumbasses in this thread think we need to spend more money to fix infrastructure, when we have no money to spend. IF you want to...
This is a stupid idea. This will worsen the tuition bubble, and we shouldn't give low interest rates to high risk people, that's stupid. There needs to be a market correction in the college market so that tuition can come down and we can see more reasonable lending practices.
I mean, i don't even see how this snarky humor is remotely funny. I mean if you have aspies and you're an economic ignoramus, i can see how you could eat this up.
so if we have 16 trillion dollars in debt, do we need to go 20 trillion dollars in debt to fix bridges? In your world are there only Jesus freaks and Progressives? Fox and MSNBC??
I don't see what's the point of this thread. Are you saying that we don't spend enough as a govt? does 16trillion in debt mean we don't have a govt that's big enough?
I mean I guess I can't blame you two for being so angry for such a long time-- everyone has a breaking point -- but do you really think these juvenile fantasy attacks really achieve anything?