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Why do Democrats think we should submerge into deeper debt just to help the needy?
we're at $16 trillion
lol at the stupid moron Maximus
I guess $16 trillion is like 16 cents for you? right?
F*cking moron
Plus an economic collapse is at stake
11 Answers
- Anonymous8 years ago
You stupid born bastard!!!!
That's why America is in the mess it is in, you ignore the needy, you ignore the uninsured, you ignore those who have fallen on hard times.......until that is.....it happens to you, then you will whine like a f*cking new born pig!!!!
A$$$$$$$hole!!!!
You think that Obama is responsible for the entire 16 trillion do you........LOL!!!!!
If you had any brains whatsoever then you would know that Bush had the the deficit at 11.5 trillion and part of Obama's deficit was the Bush bail out for the banks!!!!
Try looking at Reagan and Bush 1 & 2 tax breaks for the rich and 2 wars that were not paid for before you start blaming Obama!!!!!
The deficit Obama has had to incur was to dig this country out of the sh1t left by the Republicans you f*cking Dim wit!!!!
- ?Lv 78 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United...
By the time that Ronald Reagan left office in 1988 the National Debt was 2.6 Trillion. This is what the first Bush had to deal with when he took over the reigns from being Vice President to President in 1988.
By the time that Bush, Sr. left office in 1992 the National Debt was 4.0 trillion.
By the time that Bill Clinton left off in 2000 the National Debt was 5.6 trillion. Some say that it is impossible for Clinton to have had a surplus because if he did the National Debt would have went down...well it did go down...the exact amount of what the surplus was for...$236 billion ($236,000,000,000). Yeah, there was still a deficit, but it wasn't as high as it was when Bush, Sr. left office. Clinton found a way to bring it down by borrowing. By the time that Bush, Jr. left office in 2008 the National Debt had risen to about 10 trillion ($10,000,000,000,000).
Now because Obama can't get the Debt down to where to it was when Reagan left office, he's considered having failed as being President of this country and needs to be replaced. Meaning, Obama was expected to remove 8 trillion dollars worth of debt in 1 to 2 or 2 to 4 years when it took Bush, Jr. 8 years to stack on 10 trillion? For those of you who can't seem to fathom the number it's: $10,000,000,000,000 give or take a few hundred thousand or so.
Politics is a vicious game...
- ?Lv 78 years ago
Note this little item that Obama nor the liberal bias` media never mentioned today ~~~
************Obama Orders Pay Raise for Biden, Members of Congress, Federal Workers**********
President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the pay freeze on federal employees, in effect giving some federal workers a raise. One federal worker now to receive a pay increase is Vice President Joe Biden.
According to disclosure forms, Biden made a cool $225,521 last year. After the pay increase, he'll now make $231,900 per year.
Members of Congress, from the House and Senate, also will receive a little bump, as their annual salary will go from $174,000 to 174,900. Leadership in Congress, including the speaker of the House, will likewise get an increase.
Here's the list of new wages, as attached to President Obama's executive order:
"A new executive order has been issued providing for a new pay schedule beginning 'on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning after March 27, 2013,'" reports FedSmith.com. "The pay raise will generally be about 1/2 of 1%."
Jeryl Bier points to an example of the pay increase for average government executives:
"Not much of an increase, but an increase all the same," Bier notes.
And the timing isn't great either: Just as President Obama and Congress try to avert going over the "fiscal cliff," he doles out pay increases to federal workers.
UPDATE: According to a senior Republican congressional aide who has reviewed the executive order and consulted with the Congressional Budget Office, Obama's pay raise will cost $11 billion. "The CBO told us that the President’s pay raise for federal workers will cost $11 billion over ten years," says the aide.
The aide explains, "On the cost-estimate, CBO says the (discretionary) cost of the .5% pay-hike the President is calling for in the Exec Order – relative to a freeze – is about $500m in FY 2013 and $11 billion over the ten years from FY 13 - FY 22. The reason why the FY ’13 savings is only $500 million is because the pay hike as proposed by the President’s Exec Order would not go into effect until April 1st, 2013 - when the current CR expires. So it only covers half the fiscal year. The annualized cost of the pay hike is about $1 billion/year."
- Anonymous8 years ago
The Democrats are using the Cloward-Piven Strategy to destroy America. It has been all planed out.
But is Obama’s use of class warfare too obvious and endangering his larger communist goals?
Obama has always been quite clear and honest about his communist roots and upbringing which he describes so well in his autobiographic book “Dreams of my father”. The class conflict aspects of the struggle may be ideologically true to Obama’s communist ideals. And the accomplishment of the Cloward-Piven Strategy of creating a huge government dependant constituency through the expansion and flooding of the entitlements programs has been accomplished. (“First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.”).
This would seem to have already made a final communist victory in America inevitable. But I am worried that too many Americans may see through these ploys due to Obama’s public emphasis on the class conflict with the ultra-rich. Obama’s openness regarding class warfare may endanger the main goal of destroying the American economy on the very eve of accomplishing the mission.
If the larger pattern were to be well known by the common public even secondary goals could be jeopardized. Might something like this even set back things like the disarming of the American public to reduce the final pockets of resistance? Or even endanger the collectivization of farms and industry through the increased inheritance tax?
- ?Lv 78 years ago
Sheesh. Aren't you being shallow. Just for the needy? What is that supposed to mean? Why do you think we should submerge ourselves into deeper debt just for the rich just so they can have an extra mansion?
- 8 years ago
Some older american citizens who have worked all their life and paid taxes. dont even get enough money to buy their medicine. Its buy medicine or eat. thats a shame. when the president and all there people splurge on the taxpayer money.
- 8 years ago
Well, let's start at the beginning...because they're needy, which I thought was self evident, but that's ok we can go as slow as we need to for you. Oh, and it's the right thing to do...I know this one is going to go over your head, but don't worry we'll come back to it later.
- Anonymous8 years ago
why do you hate america