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re: “The bill adds +1T to the deficit”
Posted on 12/21/17 at 7:49 am to the LSUSaint
Posted on 12/21/17 at 7:49 am to the LSUSaint
quote:Since you clearly don't understand how SS works and what its systemic problems going forward are, I've attached a friendly guide.
How the frick are you planning on cutting a program that is holding OUR money? It isn't a spending program like the others you listed. If anything, they need to replenish it with evwrything they stole out of jt since inception. You libs are something else.
Understanding Social Security
quote:I didn't mention lots of outlays. I mentioned the three biggest, which also happen to be among the three most popular.
Curious, why didn't you mention cuts to one of the larger programs in the budget. Welfare!
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Posted on 12/21/17 at 7:51 am to slackster
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Trump will continue to be a strong tailwind for the economy, but he's going to spend like a mother fricker. Get used to it. Infrastructure bill will be next. Debt will continue to grow.
Yeah, building is in his blood. That will likely be what he is most invigorated by and what he will take the most pride in. You are correct.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:06 am to Colonel Flagg
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It is like saying I got a new job that has a certain income stream and I just added to my household debt. That doesn’t make sense. Any family would look at it like they are spending too much.
Or like you have your house payment, car payment, college costs, and grocery budget, and you are barely getting by, so you donate half of your paycheck to the millionaire on the hill so he can have more. But you still have to pay your bills, so you max out your credit cards. Then you start selling off grandma’s jewelry. Then you reach peak default and blame democrats for insisting that you increase revenue to a sustainable level.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:15 am to TBoy
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Or like you have your house payment, car payment, college costs, and grocery budget, and you are barely getting by, so you donate half of your paycheck to the millionaire on the hill so he can have more. But you still have to pay your bills, so you max out your credit cards. Then you start selling off grandma’s jewelry. Then you reach peak default and blame democrats for insisting that you increase revenue to a sustainable level.
Grandmas jewelry was already liquidated to pay the estate tax. Sorry bro.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:17 am to CoachChappy
I demand #NeverTrump cucks admit that Trump is (at least) an above average Republican President and likely the greatest Republican President since (at least) Reagan.
The "muh deficits" left will be brought to heel by our all-seeing GEOTUS.
The "muh deficits" left will be brought to heel by our all-seeing GEOTUS.
This post was edited on 12/21/17 at 8:18 am
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:19 am to CoachChappy
A tax cut does not add to the deficit. Too much government spending is the only reason for any deficit.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:22 am to Navytiger74
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Real cuts will have to be made to popular programs like SS, Medicare, and defense to make a difference.
10% REAL cuts, across the board. Not just messing with deceeeasing the rate of growth
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:22 am to CoachChappy
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“The bill adds +1T to the deficit”
Maybe in and of itself. But Trump has cut regulations massively which will offset the tax cuts. I'm loving the left imploding over this. Especially when yesterday multiple evil corporations gave their employees huge bonuses. Was it ATT that gave every employee a $1000 bonus? Kinda rebuffs their shitty narrative.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:23 am to TBoy
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But you still have to pay your bills, so you max out your credit cards.
Well whose fault is that? I didn't twist their arm to go to charging shite. No wonder you Dems have a problem with math with a mentality like that of your highlighted statement.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:24 am to Navytiger74
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Foreign aid amounts to about $25B (about.7% of the budget). We can't nickel and dime our way to balanced budgets on the backs of programs that people don't like or don't know or care about. Real cuts will have to be made to popular programs like SS, Medicare, and defense to make a difference.
i went hiking in the tetons many years ago ... met a group that was going rock climbing ... sat around and talked a bit about their experiences ... many of them had been hikers before ... they would cut the size tags of their tshirts before putting them in the backpack ... no weight difference, but it put them in the correct frame of mind to discard every thing they did not need in order to lower their weight ...
we might not be able to n/d our way to a balanced budget, but it's about time somebody attempted to create the right mindset ... we spend too much money on too much shite that isn't warranted ...
i don't think for one second any pub or dem in congress or the white house will attempt such, however ...
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:28 am to RFK
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No matter what name you give it to distract from the truth, the bottom line is this bill adds TO the deficit.
No, it does not. Out of control gov't spending adds to the deficit.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:29 am to CoachChappy
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Trump has hinted that the next huge bill will be Entiltement reform.
Paul Ryan wants entitlement reform next. But he'll never get it done in an election year.
Trump wants infrastructure next. I expect Republicans will put together some meaningless bill that widens a couple of interstate highways in swing states and then declare victory, but if Trump actually bothers to read this bill and really advocate for a legitimate commitment to infrastructure, it's going to grow deficits considerably more.
And yeah, if it is a good bill, he will get democratic support for it. Democrats aren't against ever growing the deficit for any reason, and they have never implied that they are. They are against exploding the deficit in order to give tax cuts to the wealthy.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:35 am to Navytiger74
You left out Welfare, Food Stamps, etc....
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:39 am to Navytiger74
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Since you clearly don't understand how SS works and what its systemic problems going forward are, I've attached a friendly guide.
I actually upvoted one of your posts. Social Security is a sham.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:40 am to Robin Masters
Distract...typical move...
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:42 am to GeauxLSUGeaux
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Cuts to foreign aid should be first and foremost. America First.
While I absolutely support the move, that's like throwing a shot glass of water on the California wild fires.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:48 am to RFK
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Keep in mind the last POTUS to give us a surplus was Democrat Bill Clinton...
I love reading this. Go read the constitution and see who is in charge of the pursestrings. He happened to be in the White House when Congress last did their job correctly.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:50 am to Navytiger74
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Foreign aid amounts to about $25B
1 year of foreign aid builds a big beautiful wall.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:55 am to Navytiger74
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Foreign aid amounts to about $25B (about.7% of the budget). We can't nickel and dime our way to balanced budgets on the backs of programs that people don't like or don't know or care about. Real cuts will have to be made to popular programs like SS, Medicare, and defense to make a difference.
I would say any amount of money not going to foreign countries for “help” is a positive thing. You gotta start somewhere. Entitlements and defense are a different animal altogether.
Posted on 12/21/17 at 8:56 am to Navytiger74
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Foreign aid amounts to about $25B (about.7% of the budget). We can't nickel and dime our way to balanced budgets on the backs of programs that people don't like or don't know or care about.
Truthfully it is the nickel and dime attitude that got us to our debt problem.
Everyone wants their discretionary spending project.
They always say, " It's important and it isn't that much money".
The non-defense discretionary portion of the budget is still around 700 billion.
This post was edited on 12/21/17 at 9:17 am
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