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Video: Every Senate Budget Committee Democrat Votes 'No' on Balancing the Budget

alphonsejones Wrote: Mar 15, 2013 6:43 PM
not according to those 8.5 million fewer workers employed in America since messiah hussein started infesting the oval office
Petrus64 Wrote: Mar 15, 2013 7:54 PM
" At best we are in stagnation. "

Yes, we are at stagflation as well...
Ken6226 Wrote: Mar 15, 2013 7:11 PM
Translation: "This just CAN'T be the Democrats' fault! IT CAN'T!!!!"
psydoc Wrote: Mar 15, 2013 7:10 PM
If the economy stopped contracting, we are no longer in the deflationary moment of the business cycle. At best we are in stagnation.
AmericanLiberal Wrote: Mar 15, 2013 7:01 PM
The economy stopped contracting, if that is what you mean, but deflationary pressures persist. If you doubt it, check out what happens to interest rates when the Fed ends a quantitative ease. They plummet.

Their own plan doesn't even come close to balancing, of course, and they're not interested in other ideas to get there.  The first Republican amendment they torpedoed yesterday called for increasing federal spending at a clip of "only" 3.4 percent per year over the next decade, rather than the major acceleration that Democrats have advanced.  The second proposed making it more procedurally difficult to pass a budget that does not balance with ten years.  Watch as each Democrat-aligned committee member votes in lockstep against these provisions.  Make no mistake, they are explicitly rejecting a balanced federal budget (the...

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