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When Big Deficits Became Good

indyconantidim Wrote: Jan 10, 2013 6:46 PM

How simple is it to get the message out. If there is no more money (or spiraling inflation from printing it) then the entitlements become worthless or non-existent. Add to that all of Oblaba, Harry Fraud and the dims further bloating and careless, fraudulent pile on of the fat cow feds and its already OVER THE CLIFF. Can the GOP keep throwing out the numbers on talk radio and Fox? Its a no brainer perfectly suitable for the brain dead sheeple.

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Texas Chris Wrote: Jan 14, 2013 9:22 AM

The GOP is equally responsible for the situation. Sure, Dems are profligate spenders, but the GOP claims to be the opposition. But when we are in power, we spend like Democrats...

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goldilocks Wrote: Jan 15, 2013 9:10 AM

Why?

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When Big Deficits Became Good

As a senator and presidential candidate, Barack Obama said that he detested budget deficits. In 2006, when the aggregate national debt was almost $8 trillion less than today, he blasted George W. Bush's chronic borrowing and refused to vote for upping the debt ceiling: "Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.'"

In 2008, Obama further blasted Bush's continued Keynesian borrowing: "The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our...

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