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Originally Posted by shakran
No, it's realism. For three decades now people have followed the republican borrow-and-spend mantra. The republicans bankrupted the government doing it. And people bankrupted themselves. Now they're figuring out that buying everything on credit isn't such a hot idea and maybe instead of buying the new shiny, it's time to pay off some old debt.
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The government is not bankrupt. They just passed the largest spending bill in history.
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Do you understand the difference between the deficit and the debt? The deficit is not cumulative, the debt is. Yes, he's having to spend a lot of money now, because the republicans screwed everything up so badly. But that doesn't mean he can't cut government spending in the future.
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Yes, I understand the difference. But then again, I don't because of the way liberals communicate. For example you talk about deficits under Republicans as a negative and deficits under Democrats as a positive.
Here is another example. Removing the troops from Iran. O.k. I get the fact you can not predict an exact date, like the 16 month timeframe Obama promised, but then he mocked McCain for saying we would have troops in Iran for an indefinite period of time. Guess what, Obama is going to leave 50,000 troops in Iran for an indefinite period of time.
Gee, I am so confused.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
Ace, if you actually believed in cheerleading, you wouldn't have been so quick to publicly pooh pooh the stimulus plan. I was going to invest millions until I heard that the stimulus plan wasn't going to work...
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I have money in the stock market and I want the market to go up. Me making money trumps politics. Being honest, I could be a happy billionaire in a communist country, not support communism in principle - but support those who help me protect my wealth. If Obama made the market go up 50%, rather than down almost 50% since June 2008, I would be spending much less time on his case.