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Originally Posted by roachboy
outside of the tiny blinkered world of conservative economic theory, deficits are not meaningful in the way that tiny blinkered world would have the tiny blinkered people who live in it believe. in the bigger reality-place, there's lots of reasons for states to run deficits and lots of reasons for those deficits to be maintained.
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I can't perpetually borrow my way to prosperity and neither can the government. The percentage of federal spending allocated to paying the debt is growing year to year and has been a concern for a number of years. Obama and the liberal/socialist Democrats don't care, they just want to stick it to the taxpayers so the politicians and the entitlement class can keep their entitlements.
So any politician who basically admits he has no deficit reduction priorities will not get my vote.
Besides which, a politician like Hinchey who assaults news reporters is better suited to being in the county jail than being in Congress, and a politician who packs a loaded gun on an airline in violation of gun laws doesn't belong in Congress.
Neither does a politician like Hinchey who refuses to answer questions about how he and his friends profit from deals made to get government funding for development in his district.
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Originally Posted by dippin
The day republicans say they want to cut medicare, social security or military spending, or that they want to increase taxes, is the day they can be taken seriously over things like deficit reduction. Until then, saying that deficits don't matter much is at least a more coherent position.
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This Republican/conservative/Tea Party supporter is fine with cutting military spending. I was in favor of privatizing Social Security. My 401K has outperformed Social Security so I'd be better off if Social Security never existed.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
And you Americans wonder why many of us outsiders look to your politics as a spectator sport....or circus....
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It's a matter of perspective. I've always considered British Parliament to be great theater, as well as those clips that make it into TV programs from time to time of how legislative sessions in other countries turn into fistfights.
The current chaos in France is equally entertaining.