Will republicans lower our credit score again?

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Will the republican congress get our credit rating lowered again?

Poll closed Dec 24, 2015.
  1. Yes

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  2. No

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    33.3%
  1. Penrod

    Penrod Well-Known Member

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    Crusade24 New Member

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    18.3 Trillion Dollars in debt....

    Let me repeat that: 18.3 TRILLION dollars in debt. There is so much stupid spending the federal government could cut without even touching SS, Medicaid, The foreign aid bill and the military alone.

    How some people can't even grasp the basic notion we're taught as children to save our money and to not spend money we don't have into debt has always been absolutely insane to me. Yet the federal government keeps getting away with doing the exact opposite.
     
  3. Hard-Driver

    Hard-Driver Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    We agree on being fiscally conservative. We disagree on the military.. that is a massively huge part of spending...

    You just have an honest analysis of where that 18 Trillion in debt came from. Republican policy creating massive deficits is the problem.
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    And the solution is certainly not more republican tax cuts and republican spending on the military and wars.
     
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    I didn't say we should spend more on the military...what I said was that a substantial amount could be cut from spending not even including cutting back on the things I mentioned: Medicaid, Social Security, Foreign Aid, The Military etc. because so much stupid (*)(*)(*)(*) is funded.

    I am for cutting back on the military because it's spending is out of control, the highest in the world by a large margin yet even fiscal conservatives think we should increase it. Doesn't make any sense to me.

    The idealist in me would immediately bring all the troops home and shut down every foreign military base the US has which isn't needed but we both know that would never happen under either Democrat or Republican.
     
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    Casper Banned at Members Request Past Donor

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    Depends if the Repubs shut down the government again, they kicked the can down the road, 10 weeks, so we will see if they end up shutting it down or not.
     
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    Why do you blame the reps? They cant veto anything? Its the fault of both parties. The great divider has caused much of this.
     
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    I blame them all for not doing their job, Obama is only a small part of the issue and the Cons are the ones that made the divide wider not so much Obama.
     
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    The CBPP 'analysis' has already been debunked for what it was. It measures the costs of the Bush tax cuts assuming zero feedback effect - which no economist accepts as real. And don't forget, that was a 2008 prediction assuming the Bush tax cuts would be extended. The Bush tax cuts weren't actually extended - we got the Obama partial tax cut extension. But the key takeaway you should get from that graph is this - it's a prediction. I really don't think the War in Iraq costs us as much now (when we're not there) as it did when we were there.

    It's amazing that CBPP doesn't mention that current standard baseline budgeting increases are 7%, isn't it?
     
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    BestViewedWithCable Well-Known Member

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    of course your completely ignoring the democrat contributions.

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    You cant run a country on lies.

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    because youre enslaving our children with mountains of debt.
     
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  11. Hard-Driver

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    I am discussing policy, and the resulting implications on the deficits... Republican policies of tax cuts, military spending and war is to blame. As usual, republicans try to blame Obama for the mess he inherited. Since Obama took office, deficits have shrunk from a projected $1.2 Trillion to $480 Billion. Still not enough, but shrinking government spending as a percent of GDP, cutting deficits is what Obama has done. Basically, your complaining he isn't fixing the republican mess fast enough, and your solution is more of the policies that created the mess to begin with.
     

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