27th August 2009, 8:51 PM
Yeah, and then more bridges collapse like in Minnesota because we weren't spending enough on infrastructure.
Thank you, no, I'll take my so-called "pork". Spending money on improving America is a very good thing!
Oh, and governments spending money cannot in any way be compared to people's personal spending. Yes, America has a lot of debt, and we definitely need to work on reducing the budget deficit. But government debt on its own is not an inherently bad thing... I will agree that the fact that we owe so much to China is a problem, though, sure. But it's not like we have a choice, we badly need the money...
And anyway, more importantly this whole discussion is utterly ridiculous. The way that Republicans have latched on PORK of all things as the solution to our budget problems really puts in clear light how completely out of ideas they are. That something that is a tiny fraction of our budget, an extremely small amount compared to so many other things, is the ENTIRE FOCUS OF REPUBLICAN IDEAS FOR WHAT WE CAN DO TO REDUCE OUR BUDGET DEFICIT shows so, so clearly how completely broken their ideas are. Reaganomics failed miserably, Bush economics perhaps even worse. Tax cuts combined with expensive wars have destroyed our budget.
... On that note, we spend more money in Iraq in days than on "pork" in an entire year, and that entire stupid war is entirely Bush's fault... and you Republicans talk about caring about budget deficits? Ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous. Republicans increase the size of the budget deficit (and the national debt) faster than Democrats, every time. They like to start wars and increase the size of government WITHOUT raising taxes. Democrats at least like to think about how to pay for it! Note how the last time we had a budget surplus was under Clinton, a surplus Bush promptly destroyed with his first wave of stupid tax cuts? And then buried under vastly expensive wars and additional tax cuts, none of which were paid for? And these Republicans talk now about fiscal responsibility? It'd be a bad joke, if they didn't somehow think that they were being serious.
Thank you, no, I'll take my so-called "pork". Spending money on improving America is a very good thing!
Oh, and governments spending money cannot in any way be compared to people's personal spending. Yes, America has a lot of debt, and we definitely need to work on reducing the budget deficit. But government debt on its own is not an inherently bad thing... I will agree that the fact that we owe so much to China is a problem, though, sure. But it's not like we have a choice, we badly need the money...
And anyway, more importantly this whole discussion is utterly ridiculous. The way that Republicans have latched on PORK of all things as the solution to our budget problems really puts in clear light how completely out of ideas they are. That something that is a tiny fraction of our budget, an extremely small amount compared to so many other things, is the ENTIRE FOCUS OF REPUBLICAN IDEAS FOR WHAT WE CAN DO TO REDUCE OUR BUDGET DEFICIT shows so, so clearly how completely broken their ideas are. Reaganomics failed miserably, Bush economics perhaps even worse. Tax cuts combined with expensive wars have destroyed our budget.
... On that note, we spend more money in Iraq in days than on "pork" in an entire year, and that entire stupid war is entirely Bush's fault... and you Republicans talk about caring about budget deficits? Ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous. Republicans increase the size of the budget deficit (and the national debt) faster than Democrats, every time. They like to start wars and increase the size of government WITHOUT raising taxes. Democrats at least like to think about how to pay for it! Note how the last time we had a budget surplus was under Clinton, a surplus Bush promptly destroyed with his first wave of stupid tax cuts? And then buried under vastly expensive wars and additional tax cuts, none of which were paid for? And these Republicans talk now about fiscal responsibility? It'd be a bad joke, if they didn't somehow think that they were being serious.
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