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To: johnthebaptistmoore
Will they also fully blame the present Congress, which is controlled by a Democratic Party majority?

Read the article again.

FTA:

The CBO says that, merely in the two years that Democrats have run Congress, federal expenditures are up $429 billion -- to $3.158 trillion.

Rather than sort through priorities, Congress is spending more on just about everything.

Meanwhile, remember that "pay as you go" spending promise that Speaker Nancy Pelosi made in 2006? We called it a ruse at the time, and the last two years have proved it.

The problem with the Federal debt gluttony is that it transcends both parties and has been going on for decades.

What happens when the trough is finally empty and our hosts (debt buyers and holders) are unwilling to refill it?

6 posted on 09/10/2008 7:46:54 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

They go down too. Their economies are linked to ours.


7 posted on 09/10/2008 7:49:06 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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To: rabscuttle385

*** What happens when the trough is finally empty and our hosts (debt buyers and holders) are unwilling to refill it?***

We raise taxes or print the money. Either way will devastate the economy. We either have our dollars stolen, or we have their value stolen through devaluation.


20 posted on 09/10/2008 9:34:10 AM PDT by djsherin
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To: rabscuttle385

That is why we need someone in the Whitehouse like Sarah Palin who isn’t afraid to use the veto pen on spending.

Unfortunately, somehow the courts decided that the “line-item” VETO was unconstitutional....


23 posted on 09/10/2008 10:01:18 AM PDT by TheBattman (A vote for the "lesser evil" is still a vote for evil!)
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To: rabscuttle385
The CBO says that, merely in the two years that Democrats have run Congress, federal expenditures are up $429 billion -- to $3.158 trillion.

Which means that in the 6 years prior, when Republicans ran the show, federal expenditures were up over $800 billion. And that's an improvement how?

Anyone who really thinks that either candidate will reign in spending is only deluding themselves.

28 posted on 09/10/2008 12:26:11 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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