Posted on 01/11/2012 6:24:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind
They are getting ready to ask for another 1.2 Trillion.
Um, I think that the Obama White House had something to do with this.
They erase their own reelection platform... we need men to run against them in primaries
We are getting another trillion soon. That is on the agenda during this term. I wish I could write a check for 10 grand for my family portion of the debt and then the government must leave me alone. I and many others would do that in a heartbeat. I actually thought our debt per family was higher. Most families could pay that fairly easily. They should just have a pay debt day and watch the debt disappear. We could have a hot dog sale. lol.
If only we had Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum as president. They wouldn’t have let this happen and would have actually cut the debt by a couple of trillion dollars. /sarc
Does that mean they won't be able to go out for that pizza after all?
If you think your share of the national debt is $10K you had better sit down.
The article says 8,000 (a little over. not sure of exact figure) and then another 900 per American family. I actually added up. It is not quite 10,000 dollars. We are in much better shape than I had thought.
RE: If only we had Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum as president. They wouldn’t have let this happen and would have actually cut the debt by a couple of trillion dollars. /sarc
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Have you forgotten the BUDGET SURPLUS this country had when Newt was Speaker and Santorum was Senator?
That’s just for the last Trillion.
times that by 15.
RE: Um, I think that the Obama White House had something to do with this.
Yes, and Congress STILL controls the purse strings. How many of these men have balls anyway?
At some point markets will lose faith in the dollar and stop trading in dollars, then the real fun will begin we will be forced to buy Euros or Yen to buy our oil. The standard of living here will not be nice. $20.00 a gallon anyone?
You are kidding right? They are talking about the past 10 months deficit. Do you know what the national debt is? Do you know what unfunded liabilities are?
Throw all the bums out!
Except my congressman.
and then add unfunded liabilities. Just to make the math easy, try around 100 trillion.
Please point the way to the Right Wing Utopia where all that this woman (the author) wants happens as quick as she want it.
Politicians are much braver when the will of the people is clearly spelled out and as i see the world nobody is very clear about what they want
Did anyone ever notice there are 2 opposing parties jostling for power.
Its things like that that make the utopia she seeks so difficult to find
The previous compromise last summer was supposed to put this out of sight during the presidential campaign by raising the debt limit enough so that the money would last past the election. The super-committe was a compromise that was supposed to fail, then kick in the default cuts (which no one voted on and therefore cannot be blamed for). Obama has played this to his own constituents, by announcing the military cuts and not announcing the entitlement cuts which are mandated by the August bill. He will delay announcing any entitlement cuts, which would go directly against people he wants to vote for him, until after the election.
But this is blowing up early, so take advantage of it. The house should cause another stalemate an a debt ceiling increase, and force Obama to lay out a plan for entitlement cuts before the next vote. It will force him to spell out how he is going to screw his supporters before the election. It needs to become a campaign issue to spell out which agencies these candidates will cut. Republicans can safely talk about this, but Obama cannot. He already played the military cuts card. From now on, its his voters.
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