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House GOP leaders get heat from rank-and-file ahead of debt vote (Adding to the $15.2 TRILLION)
The Hill ^ | 1/16/12 | Erik Wasson

Posted on 01/16/2012 4:09:22 AM PST by Libloather

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To: Brad from Tennessee

Shanksville, PA


21 posted on 01/16/2012 6:09:10 AM PST by wita
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To: Libloather

22 posted on 01/16/2012 6:32:30 AM PST by KantianBurke (Where was the Tea Party when Dubya was spending like a drunken sailor?)
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To: wita
It's coming... wait until the euro collapses and along with it the eu... it's coming.

LLS

23 posted on 01/16/2012 6:37:23 AM PST by LibLieSlayer ( MOOchelle obama is PISSED OFF that people say that she is an angry woman!)
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Huelskamp said he planned to raise his points in a caucus meeting and wants leadership to avoid squandering future opportunities to squeeze the White House into cutting the budget.

Uh, what budget is that?

24 posted on 01/16/2012 6:41:42 AM PST by upchuck (Let's have the Revolution NOW before we get dumbed down to the point that we can't.)
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To: Libloather
Yada yada yada, blah blah blah, Kabuki Theatrics, and it WILL BE PASSED anyway.
No RINO guts, certainly no RINO glory. I will now go PUKE!!!!!!
25 posted on 01/16/2012 7:13:45 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: Happy Rain

Next year this time we will all be moaning as they raise the debt ceiling again.


26 posted on 01/16/2012 7:22:01 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Happy Rain

This vote will not do the big spenders out on the campaign trail in S.C. any good. I am expecting votes to move as Congress reminds the voters just how huge our debt is.


27 posted on 01/16/2012 7:27:27 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Georgia Girl 2; All

Rather than moaning, it appears the only thing left is an ultimatum from “the people” that if there is no budget by... name a date, and if the budget does not reflect decreases commensurate with the extreme debt, and if it is not in balance, etc etc etc, there will be no tax money forthcoming to continue the insanity. All tax monies will be filtered through state government.

That said, many if not most state governments are as complicit as the FED and I wonder just how many SS, SSI, govt pensioners, and food stamp recipients, would be willing to add their voice to one of the few options left besides waiting for everything to go bust? Does this mean all is lost? No, but the options such as they are, don’t inspire.


28 posted on 01/16/2012 8:01:41 AM PST by wita
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To: Libloather

I clicked on the national debt clock live link. It was taking forever to load and it slowed my computer down so much I had to force quit the browser. It was still running really slow so I had to restart the computer.

Good luck:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/


29 posted on 01/16/2012 8:19:59 AM PST by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

In 2009 the debt stood at $11 trillion and was projected to grow to $20 trillion by 2020.

We’ll be fortunate if it’s below $25 trillion by then. If this madness doesn’t stop, we could be looking at a debt of $50 trillion by 2030. The interest payments alone would be more than the yearly revenues. There would be no money to pay for ANY government services. No national defense, no nothing.


30 posted on 01/16/2012 8:29:13 AM PST by Deo volente (God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
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To: exit82

“You damn well better question their integrity.”

What integrity? By definition, libs have NO integrity.


31 posted on 01/16/2012 8:33:30 AM PST by chooseascreennamepat (The response to 1984 is 1776.)
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To: Deo volente

My personal belief is that this train is so far down the tracks nothing can stop it. Even if an austerity plan would stop it who is going to agree to it? Look at Greece? They cannot institute an austerity plan because the public is rioting. We have 41% of the population here who will never agree to austerity. The best thing you can do at this point is to prepare your own family and be ready for a really hard landing in the next several years.


32 posted on 01/16/2012 10:30:07 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“The most grievous decision al Queda made in its 9/11 2001 attack was not to crash a jetliner into the Capitol Dome.”

Yes; I’ve always wondered what would’ve happened if the passengers on Flight 97 had backed off. Would it have been good for America to have to elect “all new people” in the aftermath of the Twin Towers and Pentagon tragedies?


33 posted on 01/16/2012 10:46:31 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: MayflowerMadam; wita

There is a debate about whether United 93 was headed for Congress or the White House. I didn’t see the Hollywood version.


34 posted on 01/16/2012 1:33:16 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
"The best thing you can do at this point is to prepare your own family and be ready for a really hard landing in the next several years."

I agree, the only thing the USA can realistically do is inflate. There is not the political will to cut spending so get ready, if you can, for $500 a barrel oil. A nice home garden with maybe a few chickens would be at the top of my to do list. After guns an ammo of course. Canned meat is a good idea too, while you can still afford it.

35 posted on 01/16/2012 1:49:56 PM PST by jpsb
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Under the circumstances IMHO it doesn’t matter which, those folks who took the bull by the horns, knowing the end result, saved the face of the Nation. Far better a smoking hole in Shanksville than the endless crowing of Muslims if the real target was hit.


36 posted on 01/16/2012 2:24:54 PM PST by wita
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To: jpsb

Yep thats our plan.


37 posted on 01/16/2012 3:42:32 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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