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After Obama - Republican or Democrat, our next president will be a budget hawk. (VDH)
National Review Online ^ | April 4, 2013 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/05/2013 12:03:59 AM PDT by neverdem

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To: Graewoulf

Republicans need to abandon selling out America.

We need to bring back US production, and build things in the USA.

Right now.


21 posted on 04/06/2013 8:13:34 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: jeltz25
Clinton was pretty good on the budget. Better than any Republican in recent memory. I don’t see why a Democrat couldn’t be good on the budget.

You're a joke, right? You are aware that after signing the most massive tax hike in history and losing the House for the rats in 1994, the Republicans dictated "the budget". Clinton was left with little to do but chase young interns and masturbate in the Oval Office sink. I prefer George Bush getting those massive tax CUTS in his first year to anything the toon did.

And if you truly believe that you "don’t see why a Democrat couldn’t be good on the budget", then you must have got your hands on some pretty high-quality LSD. Rats don't do budgets without massive tax hikes as their centerpiece.

FRegards,
LH

(Wait... did you forget a /sarc tag?)

22 posted on 04/06/2013 8:15:30 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
We need to bring back US production, and build things in the USA

How would politicians do that? (Serious question.)

23 posted on 04/06/2013 8:16:47 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: neverdem

The electorate has elected and reelected the most left-wing radical president this country has ever seen. All bets are off.


24 posted on 04/06/2013 8:20:13 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Lancey Howard

We need some sort of domestic production-favoring tax code.

Our domestic production was once the wonder of the world. For the last two decades it has almost all, been sent lock stock and barrel overseas.

Now all that remains in America, is the finished package which was trucked in from the ship, from China.

Everything now is made in China.

Bring it back.

Now.


25 posted on 04/06/2013 8:20:25 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Lancey Howard

Funny how those same Republicans dictated a different budget to W, then.

All I know is that federal spending under Clinton reached its lowest levels in 50 years. The budget was in its best shape in a very long time. Was it all him? No. But he has to get some credit.

I preferred Clinton’s 18% spending levels to W’s 22% and doubling of the national debt, but that’s just me.

I’m just saying that party affiliation is no guarantee of anything. A Republican can be bad on the budgte, a democrat can be good. It really depends on the person.


26 posted on 04/06/2013 8:21:26 PM PDT by jeltz25
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To: Lancey Howard

(recognizing I did not completely answer your question)

I deliberately left open a lot of leeway in my answer, because that is where one can easily get in a great deal of trouble very quickly.

Let me just leave it, advocating some sort of domestic production-favoring tax code.

:D

Mostly trying to create the basic desire for American products once again, first.


27 posted on 04/06/2013 8:25:02 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network; Lady Jag; All

Tough to do. The inertia of BIG BROTHER GOVERNMENT has enough support from the gullible to stall out any animal spirits left in the market.

BTW, why do the gullible have a very low opinion of Federal Politicians, but a very high opinion of the Federal Government?

Seems to me, weakest link in the chain defines the strength of the chain - - - and all that. What say you?


28 posted on 04/06/2013 8:34:36 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf

I only say one thing:

We will have either full employment, or we will have an ever-growing mess.

I do not want a mess. I want a responsible, smaller government.

So I say fix this. Other reasonable people disagree.

I understand but cannot support that view.

Bring back US jobs from overseas. Now.


29 posted on 04/06/2013 8:39:14 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

The key is to make manufacturing in the United States a profitable venture. The things that hamper profitability are: over-regulation (including primarily the EPA), and labor costs. Ironically, there IS a lot of manufacturing going on in the US - - by Japanese and other foreign car makers. Those companies simply find friendly states to do business in.

I agree that tax policy can certainly help, as well, as long as it involves tax BREAKS.

The main thing is that everyday Americans don’t end up paying more for everyday products because they have to support the scumbag government and the greedy union pinky rings. That would simply amount to a “tax hike” on everyday Americans.

By the way, I do shop at Walmart for the prices.

FRegards,
LH


30 posted on 04/06/2013 8:41:45 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: jeltz25
Was it all him? No. But he has to get some credit.

Why? All that scumbag did was shut down the government several times over budget cuts.

I preferred Clinton’s 18% spending levels to W’s 22% and doubling of the national debt, but that’s just me.

Although I agree those last couple of years of Pelosi and the communists were a killer, there was also the fact that Bush was the guy who came along and had the guts to face down the terrorists after Clinton watched them bomb a 30-foot crater under the World Trade Center and did nothing. An attack on America that took 3,000 lives and a couple of foreign wars can cost a lot of money.

31 posted on 04/06/2013 8:49:23 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Graewoulf

When legit the government is admirable but by all appearances it has been pulling away from somewhat honorable to almost totally corrupt.

I fully suspect the last presidential election was fraudulent to such a degree that we may never have an honest election again.


32 posted on 04/07/2013 8:09:19 AM PDT by Lady Jag (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat. - Reagan)
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To: Lady Jag

I our Liberty is in Law. than as a lawyer, write to us what “The Law” should be doing about the weekly violations to the US Constitution by Barry Soetoro, (a legal resident of Indonesia), aka B. Hussein Obama.


33 posted on 04/07/2013 7:12:09 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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