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34015 Re: Clo, Please watch this and THEN tell me what, specifically, causes Dems to not support "Cut, Cap, and Balance"
   Clo, You don't seem to get it: as a nation we are WAY past bankrupt... 		fizzy   ROUND   23 Jul 2011
 6:36 AM
34011 Re: Clo, Please watch this and THEN tell me what, specifically, causes Dems to not support "Cut, Cap, and Balance"
   re: [b]"If I seem cranky, they say it hit 115 here with the heat index... 		Decomposed   ROUND   23 Jul 2011
 1:05 AM

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Re: Clo, Please watch this and THEN tell me what, specifically, causes Dems to not support "Cut, Cap, and Balance"

By: clo in ROUND
Sat, 23 Jul 11 12:36 AM
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fizzy,

Walker says.

For instance, the concept of 'Cut, Cap and Balance' makes sense, "but numbers they're using don't make sense," he says.


I watched & I am opposed.
If this were to be enacted, starting Oct. the first year 800,000 more would be unemployed.

We have fought 2 wars, enacted Medicare D & sucked the rest by giving out GWB tax cuts!
Now they want to make draconian cuts in programs for the elderly & poor. Seniors have been paying into the system all of their lives, they can't change the rules now.

I don't trust most politicians & hardly any of the republicans.
Republicans only "cure" is to "cut taxes", this is totally ridiculous given the circumstances.

Raise the capital gains tax to 50%.
Did you read the article I posted yesterday? Billionaires made 50% more LAST YEAR while millions are losing their jobs & health insurance & homes.
Yet Congress wants the middle class to carry more of the burdeon.
It infuriates me....

fizzy, there is a small town in Rhode Island on the brink of bankruptcy. They are asking retired firemen, police & other state workers to take a 50% cut in their pensions.
I think this will be a problem for many "towns" nationwide.

Lets end pensions & covering the health care of our politicians. Since we can't get term limits, that should curb their desire to stay in Washington forever...

And raise the damn debt ceiling, if we don't our debt will cost us much more in interest & ruin our credit. They already commited to paying these debts, we are not a dead beat nation.

If I seem cranky, they say it hit 115 here with the heat index. clo


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