Welome to America (Golden Rainbow)

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Opinions?

1. The writer you referenced is clearly not anywhere near center-right or pro-conservative. In any case, the idea that the NYT is pro-conservative is laughable.
2. The wars are about than 1/4 of the debt added during the Bush administration. I repeat a third time: what do you suppose the rest of this is?
3. I did not reference the Heritage foundation analysis. I cited a U.S. Government Accountability Office report. You are attacking an incorrect source.
4. I am not denying that the debt increased under Bush. I'm assigning the blame to any and all statist economic policy. The government should not be funding healthcare or any other social welfare programs. If these programs were eliminated, there would be no deficit. In any case, spending is almost entirely under the discretion of Congress.

Thinking about point 4.... The simple question is, Do you want government to interfere/intervene in your daily life, if so, how much? Tha'ts what the arguement is all about. For ie... is ALL welfare and social programs bad? Or just most/some of it?

IMO, I agree that everybody has a RIGHT to a good education, a RIGHT to a nice home, a RIGHT to eat good food. People have a RIGHT to have many many things... But what they DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT for, is to expect me or any other taxpayer to provide those things for them. I remember when I was a kid and I first saw food stamps... I asked my mother what they was, when she explained it to me I asked, Who pays for the stamps? I kinda thought maybe the store owner had to 'give it away' if somebody gave them those green lil stamps. Then she told me that 'we' the tax-payers paid for them. Then as I saw the family leaving in the station wagon that checked out in front of us, I saw both parents

No you haven't Serpent. I will address some of your concerns in a later post because I don't have time. Although we are getting into a separate topic. I'd like to have that conversation too.

@Scarnot.
Point 1 = Irrelevant. However, you are right. NYT isn't center right. More like Right-Far Right. So again, I stand corrected. Both are a matter of opinion, but as you can see I am more than informed and can again stump you into 3 days of silence on that issue as well. I'll let you wrap your head around that notion in the meantime.

Point 2 = Again Irrelevant. War, Taxes, Earmarks, who cares, it is all spending. I could argue that both wars were largely stupid and accomplished nothing and gained huge amounts of debt yet were are still vulnerable if not more vulnerable than before. Nothing has changed. So war or not, it was money spent, and debt accrued, I think you have a hard time swallowing that. But it doesn't m

There's no point in arguing with an insane ideologue.
You are claiming that the information I have presented was biased. However, I presented information from the GAO (an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress) and raw numbers. If you cannot accept this, why should I argue? Where is the credibility for your source?
You are ignoring information that doesn't suit your point: 25% is not a majority. The wars were not the largest factor in the debt added during the Bush Administration. I ask again: what do you suppose the rest of the debt is from? You can ignore the question, though. Refer to first sentence.

At least there is still hope for the new year... right?

There's always hope.

Clarity, If we accept that 1/3 of the US debt is caused by war, and since wars produce only debt this is standard fare. Then 2/3 of the debt is from something else. And since social security is paid through wages and taxation. And since most people die before they get old enough to recieve it, then pray tell WHY are we in debt. In my industry most live on average to about 55 years old. So I will likely never get back the money, and the rich pay more into the system than they recieve back. So where is the money that is not consumed in wars going? How much money do we as Americans send to the PLO and other America hating people that would be better spent at home? Recently I read an article by a progressive paper that exposed the 75k pizza cutter that a school purchased so that each slice would be exactly equal. And when they asked a nearby corporation that sells pizza what they used because they would have more use for such a device, they replied that the on

Based on the above, I'd strongly recommend any school-age players here to do a Google Science Fair project on the psychology of Psycho Honey. It's a sure winner.

The aggressively hostile language. The characterization of Paul Krugman as conservative (haha). The equating of $1T on war spending with a $4T increase in the debt, and the claim that the difference between the two is "irrelevant". The confusion of the US Government Accounting Office with the Heritage Foundation!

This is too funny to let pass by...Scarlet quotes and links to the GAO site, and Psycho responds by linking to The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' criticism of a Heritage Foundation paper. Look at the Wikipedia entry on Center on Budget and Policy Priorities..."Politically conservative groups...accuse the group of producing misleading studies...Defenders of the group note that the Center's analyses are based on the work o

Unfortunately, defecit spending is ingrained in the US political system. The only balanced budgets in the last several generations were the result of boomers hitting their peak earning years and returning, temporarily, solvency to Social Security, and by extension, the Federal Budget.

The political will to control spending is nonexistent in either political party. There are far too many interests, special or otherwise, in maintaining the status quo.

Of course, the rhetorical hysteria of both left and right will continue to eclipse rational examination of any issue for the forseeable future, just as our leaders would have it.

Wonderful Democracy. So fine in theory and so ludicrous in practice.

If one truly believes any issue of the day is really being addressed through the left/right political war, I have some land you might be interested in.

JoJo, your mouth would be more useful if you learned to give good blow jobs. That was based on your last 6 months of posts. The last year even.

Uh Oh... we need censorship... we demand it!!!

Blo Job... There ya go.

/me *pets* Serpent

LOL Psycho, at least you named yourself well.