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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 12:25 AM Original message |
Running in the red: How the U.S., on the road to surplus, detoured to massive debt |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
1. Well, our humanitarian interventions abroad are very expensive... |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 12:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Yes, the Bush wars are major contributors to our deficits, as is Medicare Part D. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 11:16 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. Killing brown people with remote controlled drones |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. The people just couldn't resist the folksy populist rhetoric |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 12:55 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. The people didn't demand it as much as Junior and his GOP lapdog Congress did. |
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enid602 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
5. GWB |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
6. They will automatically lapse in a couple of years as long as we don't fight to keep any cuts. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 02:09 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I thought they would at least partially expire in December. |
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Citizen Worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 01:48 AM Response to Original message |
7. How well I remember the first Bush tax cut. I worked late and went to a local pub for a to-go order |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 02:21 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Soon afterward Congress let PAYGO expire. |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 07:35 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. I had people laugh when I told them that those checks ... |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 10:47 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. The very same scenario played out in December. |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 06:26 AM Response to Original message |
10. "It's YOUR money . . . " |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-01-11 07:35 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. + 12 trillion |
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