Senator Cardin Town Hall Wacko: "'We're 99 trillion dollars in debt"

[PA Democrat]

'We're 99 trillion dollars in debt how are you going to look at my children in the eyes and tell them they’re going to have a better future?' One man asked.

http://www.abc2news.com/news/local/story/Opponents-To-Health-Care-Reform-Give-Senator-An/ycjY5kTG40eCjZAbu_ucug.cspx

No, actually, the national debt is about $11.7 trillion. These guys out there are much more than an angry mob, they are an angry STUPID mob.

[HopeHoops]

1. Shit I thought it was more like Eleventy-seven or something.

And the Earth is shaped like a burrito!

[JaneQPublic]

2. The Facts and The Repukes are mortal enemies

As Stephen Colbert once said, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."

[Javaman]

4. Never ruin a good lie with the truth. That's their motto. nt

[ejpoeta]

3. you know... i tend to exaggerate myself!! but even i am not that bad.

[Berry Cool]

5. You know what Marcia Fudge's reply to crap like that is?

First of all, to correct the figure; second of all, to say that we didn't get that deeply in debt over the past eight months, but over the past eight YEARS...and now, to work our way out of it, we are going to have to spend a bit more money. Not the fault of the people now in charge, but of the eight years of devastation wrought by the Bush administration.

There. Schooled.

Just like she did to someone last night.

My congresswoman should go to ALL the meetings! She'd set them straight!

[PA Democrat]

7. I watched the video of this and Cardin did not correct this guy's figures.

It was VERY disappointing. I knew without looking up the actual figure that this guy was off by a factor of about 9. I knew the debt was somewhere between $11 and $12 trillion.

[kevinbgoode]

12. What he should have said is. . .

"We can reduce that debt $1 trillion right away when the Republican Party pays the American people back for lying our way into Iraq. The GOP said we'd be paid back by Iraq, and that hasn't happened - nor is it going to happen. The party owes the American people $1 trillion, and you need to stand up at the GOP town hall meetings and demand it."

[nyhuskyfan]

6. These folks annoy me

The 11.7 trillion debt has been growing steadily since 1982. The only time the upward momentum was slowed down was under Clinton. In 2001, Alan Greenspan, who belongs in a Hall of Evil, articulated concerns that we would pay off the debt too quickly and helped push Bush's economic agenda.

So for people to suddenly NOW decide that they care about the debt when we have a new administration trying to bring the economy back from the brink of disaster (and short-circuit the next potential disaster over health care). Well, sorry, you have no legs to stand on.

[HughBeaumont]

11. Their guy Bewsh nearly DOUBLED it.

As did their patron saint Ronnie.

When you think about it, that debt didn't even go to HELP people, health care, infrastructure, education, etc. They just BLEW money they didn't have in the name of corporate takeovers, high-risk speculation, tax cuts for people who don't need them, corporate welfare and wars, wars, WARS! How can anyone walking erect be this intellectually VOID?

[madmom]

8. What people need to be saying about this debt is that most of it is from the

wars that b*sh started and NEVER counted in his budget. That debt was always there but they were not allowed to see it.

[loyalkydem]

9. Stephanie Miller

totally made fun of this ass hole on her show moments ago

[HughBeaumont]

10. 11.7 trillion. 70% of which was rung up by three . . . REPUBLICAN . . . presidents.

Love deflating the scare balloons of the wrong-wang as much as possible.

[nyhuskyfan]

13. And most of the rest was under Clinton

Who took over when the debt was escalating rapidly, and gradually got it under control to the point where we had a comfortable surplus and were starting to pay the debt off.