The sheer silliness of the budget battle...

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Okay, imagine a married couple, raising their family, living the American Dream, keeping up with the Jones'. The wife one day announces to her husband, that she has spent $1,700 more than they have in the checking account... the husband responds; "WHAT? ...We have to put some money in the bank quick!" After contemplating their resources, the husband says... let's put $100 in the bank today... the wife says, "How about we put $4 in the bank instead?" The husband says "No, we need to put at least $61 in the bank now!" The wife says... "No, what about I meet you half way and we put $33 in the bank?" ...But here is the kicker, before the wife overdrew the checking account by $1,700.... the couple was already $20,000 overdrawn!

This is an accurate analogy of what is going on in Washington... Republicans and Democrats are haggling over a few billion dollars, which isn't even enough to pay the INTEREST on our debt! We should be talking about BALANCING the budget! We should be finding $1.7 trillion we can cut, because that is how much we are OVER budget for this year! Democrats are running around whining and crying over a few billion dollars, to things like Planned Parenthood and NPR... not ESSENTIAL things we really NEED, but liberal bureaucratic bullshit we shouldn't have ever been funding in the first place.
 
Dixie said:
Okay, imagine a married couple, raising their family, living the American Dream, keeping up with the Jones'. The wife one day announces to her husband, that she has spent $1,700 more than they have in the checking account... the husband responds; "WHAT? ...We have to put some money in the bank quick!" After contemplating their resources, the husband says... let's put $100 in the bank today... the wife says, "How about we put $4 in the bank instead?" The husband says "No, we need to put at least $61 in the bank now!" The wife says... "No, what about I meet you half way and we put $33 in the bank?" ...But here is the kicker, before the wife overdrew the checking account by $1,700.... the couple was already $20,000 overdrawn!

This is an accurate analogy of what is going on in Washington... Republicans and Democrats are haggling over a few billion dollars, which isn't even enough to pay the INTEREST on our debt! We should be talking about BALANCING the budget! We should be finding $1.7 trillion we can cut, because that is how much we are OVER budget for this year! Democrats are running around whining and crying over a few billion dollars, to things like Planned Parenthood and NPR... not ESSENTIAL things we really NEED, but liberal bureaucratic bullshit we shouldn't have ever been funding in the first place.
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Yeah, well, Congress acts more like the divorced couple who are fighting than the happily married couple, but thanks for the laugh
 
King of Gods said:
Perhaps you could explain how they should go about cutting $1.7 trillion in spending? What should be cut? Please, be specific.
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If you and the wife realized you were spending $1,700 more per month than what you are bringing in... what would you do? Would it be an option to throw up your hands and say... What can we do without? Wouldn't you HAVE to face the reality that you're going to have to live without SOMETHING? I mean.... think about it? Logic dictates that we can't keep on this way. Did you know, or do you realize, the interest on our debt is three times more than Republicans want to cut today? Do you comprehend that Obama's deficit in his 2011 budget, is larger than the entire budget of 2007?
 
Epic Win said:
Give it a try, Dix.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html

I'm anticipating your complaint that the cuts don't go far enough.
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Who came up with this Liberal piece of shit?
I went through it and tried... but the options were very incomplete and distorted. I'm not so sure the numbers were even tabulated correctly, because many things that you would or could do, would change other things, like tax revenues... so the whole thing makes little sense to me in practicality. Dynamics shift because of the things you might do.... some things are very adverse and some things are very positive. I didn't see the option of a Fair Tax... that was missing... all the bureaucracy of the IRS completely eliminated... A consumer driven tax... so when we do start growing again economically, we will generate TONS of revenue, to pay off our massive national debt. This accompanies other things you do to free up capital and encourage growth in business and industry, and eliminating the Corporate taxes, would certainly do that. There isn't an interactive web page that can calculate all of this, how things effect each other, and revenue projections are merely based on speculations, this is not a static figure, and pinheads often presume it is.
 
Dixie said:
Okay, imagine a married couple, raising their family, living the American Dream, keeping up with the Jones'. The wife one day announces to her husband, that she has spent $1,700 more than they have in the checking account... the husband responds; "WHAT? ...We have to put some money in the bank quick!" After contemplating their resources, the husband says... let's put $100 in the bank today... the wife says, "How about we put $4 in the bank instead?" The husband says "No, we need to put at least $61 in the bank now!" The wife says... "No, what about I meet you half way and we put $33 in the bank?" ...But here is the kicker, before the wife overdrew the checking account by $1,700.... the couple was already $20,000 overdrawn!

This is an accurate analogy of what is going on in Washington... Republicans and Democrats are haggling over a few billion dollars, which isn't even enough to pay the INTEREST on our debt! We should be talking about BALANCING the budget! We should be finding $1.7 trillion we can cut, because that is how much we are OVER budget for this year! Democrats are running around whining and crying over a few billion dollars, to things like Planned Parenthood and NPR... not ESSENTIAL things we really NEED, but liberal bureaucratic bullshit we shouldn't have ever been funding in the first place.
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Your analogy is off kilter. For example, Planned Parenthood spends 3% of their budget on abortions. Cutting funds will result in cutting cancer testing for woman.

The first programs to cut are the ones that won't effect the neediest in society. Start be getting the troops home and drastically cut foreign aid.
 
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