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Kasz216 on 17 April 2009
TheRealMafoo said:
theRepublic said:

If that's what this is really about, where were these people for the last 8 years?

 

That's the real question. We should be pissed that people didn't start this 6-7 years ago. Not that they are doing it now.


People were upset then too though... not as many people since everyone was all afraid of terrorists or some shit... and the budget wasn't as high.

 

For example.

 

 

I mean in comparison Bush's deficits don't even look like anything.  It's like saying "Why weren't you complaining when that guy took a few frenchfries off your plate.  You weren't complaining then so you can't complain when i take your entire order of fries."

 



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TheRealMafoo on 17 April 2009
akuma587 said:

So why weren't they protesting during the Bush Adminstration, or the Bush Sr. Adminstration, or the Reagan Adminstration?  Reagan was even specifically known for his "voodoo economics" of increasing spending and cutting taxes.

 

 

You do realize that the worst number on that line a -413. We will be 3x that number this year, and every year beyond if Obama gets his way.



theRepublic on 17 April 2009
TheRealMafoo said:
theRepublic said:

If that's what this is really about, where were these people for the last 8 years?

 

That's the real question. We should be pissed that people didn't start this 6-7 years ago. Not that they are doing it now.

I think the real question is "What are these tea parties really about?"

I think the answer to that question lies in the fact that everyone booed when that blogger said negative things about Bush in the video Akuma posted.



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akuma587 on 17 April 2009
Kasz216 said:
TheRealMafoo said:
theRepublic said:

If that's what this is really about, where were these people for the last 8 years?

 

That's the real question. We should be pissed that people didn't start this 6-7 years ago. Not that they are doing it now.


People were upset then too though... not as many people since everyone was all afraid of terrorists or some shit... and the budget wasn't as high.

 

For example.

 

 

I mean in comparison Bush's deficits don't even look like anything.

 

1.2 trillion of those 2009 numbers are Bush's.  I agree with you guys that the numbers are bad.  I don't think any of us wants the government to run up a bunch of debt.

But even the alternative Republican budget was running major deficits for years to come.  The fact is, we will just have to bite the bullet and cut spending AND raise taxes.  There is no other way to pay down the debt.

 



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TheRealMafoo on 17 April 2009
Kasz216 said:

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a question I have for Obama supporters.

How can you look at this graph, and not care?



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Kasz216 on 17 April 2009
theRepublic said:
TheRealMafoo said:
theRepublic said:

If that's what this is really about, where were these people for the last 8 years?

 

That's the real question. We should be pissed that people didn't start this 6-7 years ago. Not that they are doing it now.

I think the real question is "What are these tea parties really about?"

I think the answer to that question lies in the fact that everyone booed when that blogger said negative things about Bush in that video Akuma posted.

Yeah... Countdown with Keith Oberman isn't credible.

 



Kasz216 on 17 April 2009
akuma587 said:
Kasz216 said:
TheRealMafoo said:
theRepublic said:

If that's what this is really about, where were these people for the last 8 years?

 

That's the real question. We should be pissed that people didn't start this 6-7 years ago. Not that they are doing it now.


People were upset then too though... not as many people since everyone was all afraid of terrorists or some shit... and the budget wasn't as high.

 

For example.

 

 

I mean in comparison Bush's deficits don't even look like anything.

 

1.2 trillion of those 2009 numbers are Bush's.  I agree with you guys that the numbers are bad.  I don't think any of us wants the government to run up a bunch of debt.

But even the alternative Republican budget was running major deficits for years to come.  The fact is, we will just have to bite the bullet and cut spending AND raise taxes.  There is no other way to pay down the debt.

 

Why is 1.2 Trillion of the 2009 numbers bush?  Why did he go from 400 billion to 1.2 trillion... out of nowhere?

Oh right... the bank bailouts.  Yeah... that's Bush and the Congress fault.  Really the congress is who these plans should really be blamed on.

It's also who all the Bush deficit running should be blamed on.  I mean congress are the ones with the pursestrings.



akuma587 on 17 April 2009

None of us said we didn't care. If anything, this means we should RAISE taxes. But the public has been conditioned into thinking that tax raises are inherently bad, even if it will mean that the economy would collapse if we didn't raise them.



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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

TheRealMafoo on 17 April 2009
akuma587 said:

1.2 trillion of those 2009 numbers are Bush's.

 

 

NO! 1.2 trillion of those are ours. We have to pay them, not Bush.

Stop the partisan finger pointing, and work to fix the problem. Pushing blame around solves nothing.

Wining about what the other guy did, and ignoring what your guy is doing has far more to do with why we are here, then one of them being any worse than the other.

Government is bleeding us dry, regardless of party.



theRepublic on 17 April 2009
Kasz216 said:
theRepublic said:
TheRealMafoo said:
theRepublic said:

If that's what this is really about, where were these people for the last 8 years?

 

That's the real question. We should be pissed that people didn't start this 6-7 years ago. Not that they are doing it now.

I think the real question is "What are these tea parties really about?"

I think the answer to that question lies in the fact that everyone booed when that blogger said negative things about Bush in that video Akuma posted.

Yeah... Countdown with Keith Oberman isn't credible.

 

That wasn't the part I was talking about.  The internet video they showed.



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