157 responses to “Class Warfare a la Joe the Lip”

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   Paul Emery

   13 July 2011

   Both. The debt has already been rung up so it would involve more revenue and a cutback in current and future spending. The legacy of the Bushes and Reagan maxing out the credit card and cutting income sources will take years to correct. Paying off the trillions spent in unfunded illegal wars are just a start.

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   Todd Juvinall

   13 July 2011

   You didn’t answer how you would deal with the wife.

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   Paul Emery

   13 July 2011

   Live within the budget and get a part time job to pay off debts. Less spending, more income

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   Todd Juvinall

   13 July 2011

   You or the wife gets the part time job?

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   Paul Emery

   13 July 2011

   Doesn’t matter . Just more income to pay off past debts. Interestingly enough the Ryan budget calls for trillions of dollars in new debt with no plan for how to pay for it. And the same crew is opposed to raising the debt limit. This is direct evidence of the poor math education Americans have.

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   George Rebane

   13 July 2011

   PaulE, I think you missed a mile on that comment. The $4T of spending cuts is just the start on Ryan’s plan, but keeping a lid on borrowing makes all the difference in the world for the out years. That progressives don’t understand this is the real “direct evidence of the poor math education Americans have.”
   BTW, the most recent RR post ‘Unlimited Debt Musical Chairs’ here
   http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2011/07/unlimited-debt-musical-chairs.html
   would be a more focused venue to continue the debt limit discussion.

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   Ben Emery

   13 July 2011

   http://www.benemery.org/1/post/2011/05/an-open-letter-to-representative-mcclintock.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BenEmeryBlog+%28BenEmery%29
   An excerpt from an Op Ed I wrote with a graph of the proposed budgets. Obama worst at balancing budget but does create jobs, Ryan budget takes over a generation to show a balanced budget with no jobs and then there was the “Peoples Budget” that was rated the best of the three proposed. Why don’t we hear about it? The media much like our government are owned by interlocking corporations who like the system in place now. Externalize the cost to the government while internalizing the profits by owning our government.
   “I’m not a member of either major political party. My opinion of the budget and the policies of our government is not formed by Republican or Democratic partisanship. The Obama budget, out of the three budget proposals, was the worst at balancing the budget though it created American jobs. The Ryan budget, as mentioned above, doesn’t balance the budget or create American jobs while making vicious cuts to the programs that help the most vulnerable among us. The Republican agenda is an obvious attempt to reverse almost every advance fought for by working Americans to secure ourselves from poverty over the past 80 years: Social Security, Medicare/ Medicaid, Education, Unemployment Insurance, and other social safety nets agreed upon by the people. Unfortunately both of our major parties are controlled by big money special interests, one by choice and the other by necessity, and the American people have become unrepresented in our state and federal capitals.”

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