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OldDem2012

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4. Actually, "we" are doing nothing, but the House of Reps is is shooting everyone....
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 07:49 PM
Feb 2013

....in every possible extremity they can find.

I really wish the President would announce an Executive Order designed to clean up this mess.

The Repubs want to use this to forward upaloopa Feb 2013 #1
But if that equivalency narrative doesn't hold, so many allegations fall short. great white snark Feb 2013 #5
Then why did the president sign off on this back in 2011? MadHound Feb 2013 #15
Message auto-removed matwilson Feb 2013 #2
Because They Are Too Cowardly To Deal With Their Own Jobs... WillyT Feb 2013 #3
Actually, "we" are doing nothing, but the House of Reps is is shooting everyone.... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #4
I would love an EO, but that's not going to happen at this juncture. MadHound Feb 2013 #16
"A serious stimulus program" - when we already have a $15 trillion+ national debt? No. n/t. OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #6
We're gonna need to see your long form voter registration card. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #7
What is your plan? theaocp Feb 2013 #8
The math can get very debatable, but OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #10
The math isn't debatable at all, MadHound Feb 2013 #18
The opposite of stimulation is stagnation. Your choice. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #9
If our national debt were, say, $7 trillion instead, OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #11
Our deficit could be $7Trillion if we were collecting much more tax revenue. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #12
thats actually not true... liberal_economist Feb 2013 #13
Bullshit that any deficit spending is technically stimulus. That's a BS line and I shouldn't even JaneyVee Feb 2013 #20
I'm not sure you're an economist, much less a liberal, MadHound Feb 2013 #22
This isn't the time to be fixated on the debt. MadHound Feb 2013 #19
So? MadHound Feb 2013 #17
Quit listening to people that don't know what they're talking about and are always wrong. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #23
Yeah....the CCC program FDR initiated really worked out poorly, didn't it? nt. OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #24
This is a Washington-manufactured crisis, created to scare us so Washington can save us. Pterodactyl Feb 2013 #14
K&R forestpath Feb 2013 #21
We aren't doing it. It's being done to us. woo me with science Feb 2013 #25
K&R MotherPetrie Feb 2013 #26
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