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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 04:58 PM Original message |
Relax! The debt-ceiling deal cuts next to nothing. |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. Relax. This isn't going to hurt a bit. You don't need all those fingers. They gave you spares. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 07:51 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. but it raises nothing. how in the blue hell does a country run without |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
2. So this debt bill really means, Relax, you didn't want a job, did you? |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
3. ...... so far |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. What do you imagine the committee is capable of doing, exactly? |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Take the cat food commission report, strip it down to the cuts they envisioned |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:17 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. And what do you imagine will pass the Senate, hmm? nt |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:35 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Its a trap for Obama, I hope you know that |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:43 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. The "cuts" are spending caps which mostly don't kick in for a couple years. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 07:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. that fucking committee can't be constitutional. what the hell? |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
5. Anything less than expanding the deficit right now.. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Oh, come on. That's what they told Herbert Hoover. Oh, wait... n/t |
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Cool Logic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
7. Indeed, if that graph is an accurate depiction; there are no cuts at all. |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 06:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. It is from the Cato Institute, and it is driving the freezers insane. |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
13. K&R! |
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Dragonfli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. That is a bald faced lie, please retract. over two trillion dollars in cuts is very large |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
15. Even the most sychophantic Obamans admit to 2.4 trillion in cuts |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 07:54 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. unbelievable isn't it..... |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
17. i am thinking, from what i have read to this point, obama did a good job keeping it to a nothing |
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