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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 11:24 AM
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3. I Think BOTH are Factors Here
not one without the other. Our military expanding the way it has was unsustainable for years, and the hippies warned us all. Now we see an unsustainable military budget and tax cuts for the greed heads that helped start the wars and occupations. Talk about insult to injury.
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  -US debt passes $14 trillion, Congress weighs caps PoliticAverse  Jan-15-11 10:53 AM   #0 
  - Military spending is the fundamental problem, of course  DavidDvorkin   Jan-15-11 11:15 AM   #1 
  - no its not  bossy22   Jan-15-11 11:18 AM   #2 
  - I Think BOTH are Factors Here  fascisthunter   Jan-15-11 11:24 AM   #3 
  - Greed. It's the greed that motivates both.  Ghost Dog   Jan-15-11 11:52 AM   #4 
  - its not unsustainable  bossy22   Jan-15-11 01:53 PM   #10 
     - Just close 1/2 of our bases overseas. That would at least bring  JDPriestly   Jan-15-11 04:45 PM   #15 
  - federal assistance as in unemployment benefits are not  Warren Stupidity   Jan-15-11 09:57 PM   #17 
  - +1  Owl   Jan-15-11 02:06 PM   #12 
  - +1, We need to tax the rich at the rates of the greatest generation (94%)  grahamhgreen   Jan-15-11 03:13 PM   #14 
  - Now, the Republicons will WHINE that we need to do something  SpiralHawk   Jan-15-11 12:00 PM   #5 
  - "Make no mistake: we must slash Social Security by 25%  MannyGoldstein   Jan-15-11 12:09 PM   #6 
  - THe US handed over control of the money supply to the banks in 1913.  denem   Jan-15-11 12:29 PM   #7 
  - No matter how outrageous I try to be  MannyGoldstein   Jan-15-11 12:55 PM   #9 
  - You said it all ...  earthside   Jan-15-11 12:37 PM   #8 
  - "weighing caps"... hmmm, we're 14 Trillion in the hole... CHARGE IT  ixion   Jan-15-11 02:04 PM   #11 
  - Massive amounts of government debt is not a problem.....  DeSwiss   Jan-15-11 03:03 PM   #13 
  - I remember at the end of the 90's there was talk of the debt being eliminated completely  MH1   Jan-15-11 04:51 PM   #16 
  - But in reality the important issue  Yupster   Jan-16-11 11:38 AM   #19 
  - Raising government debt limit reflects people's attitude via Congress  faz   Jan-16-11 12:37 AM   #18 
 

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