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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:42 AM Original message |
It used to be boasted about around here how Clinton ended his term with a surplus |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yeah well everyone likes to eat, too! |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Do you know exactly how much more taxes you would be paying if the tax cuts expire? |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. He means the UNEMPLOYMENT extensions. |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:17 AM Response to Reply #3 |
13. No, I don't know, but..... |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. More people have been added to the ranks of the poor under these tax cuts than |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:04 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. You assume that I don't sympathize with your plight, |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:28 AM Response to Reply #6 |
17. It's not my plight, I'm not hurting at all |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:09 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. I want everyone to eat and have a roof over their heads. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
2. I would absolutely cry with joy if Obama lets all the cuts expire.... |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
4. No WAR in his 8 years. War is an expensive drain our budget , |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:05 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Well, that's if you don't count |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:10 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Or Bosnia, or Kosovo. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:14 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. It wasn't "periodic incidents", it was an ongoing, low level campaign |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:46 AM Response to Reply #7 |
19. That is nothing compared to the daily budget over the 8 straight years of war |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
12. Didn't the false hope of the internet bubble also help create the surplus under Clinton? |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:26 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. the y2k panic went a long way, too. |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:42 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. DOing all right - which in this economy is really saying something. |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-07-10 08:43 AM Response to Reply #18 |
38. i'm not too bad. looking for work, tho. |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:47 AM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Delete - posted twice |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:28 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. A rising bubble lifts all boats, including govt balance sheets |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-07-10 08:57 AM Response to Reply #12 |
39. www.buy-a-dog-some-socks.com |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
14. Cue Cher. |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
21. The cake is baked. Our Conservadems(Republican Lite) |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
22. Just because you keep saying our costs for borrowing will grow doesn't actually mean they'll grow. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:14 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I don't say that, |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:20 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. How do you explain why borrowing costs have plummeted, despite the debt going up 3-fold? |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:59 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. You obviously know little about economics, other than talking points that back the administration |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:06 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Both Krugman and Delong think your theory is completely false, yet YOU are telling ME that I don't |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:12 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Yet even Krugman thinks we shouldn't make this deal, that we should let all tax cuts expire |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:17 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Before you post articles, you should make sure they don't make my point for me. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:33 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. And you don't think that these "temporary" tax cuts won't become permanent? |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:40 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Krugman has actually attacked Rogoff and Reinhart head on. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:49 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. So at best, it is dispute, |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 01:00 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. The dollar weakening right now is a GOOD thing, as Krugman never ceases to point out. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 01:10 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Wait, you agree with Krugman on inflatin being a good thing, |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 01:27 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. You are once again wrong on Krugman on hyperinflation. Krugman wants MORE money printing, not less. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
24. Right On Tax Rates |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
26. Well put. Recommended. Thank you. |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
27. Sure, tax rates were important. |
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