Liberals Think We're Jerks For Wanting To Control Spending

[Manonthestreet]

Repubs have cut defense thru sequester........ try to keep up

So only the repubs controlled Congress at the time of sequester?

Was one of those things you said was going to cost us votes....now you want in on it?

 

[mudwhistle]

We need to start a drinking game.

Every time a Democrat lies or makes a false or irrelevant claim we all chug a beer.

Really? I thought you already started and that was your excuse for your threads!

 

[Moonglow]

Wrong. You said they wanted to increase defense spending. I argued that defense cuts now is simply irrational.

No, US interventionism and imperialism and playing world policeman is what is wrong.

So, again, which Republicans want to cut defense?

Amazing how the US got by just fine when we were not the world's protector..

We spent hundreds of billions in Haiti for 'humanitarian' purposes.
That was spent under the military budget.
What say you?

They should have done like Washington did when the slaves of Haiti were rebelling, Washington loaned them 40k...

That's not an answer.

Then ignore it and find someone else to answer your question..

 

[mudwhistle]

Mention spending cuts or even controlling spending and it's like holding up a cross in front of a vampire. They react violently at times. Most of the time they claim that spending cuts will bring this country down.

On Monday, President Obama released his 2016 budget, which calls for increased spending and raising taxes, and on MSNBC’s The Cycle, so-called conservative co-host Abby Huntsman did her best to scold the GOP for opposing the tax-and-spend Obama budget. ​

Speaking to Lauren Fox of National Journal, Huntsman proclaimed that Republicans’ “big thing is we’ve got to cut spending, this is not something we’re going to approve and that’s often why they are considered the jerks here, because they aren’t talking about entitlements, they are talking about cuts.” ​

Think of it. In only a few years since Obama has become president, we've gone from clamoring for spending reform to you're a terrorist for wanting to control government spending.

Anyone with half a brain can see one of the biggest problems in government isn't that we don't have any money, it's that we spend too much. So Democrats invented a word for it to demonize the practice. Austerity. Anyone who starts talking about Austerity and recommending new investment is just pumping us for more tax increases. That's really all Democrats do. They try to think of new ways of taking our cash. Spending is now investment. Controlling spending is evil austerity. Anyone who falls for this line of bs can't be thinking. The answer to everything in Washington is always throwing more money at it, yet the problems never get solved. Obama wants to give the IRS $30 billion more to become more and more inefficient. Seems the more money he throws at a problem the worse it becomes. The IRS has massively increase their budget, hired thousands of new agents, yet if you have a question about your taxes, forget getting an answer. They warn about holding up refunds this year because they claim they need more money.

Notice how everything Obama touches turns to shit?




Remember this?

June 2013

Still mired in scandal for its mishandling of nonprofit political groups, the Internal Revenue Service is prepping for a new role: chief enforcement arm of the Affordable Care Act.

That task will require new agents — 6,700, the IRS figures — and more money — about $1 billion more than the current budget.

Confronted with the tax agency’s 9-percent increase in its 2014 budget, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., blasted Deputy IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel at a meeting of the House Committee on Ways and Means Thursday morning.

After reading off a long list of instances of waste, fraud, excess and abuse at the agency over the past several years, Ryan demanded to know how the IRS felt it had the “moral authority” to ask for more money. He actually sounded almost hurt by the request.​

Links

IRS requests thousands of new agents to enforce Obamacare Watchdog.org
Abby Huntsman GOP Considered the Jerks For Wanting Spending Cuts
D j vu Budget Obama Asks for Tax Hike on Evil Capitalists - Michael Schaus - Townhall Finance Conservative Columnists and Financial Commentary - Page 1
Obama Asks For 5 100 More IRS Agents Sweetness Light
IRS Does Not Follow Federal Requirements Asks For Money The Daily Caller

No I think you guys are jerks for saying you want to control spending, but when there's an opportunity to do entitlement reform in exchange for new revenue that wouldn't hurt growth and would have 3-4 times more cuts than taxes .... you walk away from the table. The gop and teaparty no more want to control spending than Randian Paul wants vaccines.

Lies.

you're so cute when exposed for the bullshit you post. LOL

 

[bendog]

Here muddy, have one on me. LOL

Obama Budget Calls For Social Security Cuts Administration Official

 

[mudwhistle]

See? At least you admit I was right.

Wrong. You said they wanted to increase defense spending. I argued that defense cuts now is simply irrational.

No, US interventionism and imperialism and playing world policeman is what is wrong.

So, again, which Republicans want to cut defense?

Amazing how the US got by just fine when we were not the world's protector..

We spent hundreds of billions in Haiti for 'humanitarian' purposes.
That was spent under the military budget.
What say you?

They should have done like Washington did when the slaves of Haiti were rebelling, Washington loaned them 40k...

 

[Moonglow]

We need to start a drinking game.

Every time a Democrat lies or makes a false or irrelevant claim we all chug a beer.

Really? I thought you already started and that was your excuse for your threads!

I wish I could drink beer again...

 

[hadit]

Cut 500 billion and you'll have a roughly balanced budget. Cut one trillion and you can start paying down the debt. Post cuts below and make sure to do the math:

1.
2.
3.
etc.

You don't even have to cut. Merely freeze the budget for a few years and it will balance.

 

[Manonthestreet]

So libs are burning down the phone lines to their reps against Obamas huge proposed spending increase....rrriiigghhhhhtttttt......didnt think so

 

[Moonglow]

Cut 500 billion and you'll have a roughly balanced budget. Cut one trillion and you can start paying down the debt. Post cuts below and make sure to do the math:

1.
2.
3.
etc.

You don't even have to cut. Merely freeze the budget for a few years and it will balance.

yep, as long as we have no wars, that will help....

 

[g5000]

The Republicans are mad because Obama isn't increasing spending or the debt the way they would increase spending and the debt.

When you have lived through as many Republican and Democratic Presidents and Congresses as I have, you know that both parties are big spenders. You have to be willfully retarded not to notice that.

The Democrats are "tax and spend". The Republicans are "borrow and spend". Simple fact.

Did you notice that Grover Norquist blackmailed Republicans into signing those "no tax increase" pledges but did not ask them to sign a "no spending increase" pledge?

Yeah.

There are a lot of willfully retarded rubes who need to do some waking up and start cleaning their own house first.

 

[mudwhistle]

Here muddy, have one on me. LOL

Obama Budget Calls For Social Security Cuts Administration Official

Ummm, Obama calling for Social Security cuts is misleading. It's just another transfer of wealth from one group to another group. Guess all of those claims about the GOP wanting to cut SS was bogus.

 

[Moonglow]

So libs are burning down the phone lines to their reps against Obamas huge proposed spending increase....rrriiigghhhhhtttttt......didnt think so

you don't know jack about it, or do you monitor every phone?

 

[g5000]

18 percent approval rating, Congress has. But we keep returning 98 percent of them to office to do more spending. We are pissed off at them 82 percent of the time, but give them more than 50 percent of the vote.

What the fuck, America?

 

[Manonthestreet]

Yeah thats it ...they get such an earful from ya all they cant wait to find more idiocy to waste money on.

 

[mudwhistle]

So libs are burning down the phone lines to their reps against Obamas huge proposed spending increase....rrriiigghhhhhtttttt......didnt think so

you don't know jack about it, or do you monitor every phone?

 

[Carla_Danger]

Really?....You need a link for that?

Yes

Why would you need a link to something you don't dispute?

Because I did dispute it you lying POS

Post a link backing up your claim or STFU

Are you blind, deaf, and dumb? NeoCon's are always talking about "the takers" yet have no problem spending money on weapons we don't even need. Here's just one example.

U.S. Republican Frontrunner Touts Neo-Conservative Foreign Policy Inter Press Service

U.S.: Republican Frontrunner Touts Neo-Conservative Foreign Policy

WASHINGTON, Oct 7 2011 (IPS) - In his first major foreign policy address of the 2012 presidential campaign, Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney Friday presented a largely neo-conservative platform similar to that pursued by George W. Bush, although he never mentioned the former president by name.

Speaking at The Citadel military academy in South Carolina, Romney promised to increase defence spending – and the size of the U.S. Navy – as part of a strategy designed to ensure that the United States remain the world’s dominant military power and that the 21st century be “an American century”.

“The United States should always retain military supremacy to deter would-be aggressors and to defend our allies and ourselves,” he told the Citadel cadets. “And know this: If America is the undisputed leader of the world, it reduces our need to police a more chaotic world.”

Once again.... prove your point.

What is the purpose of the federal government? It's not to provide a cushion for the poor.

The governments original purpose was to ensure our liberties and safe guard our country and our lives.

What is the purpose of the Federal Government




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The purpose isn't to spend more than 10 countries combined on military, and on weapons we don't need.

 

[SwimExpert]

18 percent approval rating, Congress has. But we keep returning 98 percent of them to office to do more spending. We are pissed off at them 82 percent of the time, but give them more than 50 percent of the vote.

What the fuck, America?

Yes, everyone disapproves of other people's representatives.

 

[mudwhistle]

18 percent approval rating, Congress has. But we keep returning 98 percent of them to office to do more spending. We are pissed off at them 82 percent of the time, but give them more than 50 percent of the vote.

What the fuck, America?

Obviously over 50% of the voters are uninformed.

 

[g5000]

18 percent approval rating, Congress has. But we keep returning 98 percent of them to office to do more spending. We are pissed off at them 82 percent of the time, but give them more than 50 percent of the vote.

What the fuck, America?

Yes, everyone disapproves of other people's representatives.

Yep. We hate all the pork barrel spending by all those other assholes, but we like our guy because he brings home the bacon.

What the fuck, America?