Posted on 07/04/2011 12:47:04 PM PDT by yoe
Republicans would accept a "mini" deal with the Obama administration on raising the debt limit, Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a Republican leader, said.
Cornyn said today on "Fox News Sunday" that while Republicans would prefer a long-term settlement, they would accept a shorter-term agreement if that's all they could get done. The U.S. Treasury Department has projected that on Aug. 2 the U.S. will no longer be able to meet obligations if the legal debt ceiling isn't raised
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>> “The point is to encourage people to get up off their duffs and quit expecting free rides whether they come in the form of a government handout or through dividends.” <<
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You’re lost in the woods.
Investment income is not a “free ride.”
If you increase taxes (which are already too high) on investment, the economy will go into a steeper nosedive.
Just want to pay off what we owe. The money, per my proposal, must go directly to retiring the debt.
It won’t.
Work versus passive income is a separate discussion. We do need to innovate more, however, and quit looking for free lunches either in the form of government handouts or so-called risk taking. The Chinese aren't going to slow dow...
Then it can’t work. It has to.
Then we need to CUT expenditures, so we can quit borrowing.
Now that’s the truth.
Only fund what is allowed for in the constitution, but also have a strong military. Essentially, run the government like it was 1800.
They are not idiots, they know exactly what they are doing, they may not know who they are doing it for however.
Hey, he is a conservative from Texas, you know, like Perry.
You have the correct answer Delaying the vote until its closer to election is not a bad strategy
Eliminate every subsidy, every grant, every tax break and tax loophole. Call in every loan as due within 90 days. The very last and just as important thing is to limit total campaign contributions to any candidate by ANY ENTITY, including the candidate themselves to $100. An entity is anything or anybody you can conceive of. Kill the special interest industry!!
I agree with almost all of that.
Make government live on a very small budget.
B$, even Reagan fell for that one. How complicated would it be to just freeze current expenses, you know, sort of like when you don’t get a raise for two years.
They have absolutely no intention of stopping the stealing, and that is exactly what it is. The sooner we realize that the political class have anointed themselves to positions of power and wealth at our expense, the sooner we can work on a solution.
Or we can continue to elect amoril people spoken of in the first chapter of Romans, and then we can be turned over to an reprobate mind, to believe a lie and be damned. It is in fact a choice, we all have to make.
The enemy’s perspective is well known, to any but the very foolish.
What comes next seems to be a mystery to most in any case. We foolishly, hope for a good king I suppose, because we have failed to become what God has asked of each of us.
Great post/pic Vaquero!
 When Republicans Say Bipartisanship, They Mean Surrender |
| Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says ''the best advise I can give you John is to ignore any symptoms and also ignore the concerns from taxpayers that will arise after taking your blue pill medication. Your friendly, progressive DNC is the medication expert and is there to help you... steer for the cliff!'' /sarc |
Obama wants it raised enough that it won't come up again before his reelection so he's not likely to be keen on a "mini deal" that keeps the issue alive only to be revisited again soon.
Iran actually had something sensible to say. They claimed we're not really "independent" because of our dependency on foreign-owned debt.
On voter's behalf.
They're correct on that point. We need to pay it off or at least down by a large chunk - and it will hurt short-term! But it must be done, and we must all be prepared for it to affect us personally.
Then... throw the free-spending bums out!
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