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The Deficit is actually DECREASING during shutdown! Share this link!
US Debt Clock ^ | 10/3/2013 | self

Posted on 10/03/2013 9:12:43 AM PDT by DouglasKC

This link is to the:

US Debt Clock

It's a real time representation of, among other things, federal spending.

What's cool is that during the shutdown federal spending is actually LESS then revenue...so the DEFICIT is decreasing by about $170,000,000 a day.

Why this is deadly to the libs is that the longer the shutdown goes, the more people will see how bloated the government is. The slimdown is just cutting the fat and it's already making a huge difference. The longer it lasts the more people will see that, hey, it's no skin off our teeth AND we're getting our financial house in order!


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 113th; bho44; deficit; shutdown
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To: DouglasKC

This is both HUGH and SERIES!!!!


41 posted on 10/03/2013 10:06:55 AM PDT by Clump ( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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To: DouglasKC

Dems would not mind a short (2-3 days) shutdown, because they could turn that into a political goldmine for the 2014 elections.

Dems fear a long shutdown, because they fear many of their supporters might actually realize we don’t need many of those government agencies after all.

Pubbies fear a short shutdown, because they know they will get the blame.

Pubbies fear a long shutdown, because they know they will get the blame.


42 posted on 10/03/2013 10:06:57 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: DouglasKC; Admin Moderator

Whoever put this thread in Breaking News, thank you.


43 posted on 10/03/2013 10:07:34 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: DouglasKC

Uh...what number is going down? I don’t see it.


44 posted on 10/03/2013 10:15:00 AM PDT by the_boy_who_got_lost
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To: DouglasKC

Can someone get this out to everybody?


45 posted on 10/03/2013 10:15:05 AM PDT by wastedyears (One nation, under wub. Saints Row IV)
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To: DouglasKC

I sent my Republican congressman an e mail today in support of the shut down and got no reply. I sent my most wonderful Dem. senator Feinstein an e mail and got the reply “ As a result of the Government shut down, my office is currently unable to respond to your email. I will respond to your concerns as soon as possible.”


46 posted on 10/03/2013 10:23:14 AM PDT by Rj Snows
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To: rurgan
Thank you Republicans for not backing down and NOT shutting down the government.
47 posted on 10/03/2013 10:30:56 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: DouglasKC

You have to count the interest on the debt as part of what we are spending Vs what we are taking in.

We can’t magically not include it. In fact if interest rates were to rise to 10 percent then I believe that around 100 percent of what we take in would be needed to pay interest on the debt.


48 posted on 10/03/2013 10:49:44 AM PDT by Revel
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To: DouglasKC

I was hoping there would be a visual to represent this, so thanks for the link.


49 posted on 10/03/2013 10:50:45 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Free online faxing at http://faxzero.com/ Fax all your elected officials. Make DC listen.)
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To: black_diamond

Why should they get paid for work they didn’t do? I don’t get paid for work I don’t do.


50 posted on 10/03/2013 10:51:21 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Free online faxing at http://faxzero.com/ Fax all your elected officials. Make DC listen.)
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To: butterdezillion

Exactly. They’re laid-off. Let them apply for unemployment.
And welcome to the party, pals!


51 posted on 10/03/2013 10:58:09 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: DouglasKC
What's cool is that during the shutdown federal spending is actually LESS then revenue...so the DEFICIT is decreasing by about $170,000,000 a day.

Maybe raising the debt ceiling will not be needed if the shutdown is kept going.

52 posted on 10/03/2013 11:28:40 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (The Presidency is broken.)
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To: the_boy_who_got_lost
Uh...what number is going down? I don’t see it.

US Federal Spending and the US Federal Deficit...you'll never see this except during this slimdown...

53 posted on 10/03/2013 12:05:06 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
What's cool is that during the shutdown federal spending is actually LESS then revenue...so the DEFICIT is decreasing by about $170,000,000 a day.

Wonderful, at that rate it'll only take some 274 years to retire the current debt! Our great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great-grand children will be thrilled...

Now, about that interest...

Regards,
GtG

54 posted on 10/03/2013 1:16:29 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: DouglasKC

I clicked on the link. It’s still increasing.


55 posted on 10/03/2013 1:32:32 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: keats5
I clicked on the link. It’s still increasing.

No, it's not. You may be looking at the Federal Debt, which is increasing. But the Federal Budget Deficit and Federal Spending is decreasing.

56 posted on 10/03/2013 1:34:58 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Wholly cow! Sum won takes there grammar way to serious. ;)

There spelling, to!

57 posted on 10/03/2013 2:25:51 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: TexasGator

Thank you Republicans for not backing down and shutting down the government. I’m glad the IRS and EPA are shut down

i hate the government . i’m so happy they shut it down


58 posted on 10/03/2013 2:41:07 PM PDT by rurgan (give laws an expiration date:so the congress has to review every 4 years to see if needed)
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To: DouglasKC

I’m a computer guy (contractor) on an Army base and my work is getting backed-up because the computers guys (GS)in Okinawa got furloughed. We are all going to have to spend long hours playing catch-up when the GS employees get back to work.

Any money saved through furloughing is going to be lost again because of back pay.


59 posted on 10/03/2013 3:53:00 PM PDT by frickin_frackin
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To: DouglasKC
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN = TRUE DEBT REDUCTION
60 posted on 10/03/2013 4:24:14 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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