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Why I Won’t Support Spending Another $3.5 Trillion
Wall Street Journal Opinion Page ^
| 9/2/2021
| By Joe Manchin
Posted on 09/02/2021 1:23:34 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
Instead of rushing to spend trillions on new government programs and additional stimulus funding, Congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget-reconciliation legislation. A pause is warranted because it will provide more clarity on the trajectory of the pandemic, and it will allow us to determine whether inflation is transitory or not. While some have suggested this reconciliation legislation must be passed now, I believe that making budgetary decisions under artificial political deadlines never leads to good policy or sound decisions. I have always said if I can’t explain it, I can’t vote for it, and I can’t explain why my Democratic colleagues are rushing to spend $3.5 trillion.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budget; manchin; reconciliation; senate
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Well, Joe, let's see how you hold up when Chuckie and Nanzi twist the vice grip on your privates...figuratively speaking (maybe, never know with Dimms).
To: NohSpinZone
Wow, Manchin really wants a pile of cash this time.
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:25:59 PM PDT
by
brownsfan
(For conservatives, we have taxation without representation.)
To: brownsfan
He will either Stupak this or a friendly RINO will do it for him
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:27:54 PM PDT
by
Mygirlsmom
(Back after a long hiatus. Now mygrandkidsgrandma)
To: brownsfan
What does your wife have to say about it
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:28:06 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(leave the gun, take the canolis)
To: NohSpinZone
Well, Joe, let's see how you hold up when Chuckie and Nanzi twist the vice grip on your privates...figuratively speaking (maybe, never know with Dimms). Or offer him a couple billion for the "Joe Manchin Federal Building" in West Virginia. I trust Joe's "convictions" about as far as I could throw him...
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:29:34 PM PDT
by
apillar
To: brownsfan
So far I can't criticize Manchin or Kristin Sinema.
If they stop the DemonRat's CLOWARD & PIVEN strategy aimed at BANKRUPTING AMERICA ON BEHALF OF CHINA, they are heroes in my book.
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:29:57 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: NohSpinZone
UpChuck & Nazi have him by the shorthairs; he’ll always cave. He’s one of the peripheral Deep Staters.
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:30:07 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
To: NohSpinZone
He won't go a dollar over $3.45 trillion.
You guys still buying his act?
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:35:30 PM PDT
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: NohSpinZone
Hahaha, He is just throwing that out there for the low information, low attention span South Carolinians.
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:36:53 PM PDT
by
DAC21
To: DAC21
“Hahaha, He is just throwing that out there for the low information, low attention span South Carolinians”
My applies to South Carolinians, West Virginians are not off the hook.
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:38:00 PM PDT
by
DAC21
To: brownsfan
I think we have Sinema as well.
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:38:31 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: DAC21
gee wiz, had on one drink. “Apologies”
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:39:05 PM PDT
by
DAC21
To: NohSpinZone
Manchin was dealt a royal flush and he’s going to play it for all its worth.
He will tell West Virginians he’s a fiscal conservative, while squeezing Chuck and Nancy for every last printed dollar for West Virginia, his cronies and himself.
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:42:28 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: NohSpinZone
Thanks for the words, Joe. We’ll see if you stand behind them.
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:45:16 PM PDT
by
TChad
(The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
To: carriage_hill
That, or he and Sinema could possibly be in great bargaining positions to squeeze out some pork. LOL...Maybe Romney is too.
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:47:26 PM PDT
by
PerConPat
(A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground - Mencken)
To: NohSpinZone
Joe really knows how to get voters behind him when he speaks with common sense. I have lived in the Philadelphia / South Jersey area for 78 years. I hear about Joe often - he sounds good when it does not count and then folds like a cheap suit.
Maybe he will have the cajunes to back up his talk with action. I hope.
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:51:50 PM PDT
by
RichyTea
(To those offended - take off your blinders)
To: NohSpinZone
“3.4 trillion is my absolute limit!”
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posted on
09/02/2021 1:56:29 PM PDT
by
PTBAA
To: NohSpinZone
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posted on
09/02/2021 2:06:39 PM PDT
by
CPT Clay
To: NohSpinZone
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posted on
09/02/2021 2:17:29 PM PDT
by
JerseyDvl
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
To: brownsfan
Yep! Stinking rat! Says one thing and then turns around and stabs his constituents in the back. This guy is all talk POS!
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