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Who is to Blame for the National Debt?
vanity | 7/21/2012 | MrChips

Posted on 07/21/2012 10:38:42 PM PDT by MrChips

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Who is to Blame for the National Debt?

The vast majority of the debt can be attributed to democRATs/socialist/liberals, although the Pubbies have their share.

5.56mm

21 posted on 07/21/2012 11:20:24 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: MrChips

The left never lists Bush’s No child left behind act, or the perscription drug benefit as being Bush’s contribution wo wild overspending, even though those are gigantic additions to the debt. ONLY the wars add to the debt.


22 posted on 07/21/2012 11:20:55 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Jim from C-Town

Yes. It would be interesting to see the actual numbers for 1954 through 1994. How many of those years when the Dems controlled the House was there a Republican Senate?


23 posted on 07/21/2012 11:21:11 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: MrChips

[ Who is to Blame for the National Debt? ]

Americas Seniors that has steadfastly NOT allowed reducing or even restructuring social security and any other program that Older Americans use...

Thats WHO... people that SHOULD know better but don’t..
DON’T cut my programs or even limit them to people that need them..
MAny American have enough resources they don’t really need Seniors programs.. BUT get them BY LAW anyway..

Yeah its the OLD PEOPLE that have produced the massive Socialism..
And who will accuse them, blame them, finger them?... NOBODY...
THAT SHOULD STOP... NOW!!!!!!!..


24 posted on 07/21/2012 11:25:17 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: ConorMacNessa

the “we” was collective- not accusatory.

The rate at which our system has been destructed exceeds anything I would have believed possible.

I thought I’d be an old dude whittling on the porch before the USA melted down. Not so sure now, but at least I’m old enough now to not care as much about me...


25 posted on 07/21/2012 11:25:45 PM PDT by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: MrChips

Because many of our ‘leaders’ in gov’t, business, and education, have turned their back on God, there is precious little they care about other than themselves and their near-term pleasure. As a result, the immorality of sticking huge burdens of debt to our children and their children doesn’t really bother them.

Because the free market is not allowed to rule, most important markets are manipulated and/or distorted. Since the self-correcting mechanism of the free market would have us not only avoid an economic collapse, but we’d now be on the road to prosperity again (referring to 2008).

Therefore the blame lies in the rejection of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and a failure to allow the ‘invisible hand’ of the free market to determine economic destiny.


26 posted on 07/21/2012 11:30:40 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone ('We the People' can and will take this country back...starting today.)
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does the war on terror have merit?

Yes, the money spent there was well-spent, at least initially. But here again Bush bungled the job. He traded in a quick, decisive victory for PC "nation-building."

One of my favorite quotes, from Sun Tzu, the Art of War:

"No long war ever profited any country. 100 victories in 100 battles is simply ridiculous."

27 posted on 07/21/2012 11:59:29 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern? you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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Usually NO! However all spending , except apparently Obamacare starts in the House. They control the purse strings and almost always control the votes due to the rules of the Congress.

I am not saying the Republicans didn't help, but the Democrats have controlled the Legislature a vast majority of the past hundred years.

28 posted on 07/22/2012 12:01:09 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: MrChips

Who is responsible? Everyone bears a burden in some way, but primarily liberals.

Liberals (Democrats, environmentalists, statists, you name it) through their ties to unions, their destruction of the industrial base, their soiling and dumbing down of the educational systems, their massive government social programs, their handcuffing of industry and the private sector through legislation and environmental restrictions have made things the way they are today.

We all bear a burden. Us for not fighting it more vigorously, republicans for going along, but...primarily liberals of all stripes.


29 posted on 07/22/2012 8:15:50 AM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: Jim from C-Town

It is liberalism, pure and simple. It is the mother’s milk of nearly all that ails this country.


30 posted on 07/22/2012 8:19:17 AM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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National Debt Chart

Shows each President, House, Senate and who spent what since this country's founding.

31 posted on 07/22/2012 9:44:56 AM PDT by CodeToad (History says our end is near.)
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To: CodeToad

Thanks!


32 posted on 07/22/2012 10:48:00 AM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Yes....I’ve heard we have $200 TRILLION between Debt and Unfunded Liabilities...


33 posted on 07/22/2012 1:33:39 PM PDT by goodnesswins (What has happened to America?)
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