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Debt commission leaders paint gloomy picture
AP/yahooNews ^ | 7/11/10 | GLEN JOHNSON

Posted on 07/12/2010 1:50:08 AM PDT by Kartographer

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To: Voter#537

Just what is the cost to the taxpayers of this so-called “debt commission”? Travel, meeting space, per diem, pay, support staff and so forth? Other than the nobamk and congress using it to avoid responsibility, do we really need a “debt commission” to tell them to STOP SPENDING???????!!!!!!


21 posted on 07/12/2010 4:23:17 AM PDT by hal ogen
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To: Kartographer

Go ahead and raise taxes. That will be 0bambi’s “Read my lips” moment.


22 posted on 07/12/2010 4:29:29 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Kartographer

This commission is a joke.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6233898-parading-fiscal-responsibility


23 posted on 07/12/2010 4:55:11 AM PDT by Clintons-B-Gone
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To: Kartographer

“instituting a financial trigger mechanism for gaining Medicare coverage”

Come on out and say it...MEANS TESTING for MEDICARE (already being used to apply dividend rates) and then SS


24 posted on 07/12/2010 5:00:17 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: Happy Rain

repeat the Axelrod talking points, you will hear them everywhere soon:

the Bush “tax mistakes” gave big breaks to “the rich” and got “us” into this mess, this is all “BUSH’s FAULT

eliminating deductions is not “raising taxes”- only “the rich” get any benefit from them

Rich people dont need MEDICARE and SS, thass why the system is hurting for honest hard working Americans, “the rich” need to pay their fair share


25 posted on 07/12/2010 5:05:35 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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Often attributed to Tytler, but he probably didn’t say it:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”


26 posted on 07/12/2010 5:27:37 AM PDT by flowerplough (Bammy: "People say, yeah, but unemployment's still at 9.6%. Yes, but it's not 12 or 13... or15.")
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