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Geithner issues apocalyptic warning
Politico44 ^
| 01/06/11
| GLENN THRUSH
Posted on 01/06/2011 11:00:30 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne
Hey Tim, we know you support Obama’s socialist agenda and believe the world will end if the government doesn’t control and run EVERYTHING.
The American people, on the other hand, DO NOT believe that, and just voted to REMOVE government control and QUIT trying to run everything.
SO, just sit in the corner and read your TurboTax instructions, and leave the rest of us alone, while you enjoy your anxiety attack.
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:28:49 AM PST
by
G Larry
(When you're right, avoid compromise!)
To: ColdOne
Pretty simple, just up the debt limit $500 billion at a time.
That will make spending cuts more likely to pass with less political grandstanding.
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:33:32 AM PST
by
glorgau
To: ColdOne
If the Beavis/Butthead clone is unhappy, I’m happy. If he thinks something is bad, well then it must be good. Every damn thing these socialists do is bad so why should we listen to any of their warnings of doom? They are more incorrect than a broken clock.
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:37:21 AM PST
by
grumpygresh
(Democrats delenda est)
To: ColdOne
Didn't we hear this same crap 2 years ago as the impetus for TARP?
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:37:45 AM PST
by
The Comedian
(Puzzling puzzle pieces precisely proliferating panoramically.)
To: ColdOne
I’d like for this tax-cheating individual to send me his credit card and immediately increase its debt limit.
He can trust me.
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:38:27 AM PST
by
DPMD
(~)
To: ColdOne
Well, I hate to say it, but the sky is falling. And he’s one of the guys who pulled the props out from under it.
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:39:17 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: ColdOne
Politico makes me sick. No mention of the apocalypse that will come from the USA going bankrupt, from the dollar becoming worthless when our debt soars beyond 100% of GDP. How many Trillions is enough Timmy?
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:42:59 AM PST
by
blasater1960
(Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
To: RadiationRomeo
Can someone tell me just what would really happen if the government gets shut down for several months? The entire commie constituency would start eating itself.
Wealth and freedom would increase to levels only our great-grandparents have experienced.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:43:24 AM PST
by
The Comedian
(Puzzling puzzle pieces precisely proliferating panoramically.)
To: ColdOne
President Obamas blunt Treasury secretary has dispatched a doomsday missive to congressional leaders, detailing the very bad things that will happen to the country a default and global economic cataclysm if the GOP fails to increase the debt limit to $14.29 trillion this spring. DON'T FALL FOR IT, GOP! The debt ceiling is a line in the sand--this far and NO FARTHER!
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:43:38 AM PST
by
backwoods-engineer
(The future? Imagine Cass Sunstein's boot stamping on Lincoln's beard, forever.)
To: MrB
dont deliver entitlement checks for two monthsClever idea. I'll start shorting snack food companies in case it comes to pass.
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:45:31 AM PST
by
Glenn
(iamtheresistance.org)
To: glorgau
Pretty simple, just
up the debt limit $500 billion at a time cut spending $500 billion at a time.
That will make spending cuts more likely to pass with less political grandstanding
Fixed it for you
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:45:31 AM PST
by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: ColdOne
Cloward Piven much Timmy?
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:46:13 AM PST
by
CSM
(Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
To: ColdOne
Did he run this through Turbo-Tax before issuing this proclamation?
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:48:35 AM PST
by
RinaseaofDs
(Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
To: Glenn
You have about 4 meals from the time the checks aren’t delivered until full scale rioting starts.
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:50:16 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: TruthConquers
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posted on
01/06/2011 11:50:31 AM PST
by
jackv
(The darkness hates the light!)
To: glorgau
Even if Obama were held to his original deficit projections (from 2009); that would represent a huge cut in the deficit. It could be called something like the “Keeping Obama’s Promises Initiative”, and no Democrat could complain, without also acknowledging that the current deficits exceed Obama’s projection (promise).
Here's an article from 2009, which has a helpful graph showing Obama’s projected deficits:
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
lets see...SS and Disab payments cost 800 billion a year...medicare and Medicaid another 800 billion a year...defense of the country another 800 billion...for a total if 2.4 trillion...total us govt budget for 2010 is 3.6 trillion...looks like we could easily cut a trillion without screwing all of those who have work their whole lives and paid all the SS and MED taxes...of course the first thing everyone wants to cut is the SS, Disab and MED
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posted on
01/06/2011 12:18:32 PM PST
by
ldish
(Looking forward to Independence Day)
To: ColdOne
So we don’t have to pay taxes any more either?
To: ldish
I won't argue with any of your points. If you were to look back at all my old posts (I wouldn't even wish that on an enemy); you'd see that I've been hectoring fellow Freepers about the need to eliminate deficits for years and years. It's your country; I'm just a friendly outsider, so the methods are entirely up to the collective “you”.
In my previous post, I was just trying to point out that even Obama promised significantly lower deficits. Zero deficits would be ideal. (Slogan: “Zero for Zero”) The worst-case, fall-back position should be deficits no higher than Obama promised.
To: ColdOne
Good. Let it hit the debt ceiling. First place to cut? White House budget. No more vacay in Hawaii for you, Obama.
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posted on
01/06/2011 12:54:47 PM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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