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Posted on 11/18/2011 8:15:13 PM PST by Fred
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To: org.whodat
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posted on
11/18/2011 10:40:36 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isn't common anymore.)
To: Cobra64
I truly, truly wish she would have run............sigh...............
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posted on
11/18/2011 10:42:26 PM PST
by
TitansAFC
(Stop the caINSANITY, The Pizza guy is less qualified than Obama!!! No New taxes!!)
To: TitansAFC
When Newt came into office, there was a massive deficit; when he left, a massive surplus and a balanced budget....Newt was the only reason we ever had a balanced budget and spending restraints. Newt didn't control spending during the Clinton's term in office. It increased every year. Instead, tax revenue increased more each year. Want to give Newt the credit for Clinton's tax increase?
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posted on
11/18/2011 10:55:24 PM PST
by
Doe Eyes
To: TitansAFC
Man, you could not be more wrong, the national debt never, ever stopped growing, the years the books were suppose to be balance, a social security lock box deal was what balanced it. But even then the the national debt grew. It only leveled off when calculated as a percentage of GDP.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_debt_chart.html
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posted on
11/18/2011 11:02:02 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: Cobra64
The deficit and the debt are two different things.
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posted on
11/18/2011 11:05:00 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: Cobra64
“If Gingrich is elected, we have to get him off the ethanol kool-aid. He’s still bragging about his involvement in “gasahol,” the precursor to ethanol...”
True. Many around here don’t seem to be able to distinguish between what Newt did as a Rep and as Speaker from what he did as a private Citizen. Most of the good stuff falls in the former category, most of the bad stuff in the latter.
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posted on
11/18/2011 11:05:33 PM PST
by
moonhawk
(Broken Heart(less) Hobbit for Sarah...Now for Newt)
To: Cobra64
I should add, the deficit graph, you posted looks that way because of the wonderful economy during the housing bubble, when it burst, we started giving it back and are still giving it back.
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posted on
11/18/2011 11:10:11 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: swingdoc
Thanks for that post, doc.
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posted on
11/18/2011 11:37:56 PM PST
by
Gator113
(~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/West 2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.”)
To: Cobra64
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posted on
11/18/2011 11:39:09 PM PST
by
Gator113
(~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/West 2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.”)
To: org.whodat
Debt =/= Deficit We had a surplus for a few years under Newt's budget, which he had to force through. The same pages you linked indicate as much, lagging indicators and all.
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posted on
11/18/2011 11:54:59 PM PST
by
TitansAFC
(Stop the caINSANITY, The Pizza guy is less qualified than Obama!!! No New taxes!!)
To: Doe Eyes
-—”Instead, tax revenue increased more each year. Want to give Newt the credit for Clinton’s tax increase?”-—
So you actually credit tax increases for the balanced budget? That’s a very different take than any Conservative economist I’ve read.
Keynes much?
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posted on
11/18/2011 11:56:43 PM PST
by
TitansAFC
(Stop the caINSANITY, The Pizza guy is less qualified than Obama!!! No New taxes!!)
To: swingdoc
i agree that the purpose of obamacare would destroy private healthcare. indeed, once established the democrats’ plans from fdr forward would encumber the economy—intended or not, destroy the private enterprise system.
any realistic health care system would require all to have “skin in the game”. a beneficent state of california health care system adores illegals at taxpayer expense and now the state is near bankruptcy.
against this backdrop, obviously newt would be better. but newt has disappointed so many times. for example, when rush limbaugh after the obama inauguration said that he hoped obama’s policies failed, newt agreed with rush. then the msm went beserk demanding an apology from both. rush did not apologize, but newt did.
newt’s recent remarks about right wing social engineering made me angry. is a market-driven, competitive health care system “right wing engineering”?
newt’s baggage worries us. my wife and i have not decided whether we would vote for newt; it’s too early to say.
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posted on
11/19/2011 7:34:30 AM PST
by
ken21
To: moonhawk
Against abortion with no exceptions, is not exactly wishy washy.
don’t be fooled by the media’s gotcha questions and slick editing, Cain has said 100’s of times he is against abortion in all circumstances, no exceptions.
To: TexasFreeper2009
Good to know. I’ll feel better if I must vote for him.
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posted on
11/19/2011 11:55:14 AM PST
by
moonhawk
(Broken Heart(less) Hobbit for Sarah...Now for Newt)
To: TitansAFC
So Newt didn't cut spending while Clinton was President. I hope you are not claiming he supported the Clinton tax increases.
So, what did Newt do to balance the Budget during the Clinton years?
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posted on
11/19/2011 6:16:27 PM PST
by
Doe Eyes
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