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Government Getting Smaller in the U.S.
The New York Times ^
| 05/04/2012
| Floyd Norris
Posted on 05/08/2012 10:22:19 AM PDT by Purrcival
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To: EagleUSA
The NYT is lower than whale dung. No wonder they're laying off staff right and left...
Even a kindergartner would bust a gut laughing at the claim that the federal government is getting smaller...
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:30:50 AM PDT
by
Errant
To: Purrcival
To say “having a hard time believing it” is being polite. It is utter BS. Military up or military down, should not be factored in, only civilian gubmint workers. By that standard there is little doubt that it is up. 16,000 new IRS “healthcare workers,” alone.
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:34:09 AM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
To: Purrcival
Part of the lie they tell about the Democrat agenda. They now try to defend Obama's and their spending on more and more federal government by pointing out that states are busy doing the hard work of cutting spending and prioritizing budgets.
They know that conservatives true target is federal spending, but they disingenuously include local and state government spending when they claim that government is shrinking.
Local governments may indeed be shrinking, but the federal government has exploded in size and cost.
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:35:51 AM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Anybody but Obama!!!!)
To: dfwgator
To: Purrcival
State and local governments are cutting back because THEY ARE OUT OF MONEY due to ever-decreasing local tax revenues.
The Democrat Public-Sector Pensions Bomb is really hitting localities hard right now.
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:36:25 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
To: Purrcival
More bullsh!t from Obama’s Propaganda Ministry.
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:43:50 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(End Obama's War On Freedom.)
To: Purrcival
BRIDGE FOR SALE Fantastic Opportunity - Don't Wait Too Late!
Call 1-800-Hope-N-Change
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:44:53 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(If Repub's paid as much attention to Rush Limbaugh as the Dem's do, we wouldn't be in this mess)
To: Purrcival
The federal government after 3 years IS smaller in EVERY way... except for just one: it used to be $3 Trillion and now it’s $5 Trillion. But other than that, it’s smaller!
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:48:56 AM PDT
by
C210N
("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
To: BuffaloJack
“More bullsh!t from Obamas Propaganda Ministry.”
Exactly. Lying sons of b!#ches.
They should be lined up and SHOT.
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:52:07 AM PDT
by
Levante
To: Purrcival
My state and local government is not shrinking. An expanded federal government does nothing for me either.
To: Purrcival
LOLLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
What next? Barracks creates, produces and directs the biggest selling Broadway play....EVUH!!!!????
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:52:28 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Purrcival
The Government getting smaller is a d—k shrinking after the
Viagra(stimulus) starts wearing off.
The government is still a d—k and is still reaming us every chance it gets.
Sorry to be graphic...
To: Purrcival
LOLLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
What next? Barracks creates, produces and directs the biggest selling Broadway play....EVUH!!!!????
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:52:59 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Purrcival
Wow. Tell that to the owners of a shop I know.
Their opening was delayed at least eight months by a local zoning Nazi who had this very strange interpretation of the zoning code - he felt a quarter of their space should be allocated towards bathrooms. And nothing would shake him. When he was finally trumped by someone with some sense, he kept coming back and submarining their approvals, out of pure nastiness. It took them an extra year to open, and they had to pay rent all that time.
Government nazis can be more destructive than the average person has any concept of. You tell people these stories, and they refuse to believe it, especially libs. They think you MUST be wrong, or lying.
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:52:59 AM PDT
by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: Purrcival
Certainly true here in Pennsylvania. Gov. Corbett has been doing yeoman’s work in this regard. You can tell because universities, school districts, advocates for the poor, and all the other usual suspects are screaming bloody murder.
To: Purrcival
Just this month we hear unemployment is down, April budget “surplus” and now government is getting smaller. Our Main Street Media would make Joseph Goebbels blush.
To: Purrcival
From a previous debunking, the primary cause is that social security, food stamps, unemployment and other direct benefit payments (not sure about medicare and medicaid) are not counted as government sections of the GDP but rather as part of the private GDP. Huh? That's some mighty creative accounting.
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posted on
05/08/2012 10:58:14 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
To: KarlInOhio
Sounds like the same type of accounting that has plagued the unemployment numbers for the past 3 years. Reduce the number of people in the sample and it looks like unemployment isn’t so bad. If the same measures were used in 2008 and 2012, the unemployment rate (lets say U-3) would be about 11% now versus the 8.2% the 0bama administration publishes. U-6 is close to 19% with the same measures used.
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
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posted on
05/08/2012 11:05:40 AM PDT
by
kevinm13
(Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
To: Purrcival
Even if it does get smaller by this limited measure it is still an overwhelming burden due to the ever growing halo gov't made up of the nearly endless line of organizations, associations, services, companies, etc, etc all feeding at the public trough. This means everyone from crony 'captalists' like GE to Planned Parenthood to universities to Sierra Club ad infinitum. We've all got to get off the gov't dole - even if our cause, organization, society, club, museum... is 'worthy'.
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posted on
05/08/2012 11:07:18 AM PDT
by
Paine in the Neck
(Romney's judicial appointments were more radical than Obama's)
To: Purrcival
Rep. Joe Wilson was right, “You Lie”.
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posted on
05/08/2012 11:17:52 AM PDT
by
2001convSVT
(Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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