Has the military budget been gutted as predicted?
From the Fiscal Cliff to the Flushing Toilet.
Secession starting to look very, very appealing now. Seriously, f&ck Barry, f*ck the spineless scumbags who dare call themselves conservative, and f%ck everyone who votes people like Obama into power. They can all go to hell.
The line in the sand where the GOP will really hold and prevail is the debt ceiling extension.
*snicker*
The morons did it. We now officially have one-party rule.
seriously, was there ever any doubt the GOP was going to completely cave?
It is not easy to understand what 16 trillion dollars is.
Maybe this will help.
The speed of light is about 186,282 miles per second.
There are 31,622,400 seconds in a year.
Thus in one year, at the speed of light, the distance covered is 5,890,683,916,800 miles.
5.89 trillion miles.
SO at the speed of light, the 16 trillion dollar debt is equal to 2.715 light years... at $1 per mile, that is.
That will get you more than halfway to the nearest star, as far as that goes.
OR - if we consider cubic feet - easier to visualize than the speed of light perhaps.
16 trillion cubic feet is equal to...
108.7 cubic miles.
1 square mile in area, 108.7 miles high.
16 trillion is a large number indeed.
Lets not even talk about 58 trillion when including SS and other similar debt items.
:-/
At that point the Republican leadership seems long on gestures of disagreement but are clearly still playing ball on anything the democrats want.
The Democrats don’t have the traction they need to hold this country,whether the “opposition” tosses in with them isn’t going to change what happens in 2 years.
As for this tragedy,again given time and a new government willing to do good for this country and good citizens willing to push said government.....then the mistakes of these last few years can be erased.