The Deficit is actually DECREASING during shutdown! Share this link!

US Debt Clock ^ | 10/3/2013 | self

[combat_boots]

$170,000,000 per day

[combat_boots]

That’s a lot of money we don’t have.

[central_va]

In 10,000 days we will have no deficit.

[DouglasKC]

This is the point: The DEFICIT, the amount we spend versus what we take in , is going DOWN...which means we are living within our means WHILE the slimdown is in effect. We're not spending more than we're taking in.

And if we can do THAT with little or no hardship for the VAST MAJORITY of Americans then WHY can't we do it all the time?

This is the purpose of highlighting it. To show the sheeple the bloated bureaucracy isn't' needed.

Think about it: The WORST horror stories we are hearing about the shutdown is that people...gasp...HAVE to do something else while on vacation because they can't go to a park!

Wow...that's SOME hardship right?

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Hot Darn! Anybody remember the great victory this was back in the Clinton era? When it theoretically went backwards very briefly.

[thackney]

digging from the whole hole we are in

sigh...

[McGruff]

Somebody get this to Rush. Maybe he’ll pick up on it.

[sickoflibs]

AS long as when GOP caves they dont pay all those GSes for the time they were off during shutdown. Then it cost more as it did in 1996.

What??

Rush didnt tell his listeners that’s what the GOP (Newt) did in 1996? The big Newt victory??

[thackney]

The DEFICIT, the amount we spend versus what we take in , is going DOWN...which means we are living within our means WHILE the slimdown is in effect. We're not spending more than we're taking in.

No. As long as their IS a deficit, we are spending more than we are taking in.

The debt is the accumulation, the deficit is the spending less revenue. We are not digging as fast as we were, but we are still digging our hole.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

No need to raise the debt limit now.

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Watch closer grasshopper. The budget deficit is going down, but the national debt is climbing. In the short time I watched it. We borrowed another $1,000,000; I wish I could talk my bank into letting me do that and print my own money too. At least we are taking a little baby step in the right direction.

[rurgan]

Thank you Republicans for not backing down and shutting down the government!

maybe now Americans will realize that government is not needed as nothing is happening even though the gov is shut down

[BarnacleCenturion]

Huh? The debt will rise as long as there is a deficit. You need budget surpluses if you want to reduce the debt. The article is only pointing out that the deficit is decreasing. Not to be confused with the debt.

[DouglasKC]

No. As long as their IS a deficit, we are spending more than we are taking in. The debt is the accumulation, the deficit is the spending less revenue. We are not digging

Yah ya but again the POINT is that the deficit is going down and hardly anyone is being affected.

This is why dems are screaming like stuck pigs. They HAVE to make noise because eventually people will wake up and realize...hey...is the government still shutdown? I didn't even notice.

[DouglasKC]

Huh? The debt will rise as long as there is a deficit. You need budget surpluses if you want to reduce the debt. The article is only pointing out that the deficit is decreasing. Not to be confused with the debt.

Sure your'e right..but again that's not the point.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Wholly cow! Sum won takes there grammar way to serious. ;)

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I suspect this doesn’t really need explanation among this group, but the national debt will keep rising until the federal government begins producing a surplus. While the deficit is falling at the moment, it’s still a LOOOOOOOOONG way from zero.

[DouglasKC]

AS long as when GOP caves they dont pay all those GSes for the time they were off during shutdown. Then it cost more as it did in 1996.

It doesn't matter.

The point is that the US government is spending LESS money, right now, and virtually nobody is being negatively affected.

The longer it goes on, the more people will see that the libs cries that we need to constantly increase government spending is just that...a lie.

[TurboZamboni]

Even in shutdown, Feds get overtime, comp time, 'Sunday pay'

http://washingtonexaminer.com/even-in-shutdown-feds-get-overtime-comp-time-sunday-pay/article/2536565

  Washington Sees Incomes Soar as Most of U.S. Declines

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/09/19/washington-sees-incomes-soar-as-most-of-u-s-declines/?mod=WSJ__MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird

Nearly Three-Quarters of Jobs Created Since June Are in Government

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2012/12/08/nearly_threequarters_of_jobs_created_since_june_are_in_government

Shutdown Preparations Prove Most Government Is Waste

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/093013-673139-most-of-white-house-staff-revealed-as-waste.htm

[VideoDoctor]

GREAT POST. THANKS!

[thackney]

I suspect you may need a different approach to your point.

The folks that support a bigger government are not likely convinced by math. They need feelings and emotional support, not facts.

I believe a bigger point to the conservatives is even during a government “shutdown” we are STILL spending more than we take in. This beast is sooooo huge it will take a continuous effort to starve it. We need to not let up if we win the current battles; the war is much larger.