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Gang of Six gambit revives spending shell game (Actual cuts only $1.2 Trillion- not $3.7 Trillion)
American Thinker ^
| July 20, 2011
| Thomas Lifson
Posted on 07/20/2011 9:32:16 AM PDT by Qbert
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07/20/2011 9:32:21 AM PDT
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Qbert
To: Qbert
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posted on
07/20/2011 9:35:07 AM PDT
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b4its2late
("Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8")
To: Qbert
Every time I hear a plan cuts ‘X’ amount, I always wait to hear “over X years” ... It is usually over 10+ years... why not just come out with a plan that cuts 100 trillion over 50 years? sounds even better...
just tell me what they are going to cut this year, anything after 2012 is another congress.
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posted on
07/20/2011 9:35:11 AM PDT
by
rokkitapps
( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
To: Qbert
The ‘status quo’ plan. Meaningless in the whole scheme of things.
To: Qbert
But "savings" promised beyond the current Congress are meaningless,...Yep, it's called "passing the baton" to the next chump in office or more commonly known as "kicking the can down the road".
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posted on
07/20/2011 9:35:26 AM PDT
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EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Qbert
I’m thinking it might be better for the GOP to cave now and avoid media crucifixion. Then elect Palin, and turn this gov’t upside down and shake it out.
To: Qbert
The Gang claims "savings" of $3.7 trillion over ten years, but Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has seen the plan scores the actual cuts at 1.2 trillion. But "savings" promised beyond the current Congress are meaningless, since no Congress can obligate a future Congress's ability to spend )or do anything else). In return, they are asked to buy into higher taxes, many of them in the form of "tax reform" eliminating "loopholes" such as the mortgage interest deduction. (If you think housing prices have crashed, just wait until mortgages are no longer deductible. I can think of no better way to further devastate the ressidential construction industry and the personal wealth of the middle class.) IF this is the case, then how did Nanny the red Pewlouise tie crying Boehner's hands with some stupid rule he claims he cannot break to end the funding for BamBamcare?
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posted on
07/20/2011 9:38:16 AM PDT
by
Just mythoughts
(Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
To: Qbert
Heads will roll. ( I mean that in the nicest way possible)
To: Qbert
Speaking of spending, why is there no information, anywhere in the summary document, showing how big government will be five years from now? Ten years from now? The perhaps-all-too-convenient absence of this critical information should set off alarm bells.Good point and of course we ALL know why it isn't being shown.
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posted on
07/20/2011 9:38:37 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Qbert
Same leftist crap, different day when Turbin gets involved.
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posted on
07/20/2011 9:38:55 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(The epitome of civility.)
To: rokkitapps
why not just come out with a plan that cuts 100 trillion over 50 years? I wish someone would come out with such a plan - one "saving 198 Trillion over 900 years" just to make such a point.
To: Qbert
The gang of 6 gets all the headlines. I wonder what the other 44 think? Lot’s of egos going on there...
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posted on
07/20/2011 9:40:40 AM PDT
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b4its2late
("Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8")
To: Libloather
Dick Durbin is one of the creepiest members of Congress.
To: Qbert
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posted on
07/20/2011 9:42:10 AM PDT
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Brandonmark
(2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
To: Principled; rokkitapps
"why not just come out with a plan that cuts 100 trillion over 50 years?"- "I wish someone would come out with such a plan - one "saving 198 Trillion over 900 years" just to make such a point."
Or tell them if they agree to make real cuts of $20 Trillion in the next four years, we will "promise" to agree to raise taxes... in 2032.
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posted on
07/20/2011 9:49:29 AM PDT
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Qbert
("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
To: Qbert
To: Qbert
Shhhhhh....Don’t tell the sheeple. They think this is a great bill.
Actually the best bill would be no bill at all. Because if the debt limit is not raised then what you have is an instant balanced budget. Nothing more and nothing less. Lots of pain for awhile, but at least that pain is survivable.
What is coming at the end of the current borrowing game will not be survivable. It will spell economic collapse, and all the other kinds of collapse that will follow.
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posted on
07/20/2011 9:59:51 AM PDT
by
Revel
To: b4its2late
I think “flash mob” rather than “gang” reflects the intentions of these six political hacks.
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posted on
07/20/2011 10:00:56 AM PDT
by
not2worry
(A credible message needs a credible messenger because charisma without character is catastrophe.)
To: Qbert
Why then has Coburn signed onto this proposal? That’s what I don’t get..
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posted on
07/20/2011 10:03:38 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Save the earth..it's the ONLY planet with CHOCOLATE!!!)
To: Qbert
Here is my Gang of One spending plan:
Cut spending from $3,700 billion to $3,400 billion next year. 10% cut
KEEP IT AT $3400 billion for the next 10 years. 0% increase.
That’s $34 trillion in spending over 10 years.
Real cuts: $300 billion.
Washington ‘scored cut’ on this: $11 TRILLION!!!
Obama’s plan increases spending by $11 trillion over what you would do if you just kept spending the same every year.
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07/20/2011 10:06:14 AM PDT
by
WOSG
(Cut the spending!)
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