Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us??

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mnottertail -> Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 2:50:59 PM)
O'Neill said he tried to warn Vice President Dick Cheney that growing budget deficits-expected to top $500 billion this fiscal year alone-posed a threat to the economy. Cheney cut him off. "You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter," he said, according to excerpts. Cheney continued: "We won the midterms (congressional elections). This is our due." A month later, Cheney told the Treasury secretary he was fired. The fiscal shift in the Reagan years was staggering. In January 1981, when Reagan declared the federal budget to be "out of control," the deficit had reached almost $74 billion, the federal debt $930 billion. Within two years, the deficit was $208 billion. The debt by 1988 totaled $2.6 trillion. In those eight years, the United States moved from being the world's largest international creditor to the largest debtor nation.

Musicmystery -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 2:54:45 PM)
And with 25% of asset ownership in foreign hands. Why conservatives idolize him will never make sense to me.

Jeffff -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 3:55:07 PM)
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" He made the world safe for Deomocracy. Jeff

Musicmystery -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 4:01:14 PM)
Instead, he should have watched a nation crumbling under the weight of its own economic policies and learned a few lessons. He told people a complex world was just simple. Denial central. And then constructed policy based on the fantasy. And when it didn't work, people wanted to do it again. Just that simple.

DomKen -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 4:07:15 PM)
Reagan proclaimed that complex problems had simple answers. He was lying but gullible Americans who had rejected a POTUS telling them the truth gobbkled it up. Since him no Republican can be taken seriously by their base if he doesn't parrot that supply side nonsense. You'd think 30 years of working class folks having to struggle harder for less and less would have convinced come of them how utterly wrong they were but here we are.

Thadius -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 4:10:20 PM)
I blame Carter for all of these problems. Without him there would have been no Reagan, and the neocons would have no hero. If I could only find that damned time machine.

Marini -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 4:12:56 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DomKen Reagan proclaimed that complex problems had simple answers. He was lying but gullible Americans who had rejected a POTUS telling them the truth gobbkled it up. Since him no Republican can be taken seriously by their base if he doesn't parrot that supply side nonsense. You'd think 30 years of working class folks having to struggle harder for less and less would have convinced come of them how utterly wrong they were but here we are. Eventually, with our crumbling economy and ever rising unemployment, a few people are going to start to get a "clue". This global economy and all the extensive "unregulated" free trade agreements are not helping us much these days are they? I agree, it has been 30 years of conditions slowly going downhill.

ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 4:33:45 PM)
The republicans love to bankrupt us because when they bankrupt us, they're only bankrupting us, not themselves. The money's just being transferred up to them. Hundreds of billions of dollars from the Bush tax cuts went straight into the pockets of millionaires. The tax cuts that have bankrupted the country were nothing more than the wealthy looting the Federal Treasury, and they gave the average American enough to buy a new TV to make them feel as though they were getting an equal share.

pahunkboy -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 4:38:10 PM)
they should all be shot.

ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 4:41:29 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: pahunkboy they should all be shot. I favor locking them in a cell and leaving them to starve. Saves the cost of a bullet. You can cycle a new batch through every two weeks - just send them in to clean out the cell, and when it's empty, lock them inside. Repeat until you run out of thieves.

ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 4:45:07 PM)
And just to be humane, you could throw a few shiny new coins in for them to amuse themselves. Fight over them, or whatever.

pahunkboy -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 4:47:03 PM)
anyone who is part of the left right fake paradigm is a huge part of the problem. the banks own and control it all. wake up.

EbonyWood -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 5:00:34 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: pahunkboy anyone who is part of the left right fake paradigm is a huge part of the problem. the banks own and control it all. wake up. Since you've woken up before the rest of us, tell us specifically what you are doing about the problem.

slvemike4u -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 5:24:23 PM)
That should be obvious EW....he's alerting the rest of us....sheeesh!

Musicmystery -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 5:41:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Thadius I blame Carter for all of these problems. Without him there would have been no Reagan, and the neocons would have no hero. If I could only find that damned time machine. And if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, he'd have had a reasonable shot at being elected. Of course, moderate Ford was only a compromise choice after Spiro Agnew became the only VP every to have to resign, under investigation by the United States Attorney’s office on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy.

Thadius -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 5:44:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Musicmystery quote: ORIGINAL: Thadius I blame Carter for all of these problems. Without him there would have been no Reagan, and the neocons would have no hero. If I could only find that damned time machine. And if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, he'd have had a reasonable shot at being elected. Of course, moderate Ford was only a compromise choice after Spiro Agnew became the only VP every to have to resign, under investigation by the United States Attorney’s office on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy. Point taken, let's do away with the damn office. Just have the Congress vote in a bunch of czars or cabinet heads...[;)]

Musicmystery -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 5:46:09 PM)
We can't. Someone with an agenda will block the vote and keep it bottled up in committee.

Jeffff -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 6:26:23 PM)
At this time, I , am prepared to accept the title of "Emperor". If not Me who? If not now when? They know where to reach Me. They are probably reading this. His Excellency Jeff

AnimusRex -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 6:28:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Jeffff "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" He made the world safe for Democracy. Ironically, the strategy that Reagan chose was to force the Soviet Union into a an arms race that would bankrupt them. Somewhere a Chinese central banker is smiling.

Jeffff -> RE: Why Do Conservatives Love to Bankrupt Us?? (2/15/2010 6:29:58 PM)
Well. we'll fuck em good! Take their investment and put it right down the shitter....:)

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