Reagan tripled it during his time in office, So Obama won't be as bad as Reagan's was.
Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws. He is obliged, consequently, to contribute his share to the expense of this protection; and to give his personal service, or an equivalent, when necessary. But no part of the property of any individual can, with justice, be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his own consent, or that of the representative body of the people. In fine, the people of this commonwealth are not controllable by any other laws than those to which their constitutional representative body have given their consent.
-John Adams
Obama will have doubled our national debt by the time he leaves office. Yes we are all Americans but not all of us are equal in terms of being self sufficient. In brief ( because I am typing on a crowded bus on an iPad)... Welfare payments by the government are a safety net I do not want to see gone.... Yet I do not want people accepting this circumstance as a way of life. It makes us weaker as a country.
Reagan tripled it during his time in office, So Obama won't be as bad as Reagan's was.
You mean the republicans that actually kept their word to their constituents and did what they said they were going to do ?
Where's the list of Democrats who believe that money grows on trees and that deficits don't matter?
r= 79%
l=71%
g=65%
d=63%
liberals/socialists=25%
The Tea Party supports the US Constitution. You love to spread lies about them. They aren't ultra right wing or anti-government. They believe in small government that is restrained by the Constitution.
The fundamentalists are the ones who keep insisting that spending more money and borrowing from China are the solution.
Hey Constituents! We just had a little Tea Party and threw $24 billion of your taxpayer money overboard!
Yes, punish the people who aren't at fault.Only a fucked up government could shut down for 2 weeks or so and piss away 24 billion. Right there is the problem with government. To start with, these employees that were furloughed shouldn't get back pay. If you are going to pay them, they should have been doing their job. Whats the point of furloughing them...So fucked up is this government, but you got tards on both sides of the aisle that don't give two shits about this country.
Yes, punish the people who aren't at fault.
Not paying someone for work they didn't do isn't punishment. Punishing people that weren't at fault is what the asshole Obama did when he prevented veterans and other citizens from seeing their National Parks and Monuments.
That is the symptom of the underlying cause. Taxes need to go up on the highest earners and spending needs to go down in a sensible manner. Anyone raising taxes takes a hit at the polls and anyone enacting spending cuts takes a hit at the polls. People doing the right things lose at the polls. So now lawmakers have to create these crises to get the changes the country actually needs and still be able to say they didn't vote for them.
We get the government we deserve. We've elected one that is willing to destroy America as an economic superpower as long as they can keep cashing a check. And barring violent revolution or the complete collapse of America, it will never change. But on the plus side, we'll have shiny new Xboxes and PlayStations to sate us. Global economic policy is stupid; I'm gonna go play Madden.
Yes, punish the people who aren't at fault.
The problem is more with the two parties and their monopoly of the government. What needs to happen is to desolve those two parties, and just vote on the people for who they are. I know that will never happen. I view this two party system that is currently in place as the reason for the downfall of the country. They are doing more damage to this country than any terrorist could ever do.