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**jerzeygymwolf** · 09-04-2011, 09:52 PM

Yep--a little disapointing--but let's face it Obama and Harry didn't want to cut anything from this budget. Obama wanted 6 billion and Reid proposed 3 billion. So 38 billion is a lot higher that what democrats would have cut.

Obviously---there is much more work to do. I really don't know how we're going to get rid of a 14.3 trillion dollar deficit. It's going to have to come down on social security--medicare--medicade and military spending.

What was interesting--was what was forced on democrats.

At any rate the FIGHT has just begun.

It's too bad because the hiring of more IRS to actually recoup money that rich people aren't paying would bring in billions every year. Every chart I've seen shows it, but of course Republicans don't actually want fiscal sanity, it's all culture war crap they're into.

Just because they say they care about the debt doesn't mean they actually do. Wake up, Republicans, you've been had.

If Obama had his way, the IRS would make the country billions every year in taxes that people aren't paying, he'd cut the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy, and he'd cut corporate subsidies. I just don't know how any rational person could be against those things, since it would make it so that the country doesn't put the weight of all the pain on the working class, who only laid down their future in order to save the banking system a couple years ago.

09-04-2011, 09:52 PM	#37
jerzeygymwolf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 392 Senior Member	Yep--a little disapointing--but let's face it Obama and Harry didn't want to cut anything from this budget. Obama wanted 6 billion and Reid proposed 3 billion. So 38 billion is a lot higher that what democrats would have cut. Obviously---there is much more work to do. I really don't know how we're going to get rid of a 14.3 trillion dollar deficit. It's going to have to come down on social security--medicare--medicade and military spending. What was interesting--was what was forced on democrats. At any rate the FIGHT has just begun. It's too bad because the hiring of more IRS to actually recoup money that rich people aren't paying would bring in billions every year. Every chart I've seen shows it, but of course Republicans don't actually want fiscal sanity, it's all culture war crap they're into. Just because they say they care about the debt doesn't mean they actually do. Wake up, Republicans, you've been had. If Obama had his way, the IRS would make the country billions every year in taxes that people aren't paying, he'd cut the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy, and he'd cut corporate subsidies. I just don't know how any rational person could be against those things, since it would make it so that the country doesn't put the weight of all the pain on the working class, who only laid down their future in order to save the banking system a couple years ago.
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