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2023-06-04 Home Front: Politix

The Debt-Limit Deal Isn’t Actually That Bad

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-06-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 In other news...

Alcohol To-Go orders are growing the food industry as they shift from a pandemic restaurant survival tactic to menu mainstay with beer, red wine and custom margaritas the most popular drinks

Posted by Skidmark 2023-06-04 05:43|| 2023-06-04 05:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Let’s see what the debt becomes now without a limit under a Biden regime and what gets passed in the Lame Duck in 2024. Then we can decide whether it is pastrami or feces on rye.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-04 07:45|| 2023-06-04 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 It's all in the appropriations. Budget means nothing if all you get is the f'ing omnibus bill. Why bother with a representative republic if they're incapable of doing their fundamental job. Maybe, just maybe, you need to cut back your work load (and sticking your fingers into everything) to a point where you can actually do the job.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-06-04 07:53|| 2023-06-04 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Spot on analysis. Omnibus is little more than a ticket to steal the taxpayer's money.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-04 08:04|| 2023-06-04 08:04|| Front Page Top

#5 It's quite amazing how federal tax receipts are growing but these drunken sailors on Capitol Hill (who never seem to get hungover) will spend this country right into its demise.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-06-04 09:31|| 2023-06-04 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Please refrain from disparaging "drunken sailors." Unlike the Washington crowd, sailors are quite productive when at sea.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-04 09:48|| 2023-06-04 09:48|| Front Page Top

#7 ^^^ Touché!

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-06-04 09:53|| 2023-06-04 09:53|| Front Page Top

#8 By productive, did you include the 12-16% pregnancy rate for deployed sailors with a uterus?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-06-04 12:12|| 2023-06-04 12:12|| Front Page Top

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