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2011-04-09 Home Front: Politix
Who Won the Shutdown Showdown? It Wasn't Even Close
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Posted by Fred 2011-04-09 10:50|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 Baby steps
Posted by regular joe 2011-04-09 13:14||   2011-04-09 13:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Ever tried to turn a sea tanker? In the financial world, the world is flat and finite. There is an edge to fall off.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-04-09 13:33||   2011-04-09 13:33|| Front Page Top

#3 our total deficit is approx 14T w/a annual growth of 1T in deficit...doesn't 38B in cuts only represent a 3.8% reduction in our 1T annual deficit...yeah, good job congress (sarc/off).
Posted by Broadhead6 2011-04-09 13:50||   2011-04-09 13:50|| Front Page Top

#4 BH6, the next step is the 2012 budget. Sure hope Boehner has an encore planned...
Posted by Steve White 2011-04-09 14:28||   2011-04-09 14:28|| Front Page Top

#5 doesn't 38B in cuts only represent a 3.8% reduction in our 1T annual deficit

Actually, the deficit is growing. Taxes collected are going down since wages are falling. But the spending keeps going up. Even after this "cut", federal spending is still going up 5.5%. This again, while wages are falling.
Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-09 15:47||   2011-04-09 15:47|| Front Page Top

#6 time to remember that Republicans control just over one-half of the 3 branches of government. 4 branches, counting the MSM
Posted by Frank G 2011-04-09 16:08||   2011-04-09 16:08|| Front Page Top

#7 The tanker analology is apt, and it will take years of constant, continuous pressure to keep the new course being followed. Some praise is due the Speaker, mosre praise is due Ryan and the 6.1 trillion proposal, especially the new thinking on medicare/medicaid. But it cannot be view as enough, the addiction on the left is too strong to slacken our efforts to encourage further successes, goad waivering, and attack any falling back on credit.
But equally important are the issues of entitlement fraud and waste, perhaps 25% of the current totals, and the abuse of our public largesse by immigrants, legal and illegal.
Illegal immigrants should never receive public funds except for emergency medical care, and even legal immigrants who arrive and immediately become wards of the state need to be looked at closely. We are no longer in need of people to fill our vast spaces, and frankly, the nation of immigrants story needs to be recast to much more selective admissions, not millions of unskilled laborers each year.
So bravo for a baby step, and keep going, or get out of the way!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2011-04-09 16:44||   2011-04-09 16:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Hello NoMoreBS; Well said. The voices from the other side are cast in biased hues of color. The Roma gypsies have a long and tortured history. Many died in the Holocaust. This video I am posting is an outreach by a normally silent group. I like his music but ignore the anger. His words may have no meaning but it is what people think he is saying- that is the power;

Posted by Dale 2011-04-09 21:29||   2011-04-09 21:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Again, the Fed is $$$ good = extant until this coming Thursday.

Shutdown or no shutdown, something has to give because US Debt is officially over 100%-n-counting of US GDP - its not offic 60% or 85% or even 93%, etc. anymore. AT THIS LEVEL, THE USA = UK = why don't we just turn over our NIMITZ-class CVNS + B-Bombers + Abrams MBTS, etc. to our international Allies in order to save the US Welfare-Nanny Super-State!?

US GLOBAL WELFARE-NANNY STATE - NO LONGER JUST "MULTI-NATIONAL" OR TRANS/MULTI-REGIONAL" BUT "UNIVERSAL" SOON TO BE "NEAR-SPACE"???

Plus of course "Globalism", + the OWG-NWO + related "-isms" that no American = Amerikan voted for???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-04-09 23:58||   2011-04-09 23:58|| Front Page Top

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