posted 09-13-2014 01:06 PM                  

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Originally posted by padroo:
Do ya think they would want another Tea Party Gort? They can have ours.

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I don't think they would want to take on the $17,500,000,000,000 we owe.

posted 09-13-2014 06:50 PM                  

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Originally posted by padroo:
Do ya think they would want another Tea Party Gort? They can have ours.

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posted 09-13-2014 09:21 PM                  

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Originally posted by bjprowler:
Nasty old Tea Party!.....Can you believe that those people apparently think that our nation should only spend [B]what we actually take in?????[/B]

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posted 09-14-2014 05:41 AM                  

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Originally posted by ed monahan:
War is very good for the economy.

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I hesitate to disagree with you, because you get so upset when I do, but this is flawed logic. Google "Broken Window Fallacy".

Not only is there the lost opportunity angle but where do you think the money is coming from to build all the weapons and make all the boots and uniforms? Would it not come from a place that has no money,,,,,the taxpayer?

Yes it helped pull the US out of the great depression. But times are different now and it's just bad arithmetic.

posted 09-14-2014 06:21 AM                  

"I am very conservative fiscally"

4,500 Americans killed, a far larger number permanently wounded, the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed and displaced, the trillion dollars of US taxpayers' money squandered (and the resulting cutbacks through sequestration), the continued costs of the war through veterans' benefits and interest on the national debt, and the anti-American extremism in reaction to the invasion and occupation which has spread throughout much of the world all could have been avoided if the Democratic-controlled Senate hadn't voted to authorize this war and occupation.

As of TODAY, the Current Outstanding Public Debt of the United States is:

$17,742,108,970,073.37

Every man, woman and child in the United States currently owes $58,396 for their share of the U.S. public debt

Seems the party so close to some's heart who they support entirely without reservation (the union said so),,,,are a huge part of the fault for 'needless war' and out of control $pending...... hardly fiscally conservative..

posted 09-14-2014 08:39 AM                  

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Originally posted by ALLEY CAT:
quote: [B]"needless wars"

"I am very conservative fiscally"

4,500 Americans killed, a far larger number permanently wounded, the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed and displaced, the trillion dollars of US taxpayers' mo lookney squandered (and the resulting cutbacks through sequestration), the continued costs of the war through veterans' benefits and interest on the national debt, and the anti-American extremism in reaction to the invasion and occupation which has spread throughout much of the world all could have been avoided if the Democratic-controlled Senate hadn't voted to authorize this war and occupation.

As of TODAY, the Current Outstanding Public Debt of the United States is:

$17,742,108,970,073.37

Every man, woman and child in the United States currently owes $58,396 for their share of the U.S. public debt

Seems the party so close to some's heart who they support entirely without reservation (the union said so),,,,are a huge part of the fault for 'needless war' and out of control $pending...... hardly fiscally conservative..

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That's pretty lame with that snow job George Bush had Collins Powell do his dirty work at the UN. It was their flawed intelligence that led us and a whole bunch of other countries into this needless war weather you want to admit it or not.
I think all the other countries that made up that coalition got duped too.

A war time economy is a house made out of cards. It's like going to Vegas with only your credit card. The end of
the month the bill is still due.

posted 09-14-2014 10:49 AM                  

What's really lame are those who voted for Obama (twice),,,and seeing this admininstration doing 'no wrong' while continually burying Americans in more excessive debt, increase the Welfare rolls, and making idiotic decisions over foreign policy with the likes of Hillary 'Benghazi' Clinton and John 'Swift Boat' Kerry.

posted 09-14-2014 12:17 PM                  

As far as who pays the bill for war.
There are lots of people working, making those meals, weapons, boots, ammo. They make money, they spend money but I know "trickle down economy" doesn't work for some folks. Those folks pay taxes on their earnings, spend money for gas, food, clothing and buy houses or pay rent. The money keeps getting spent, over and over.