Displaying 1,651 To 1,680 Of 2,270 Comments Obama can simply instruct the Treasury to pay the nation’s bills. He won’t let default become an option. The Congress might sue, and then things get interesting, but as of right now, the Congressional side-show is just that. » Posted By funksands On July 6, 2011 @ 10:15 pm Most positive spin on the budget negotiations I’ve seen yet: Thanks Bito! http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/170035-senate-dems-rally-around-left-leaning-budget-plan » Posted By funksands On July 6, 2011 @ 10:13 pm Bito, really? If so, that is excellent news. » Posted By funksands On July 6, 2011 @ 9:47 pm YOU my lady are going to pay for the shirt I just spit-taked (took?) all over. » Posted By funksands On July 6, 2011 @ 9:30 pm Sabreen, I don’t believe that. I do think he is playing a game of chicken he doesn’t need to play however. » Posted By funksands On July 6, 2011 @ 9:25 pm Does Michelle Bachmann actually take and pass the bar? http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/03/20/michele-bachmann-woman-of-mystery/ And she didn’t really raise 23 foster kids? http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/06/18/michelle-bachmann-klie-about-raising-23-foster-children/ What a great website…:-) » Posted By funksands On July 6, 2011 @ 9:24 pm I turned on a FAN in my house today. đ » Posted By funksands On July 6, 2011 @ 9:20 pm BSM, they know they are doomed. The only thing that can save them is making it so hard to vote and so easy to rig an election that they win by fraud. Its a race to a very bitter finish line. They are moving quick, hoping that in a blitzkrieg of bills, some survive the inevitable retreat of the tide. » Posted By funksands On July 6, 2011 @ 9:11 pm If I didn’t participate in it, then it doesn’t exist. » Posted By funksands On July 6, 2011 @ 9:07 pm Interesting article President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social Security and Medicare in exchange for Republican support for fresh tax revenue. At a meeting with top House and Senate leaders set for Thursday morning, Obama plans to argue that a rare consensus has emerged about the size and scope of the nationâs budget problems and that policymakers should seize the moment to take dramatic action. The Pres sure seems to playing a dangerous game that he doesn’t seem to need to play. Politically he’d better hope the GOP is as intractable and nihilistic as he thinks they are. » Posted By funksands On July 6, 2011 @ 8:57 pm THE SIZE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS OUT OF CONTROL!!!! Well, no not really. As a matter of fact, total civilian employment by the federal goverment since the 60’s has remained flat, even though our economy and population have increased by 200% and 40% respectively. As a matter of fact it peaked under Reagan and Bush I. http://www.opm.gov/feddata/HistoricalTables/TotalGovernmentSince1962.asp FEDERAL SPENDING IS OUT OF CONTROL!!!! Well sort of, but not really. 2001 2010 So discretionary spending has not gone up at all, and most of the debt piled up has been due to wars and tax cuts. IF YOU RAISE TAXES, IT WILL TANK THE ECONOMY AND EMPLOYMENT!!! Well, sorry, but that isn’t true either, as a matter of fact there seems to be no correlation between tax rates and job creation or gdp growth. Sorry. http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html You know I totally get the desire to buy into urban legends like the three above. It makes for a thrilling tale, and everyone likes a good scare now and then. But its bullshit, totally and completely. Stop buying it and our political class will stop selling it. Believe it or not, supply is driven by demand, not the other way around. » Posted By funksands On July 6, 2011 @ 2:12 pm Texas lawmakers fail to solve big budget problems, punt tough decisions down the road “The first accounting shift was to delay a $2.3 billion payment owed to public schools in 2012-2013 by one day, so that the bill isnât technically due until 2014, thereby going into the next budget. The new budget also assumes there will be no growth in the number of school children in Texas, even though it is one of the fastest-growing states in the nation. Critics say the state will short school districts $2 billion that way…. …..Lawmakers also decided to rewrite the laws that determine how Texas pays for public education, since the Legislature could not afford what the law mandated. They slashed $4 billion in what will be the first cut in per-student spending in Texas since World War II. Districts must either lay off thousands of teachers and increase class sizes, increase local property taxes or both. Republican leaders came up with another $800 million on paper by ordering the Legislative Budget Board, essentially the Legislatureâs accountants, to forecast a faster increase in land values in order to show more property tax income for schools.” » Posted By funksands On July 5, 2011 @ 3:53 pm LOL, CL thanks for your support. đ » Posted By funksands On July 5, 2011 @ 2:56 pm jkk, I had it all figured out, and then once the grappa started flowing it turned into a bleak country song. » Posted By funksands On July 5, 2011 @ 2:55 pm Thanks Ad, couldn’t agree more. The world has little “civility” as it is. There is no reason not to have some here. » Posted By funksands On July 5, 2011 @ 12:04 pm I liked your first description better…. » Posted By funksands On July 4, 2011 @ 2:15 pm Smiles for the 4th. I’m off to contemplate the deeper mysteries of our nation, its founding, and the solutions to the more intractable problems of our democracy. Most of which I will have solved by my 8th beer. Happy Birthday ‘Merica!! On that note, a video from Canada…. [img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYnd5JRu86E&playnext=1&list=PL339D1ABAA9F4BBC2[/img] » Posted By funksands On July 4, 2011 @ 2:14 pm Ah, Law of Unintended Consequences, we just can’t quit you: http://www.jasonpye.com/2011/06/nativism-costs-georgia-farmers-300-million-to-1-billion/ Despite warnings that HB 87 â the restrictionist, anti-immigration law that passed the Georgia General Assembly this year â would hurt the stateâs agricultural industry, Gov. Nathan Deal, seemingly unconcerned, signed it anyway. The law hasnât even gone into effect yet and already itâs a disaster, costing Georgia farmers between $300 million to $1 billion in lost crops. » Posted By funksands On July 2, 2011 @ 9:22 pm Casey Anthony: Guilty or Not Guilty? Clady, I….wow. đ » Posted By funksands On July 3, 2011 @ 9:52 pm Boy are you gonna hate my recap of the Lindsay Lohan trial minutes…. » Posted By funksands On July 3, 2011 @ 8:18 pm TAKE ACTION: Support MN Gov. Dayton in Gov’t Shutdown Over Taxing the Rich You mean the Governor wants to cut spending and raise taxes to fill the budget gap? What an EXTREMIST. » Posted By funksands On July 1, 2011 @ 6:31 pm AdLib, done. First of all, I left Minnesota Wed. night. If I had anything to do with the shutdown, I am very sorry. The fascist sociopath minions in the statehouses know their days are numbered. They know they need to work quickly and that they have nothing left to lose. This kind of opponent is dangerous short-term, deadly long term if allowed to stay in power with political victories. » Posted By funksands On July 1, 2011 @ 6:30 pm The Personal Journal of Osama Bin Laden, Vol. 2 Adonai, very well done. I am absurdly pleased by the thought of bin Laden fly-fishing in Montana. Keep them coming! » Posted By funksands On July 9, 2011 @ 9:17 pm Khirad, I have been reading tweets and articles from people living in Syria for the last couple of hours, and its been difficult to retain any sense of objectivity. That said, I am trying to wrap my brain around Russia’s refusal to endorse the UN resolution. Could it be that they are stalling for time? I don’t think they have any idea who is going to take over if Assad falls, and that scares the shit out of them. Maybe they’re stalling for time until they can figure it out? » Posted By funksands On February 5, 2012 @ 12:34 pm Telegraph reporting that Western intelligenÂce sources say Qadaffi on his way to Venezuela. » Posted By funksands On August 21, 2011 @ 8:07 pm Khirad, Engel reporting that Ghaddafi may have fled? Heard anything? » Posted By funksands On August 20, 2011 @ 12:54 pm Never Mind The Dangerous Insipidity of Dan Choi If I’m not mistaken, during the first interview I ever saw with Choi, (Maddow?) she or he stated that he was a Republican. I even posted on HP that night how much I admired the guy and what a great Republican candidate for office he would be. Not an explanation, just an observation. » Posted By funksands On June 29, 2011 @ 11:09 pm Adonai, first of all I loved this post. Second, please tell me that this isn’t true. » Posted By funksands On August 2, 2011 @ 5:27 pm WATCH LIVE: Pres. Obama’s Speech on Afghanistan Bito, I have no quarrel with the President’s consistency. He said a while ago he would pull out 5k now and 5k at the end of the year. He said as you noted that after 18 months the “surge” would be ended and the troops removed. I have a problem with the initial prescription. » Posted By funksands On June 23, 2011 @ 9:10 am WTS, I think your post makes a lot of good points. I also think that if were to do what you suggest and make it policy, we would be far more judicious about where we get involved in the future. » Posted By funksands On June 23, 2011 @ 9:08 amComments Posted By funksands
Dicretionary Military Sp. $494 bill $858 bill
Discretionary Non-Military $369 bill $369 bill
Mandatory Programs $1.7 trill $2.3 trill
Total Revenues $2.7 trill $2.2 trill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presidential_terms
http://www.davemanuel.com/2010/08/03/us-gdp-growth-by-president-1948-2009/
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