Senator Patty Murray puts forth the first Freedom-Hater budget in years, and it increases federal spending 62% over the next ten years and doesn't even address our debt / deficit.
I lick my chops at the opportunity to polemically disembowel any leftist pundit who tries to position this joke as superior to Ryan 3.0.
You do realize this is what lawyers do, dontcha know, matching ludicrocity with same. I know you think Ryan's proposal is realistic, but it isn't as long as it assumes the repeal of Obamacare.
ReplyDeleteOh, any way out of our dilemma involves that.
ReplyDeleteAin't gonna happen. So that is why Ryan's plan is ludicrous. It has stood the test of constitutionality and Romney lost the election. And the people of MA a generally content with Romneycare which you would never abide either so any tweaking is going in that direction for now, not yours. Agreed that the Senate plan is ludicrous though. It ain't gonna happen either.
ReplyDeleteIf it doesn't happen, it will be because the architects of planned decline who relish the thought of America continuing to weaken under its debt burden and ultimately collapsing.
ReplyDeleteThat's how much modern Democrats hold this country in disdain.
I dunno about planned decline, but your boys sure did help with their lies a decade ago.
ReplyDeleteAt the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order and install a new government.
The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said.
See "Costs of War Project" by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
The report also examined the burden on U.S. veterans and their families, showing a deep social cost as well as an increase in spending on veterans. The 2011 study found U.S. medical and disability claims for veterans after a decade of war totaled $33 billion. Two years later, that number had risen to $134.7 billion.
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The report concluded the United States gained little from the war while Iraq was traumatized by it. The war reinvigorated radical Islamist militants in the region, set back women's rights, and weakened an already precarious healthcare system, the report said. Meanwhile, the $212 billion reconstruction effort was largely a failure with most of that money spent on security or lost to waste and fraud, it said.
Difference in motives, which makes for an apples-and-oranges argument.
ReplyDeleteAre you ready for this? I think W and his administration mishandled the addressing of what he characterized as the Axis of Evil. He focused so primarily on Iraq that the other two situations were allowed to continue festering, leading to what we're facing today.
To be sure, Iraq under Saddam was nearly as much of a threat as the other two. But not quite as much, and that's the kind of world we live in and always have. As the US prepared to topple the Baathist regime, such figures as Michael Ledeen warned that Iran was the center of the world's terrorist mischief and should be addressed first.
Nonetheless, W was acting out of genuine concern for national security and the survival of Western civilization. What he made was a tactical misjudgment.
That is not at all what's going on with the Freedom-Hater deliberate increase in our debt and deficit. The modern-day crop of Democrats want quite explicitly to lessen the power and stature of the United States, and to make its citizens completely dependent on government by gutting economic opportunity.
Your so-called free-market has been doing a bang-up job of gutting economic opportunity here stateside. If they can get er done with some form of machine or robot they of course will and if they have to have bodies they will seek the cheapest way to go there as well. This is a familiar story in cities across the country, like Muncie, Indiana, Flint, Michigan, Youngstown, Ohio, entire towns reeling when a manufacturing plant shuts down or a major industry moves overseas. ¡Viva la libertad empresarial americano
ReplyDeleteW's contribution to the present unsustainable and unacceptable budget deficit is undeniable. I think his peeps made a huge error in attempting to deal with terrorism by invading an entire country. That of course involved serious, tragic and widespread civilian "pain" to put it mildly. By far the vast majority of terrorist "acts" occur "over there" but I would think that the average man woman child on the street has a real hard time distinguishing between the two. It sure cost us a lot of bucks to go at it the way we did, hindsight always being 20/20. Trillions you seem to ignore when we discuss deficits. We're smarter than this, aren't we?
ReplyDeleteW contributed, but the MEC's contribution was on steroids by comparison.
ReplyDeleteRe: Muncie Flint et al: You already covered that in a previous comment. You said you understood that business seeks to minimize its costs and that such jobs are gone permanently. So your reason for bringing it back up is? Are you suggesting government force businesses to keep those jobs in Muncie and Flint?
You know us conservatives had big-time objections to W's spending.
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