Did GOP Deliberately Crash the US Economy??
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this article makes a pretty compelling case that they did...
i believe that they did. they want to defeat obama so badly that they are willing to do anything to make sure he loses.... polls are now saying that a majority of americans believe that the gop is tanking the economy for political gain...
discuss...
Did Republicans deliberately crash the US economy?
Be it ideology or stratagem, the GOP has blocked pro-growth policy and backed job-killing austerity – all while blaming Obama
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... us-economy
So why does the US economy stink?
Why has job creation in America slowed to a crawl? Why, after several months of economic hope, are things suddenly turning sour? The culprits might seem obvious – uncertainty in Europe, an uneven economic recovery, fiscal and monetary policymakers immobilized and incapable of acting. But increasingly, Democrats are making the argument that the real culprit for the country's economic woes lies in a more discrete location: with the Republican Party.
In recent days, Democrats have started coming out and saying publicly what many have been mumbling privately for years – Republicans are so intent on defeating President Obama for re-election that they are purposely sabotaging the country's economic recovery. These charges are now being levied by Democrats such as Senate majority leader Harry Reid and Obama's key political adviser, David Axelrod.
For Democrats, perhaps the most obvious piece of evidence of GOP premeditated malice is the 2010 quote from Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell:
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
Such words lead some to the conclusion that Republicans will do anything, including short-circuiting the economy, in order to hurt Obama politically. Considering that presidents – and rarely opposition parties – are held electorally responsible for economic calamity, it's not a bad political strategy.
Then again, it's a hard accusation to prove: after all, one person's economic sabotage is another person's principled anti-government conservatism.
Beyond McConnell's words, though, there is circumstantial evidence to make the case. Republicans have opposed a lion's share of stimulus measures that once they supported, such as a payroll tax break, which they grudgingly embraced earlier this year. Even unemployment insurance, a relatively uncontroversial tool for helping those in an economic downturn, has been consistently held up by Republicans or used as a bargaining chip for more tax cuts. Ten years ago, prominent conservatives were loudly making the case for fiscal stimulus to get the economy going; today, they treat such ideas like they're the plague.
Traditionally, during economic recessions, Republicans have been supportive of loose monetary policy. Not this time. Rather, Republicans have upbraided Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve, for even considering policies that focus on growing the economy and creating jobs.
And then, there is the fact that since the original stimulus bill passed in February of 2009, Republicans have made practically no effort to draft comprehensive job creation legislation. Instead, they continue to pursue austerity policies, which reams of historical data suggest harms economic recovery and does little to create jobs. In fact, since taking control of the House of Representatives in 2011, Republicans have proposed hardly a single major jobs bill that didn't revolve, in some way, around their one-stop solution for all the nation's economic problems: more tax cuts.
Still, one can certainly argue – and Republicans do – that these steps are all reflective of conservative ideology. If you view government as a fundamentally bad actor, then stopping government expansion is, on some level, consistent.
So, let's put aside the conspiracy theories for a moment, and look more closely at how the country is faring under the GOP's economic leadership.
As Paul Krugman wrote earlier this week, in the New York Times, while a Democrat rests his head each night in the White House, the United States is currently operating with a Republican economy. After winning the House of Representatives in 2010, the GOP brokered a deal to keep the Bush tax cuts in place, which has reduced the tax burden as a percentage of GDP to its lowest point since Harry Truman sat in the White House. At the insistence of the White House, Congress also agreed to extend unemployment benefits and enact a payroll tax cut – measures that provided a small but important stimulus to the economy, but above all, maintained the key GOP position that taxes must never go up.
But as Congress giveth, Congress also taketh. The GOP's zealotry on tax cuts is only matched by its zealotry in pursuing austerity policies. In the spring of 2011, federal spending cuts forced by Republican legislators took much-needed money out of the economy: combined with the 2012 budget, it has largely counteracted the positive benefits provided by the 2009 stimulus.
Subsequently, the GOP's refusal to countenance legislation that would help states with their own fiscal crises (largely, the result of declining tax revenue) has led to massive public sector layoffs at the state and local level. In fact, since Obama took office, state and local governments have shed 611,000 jobs; and by some measures, if not for these jobs, cuts the unemployment rate today would be closer to 7%, not its current 8.2%. In 2010 and 2011, 457,00 public sector jobs were excised; not coincidentally, at the same time, much of the federal stimulus aid from 2009 ran out. And Republicans took over control of Congress.
These cuts have a larger societal impact. When teachers are laid off, for example (and nearly 200,000 have lost their jobs), it means larger class sizes, other teachers being overworked and after-school classes being cancelled. So, ironically, a policy that is intended to save "our children and grandchildren" from "crushing debt" is leaving them worse-prepared for the actual economic and social challenges they will face in the future. In addition, with states operating under tighter fiscal budgets – and getting no hope relief from Washington – it means less money for essential government services, like help for the elderly, the poor and the disabled.
This is the most obvious example of how austerity policies are not only harming America's present, but also imperilling its future. And these spending cuts on the state and local level are matched by a complete lack of fiscal expansion on the federal level. In fact, fiscal policy is now a drag on the recovery, which is the exact opposite of how it should work, given a sluggish economy.
This collection of more-harm-than-good policies must also include last summer's debt limit debacle, which House speaker John Boehner has threatened to renew this year. This was yet another GOP initiative that undermined the economic recovery. According to economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, "over the entire episode, confidence declined more than it did following the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc in 2008." Only after the crisis did the consumer confidence stabilize, but employers "held back on hiring, sapping momentum from a recovery that remains far too fragile." In addition, the debt limit deal also forced more unhelpful spending cuts on the country.
Since that national embarrassment, Republicans have refused to even allow votes on President Obama's jobs bill in the Senate; they dragged their feet on the aforementioned payroll tax and even now are holding up a transportation bill with poison-pill demands for the White House on environmental regulation.
Yet, with all these tales of economic ineptitude emanating from the GOP, it is Obama who is bearing most of the blame for the country's continued poor economic performance.
Whether you believe the Republicans are engaging in purposely destructive fiscal behavior or are simply fiscally incompetent, it almost doesn't matter. It most certainly is bad economic policy and that should be part of any national debate not only on who is to blame for the current economic mess, but also what steps should be taken to get out from underneath it.
But don't hold your breath on that happening. Presidents get blamed for a bad economy; and certainly, Republicans are unlikely to take responsibility for the country's economic woes. The obligation will be on Obama to make the case that it is the Republicans, not he, who is to blame – a difficult, but not impossible task.
In the end, that might be the worst part of all – one of two major political parties in America is engaging in scorched-earth economic policies that are undercutting the economic recovery, possibly on purpose, and is forcing job-killing austerity measures on the states. And they have paid absolutely no political price for doing so. If anything, it won them control of the House in 2010, and has kept win Obama's approval ratings in the political danger zone. It might even help them get control of the White House.
Sabotage or not, it's hard to argue with "success" – and it's hard to imagine we've seen the last of it, whoever wins in November.
:fp:
i believe that they did. they want to defeat obama so badly that they are willing to do anything to make sure he loses.... polls are now saying that a majority of americans believe that the gop is tanking the economy for political gain...
discuss...
Did Republicans deliberately crash the US economy?
Be it ideology or stratagem, the GOP has blocked pro-growth policy and backed job-killing austerity – all while blaming Obama
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... us-economy
So why does the US economy stink?
Why has job creation in America slowed to a crawl? Why, after several months of economic hope, are things suddenly turning sour? The culprits might seem obvious – uncertainty in Europe, an uneven economic recovery, fiscal and monetary policymakers immobilized and incapable of acting. But increasingly, Democrats are making the argument that the real culprit for the country's economic woes lies in a more discrete location: with the Republican Party.
In recent days, Democrats have started coming out and saying publicly what many have been mumbling privately for years – Republicans are so intent on defeating President Obama for re-election that they are purposely sabotaging the country's economic recovery. These charges are now being levied by Democrats such as Senate majority leader Harry Reid and Obama's key political adviser, David Axelrod.
For Democrats, perhaps the most obvious piece of evidence of GOP premeditated malice is the 2010 quote from Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell:
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
Such words lead some to the conclusion that Republicans will do anything, including short-circuiting the economy, in order to hurt Obama politically. Considering that presidents – and rarely opposition parties – are held electorally responsible for economic calamity, it's not a bad political strategy.
Then again, it's a hard accusation to prove: after all, one person's economic sabotage is another person's principled anti-government conservatism.
Beyond McConnell's words, though, there is circumstantial evidence to make the case. Republicans have opposed a lion's share of stimulus measures that once they supported, such as a payroll tax break, which they grudgingly embraced earlier this year. Even unemployment insurance, a relatively uncontroversial tool for helping those in an economic downturn, has been consistently held up by Republicans or used as a bargaining chip for more tax cuts. Ten years ago, prominent conservatives were loudly making the case for fiscal stimulus to get the economy going; today, they treat such ideas like they're the plague.
Traditionally, during economic recessions, Republicans have been supportive of loose monetary policy. Not this time. Rather, Republicans have upbraided Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve, for even considering policies that focus on growing the economy and creating jobs.
And then, there is the fact that since the original stimulus bill passed in February of 2009, Republicans have made practically no effort to draft comprehensive job creation legislation. Instead, they continue to pursue austerity policies, which reams of historical data suggest harms economic recovery and does little to create jobs. In fact, since taking control of the House of Representatives in 2011, Republicans have proposed hardly a single major jobs bill that didn't revolve, in some way, around their one-stop solution for all the nation's economic problems: more tax cuts.
Still, one can certainly argue – and Republicans do – that these steps are all reflective of conservative ideology. If you view government as a fundamentally bad actor, then stopping government expansion is, on some level, consistent.
So, let's put aside the conspiracy theories for a moment, and look more closely at how the country is faring under the GOP's economic leadership.
As Paul Krugman wrote earlier this week, in the New York Times, while a Democrat rests his head each night in the White House, the United States is currently operating with a Republican economy. After winning the House of Representatives in 2010, the GOP brokered a deal to keep the Bush tax cuts in place, which has reduced the tax burden as a percentage of GDP to its lowest point since Harry Truman sat in the White House. At the insistence of the White House, Congress also agreed to extend unemployment benefits and enact a payroll tax cut – measures that provided a small but important stimulus to the economy, but above all, maintained the key GOP position that taxes must never go up.
But as Congress giveth, Congress also taketh. The GOP's zealotry on tax cuts is only matched by its zealotry in pursuing austerity policies. In the spring of 2011, federal spending cuts forced by Republican legislators took much-needed money out of the economy: combined with the 2012 budget, it has largely counteracted the positive benefits provided by the 2009 stimulus.
Subsequently, the GOP's refusal to countenance legislation that would help states with their own fiscal crises (largely, the result of declining tax revenue) has led to massive public sector layoffs at the state and local level. In fact, since Obama took office, state and local governments have shed 611,000 jobs; and by some measures, if not for these jobs, cuts the unemployment rate today would be closer to 7%, not its current 8.2%. In 2010 and 2011, 457,00 public sector jobs were excised; not coincidentally, at the same time, much of the federal stimulus aid from 2009 ran out. And Republicans took over control of Congress.
These cuts have a larger societal impact. When teachers are laid off, for example (and nearly 200,000 have lost their jobs), it means larger class sizes, other teachers being overworked and after-school classes being cancelled. So, ironically, a policy that is intended to save "our children and grandchildren" from "crushing debt" is leaving them worse-prepared for the actual economic and social challenges they will face in the future. In addition, with states operating under tighter fiscal budgets – and getting no hope relief from Washington – it means less money for essential government services, like help for the elderly, the poor and the disabled.
This is the most obvious example of how austerity policies are not only harming America's present, but also imperilling its future. And these spending cuts on the state and local level are matched by a complete lack of fiscal expansion on the federal level. In fact, fiscal policy is now a drag on the recovery, which is the exact opposite of how it should work, given a sluggish economy.
This collection of more-harm-than-good policies must also include last summer's debt limit debacle, which House speaker John Boehner has threatened to renew this year. This was yet another GOP initiative that undermined the economic recovery. According to economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, "over the entire episode, confidence declined more than it did following the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc in 2008." Only after the crisis did the consumer confidence stabilize, but employers "held back on hiring, sapping momentum from a recovery that remains far too fragile." In addition, the debt limit deal also forced more unhelpful spending cuts on the country.
Since that national embarrassment, Republicans have refused to even allow votes on President Obama's jobs bill in the Senate; they dragged their feet on the aforementioned payroll tax and even now are holding up a transportation bill with poison-pill demands for the White House on environmental regulation.
Yet, with all these tales of economic ineptitude emanating from the GOP, it is Obama who is bearing most of the blame for the country's continued poor economic performance.
Whether you believe the Republicans are engaging in purposely destructive fiscal behavior or are simply fiscally incompetent, it almost doesn't matter. It most certainly is bad economic policy and that should be part of any national debate not only on who is to blame for the current economic mess, but also what steps should be taken to get out from underneath it.
But don't hold your breath on that happening. Presidents get blamed for a bad economy; and certainly, Republicans are unlikely to take responsibility for the country's economic woes. The obligation will be on Obama to make the case that it is the Republicans, not he, who is to blame – a difficult, but not impossible task.
In the end, that might be the worst part of all – one of two major political parties in America is engaging in scorched-earth economic policies that are undercutting the economic recovery, possibly on purpose, and is forcing job-killing austerity measures on the states. And they have paid absolutely no political price for doing so. If anything, it won them control of the House in 2010, and has kept win Obama's approval ratings in the political danger zone. It might even help them get control of the White House.
Sabotage or not, it's hard to argue with "success" – and it's hard to imagine we've seen the last of it, whoever wins in November.
:fp:
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Get over this one party is doing this or that. You are smarter than that. BOTH are doing it.
so not wanting tax increases, trying to manage the deficit in a different way than spending more to get out of debt, and attempting cuts (not real cuts mind you, just decreases in the projected increase in spending) is seen as deliberately crashing the economy?
and thank god Krugman weighed in on the topic...I mean...it is startling to see he blamed the problems squarely on the GOP considering Obama signs the bills.
And the blame-go-round keeps on spinning.
Who honestly thinks that the democrats can be removed from this equation?
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no comment on politicizing the issues facing the economy and job growth, ie the stonewalling and refusal to even vote on things that have passed the house? no comment on how they would rather see obama fail than do anything to help? no comment on how they will not give him an opportunity to lead? no comment on how they are killing bills that would create jobs? no comment on changing what they supported just prior to obama taaking office?
you might think i am smart and i appreciate that, but i always thought you had the ability to call a spade a spade.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
lindsey graham, a republican, defied norquist yesterday and said that to get past the gridlock and try to offset the deficits that taxes are going to have to be raised.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
you cannot deny that the GOP would be against anything Obama supported. if Obama said the sky was blue the GOP would dispute it. now i agree i don't obsolve the Dems and Obama of their blame, but from day 1 the republican agenda was to stymie Obama at all costs.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
i'm not sure how many republicans you will get to admit this tho ...
yep I did.
I have heard it all before. Shrinking federal spending is the only way we are going to succeed in the future. When you hybridize the philosophies and spend what you don't have, you tax people with inflation. There really is a lot of money changing hands in our economy...10 years ago it would have been plenty...but what we are seeing is the result of a constant inflation of the dollar.
So no, there isn't only one way to get out of a crisis...one might make it worse in the short term, but long term we will be much better off. Constantly trying to fix the short term has us chasing a dragon.
Do you think that the road we are on is sustainable and will keep the dollar as the reserve currency for the world economy? which is pretty important I might add
I read the article, my question to you is, do you believe the article's premise and do you believe the only way out of this is gov't spending?
why are European nations with higher tax rates and smaller populations facing some of the same issues...could it be irresponsible gov't?
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- Joe Rogan
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
That's the sense I get out of this as well.
"scorched-earth economic policies"- I'm glad to see the article considers, even if abstractly, the effect on the planet.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
They are against his policies. Did you think they would be for them? Do you think that Reagan and Clinton had legislators clamoring to support everything they did? No, they got what they wanted in different ways...
Both parties are terrible. it is what you get when you have party politics. I would actually blame the senate and house leadership from the first two years for their inability to get legislation drafted and passed that supported the president's plans more than those who are opposed to the legislation blocking it.
but to say they are sabotaging the economy on purpose is a whole different charge than to say they disagree with him politically.
Are the GOP numbskulls a problem?...undoubtedly...but they aren't alone...
Mac said it best, "And what? Vote for the democrat who's going to blast me in the ass? Or the republican who's going to blast my ass? Either way, politics is all one big ass blasting"
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But anyway, not much was done in the first two years in regards to fixing the economy anyway. A whole year was wasted on a healthcare program that doesn't even address the problems in the current healthcare system.
It's been proven over and over and over that tax cuts for the rich do not help generate jobs. When will you wingnuts learn? :roll:
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what is the right number that someone else should pay? That of course is assuming you do not belong to the top tax bracket.
If you do belong to it, can I have a job?
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i don't say they are sabotaging the economy on purpose, but i do believe they are sabotaging the 1st black president in the history of the country on purpose. and i do believe that race plays a part of it.
dick cheney said deficits did not matter. that became the gop mantra relating to budgets. when did the mantra change?? we have to increase revenue as well. you can not just cut your way to prosperity. people in credit card debt, what do they do? they 1) stop using the card and 2) find ways to increase revenue to pay off that debt. it is a simple mathematical solution.
to answer your question, no the road we are on is not sustainable. trillions spent on war, billions out of the government via tax cuts, billions out of the economy because people can not find jobs and can not afford things like gas, groceries, and people are not buying things like home improvement. they are sitting on their money. they are hoarding it. they are not stimulating the economy because they do not have that spending money.
we have spent our way out of debt before. after world war 2 we built homes for returning soldiers and the resulting baby boom. we built highways and bridges and put people to work working on government projects. the difference between then and now is that back then we actually had factories and acutally manufactured things in this country. today those jobs are overseas and they ain't coming back.
my idea to get a small number of people back to work immediately.
1. get rid of those damn self check out lanes at the store. pay a human being to do that job.
2. large companies like insurance and utility companies should pay human beings to answer the phone and act as operators and get rid of those stupid automated answering robots.
3. approve infrastructure projects and get people hired on to work on those projects.
these are just 3 ideas off the top of my head, but at least it is a start.
and to answer your other question, no, government spending is not the only way out of it. the government needs to spend that money in the correct manner. invest it in our infrastructure. not in researching and developing stealth battleships and stealth planes and weapons of war like bombs and guns and missiles that cost billions and when they blow up that is a billion dollars up in smoke. also, other countries could not afford to buy some of the things we are building now, so there would be nobody buying it aside from our own military.
yes irresponsible government is causing those problems in europe, but i can guarantee that those countries do not have entire political parties opposing their leader just for the sake of being a dick and to make him/her look bad politically.
what is going on in this country today is an absolute joke.
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DO SOMETHING MOTHERFUCKERS. Stay off the fucking news shows and WORK. come up with your own plan and implement it.
oh thats right, one term IS the plan.
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I LIKE these ideas a lot! I refuse to use the self check-out lanes. To a certain degree some of the automation in our world is useful but we've gone too far with it- the cost in terms of jobs and loss of sense of community has been huge. And let's face it- the only people who like automated answering robots are the corporate heads who are (as one of my aunts used to say) "squeezing yet another goddamned dime out of us".
I think we need to do a little job shifting as well. Instead of a road crew 11 guys standing around having coffee while one guy (or lady) runs a backhoe, how about one guy running backhoe, one guy there as back up and 10 guys installing solar panels on government and public buildings?
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Those self help lanes suck, I usually stumble when I use them.... I usually just don't use them at all because I hate them. I'm pretty sure it takes longer than going to a register, for me anyway. I certainly wouldn't shed a single tear if those things were gone.
I also agree on the road crew idea. I once saw two dudes standing over a manhole while one guy went down.... Just sitting and having a few smokes... I doubt that is efficient at all.
I agree with a lot of what you said.
But paying someone to dig a ditch and then someone else to fill it in is not good policy. Infrastructure projects go on every summer. I don't know about where you are, but Minneapolis alone has about 30 projects going on right now.
All of the things that people talk about fixing the problem are the reason we are where we are at. NO ONE in government for the last 40 years has given a shit about the value of the dollar. They have expected wages to keep up with inflation but that was never going to be possible. So you start trying with what you know...throw money at it...and then it gets worse. Big surprise.
When Clinton said the age of big government was over it was a turning point for the country. Bush II made that an after thought with not only unnecessary war spending but also unnecessary program and department creation and Obama has followed suit.
It is sad for me that people think the government action is the only way out of this problem. It isn't, and it will never be the be all end all. Creating legislation that makes hiring more attractive to the private sector is a good way to get people working. Paying money they don't have so people can fill ditches is not a good idea. It is like the school nurse trying to treat cancer. Sure they might be able to give you some tylenol, maybe even make you feel better for a day...but you are going to die from it eventually. That is where we are going. Something needs to change. So people talk about government solving the problems with programs...how do you pay for those? raise taxes, taking money from people who have earned it, whether you agree with how they earned it is not under review. Tax reform is necessary however. And i think that would help.
I have said it a million times...if we damn near doubled tax revenue today we would still run a deficit. there is something wrong with that...
At what point does standing on principle mean that you are deliberately trying to sabotage the country?
As for what is going on is an absolute joke, I completely agree. But I think we disagree on what the joke part is...I happen to think it is a joke to think the government that put us on this terrible road is going to be able to fix it with the same policies.
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
Is this belief based on anything that is fact, or is it just what you think of Republicans in office? That they are all racist. That is quite the claim
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
This stuff is funny. Not only do you guys want to have non-recurring, non-generating salaries (point 3), you want us to decrease the use of technology and effeciency so folks can have un-needed jobs. How 'bout folks train themselves for the "new" (funny stuff) economy? Those self-check things where you take the scanner around as you put groceries in your bag in carts are such a time saver. Yes, they mess up from time to time, but 1 employee can service 4 lines. That's how you keep food prices down(for example).
As for point 2 - well, that's a company by company thing. Some companies outsource. Some companies automate. Others have great customer service. I never get a computer when I call Directv or Bose. Always someone from the US. 2 of the best customer service experiences I have. I try not to use companies that automate or outsource. Not because I'm against it philosophically. But, because it ends up being crappy cook book customer service. Most of who's recommendations I've either tried before I called or my 4 year old could figure out. That's why competition is a good thing. If there were alternatives, I wouldn't use these types of companies. But guess what? They seem to exist where either the entire industry does it, or there's little competition. Forcing it by Governmental decree is stupid. If you are a top notch customer service person, I'd imagine Directv and Bose are always looking for good people.
Get eductated in things that have value to the others and the economy, and be willing to go out and get it. We should feel entitled to nothing other than life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
"Eductated". Freudian slip, my friend?
I notice you didn't address my point about creating jobs that are useful and good for the planet as well. Does that not make at least some sense?
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I agree with much of what you are saying here, but I would say grocery stores put in the auto check-outs to make more profit. Pricing is generally determined by what the market will bear. On a tangent note, it appears that the market appears to be saying it doesn't appreciate the auto check-outs so much anymore. The Von's stores in my area are removing them.
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When the top tax rate was 39% and we weren't fighting trillion dollar wars we had the budget balanced. So I guess it should be back to what it was before 2001 and cut unnecessary military spending then that should do the trick, right?
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Simply bringing the troops home and cutting out the drone strikes that kill civilians should help. That's a good start