PLEASE explain this away Republicans

i am a targeti am a target Posts: 808
edited July 2008 in A Moving Train
please..please explain this royal fuck up by your president away. really. i need a good laugh.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/28/2009.deficit/index.html
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  • hobbes wrote:
    please..please explain this royal fuck up by your president away. really. i need a good laugh.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/28/2009.deficit/index.html

    :rolleyes:

    People still fall for this old Left\Right horseshit?

    Its one party, man.
    One party.

    Roland,
    quick, the C Quigley quote please ...

    :D:D:D
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • floyd1975floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    "...the best way to help reduce the deficit is to make sure you are keeping a lock on spending..."

    This is a quote from the article that they brush over.

    Nobody has ever really followed through with this idea of keeping "a lock on spending."
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    hobbes wrote:
    please..please explain this royal fuck up by your president away. really. i need a good laugh.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/28/2009.deficit/index.html

    What would you have done differently?
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • floyd1975 wrote:
    "...the best way to help reduce the deficit is to make sure you are keeping a lock on spending..."

    This is a quote from the article that they brush over.

    Nobody has ever really followed through with this idea of keeping "a lock on spending."

    You will never see that happen because "government spending", or the inflationary creation of money in exchange for treasury bills is the mechanism which provides the unending liquidity to the Wall Street-Banking mechanism and keeps the country "growing".

    If you stop inflating in a fiat world, you stop "growing".

    Its a sad paradoxical state of affairs.

    Thats why modern inflationists claim that the national debt is actually GOOD, and that the WORST thing you could do would be to pay it down ... because you would be REMOVING money from the system.

    They say the best goal is to steadily inflate.

    Of course, Uncle Milton thought the best end-of-the-day answer was to STOP PRINTING MONEY 100%.

    Cap the system out, end the Fed, and let the secondary markets work their will with the creation of credit and market rates.
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    know1 wrote:
    What would you have done differently?
    not blow billions in Iraq 4 starters.....
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  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    Thats why modern inflationists claim that the national debt is actually GOOD, and that the WORST thing you could do would be to pay it down ... because you would be REMOVING money from the system.

    .

    Fine if the money is well spent and the extra cash was flipping in the economy, but to have a deficit for a deficits sake....

    Removing money strengthens the dollar.

    One of the reasons our dollars at record lows....deficit.
    10-18-2000 Houston, 04-06-2003 Houston, 6-25-2003 Toronto, 10-8-2004 Kissimmee, 9-4-2005 Calgary, 12-3-05 Sao Paulo, 7-2-2006 Denver, 7-22-06 Gorge, 7-23-2006 Gorge, 9-13-2006 Bern, 6-22-2008 DC, 6-24-2008 MSG, 6-25-2008 MSG
  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    callen wrote:
    not blow billions in Iraq 4 starters.....

    as if it wouldn't have been blown somewhere else.

    Economically speaking, Iraq makes no difference ... except maybe in its role in inflating gas prices.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • callen wrote:
    Fine if the money is well spent and the extra cash was flipping in the economy, but to have a deficit for a deficits sake....

    Removing money strengthens the dollar.

    One of the reasons our dollars at record lows....deficit.

    Here is a paper by Nobel Laureate William Vickrey from 1993.
    The Need For A Budget Deficit ...

    just FYI, i don't particularly agree with this notion, and i think that reality is proving this "theory" false. And i don't just mean the deficit theory, i mean the entire theory that fiat currency managed by a central bank somehow manages to "equate the stability of the gold standard, without the violent cycles."

    We are about to find out that the cycles are just as, if not MORE violent than that of the gold standard, or of competing currencies.

    The main problem with this thoery is that "the gap" which needs to be filled is rightly filled with treasuries ... but if you look at what is happening now, the treasury market is about to come unbound.

    The Fed is DESPERATELY trying to prevent this, but in the next few months we could see this whole house of cards come down. IF and once the world stops purchasing treasury securities ... or heaven forbid, start SELLING them ... the ENTIRE system will unwind. The deficit will spiral, but that will be of negligble concern amongst the havok a flooded "bond" market will create. We're talking massive interest rate hikes, completely destroyed housing market, and stocks .... pfft ... don't even THINK about stocks if that happens!

    This guy's premise
    "A 10 trillion debt with a full employment economy will be far easier to deal with than a 5 trillion debt with an economy in the doldrums." is almost laughable now, considering the stupid economy is just BARELY pushing on towards a STATED 10 trillion dollar debt (we've been around 9 trillion for a while now) ... and ALREADY the whole damn thing is falling apart.

    Good theory though.
    Hey, it "worked" for 10 years.

    :D:D:D
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • :rolleyes:

    People still fall for this old Left\Right horseshit?

    Its one party, man.
    One party.

    Roland,
    quick, the C Quigley quote please ...

    :D:D:D


    "The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers," he wrote. "Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."

    ...so put it in your bong pipe and smoke it.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • "The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers," he wrote. "Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."

    ...so put it in your bong pipe and smoke it.

    amen.
    :puff puff:

    If people think this is just some random dude talking,
    they should remember Caroll Quigley was Bill Clinton's mentor.

    His book, from whence this quote was pulled, Tragedy and Hope, is a big old heaping praise to the establishment, and their ideals!
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • amen.
    :puff puff:

    If people think this is just some random dude talking,
    they should remember Caroll Quigley was Bill Clinton's mentor.

    His book, from whence this quote was pulled, Tragedy and Hope, is a big old heaping praise to the establishment, and their ideals!

    I'll see your amen, and raise you a 2 gram 2 paper coner

    I'm think when people hear the name "Quigley" they think it's something from the movie Quigley down under.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • jeffbrjeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    hobbes wrote:
    please..please explain this royal fuck up by your president away. really. i need a good laugh.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/28/2009.deficit/index.html

    The Dems are complicit here as well. Doesn't the Democratic Congress have to approve any proposed budget by the Rep President? Bush didn't (couldn't!) do this by himself. He had a lot of help from Harry Reid & Nancy Pelosi.

    I think it is cute when Dems try to take the moral high ground against Republicans, when both parties are full of high-spending, power-mad bastards.
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    as if it wouldn't have been blown somewhere else.

    Economically speaking, Iraq makes no difference ... except maybe in its role in inflating gas prices.

    "4 Starters" add some well crafted tax legislation...

    Wonder what the $$$ to date in this war.

    Was no huge record deficit when Dubya and goons took over.

    But lest I forget....both parties are exactly 100 % the same....so go Nadar...woo hoo!!!!!!
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  • rocketmanrocketman Posts: 68
    Your on this site looking for Republicans? Your more likely to find a Rabbi in a mosque than a Republican on the PJ web site.
  • KannKann Posts: 1,146
    rocketman wrote:
    Your on this site looking for Republicans? Your more likely to find a Rabbi in a mosque than a Republican on the PJ web site.
    How would you know that with your july inscription? Unless you're making a comeback. Naaah, that couldn't be :)
  • NMyTreeNMyTree Posts: 2,374
    rocketman wrote:
    Your on this site looking for Republicans? Your more likely to find a Rabbi in a mosque than a Republican on the PJ web site.

    Well then, welcome to the mosque.

    Let me introduce you to our resident Rabbis. We have a shitload of them.
  • fuckfuck Posts: 4,069
    rocketman wrote:
    Your on this site looking for Republicans? Your more likely to find a Rabbi in a mosque than a Republican on the PJ web site.
    Shalom.
  • rocketman wrote:
    Your on this site looking for Republicans? Your more likely to find a Rabbi in a mosque than a Republican on the PJ web site.
    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=296511
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  • hobbes wrote:
    please..please explain this royal fuck up by your president away. really. i need a good laugh.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/28/2009.deficit/index.html

    A good laugh would be to see how you would handle things rather than just bitch about them.
  • brucebruce Posts: 384
    You will never see that happen because "government spending", or the inflationary creation of money in exchange for treasury bills is the mechanism which provides the unending liquidity to the Wall Street-Banking mechanism and keeps the country "growing".

    If you stop inflating in a fiat world, you stop "growing".

    Its a sad paradoxical state of affairs.

    Thats why modern inflationists claim that the national debt is actually GOOD, and that the WORST thing you could do would be to pay it down ... because you would be REMOVING money from the system.

    They say the best goal is to steadily inflate.

    Of course, Uncle Milton thought the best end-of-the-day answer was to STOP PRINTING MONEY 100%.

    Cap the system out, end the Fed, and let the secondary markets work their will with the creation of credit and market rates.

    common dude, we all know having a debt isn't the end of the world... but this kind of debt is just irre-fucking-sponsible. And lowering spending and borrowing, AND paying off debt is NOT the worst thing you can do.... for one, we are just pissing away money every year JUST paying off the interest on that fucking thing.... and we wonder where all the Social security $$$$ is going.... secondly running surpluses and paying down debt instills confidence in the economy, and lets not forget lower interest rates and a stronger US dollar.

    how bout we cut the debt in half, and use the billions and billions dollars just going to foreign banks and invest it in America. But i guess that would take some self discipline, something democrats and republicans both suck at but at least that adulterous husband had it.
    Writing checks that others pay.....

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