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Originally Posted by Robbie
From my point of view:
How could they be "unfunded"? The ONLY "funding" is when the govt. TAKES our money as taxes. And no...letting you and I KEEP our own money is NOT what caused us to go into debt. Two stupid wars, having our military occupy 80 something countries all over the world, Nancy Pelosi flying around in a private jet...and BILLIONS of other wasteful things the govt. does, in other words SPENDING is what caused the deficit.
Think of it like this: If you make a thousand dollars a week and spend one thousand five hundred a week...are you going to say that because you aren't making an extra five hundred it's not your fault?
Of course not. You can't do that.
The government keeps doing it. I can't spend more than I have. You can't spend more than you have. But the govt. just keeps on doing it. And those Senators and Representatives are drunk on money. They never cut anything. And every bill they pass is loaded with earmarks.
We are taxed enough. The govt. needs to cut it's spending. I don't care what they have to cut...they need to spend no more than they bring in.
I see people say that "We" believed we could fight wars and pay out all these expenditures to millions of Americans AND pay less tax.
No..."We" didn't. The Senators and Representatives just keep spending like drunken sailors and bringing home pork so they can get re-elected over and over and over again.
Spending is the problem. Not taxing.
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Here here! I tend to agree with all your posts actually, hahaha.
Like how about the 14 TONS (like literally) of cash the fed printed for the US and then they loaded it all onto helicopters and sent it to the middle east where... they lost it. All of it... BILLIONS in CASH.... OOPS!
And then there's that $9B in cash sent to fund the war to the DoD and they can't account for 96% of it,hahahaha....
Then there's those $1,000 screwdrivers ...
...or what about the contract NYC recently renewed for $100k a year to service TYPEWRITTERS! hahahhahahah
It's easy to spend when you have no accountability... and if you run out, just raise taxes!