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Originally Posted by Robbie
Am I just living in bizarro world?
Raising the "debt ceiling"? Everytime I hear that on television I just shake my head.
Let me put this in real life terms...I go out and spend tons of money and buy everything on credit. Now...it's time to pay the credit card. But instead of STOPPING SPENDING ON MORE SHIT AND PAYING MY BILLS, instead I KEEP SPENDING EVEN MORE! And then I BORROW MORE TO PAY THE INTEREST ON MY DEBT.
Am I the only one who finds this entire thing insane? Shouldn't we STOP spending immediately on stupid shit (like all the wars and our military in over 100 countries) and redirect our tax revenues towards...PAYING THE FUCKING DEBT????
I know if any of us tried this shit in real life it would never fly.
I hear the republicans fighting with the democrats and they are "getting close" to cutting 4 trillion dollars in spending...OVER TEN FUCKING YEARS!!!
They need to cut 4 trillion dollars TODAY. And even that won't cover it.
Does anybody in Washington D.C. know simple mathematics???
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Everyone says stop spending on the military yada yada yada.... so... what jobs will all those people get? Stop buying so many bullets and planes??? What jobs will the laid off military contractors get? Stop spending on this.. stop spending on that... cut the budget... well to cut the budget means cutting jobs.. Any company that "trims" their costs or restructures to deal with mile high debt, ends up cutting jobs... and there are no jobs out there for those people... So one way or the other, the government will end up paying people anyway whether it's welfare or whatever.
As far as I'm concerned, the problem has become so massive over decades of abuse that it's too fucking complicated and painful for the politicians to be able to do anything about. Not if they want to keep getting elected cause the masses are too stupid to grasp what it will take to fix everything. It will take a financial collapse to force the issue.
There is one big difference between the government and the common person.. The common person that does what they do ends up declaring bankruptcy... The government can't. They don't have the luxury of walking away like people and companies can.