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Originally Posted by Robbie
I am just strongly of the opinion that the govt. and the media are trying to frame this situation as "raise the debt ceiling or go into default...end of the world"
And I think that we are being fed false info on that.
My opinion based on the past few decades of our govt. is this:
They will keep on spending more than we take in.
If ANY taxes are raised they will NOT be used to lower the debt...they will be SPENT by Congress & the President on more shit.
Any person or any business in the world would be unable to do what they are doing.
Just using common sense should tell us that the spending has to STOP. And I'm not talking about social security. Unfortunately we are all locked into that with no way out.
But everything else should and has to be on the table.
Nobody can just keep spending when they are already in 41 years of DEBT.
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Social Security and Medicare are
both untouchable and any politician who can walk, chew gum at the same time and who also wants to be reelected knows as much.
The teabaggers don't seem to get it and that is why they'll be a negligible factor post 2012.
The only viable solution to the debt crisis is to grow the fucking economy and pay off the debt with the resultant increased tax revenues.
Problem is nobody has a clue how to go about doing such
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