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Originally Posted by Robbie
So if Obama "put it on the books"...then that was resolved after the first year of his presidency. Correct? And also...I thought he has been unable to get a single budget passed since he took office? So how did he put it "on the books"?
And if he did it right away...then HE is responsible for us spending 10.6 BILLION dollars per day NOW!
Also your math is off bro. $5 times 300 million would be $1.5 billion dollars not trillion.
As for the military coming home...It's time to change the way our country works. IF we have to rely on having troops all around the world to keep our economy afloat...then we need to CHANGE that. I'm sorry if they come home from partying in Germany or Japan and have to enter the work force like the rest of us. But it's time. WW2 has been over for 70 years.
You can't just keep justifying spending 10.6 BILLION dollars per day. You can keep trying. But eventually we will run out of credit and we can't keep printing money (and making it worthless) forever.
When that happens..then WHAT do you suggest? Magic? Wishful thinking?
Because when that day comes...EVERYBODY is going to lose ALL their entitlements. And the military won't have any money either.
The gravy train has to stop Tony.
Tell me...how can you tax the American people 10.6 BILLION dollars every day?
Answer: You can't. And you shouldn't anyway.
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The war cost is still hanging around because we are still there and still spending money. Bush kept it off the books for his entire presidency, but since it is ongoing Obama has added it back on in each of the last four years and it will be there next year and every year until we are out of Afghanistan.
His budgets haven't passed, but there are parts of them that still stand. Money we have already spent or that is spent by law like Social Security etc stands, it is all the extra cuts or spending that he wants to make that don't get passed so in the end he will have a final budget, but all of it may not end up actually getting enacted. A good example of this is Bush's No Child Left Behind. The cost of it was on his budget, but most of it never got funded so the money was actually never spent.