Are that anyone who thinks government debts is a long term problem– with the the asshats on one side of the aisle and the clownshoes on the other side of the aisle presently in charge– might as well go drink themselves into a stupor.
christophersays
…it’s the best budget proposed by a Republican President in a long time!:)
medfieldbluebobsays
Just askin’. And the Republican budget, as well.
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p>My 2¢…
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p>We have four problem areas: defense, the wars, entitlements/healthcare, revenue.
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p>We’ve blown, and blown up, $3 trillion in Iraq. For what? We continue to spend money there, and Afghanistan. For what? Declare victory and come home.
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p>We spend more money defending Middle East oil and oil countries, or fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, than their oil is worth. (See Globe last Sunday)
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In 1997, Graham Fuller and Ian Lesser, two political analysts at the Rand Corporation with long records of US government service, estimated that the United States spent “$60 billion a year to protect the import of $30 billion worth of oil that would flow anyway.” A 2006 study by James Murphy, an economist at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and Mark Delucchi, at the University of California Davis, similarly found that when the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were taken into account, the expenditures ranged anywhere between $47 billion and $98 billion per year. But the amount of oil coming to the United States from the region was worth less than $35 billion per year.
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p>What do you think we could do with $47 – $98 billion dollars a year? The House GOP wants to cut $100 billion. Think this might be a start?
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p>Federal taxes, as a chunk of the economy, are the lowest since 1950. Renewing Bush’s tax cuts doesn’t help a damn bit. Sales of homes valued over $1 million are increasing, so there’s that. I guess.
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p>Healthcare is killing government finances from DC to everyone of the 351 towns in the Commonwealth.
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p>Non-defense discretionary spending is low, 15% of the budget last year. Look at some of the numbers:
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p>Education and job training 2.77% of the budget
Transportation 2.74%
Technology Programs 0.84%
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p>You want jobs, jobs, jobs!!!! You want US manufacturing again. You worry about the inequities in wealth distribution and healthcare. You like stem cell research, understand what that could mean for medicine going forward.
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p>How does this budget help us meet YOUR goals and concerns?
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p>Is debt an issue? Net interest payments are 6% of the budget. The debt as a part of GDP started up with Bush (and those tax cuts and wars) and those “income security” things have pushed it up further in the last two years. It’s higher than it was in the 80’s and 90’s, but less than it was in the 50’s and 60’s.
Are that anyone who thinks government debts is a long term problem– with the the asshats on one side of the aisle and the clownshoes on the other side of the aisle presently in charge– might as well go drink themselves into a stupor.
…it’s the best budget proposed by a Republican President in a long time!:)
Just askin’. And the Republican budget, as well.
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p>My 2¢…
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p>We have four problem areas: defense, the wars, entitlements/healthcare, revenue.
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p>We’ve blown, and blown up, $3 trillion in Iraq. For what? We continue to spend money there, and Afghanistan. For what? Declare victory and come home.
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p>We spend more money defending Middle East oil and oil countries, or fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, than their oil is worth. (See Globe last Sunday)
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p>What do you think we could do with $47 – $98 billion dollars a year? The House GOP wants to cut $100 billion. Think this might be a start?
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p>Federal taxes, as a chunk of the economy, are the lowest since 1950. Renewing Bush’s tax cuts doesn’t help a damn bit. Sales of homes valued over $1 million are increasing, so there’s that. I guess.
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p>Healthcare is killing government finances from DC to everyone of the 351 towns in the Commonwealth.
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p>Non-defense discretionary spending is low, 15% of the budget last year. Look at some of the numbers:
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p>Education and job training 2.77% of the budget
Transportation 2.74%
Technology Programs 0.84%
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p>You want jobs, jobs, jobs!!!! You want US manufacturing again. You worry about the inequities in wealth distribution and healthcare. You like stem cell research, understand what that could mean for medicine going forward.
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p>How does this budget help us meet YOUR goals and concerns?
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p>Is debt an issue? Net interest payments are 6% of the budget. The debt as a part of GDP started up with Bush (and those tax cuts and wars) and those “income security” things have pushed it up further in the last two years. It’s higher than it was in the 80’s and 90’s, but less than it was in the 50’s and 60’s.
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p>So, I’d like to hear your 2¢. Thanks.