What the hell have Republicans been doing?

So the Debt ceiling gets raised and a new committee is formed to review potential cuts in the future. What a joke.

It's a "special congressional committee to recommend long-term fiscal reforms". Ummmm...didn't we already have something like that? I believe it came up with a plan (which was immediately poo-pooed because it affected the sacred cows from both parties).

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That's not a ladybug, that's a cannapiller.

So since the two parties can't agree, a bipartisan committee to get answers is the great idea?

Enough bipartisan bullshit. Non-partisan is what we need.

Johnny Walker Wrote:
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> Enough bipartisan bullshit. Non-partisan is what
> we need.

Agreed!

I'm watching C-SPAN now and while they are doing a call of the house, they are having people call in. This is really pathetic to watch. It's very clear everyone is out for themselves, fuck everyone else. Lot of callers (on the democratic telephone line, of course) saying "hope they don't touch SS, Medicare, disability, etc.)

"As long as I get my check, the world around me can go to hell."

We're so screwed.

Just to balance out. There's a lot of cheats at the other extreme. Corporate heads shifting their hqs overseas and calling for more tax cuts and stimulus. They want to sell here but they won't pay their share. Why should we bankrupt outselves to prop up these crooks?

http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthread.php/19936-Do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do-CAT-CEO-whines-about-states-taxes-when-his-company-doesn-t-actually-pay-any-(due-to-fraud)

might as well we are halfway there already
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we'rescrewed Wrote:
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> I'm watching C-SPAN now and while they are doing a
> call of the house, they are having people call in.
> This is really pathetic to watch. It's very clear
> everyone is out for themselves, fuck everyone
> else. Lot of callers (on the democratic telephone
> line, of course) saying "hope they don't touch SS,
> Medicare, disability, etc.)
>
> "As long as I get my check, the world around me
> can go to hell."
>
> We're so screwed.

I would agree. Everyone is out for themselves. Ever hear these old farts on tv. You better not touch my social security and give me my hooveround wheelchair and my diabetes testing supplies. The couldnt care less about passing on costs to younger people. Their answer is well we paid into it. Hardly. You may have paid into it but since people are living longer you get much more out than you ever put in.

Social security and medicare are the biggest ponzi scheme in the history of mankind and it is legal.

They should pass a law where you can only receive what you have paid.

Les Wrote:
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> Just to balance out. There's a lot of cheats at
> the other extreme. Corporate heads shifting their
> hqs overseas and calling for more tax cuts and
> stimulus. They want to sell here but they won't
> pay their share. Why should we bankrupt outselves
> to prop up these crooks?
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> http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthread.php/19936-
> Do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do-CAT-CEO-whines-about-state
> s-taxes-when-his-company-doesn-t-actually-pay-any-
> (due-to-fraud)

Companies that offshore their revenue to avoid paying US corporate income taxes are following the law as it's written. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Oh, and maybe if the US didn't have the second-highest (trailing only Japan) combined corporate income tax rate in the developed world (per 2010 OECD statistics), the big boys wouldn't be so keen on these revenue-transfer schemes. Not a sermon, just a thought.

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You all have learned to parrot back what Fox News has ingrained in your brians. But not one original thought. America is getting what America deserves, phony crisises to distract the idiots, while more and more go the rich.

Could be back to golf course this weekend!
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sumguy Wrote:
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> They should pass a law where you can only receive
> what you have paid.


Great idea. Let's do the same for Treasuries, savings bonds and Federal retirement. Also let's dump those pensions that were saved by the PBGC. A great many of those calling to say don't touch my social security or medicare are right wingers who are also screaming that we need to cut government spending.