The Glade 4.0

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091210/pl_politico/30417

Hooray for fiscal responsibility!

So, the government, under Bush's executive leadership, ran the debt up to $10.2 trillion. It's now at $12.1 trillion (the extra 2 trillion is solely the responsiblility of the democratically controlled congress, with some Bush and some Obama mixed in - can't put all of this on Democrats). The increase to 14 trillion as a result of the spending bill just passed is the responsiblity of democrats, and will hurt them in November. Still, 2 trillion is too high a price to pay to get democrats out of office.

You have some sort of problem with a 40% increase in debt over 3 years?

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

We just need 40% inflation to match it, and then it's like we didn't increase it at all!

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

The 2 trillion is *not* solely the responsibility of the democratically controlled congress. It has a lot to do with a significantly lowered revenue from the economic crisis.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

It really is. You act like government isn't able to cut spending.

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The Dude abides.

Sure, let's start by gutting the bloated defense budget. They can hold a bake sale to pay for their new fun toys.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

I believe most of the posters here would concur with changes in our "defense" structure aimed at reducing cost, though most would question cutting those costs at the research level. But changes in deployment, UN commitments, foreign bases, etc would all be fair game.

They can go after Welfare and Social Security.

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Holy shitsnacks!

And now we understand why we have a representative republic.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

So the poor can vote themselves money at the short-sighted expense of the nation's long-term economic and currency health?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

shhh!!!!! You'll start causing aneurysms.

Yes yes, blame it on the poor and their damnable right to vote. May as well attack their right to free speech while you're busily lambasting an entire class of Americans. Can't have them *talking* about things, now can we?

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

And so ends any more discussion about gay rights... the representative republic has spoken.

Yes, to prevent the government from gutting national defense when we're still recovering from the last ******* to make excessive and unnecessary cuts.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

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We have a winner!

Representative government is good when it agrees with me, horribly flawed when it does not!

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Its a step in the right direction - he isn't calling it a democracy anymore.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

pwned?

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The Dude abides.

And yet, the democratically controlled government did no such thing. So, they are to blame.

Getting back to the point, how do you feel about the democratic party adding another nearly 2 trillion to the debt? How do you think the people will react in November?

Not so.. because then it is not about the representative republic, but about what is fair to the DailyKOS feel good cause of the week.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Wow, we're knee deep in vitriol and anti-Montegue hate already. It must be a tuesday. Anyone have anything rational to add?

No?

Didn't think so.

(By the way, the representative republic is still speaking on gay marriage. And furthermore, if you understood what that system of government entailed, you would know that there are basic rights that the majority cannot take from the minority. In our system, that's equal protection. So while your snarky comment got a laugh out of the usual suspects, it's actually somewhat ironic)

Elmo - we can say "democracy" in the vernacular. We all know it's not a direct democracy, and for ****'s sake we don't have to spell it out every single damn time we write about it.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

It is, indeed, Tuesday.

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The Dude abides.

Ya think?

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Pointing out your variable positions and inconsistency is now Montey bashing?

And yes it is indeed Tuesday.

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Pointing out your inconsistency is not bashing you, and is completely rational.



We already have equal protection. Allowing the same sex to marry or not is not an equal protection problem. Just because you're in favor of something does not make it a basic right.



You'd have been much better of just posting this and leaving the rest out. It's the only thing that makes any sense.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."