(01-21-2015 11:41 PM)Fitbud Wrote: (01-21-2015 10:53 PM)Machiavelli Wrote: "I think Reagan proved deficits don't matter." Dick Cheney Meet the Press 2002.
http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/reaga...ont-matter
Look ladies and gentleman. What I have provided is a link to back up my statements. ERC and Pyrizzo take notes. Try it sometime.
Don't confuse them with facts.
What facts? A statement by Cheney nearly a decade and a half ago, when talking about the deficits run under Reagan?
That rebuilding our military in the face of a hostile soviet union, after what the previous worst president in modern American history had done to it, and putting them on their knees cost money? Well okay, that's a fact. It's also a fact that the economy booooomed and the Soviets folded like a libs pair of skinny jeans.
Another fact- It was still somewhere around only 50% of GDP when Reagan left office, FACT.
We will soon, if we haven't already and I believe we have, eclipse 100% of GDP with our accumulated debt. Fact. So where do we get the money?
Nothing this amateur proposes ever has a mention of growth. Growing the economy. It's the same tired shuffle the money around the game board routine- take from here, redistribute there ALL in the name of
Faaaaairnessss. Punish success, reward sloth and laziness.
Well, fairness simply means we're ALL worse off, and I hate to break it to our resident staunch BIG Government public employees- guess who's gonna hafta go first when the smoke and mirrors run out and the debt gets called? Those that contribute to and pay the tax bill to support all the 20 tt bloat we are carrying around, or those that are adding to it? States can't run deficits and the Federal gubments ability to bail states out will soon be over.
So I'm betting those adding to it. Fact.