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This entire deficit issue is the logical consequences of decisions made years ago, which included:
1) to invade Iraq;
2) to make tax cuts for the rich in order to bail them out from the dotcom crash;
3) to drop interest rates through the floor;
4) to allow a telecom oligopoly to form;
5) to condone Chinese mercantilist policies which subsidized Chinese exports with a low Yuan;
6) to tolerate the Yen carry trade, and
7) to refuse to regulate the creation of money in the form of securitization and exotic derivatives.These are all Republican policies. When an alarm was raised about the potential deficit such far ranging and economically foolhardy policies might cause, Cheney got rolled out as the "serious one", pontificated that "deficits don't matter" and everyone on the TV news just nodded sagely and then STFU and suggested that teh hippies should pipe doen while the serious politicians ran the country.
As soon as teh black man got into office, suddenly deficits mattered, in fact they are so fucking important that crashing the last 50+ year run of American economic global hegemony is worth it to this Tea Party Death Cult. They'll roll out the whol e"Obama Stimulus" bullshit line and something something about poor people driving cadillacs, but the truth of the matter is the seven points above are essentially what fucked the deficit, which they all were in favor of.
Ah fuck it, it's all over but the shouting. If anyone needs me I'll be in the outhouse trying to figure an exit strategy out of this looney bin of a country to some quiet corner of the planet to raise my family.
- Its the TEA Parties fault? They don't even hold a majority. It really shows how clueless you are********
- A) I said it was the Republicans fault...TheBlueOne
- B) Perhaps you should look at the voting rolls and see the % of Tea Party elected R's in 2010..TheBlueOne
- ..and see that they hold a significant % to derail the voteTheBlueOne
- So the clueless fact free one spouting bullshit would be you.TheBlueOne
- Thanks for playing.TheBlueOne
- Facts will fuck up your day.TheBlueOne
- Its the TEA Parties fault? They don't even hold a majority. It really shows how clueless you are