So much anger right now! - DPChallenge Forums

04/09/2011 10:11:40 AM · #1

38B cut VS. 1.5 trillion extra spending a year

Who the hell elects those stupid dumb asses to be our leader, and then when they get there they act like all of us, because they are "them" now, bunch of stupid group who don't understand anything!

The anger is growing here in the United States, and I think they are doing it on purpose to trigger something. I don't believe any one who has only one brain cell in their skull wouldn't do what they do there... I am getting sick of it. Hurts me just to see their faces or hear their voices, or hear about what's going on.

sick of it!!!

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04/09/2011 02:31:14 PM · #2

What cracks me up is, when we ask to cut senators and reps salaries, they say "how can we live with that kind of money?"

They make more than private sector, they have everything they need paid by tax payers, and they can't live with little cut?

How about we fire them all? How are they going to live then?

...and I think we should and we will ]-\

Actually, since they are responsible for all this mess, we should put them all in jails.

Strikeslip

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04/09/2011 06:50:03 PM · #3

On the bright side... $1.00 Canadian equals $1.05 US. So I've been doing a lot of shopping in the US lately. :-/

Dr.Confuser

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04/10/2011 01:06:01 AM · #4

I suggest we move US election day (now in November) to April 15th (tax day). That should tighten up cause and effect nicely!

Who's with me?

DrAchoo

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04/10/2011 01:23:06 AM · #5

The disgusting thing is, the government was almost shut down because the bozos on both sides of the party were arguing about cutting either $2.50 or $4.00 off the budget deficit if it were equivalent to $100. Even the Tea Party loons, the big boys of budget cuts thought it was something if they could cut $60 billion (equivalent to $4.00). It's nothing.

We are doomed.

docpjv

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04/10/2011 05:48:32 AM · #6

Like Leonard Cohen said, one day America too may have a democracy....

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04/10/2011 01:43:54 PM · #7

Debt Jumped $54.1 Billion in 8 Days Preceding Boehner-Obama Deal to Cut $38.5 Billion for Rest of Year

Fu..ing As..oles! Here I said it. They all are idiots, and yes I am calling names. Jerks, idiots and bunch of clowns think they are something but they are nothing. Whoever put them there are nothing as well. You people make me SICK... all of you! ]-(

Next year, put your "logical" thinking to your head and vote them all out where they belong, STREET CORNERS.

Kelli

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04/10/2011 02:16:19 PM · #8

Originally posted by FocusPoint:

So tell me... who exactly would you vote in? If they're all interchangable anyway, does it matter who's there?

K3Master

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04/10/2011 02:23:30 PM · #9

Have to love impotent rage.

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04/10/2011 02:25:18 PM · #10

Originally posted by Kelli:

Originally posted by FocusPoint:
Debt Jumped $54.1 Billion in 8 Days Preceding Boehner-Obama Deal to Cut $38.5 Billion for Rest of Year

Fu..ing As..oles! Here I said it. They all are idiots, and yes I am calling names. Jerks, idiots and bunch of clowns think they are something but they are nothing. Whoever put them there are nothing as well. You people make me SICK... all of you! ]-(

Next year, put your "logical" thinking to your head and vote them all out where they belong, STREET CORNERS.

So tell me... who exactly would you vote in? If they're all interchangable anyway, does it matter who's there?

Honestly, that's another problem. There is too much control by media, and too much money turns around during election, if I want, and everyone in this world wants me to be president, I wouldn't be able to make it to Pennsylvania, forget Washington. I am not sure if there will be someone who would come forward with lots of money, and can raise lots of money, but if not and if this continues as it is, I am pretty sure We The People will take charge... History tells us it is possible.

Kelli

Canon EOS-D60

04/10/2011 02:37:11 PM · #11

Originally posted by FocusPoint:

Originally posted by Kelli:

Originally posted by FocusPoint:
Debt Jumped $54.1 Billion in 8 Days Preceding Boehner-Obama Deal to Cut $38.5 Billion for Rest of Year

Fu..ing As..oles! Here I said it. They all are idiots, and yes I am calling names. Jerks, idiots and bunch of clowns think they are something but they are nothing. Whoever put them there are nothing as well. You people make me SICK... all of you! ]-(

Next year, put your "logical" thinking to your head and vote them all out where they belong, STREET CORNERS.

So tell me... who exactly would you vote in? If they're all interchangable anyway, does it matter who's there?

Honestly, that's another problem. There is too much control by media, and too much money turns around during election, if I want, and everyone in this world wants me to be president, I wouldn't be able to make it to Pennsylvania, forget Washington. I am not sure if there will be someone who would come forward with lots of money, and can raise lots of money, but if not and if this continues as it is, I am pretty sure We The People will take charge... History tells us it is possible.

And who exactly are "we the people"? We can't even agree from state to state the differences between what's right and what's wrong. Differences go much deeper than republican vs. democrats. Maybe we should divide up into 50 little countries and we can choose the laws we want to follow by living in the state that most closely matches our values. Those of us on border states would surely need to keep up our passports though. LOL!

Just curious Leo, where are you originally from?

04/10/2011 02:38:38 PM · #12

it's very simple. the deficit proves that this is indeed a democracy. voters want to pay very little taxes without giving up any services. therefore, we have a deficit. very simple.

rich and middle class are mad because poor people get government money.

poor people (and smart middle class people) are mad because rich people get huge tax breaks.

04/10/2011 02:39:47 PM · #13

20 mil waste

sesame street going to Pakistan courtesy of you and I.

04/10/2011 02:42:58 PM · #14

Originally posted by David Ey:

20 mil waste

sesame street going to Pakistan courtesy of you and I.

You really think teaching tolerance in Pakistan is a bad investment?

04/10/2011 02:46:58 PM · #15

Don't you understand the USA is bankrupt?

04/10/2011 03:05:00 PM · #16

Originally posted by David Ey:

Don't you understand the USA is bankrupt?

yeah, that's why I think it's silly to talk about 20 million doing some good in Pakistan when we blow that kind of money in about 5 minutes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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04/10/2011 04:17:51 PM · #17

We need to leave those idiots to themselves too.

DrAchoo

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04/10/2011 04:31:03 PM · #18

Originally posted by posthumous:

Originally posted by David Ey:
Don't you understand the USA is bankrupt?

yeah, that's why I think it's silly to talk about 20 million doing some good in Pakistan when we blow that kind of money in about 5 minutes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Exactly. Do we think 20 million even makes a difference? If you found 100 Pakistan Sesame Street projects we could cut we'd have....2 billion dollars, or 20 cents of our $100 deficit (actually even less).

scarbrd

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04/10/2011 05:00:13 PM · #19

The debt is a manufactured crisis designed to scare people into voting for the continued separation of the populace into hyper-wealthy and starving poor. It's manufactured because it consists of two budget items that could easily be fixed:

1 - Tax expenditures, sometimes called "tax cuts." These expenditures are over $1 trillion a year. If Obama hadn't reauthorized the Bush tax cuts, we'd be looking at a balanced budget. I keep hearing we are in desperate times and we need to take desperate measures. Let me know when it gets desperate enough to repeal the Bush tax cuts along with all these spending cuts. Then I'll know you're serious.

2 - The Military. We spend more on the military than anything else. AND we spend more on the military than all other countries combined. So why is nobody talking about cutting what Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex" which will destroy our democracy? Not to mention that the military uses THIRTY percent of all oil the US burns. Not to mention to total outlay of the war in Iraq which should have been $0. Take away the war in Iraq and you have a balanced budget.

Message edited by author 2011-04-10 17:01:08.

GeneralE

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04/10/2011 08:37:54 PM · #20

Originally posted by scarbrd:

So why is nobody talking about cutting what Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex" which will destroy our democracy?

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04/10/2011 08:45:24 PM · #21

Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Originally posted by posthumous:

Originally posted by David Ey:
Don't you understand the USA is bankrupt?

yeah, that's why I think it's silly to talk about 20 million doing some good in Pakistan when we blow that kind of money in about 5 minutes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Exactly. Do we think 20 million even makes a difference? If you found 100 Pakistan Sesame Street projects we could cut we'd have....2 billion dollars, or 20 cents of our $100 deficit (actually even less).

We must start somewhere, even if it's only 20 cents. "Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves."

Dang Doc. I'm surprised at your comment.

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04/10/2011 08:57:33 PM · #22

Originally posted by scarbrd:

Take away the war in Iraq and you have a balanced budget.

Perhaps not. One thing the war in Iraq achieved was to prevent Sadddam Hussein from establishing the Euro as the main oil-trading currency. The war in Iraq had all sorts of economic effects which were beneficial to the US (including the knock-on effects of the current unrest)