This is fucking insane!

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,141 ... 0.html">US govt hits legal debt limit...WTF?!?</a>

This is fucking insane!</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>And? Has anything changed in the last 50 years?</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Here's the tactic: Republicans are running up spending (primarily millitary) and cutting taxes to PURPOSEFULLY cause a fiscal crisis. The reason? So that they'll have an excuse to cut Gov. programs & regulations and privatize everything.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Wouldn't surprise me, but who's going to believe it? The freedom of speech only exists in the western world because it really doesn't matter what anyone says.</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>They tried that during the Reagan years under a considerably more conservative political climate, and it didn't work. They tried it again after the 1994 elections and got slapped down. Republicans talk a big game, but they have a pretty poor record when it comes to cutting the welfare staet.</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>They tried that during the Reagan years under a considerably more conservative political climate and it didn't work. They tried it again after the 1994 elections, and got slapped down. Republicans talk a big game, but they have a pretty poor record when it comes to cutting the welfare state.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>What does constitutional rights have to do with fiscal responsibility?</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>What Manaman suggests is that the government is up to something devious with their "economic strategies", I was replying to that.</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Yes but now they control everything.... with the exception of the Supreme Court.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I'm not sure, but I think they had the same situation in 1980.</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Doesn't matter. Who do you think passed that prescription drug entitlement to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars? Why has government spending grown at an annual rate of 4%+for the past four years? Who gave $80 billion in subsides to American farmers?</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>The Democrats controlled the House of Representatives in 1980, but there were a lot more conservative southern Democrats back then. It was a much more center-right era than it is now.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Funny. They get a Republican in office for their trifecta, and end up acting like "tax cut & spend" Demopublicans. It might take a while, but the Republicans will catch on, especially if a Republican gets elected office in 2008/12.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>It seems like it's going back to that age. Democrats are weakly moderates, in comparison to about 8-12 years ago.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>The average annual inflation is about 5%, the increased spending by only 4% isnt that impressive.</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>It is when you consider that Republicans run on a party platform of *decreasing* government spending.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>And government in general.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>If the last election taught us anything, it's that they control that too...</div>