General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo now budget deficits don't matter?
After all these duplicitous assholes have put us through and now this!
We do need a fucking revolution.
Conservatives ready to support $1 trillion hole in the budget
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/conservatives-ready-to-support-1-trillion-hole-in-the-budget/2017/01/05/76d4bf34-d391-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_obamacare-8pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.20b1bf9f44d9
Cha
(295,899 posts)putitinD
(1,551 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)The only things they believe in are greed and their own power.
That memo has been out since 1981.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... rid of the mandate by paying for it with borrowed money.
Then, when the debt goes to shit blame it on dems...
killbotfactory
(13,566 posts)Running the government into the ground just gives them an excuse to cut programs like social security.
TeamPooka
(24,155 posts)Martin Eden
(12,801 posts)The only way they can destroy popular programs like Social Security & Medicare is to make them "unaffordable" and that requires huge budget deficits. This is the "starve the beast" strategy to shrink government to a size that can be drowned in a bathtub.
sinkingfeeling
(51,274 posts)GOP administration's raid on taxpayers.