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uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
5. THEY NEVER DID !! Dems didn't learn from the 80s !!! That's how they're going to "fix" ACA by gettin
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 04:39 AM
Jan 2017

... 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)
6. It hasn't mattered to the GOP since reagan
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 04:47 AM
Jan 2017

Running the government into the ground just gives them an excuse to cut programs like social security.

Martin Eden

(12,801 posts)
8. Budget deficits are essential for the long term GOP agenda
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 08:58 AM
Jan 2017

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)
9. Absolutely. They only matter when a Democrat is president and the economy has recovered from the las
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 09:38 AM
Jan 2017

GOP administration's raid on taxpayers.

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