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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 01:29 AM Jan 2017

GOP plans to increase the debt by $10 trillion over next 10 years!

These are the deficit hawks, who shut down the government TWICE because they wanted concessions in the budget so as not to raise the deficit. But get them in power and all that hawkishness goes right out the window!

See:

http://thedailybanter.com/2017/01/senate-republicans-just-voted-to-add-10-trillion/

http://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HEN17065.pdf

And every single Republican voted for this budget except for Rand Paul. These people have no soul, no morals, no feeling of responsibility to themselves, their constituents, or their country.

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unblock

(52,089 posts)
1. Please. They're only deficit hawks when democrats are in charge.
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 01:32 AM
Jan 2017

They've proven themselves to loooooove deficits ever since reagan.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
2. Im guessing that you meant increase the (national) debt.
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 01:41 AM
Jan 2017

We actually added about $10.4 trillion to the nationsl debt in just the last 8 years.

madaboutharry

(40,181 posts)
3. They are frauds.
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 01:42 AM
Jan 2017

They don't care about anything or anyone. It is only about how they can enrich themselves.

moondust

(19,954 posts)
7. Apparently blinded by greed and bigotry,
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 02:27 AM
Jan 2017

millions of Americans either don't see it or don't care about it even though it's been clear as day for decades.

California_Republic

(1,826 posts)
6. Fire sale
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 02:23 AM
Jan 2017

Maybe the intend to bankrupt the country forcing the sale of public land so the rich can have their ranches in Yosemite.

TexasProgresive

(12,153 posts)
8. That's what they always do and then they forget it was them
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 08:05 AM
Jan 2017

so they blame Clinton and will blame Obama. It is a consistent pattern. They have brainwashed their non thinking base into thinking that the Democratic party is the party of wasteful spending.

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
10. In 1980 Reagan denounced Carter for having a $20 billion deficit.
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 08:44 AM
Jan 2017

By the time he & Bush I were done, it was $220 billion.

IOKIRDI

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
11. The way the GOP drunken sailors plan on spending insane
Tue Jan 10, 2017, 09:06 AM
Jan 2017

amounts of money and cutting taxes for the wealthy; 10 trillion will never be enough.

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