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EarlG

(21,932 posts)
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 12:17 PM Jul 2013

Pic Of The Moment: Obama Shrinks Deficit; GOP Reacts



NY Times Projections Show U.S. Budget Deficit Will Shrink .... $214 billion drop


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AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
3. But we need to be spending to get out of this depression!
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 12:52 PM
Jul 2013

I know it's fun to prove Repugs wrong....

but we just did what they wanted and it is not beneficial to our economy.

 

Dawgs

(14,755 posts)
5. Not true. Should be 'Obama and Democrats shrink Deficit for GOP while ignoring rest of economy'.
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 01:35 PM
Jul 2013

You're blind if you think the GOP and their masters didn't get exactly what they wanted.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
6. "Benghazi or Something"
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 01:41 PM
Jul 2013

So true, always something to pull positive news away from Obama. The RW and the M$M are perfectly willing to make America suck.

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
8. Benghazi! IRS! Secret phone calls! Obamacare! Michelle's dress was too revealing!
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 05:59 PM
Jul 2013

He's from Kenya!
He's a Muslin!
He's a half-rican!
OMG!

Limbaugh, "Is thing on?"

"Yes, but no one is taking you serious anymore."

 

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)
9. And he did it by doing everything they are against
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 08:31 PM
Jul 2013

He got rid of most of the Bush tax cuts for the rich, and implemented Obamacare. They live in opposite world.

 

grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts)
11. It's because progressives pushed us off the fiscal cliff whilst Obama fought against it, as I recall
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 04:25 AM
Jul 2013

We can fix the rest of our problems too, if he'd stop fighting us and join us, in my view.

Botany

(70,442 posts)
12. Nice link EarlG
Wed Jul 10, 2013, 07:29 AM
Jul 2013

That Botany is one fart smeller.

BTW to all lurkers and freepers the stimulus worked and also too (palin speak)
the deficit is going down.

Rush I know you read DU.

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