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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 09:50 AM Original message |
So NOW we begin the payment of the Bush Tax Cuts... |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. I remember that mythical lock box that will have been raided of trillions of dollars for sprinkling |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 10:04 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Can't spend the same money twice...The "lockbox' alway had IOUs... |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 10:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Those "IOU's" date back to Saint Reagan. |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 10:30 AM Response to Reply #6 |
31. Those aren't the only thing that date back to St. Ronnie of Gipper... |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 10:27 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. All forms of legal tender are IOUs |
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antigop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 10:39 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Don't forget the Iraq War that drained the treasury, too. n/t |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 11:24 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. I put it that way because most people believe that their SS taxes... |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 05:46 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. And effing Greenspan was a major architect of the SS refunding in the early Gipper years and was the |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 05:01 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Calling the trust fund Treasury bonds IOUs is a right wing talking point |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 06:31 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. We agree that they're debt, right? My POINT is that debt has to be repaided... |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 08:47 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. LOL..."repaided"...(note to self, coffee first, THEN post)... |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 10:17 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Heh heh. Maded a mistake. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 10:13 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. All that you have said is true |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 10:21 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. I agree completely. Even America's ability to borrow runs into... |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 10:26 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. That chart cannot be correct, can it? |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 11:55 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. You are correct but so is the chart. |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 02:35 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Thanks. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yep, drown it in a bathtub before Democrats get more control |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 10:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Bush will be the next Hoover...Hell, they'll encourage us to blame... |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 11:58 AM Response to Reply #5 |
34. Next Hoover? Hoover is thankful he wasn't moron*. LOL nt |
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screembloodymurder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
4. There's only one way to get our money back. |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
8. Alan Greenspan should be stripped naked and tarred and feathered |
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antigop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
9. I am waiting for a push to privatize Social Security any day now.. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 11:14 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Yep, a talking head was on tee vee blabbing about Social Security 'reform'. |
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antigop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 11:16 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Lasher, a legitimate question here.... |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 12:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I'll hazard a guess - |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 08:32 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. None that I know of |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 05:46 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. Here is an answer, antigop |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
16. Kick for this important topic. Three more R's needed. |
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fed-up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
17. 2 more k/r's needed nt |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-12-07 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
19. Kick, SS Trust Fund increased by almost 1 Trillion under Bush |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 06:39 AM Response to Original message |
23. "the Clinton recession"?? |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 06:42 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I don't, but that didn't stop Bush and Greenspan from inventing one... |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 11:22 AM Response to Reply #24 |
32. And his tax cuts worked only to make rich people richer |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
29. don't forget |
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coco77 (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-13-07 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
35. Some more bushit.... |
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