Corker's talk on nation's finances ends in silence

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CHATTANOOGA - After getting greeted with a standing ovation in Chattanooga, an audience of some 500 people sat in silence after Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker talked in his hometown about the nation's financial future.

Corker said the "greatest threat that we have" is government not being honest about the nation's financial affairs, the national debt and politicians continuing to try to give citizens everything they want.

Speaking today at a Better Business Bureau luncheon, the former Chattanooga mayor said he is "very concerned" and he predicted the U.S. could end up like Greece "if we don't deal with this soon."

Corker told the audience he understood their silence following his remarks but said such a reaction still "makes you really nervous."

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/may/10/corkers-talk-nations-finances-ends-silence/

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1. Does anyone here

disagree with the notion that a runaway national debt, a debt that requires an ever increasing percentage of our tax revenue just to pay the interest could lead to conditions like we are seeing in Greece?

[Skidmore]

4. Many of us here had these concerns when Bush and his bully boys

had their hands in the piggy banks and everyone's hip pocket. I'm sorry, but I'm so sick of the angst and handwringing now when no one on the right stood up and called Bush or Congress out during that time. I particularly have no willingness to rah-rah RW legislators, especially those who voted for the highway robbery they encoded now that they want to make political hay.

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8. I agree that most if not all of the commentary now

is nothing more than political posturing from a shameless pack of hypocrites. However, I think there really is a problem and we have need to work towards real solutions.

[Skidmore]

9. A real solution will come when the true elite of this nation

start contributing to it's upkeep. The poor are not to blame for being robbed blind by the wealthy. The true elite can start investing in America again and quit warring to line their pockets.

[Marr]

5. We could and should cut spending.

We could save a ton by cutting our spending on the military industrial complex back to a reasonable level.



Most of that Pentagon wedge is *not* devoted to the daily operation of the military, but rather welfare for massive defense contractors. Let's cut their welfare.

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7. No, I don't disagree with that . But you're not allowed to express those concerns here or

you're labeled a "doomer" or accused of "wanting us to fail".

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2. interesting, thanks n/t

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3. So, what are you doing about it, Bob?

The biggest item on our national budget is the continuing occupation of two countries clear on the other side of the world. What are you and your political compatriots doing to plug that leak in the Treasury, and have you had any more success than BP has had in the Gulf of Mexico? What are you doing to get the business bigshots at the BBB to go along with it?

Oooh, listen! Crickets!

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6. As much as I hated to see him win Frist's seat

I have to believe that Harold Ford Jr. (the Dem in the race) would have been worse. At least as a former responsible businessman, Corker is horrified by the red ink and what he sees going on in D.C. He'll also learn that not telling voters what they want to hear isn't good for reelections.