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divvy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 11:24 AM Original message |
On-Line Federal Budget Simulator .... ... Take your best shot |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
1. We should also be able to simulate the impact 20, 50 years down the line. |
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divvy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 11:39 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. The numbers are decieving |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 11:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. That is probably so you can cut little pieces out of the military budget. |
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divvy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 11:55 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Shouldn't we be able to cut specific pieces from Social Security? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Yikes now that would be a sensitive issue. |
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divvy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Well, that is really what the republicans are proposing under the "cloak" |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:42 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Good luck for them on that. |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
4. The host of the calculator might explain the lack of traction... |
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divvy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 11:51 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Thank you, I did not know that .... |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. I don't understand why Krugman is so uncaring on the debt. |
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Incitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Yes, there options are limited. |
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retread (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:57 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. However, this bullshit piece of propaganda will let you gut social programs and foreign aid, |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:59 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. but you can get there without cutting social programs or foreign aid |
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Incitatus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 01:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. The options on changing taxes are also very limited. |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
10. I'd have whacked the Defense Budget harder and focused my revnue enhancements |
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Modern_Matthew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
11. You reduced the debt to 58% of GDP in 2018, and kept it at a sustainable level through 2030. nt |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
17. If it doesn't let me chop 95% out of the military budget... |
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