Navy Pride
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your comments please:
Captain America said:Thought you didn't care for polls????:rofl
I think the line item veto allows a president to eliminate some of the pork doesn't it? I'm ALL for that!
Navy Pride said:Really, that surprises me, you lefties usually like to spend like a drunken sailor......
Navy Pride said:Really, that surprises me, you lefties usually like to spend like a drunken sailor......
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 07 Mar 2006 at 09:35:07 PM GMT is:
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The estimated population of the United States is 298,712,780
so each citizen's share of this debt is $27,708.45.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$2.17 billion per day since September 30, 2005!
Captain America said:You're kiddin' right? (Well, except for the drunken sailor part...you may know more about that than I do.)
In case you haven't noticed....in regards to spending....nevermind...(why do I bother?:roll: )
Just the same, I am of the opinion that all the politicians, both democRATS or repugnantcans, have no problem whatsoever spending yours or my tax dollars like there is no tomorrow. It WHAT the spend it on that concerns me. I'm for things like education, health, elderly, infrastructure, veteran benefits, farmers, you know...liberal democrat kinda things. Those "little people" you guys seem to despise so much.
Today's ultra conservative's (the one's driving the ship) seems to prefer spending money on Isreal or other places in the Middle East, or on corporate fatcats, or glutton lawyers (going after democrats) and just about anything that doesn't benefit the American people first hand.
But they both spend money like it's going out of style. Who can deny that?
hipsterdufus said:I voted yes.
NP, uh...can you say 8 trillion dollar debt? That's more than all previous presidents combined.
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Navy Pride said:if your boy had got in all things being equal, the deficit would be 16 trillion........Its the lessor of the 2 evils
Navy Pride said:I voted yes to.......
Bush has been terrible when it comes to spending but if your boy had got in all things being equal, the deficit would be 16 trillion........Its the lessor of the 2 evils
aquapub said:I am for a restricted version of Line Item Veto, where a majority of Congress has to sign off on the pork cuts before a bill is ratified. If you take away Congress's primary way of doing business-which is for politicians to support each other's bills in return for support for their own bills and such (which inevitably creates pork) you need to accompany that change with some other way for politicians to use leverage for/against each other.
Captain America said:It's only speculation at best, but I think the dems would have took the economy downhill as well, all things considered. They too would have had to deal with 9/11, Katrina, etc...... I don't think we'd be in the hole as much as with the current administration though.
But....on the other side of the coin, if the other side maintained the control, I fear abortions would be being sold at the local 7/11 and thong panties would be the uniform of the day at your local high school.
That's a little extreme, I admit, but I'm just trying to drive home a point. So, the lesser of two evils. You could very well be right. Who knows?
Navy Pride said:your comments please:
SouthernDemocrat said:How so, being that about 90% of our National Debt was incurred under Republican Administrations, I would argue that your assertion has no historical merit at all.
Captain America said:Thought you didn't care for polls????:rofl
I think the line item veto allows a president to eliminate some of the pork doesn't it? I'm ALL for that!
The Pi Pirate said:I voted no.
One great thing about our congress is that comprimise is required. Suppose you, who are in power, and I, who am not, comprimise on something - you get provision A, I get provision B. Then the pres strikes out provision B.
Something's not right there.
jamesrage said:I think that if politicians were forced to read out loud and explain in layman's terms on national tv what each part in the bill did then that might help cut down on pork.The line item veto also sounds like a great idea too.
Navy Pride said:your comments please:
dragonslayer said:I personally don't believe in Abortion but for medical reasons, yet I believe that every woman has the right to choose concerning her own body.
We need to get riid of the Jerk of president that we have. I use to think he was just stupid. Now I am convinced that he his crafty and is against all americans that makes less than 100,000 dollars a year. Bush is a running dog.