Palin's Book on American Values: Quitting
Cliff
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/chapter-one-of-palins-boo_b_487256.html
"Chapter One of Palin's Book on American Values: Quitting"
[
The Borowitz Report has obtained the manuscript of former Alaska Governor Sarah
Palin's forthcoming book on American values. The following is Chapter One:
Quitting.
As far as American values are going, there is nothing more American in terms of
values than quitting.
After all, quitting is what made America be America in the first place. If we
hadn't decided to quit being a part of Britain, where would we be now? Not in
America, that's for darn sure.
In America, we can quit any darn thing, any darn time, without any darn warning.
If we want to quit writing a book, we can quit right in the middle of a
]
Burled Frau
Congressional estimates show grim deficit picture
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer Andrew Taylor, Associated Press
Writer - Fri Mar 5, 6:17 pm ET
WASHINGTON - A new congressional report released Friday says the United
States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President
Barack Obama's grim budget submission last month.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts that Obama's budget
plans would generate deficits over the upcoming decade that would total $9.8
trillion. That's $1.2 trillion more than predicted by the administration.
The agency says its future-year predictions of tax revenues are more
pessimistic than the administration's. That's because CBO projects slightly
slower economic growth than the White House.
The deficit picture has turned alarmingly worse since the recession that
started at the end of 2007, never dipping below 4 percent of the size of the
economy over the next decade. Economists say that deficits of that size are
unsustainable and could put upward pressure on interest rates, crowd out
private investment in the economy and ultimately erode the nation's standard
of living.
Still, the Feb. 1 White House budget plan was a largely stand-pat document
that avoided difficult decisions on curbing the unsustainable growth of
federal benefit programs like the Medicare health care program for the
elderly and Medicaid, which provides health care to the poor and disabled.
Instead, Obama has created an 18-member fiscal reform commission that's
charged with coming up with a plan to shrink the deficit to 3 percent of the
economy within five years. But the Republicans to be named to the panel by
congressional GOP leaders are unlikely to go along with any tax increases
that might be proposed, which could ensure election-year gridlock.
"While the president is intent on ramming through Congress a new
trillion-dollar health-care entitlement, he appears far less concerned with
addressing the looming crisis of entitlement spending already on the books,"
said Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the top Republican on the Budget
Committee. "Instead, he delegates this task to a 'Fiscal Commission' - which
would not even report until after the next election."
The report says that extending tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 under GOP
President George W. Bush and continuing to update the alternative minimum
tax so that it won't hit millions of middle-class taxpayers would cost $3
trillion over 2011-2020. The tax cuts expire at the end of this year and
Obama wants to extend them - except for individuals making more than
$200,000 a year and couples making $250,000.
For the ongoing budget year, CBO predicts a record $1.5 trillion deficit.
That's actually a little better than predicted by the White House, but at 10
percent of gross domestic product, it's bigger than any deficit in history
other than those experienced during World War II.
The new report predicts that debt held by investors, including China, would
spike from $7.5 trillion at the end of last year to $20.3 trillion in 2020.
That means interest payments would more than quadruple - from $209 billion
this year, to $916 billion by the end of the decade.
Lookout
wrote:
All thanks to the Reaganomics that bush continued with the 6 years of
republican rule in the Congress.
Gray Ghost
news:4b927872$1...@news.x-privat.org:
Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-But Bush!
--
God, guns and guts made America great.
And Janet Napolitano nervous.
Which should tell you all you need to know about Democrats. How can one
restore America to greatness if greatness makes you uncomfortable?
duckstandard
And all the Republican party needs to do is work 'with' Democrats to
fix the current issues and that will mostly go away, but that's not
gonna happen huh?
Gunner Asch
Thats like saying the Jews should have worked with the Nazis on that
Final Solution thingy...right?
Gunner
Whenever a Liberal utters the term "Common Sense approach"....grab your
wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do
something damned nasty to all three of them.
Cliff
The shit trickled down all right.
Just as it had every time before.
Amazingly the warning signs were clear too. The median real income
kept falling while the non-working classes got richer and they claimed
it was all better.
Guess who got stuck with the bills. Not bushco, no sir.
--
Cliff
Shall not be infringed
Daar German Duckbutter, I sure hope not.
Shall not be infringed
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:39:05 -0800 (PST), duckstandard
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> <duckst...@lavabit.com> wrote:
> >Gray Ghost wrote:
That whole hopey changey thingy didn't go so well for them. Only
Churchill was ready to stand up for what was right. FDR agreed to
supply the Brits with weapons and munitions until Britian was broke.
Then he invented lend/lease to finally bankrupt the Brits. Finally,
FDR agreed to enter the war just so there would be a Britian left to
make good on their debt.
Burled Frau
"Cliff" <Clhuprich...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote in message
news:3uh7p5h6t76ppve8j...@4ax.com...
We know you are full of shit and making things up, so could you give some
examples when you spew your nonsense? Otherwise we'll just take it as a
given that you are some moron spammer.
Lookout
Once again the middle class got screwed. The problem with bush's first
election was the moral majority still had enough idiots voting to put
him in office. In re-election he used fear..and once again the idiots
in the christian right fell for it.
Lookout
wrote:
Ask John McCain. HE said the bush economic policies were wrong...and
they were a continuation of Reaganomics.
torquemada
Lookout <mrLo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Once again the middle class got screwed.
> Oh LOOKIE who's back!
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> Let's review some of your ueslessnet boasts, ya wannabesex-freak:
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> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:52:43 -0600
> Message-ID: <3p8bn5p27s4d8f336...@4ax.com>
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> "I can show you pics
> of my then girlfriend and now wife naked in the barracks."
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> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:22:33 -0600
> Message-ID: <p1d4n5pedrchnffd7...@4ax.com>
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> "And as I said I had several 3somes with two girls and me so hey..I was all for it."
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> MBWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!
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> Come on kiddo, post the pics!!!!
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> LOLOLOLOLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
torquemada
Lookout <mrLo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ask John McCain. HE said
> Oh LOOKIE who's back!
Lookout
wrote:
>Lookout <mrLo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:39:47 -0500, Cliff wrote:
>>>On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:40:52 -0600, Lookout wrote:
>>>>On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:44:41 -0600, "Burled Frau" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100305/ap_on_go_co/us_budget_deficits_3
>>>>>Congressional estimates show grim deficit picture
>
>>Once again the middle class got screwed. The problem with bush's first
>>election was the moral majority still had enough idiots voting to put
>>him in office. In re-election he used fear..and once again the idiots
>>in the christian right fell for it.
>
>And then 0bama used "change", "hope", and "transparency" and the
>idiots on the drooling left fell for it.
Some did.
>
>Two parties, not a dimes worth of difference.
Huge difference.
Burled Frau
"Winston_Smith" <not_...@bogus.net> wrote in message
news:1l08p59i8q2gec9o8...@4ax.com...
> Lookout <mrLo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:39:47 -0500, Cliff wrote:
>>>On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:40:52 -0600, Lookout wrote:
>>>>On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:44:41 -0600, "Burled Frau" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100305/ap_on_go_co/us_budget_deficits_3
>>>>>Congressional estimates show grim deficit picture
>
>>Once again the middle class got screwed. The problem with bush's first
>>election was the moral majority still had enough idiots voting to put
>>him in office. In re-election he used fear..and once again the idiots
>>in the christian right fell for it.
>
> And then 0bama used "change", "hope", and "transparency" and the
> idiots on the drooling left fell for it.
>
> Two parties, not a dimes worth of difference.
Trillions of dollars worth of difference, silly!
Lookout
wrote:
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And 4,300+ lives. Don't forget that.
AND..bush put all his debts on our kids credit cards.
torquemada
Lookout <mrLo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> And 4,300+ lives. Don't forget that.