And you know without a shadow of a doubt that I haven’t been doing that since I started working 30 years ago?
When did I make an allegation?
Not take government handouts and work and pay taxes? Something many Americans simply will not do?
Please provide the exact quote whe I said that “people can’t give the government more than they owe”-the first I am reading that is in your post above.When did I make an allegation?
You claimed that people can’t give the government more than they owe, so now you are saying you can give more than you owe, and you (may) have been doing it the whole time? Mmkay.
As far as what I am doing…I’m encouraging our government to cut spending. I’m not the one who is claiming to be in favor of spending more and more and sending us further in debt, claiming that we can’t give more than we owe in taxes and then reversing that claim and insinuating that I’ve been doing it the whole time by feigning anger over being accused of something I wasn’t accused of.
THEY should have been worrying about wasting money on a failing educational system and the underfunded liabilities of Medicare and SS all along. No question about it. That does not, however, mean those things should never be addressed, particularly when the ability to pay for them grows less relative to their burgeoning costs and when this administration adds even more deficit spending to those deficit-causing programs.
Not sure what you mean by “exact quote” since I didn’t directly quote you, but here is the interchange:
Well, since you are okay with that, perhaps you should donate an additional 10% of your money to the Federal Government, that way you can help cover our growing deficit.
“Exact” enough?
What do you mean? Are people who take available deductions not honest, or are you accusing a large number of people of fraud?
There was plenty of it in these fora. I can’t help it if you didn’t read it or ignored it.
Indeed. And from the same party whose one leader preached “Deficits don’t matter.”
The thing that nobody in that party has figured out yet is that every day more and more people are onto them.
The republicans showed their incompetence in the last election. It is not good politically to be exposed as a hypocrite and lets face it, they have no credibility in the area of fiscal responsibility.
Definitely the Repubs were not fiscally responsible back six years ago when they had enough power to do it.
But Ridge, let’s be fair. Do you really think McCain would have said “We have a spending problem” in 2009 had he been elected President as the stock market was continuing to be battered? Don’t you think he would have had no problem getting unemployment benefits extended, tax credits, schools funded, and so forth in the midst of a banking crisis which started btw under Republican watch? The Republicans had no problem passing a permanent drug program at the cost of $600 billion, no taxes to pay for it, and that was during “good” times, so I could easily see them spending double that to stimulate the economy.
Obama didn’t put an executive order to give congress members a pay raise. The automatic pay raise was signed into law by congress back in 1989. H.W. Bush approved it.
He issued an exec. order to end the pay freeze on federal employees
Irrelevant what GS employees make. I don’t pay them. And that is not anywhere close to the average employee pay for GS, not anywhere close. They wouldn’t be in business if they paid their employees that much.
In 2008 but not in 2012. Not from the banks anyway.
No, the executive order he signed 2 years ago was set to expire Jan 1, 2013. He just signed another extending it through March.