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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
The GOP with the tea party has passed 2 different proposals and might be on the verge of offering a third solution.
Reid if he gets this one through the Senate will have offered 1 solution. His spending cuts consist of mainly military cuts brought about be the ending of the Afganistan and Iraq wars. Being as that is going to happen anyway I really don't see where you can count that as cuts. He certainly won't be saving the credit rating with that proposal.
President Obama has been calling for cooperation at the same time as he has been bad mouthing the GOP. He has offered no solutions and has threatened to veto everything proposed so far. He has also implied that Social Security checks might not be sent out.
Without real cuts the US will lose their credit rating in a few days. The Democrats who represents 2/3rds of the government hasn't offered one solution to the debt issue. Yet you blame the 1/3 who has actually offered real solutions.
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The Democrats proposal gave the republicans a 3 for 1 advantage in terms of spending cuts verses taxing millionaires and billionaires. That is so out of balance that it's ridiculous and the republicans (tea party) said no. That's blame worthy. You can't have a fringe element holding the whole group hostage, especially when the dems came more than half way across the border to get a deal done. That's practically bending the Dems over for what they stand for.
The thing is that the ideas that they are proposing (tea party) don't actually work. Trickle down economics does not work. Tax breaks for the wealthiest 1% does not work. What does work is having a smaller divide economically between the poor and the rich. In terms of both innovation, as well as quality of life, the smaller the divide, the higher those will be and vice versa. The problem is that the Tea party seems to have convinced the poor that they're their representatives, despite the fact that it is overly apparent that they are doing their utmost to serve the corporate interests instead of their constituents.
If this issue did not have the possibility of f'ing over the entire world, I wouldn't care so much, but these people (tea party) should be fired at the very least. Destroying America should not be on the agenda, but that's exactly what these morons are trying to do.