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GOP and Tea BAggers to force government shutdown

The Thriller said:
You just made the greatest argument in favor of the Democrats' economic and fiscal policy with this last post.
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I'm not interested in arguing for either side of the aisle. My point was ideologically untainted. But if anyone was going to twist it to partisan politics, you'd be the guy I expect to do so.
 
The Thriller said:
Care to answer anyone's questions?

Or do you only show up to pick things out of your rear?

I noticed after Kicky and a few others blew you up that you took a 2 day hiatus from this thread.

Interesting.
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Pointing out drunken ramblings is a specialty of mine. The question is if your bishop can tell when you've been drinking all Sunday or not.
 
Maktub said:
You missed the point. Yes military spending can/should come down, but some military spending is necessary. Federal spending on PP and NPR is not. Without it, those programs will be just fine, most of their funding is private.
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The federal money for Planned Parenthood goes to contraceptive services, prenatal health, and general women's health. Many of those services would be reduce.

NPR would be fine in the large cities, but in many of the rural communities, there is not enough of a population base to support a news station at all (public or commercial), and many of those stations would go dark.
 
One Brow said:
It's little better than Social Security, if at all.
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Well then, if it's even just a little better than SS that would be better now, wouldn't it?

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Marcus said:
The point was that it is better than the average SS benefit.
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Seriously? This is a total sideshow.

I made a lengthy SS post to which there was really only one substantive response. That response was left by franklin who made a statement regarding means-testing, which is relatively uncontroversial (outside of any determination of net cost benefits, as pointed out by Bronco). Other than that, the substance has been entirely conceded by you. Instead you're trying to press a point on whether a particular teacher benefit is better than SS which is a) sort of wholly irrelevant to anything related to the near government shutdown or gov't expenditures (given that it's largely a state issue rather than a fed gov issue) and b) a total forest for the trees issue.

This is, of course, after a total non-response to a lengthy post regarding your claims of the US' corporate tax rates' relative level. It's a wonder I ever try at all.

The fact that our President is such an awful negotiator that he frequently gives in to these kinds of tactics (and gives the GOP more cuts than their opening bid so they'll drop demands to cut something they never could have gotten the votes for anyway) is the reason I'm probably staying home in 2012.
 
Marcus said:
The point was that it is better than the average SS benefit.
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So. when you said in this post "... you'll have a better than average pension coming your way from the teacher's union ... ", you really meant '... you'll have a pension from the teacher's union, and it might be a little better than social security, coming your way ...'. Man, how could I have misunderstood that?
 
Sirkickyass said:
The GOP doesn't have a real choice, but they'll end up extracting their pound of flesh anyway because the Dems are a bunch of ninnies who give the school bully their lunch money before he even asks for it.
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Exactly. There is a Bill Maher video in one of the other threads that sums this up pretty good.
 
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