“Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.” – Ron Paul
The Debt Ceiling Reality Show approaches its grand finale in the next week. The world breathlessly awaits the shocking conclusion. The debt ceiling will be raised. The world will be saved. Wall Street will rejoice. Americans can focus on the important stuff again, like Casey Anthony’s upcoming book, who will win this week’s Toddlers and Tiaras pageant, and the latest app created for their iPads. Based on my observations over the last few weeks, I’m absolutely sure that 90% of the politicians in Washington DC would lose on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
Still, the mainstream media and the performing puppet politicians need to create a fearful frenzy among the masses to insure maximum public relations exposure for their lies, misinformation, and mistruths. Wall Street will exert their control over the debate by threatening to crash the market if they don’t get what they want (aka TARP). I generally ignore the talking heads on Fox, MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC, as I could learn more from watching Cash Cab than listening to ideologues spouting their talking points. But, last night I happened to see an hour or so of Fox, CNN and MSNBC. I saw the full spectrum of right wing and left wing rhetoric and fear mongering. These stations should be ashamed to call themselves news organizations. They do not even purport to report the news. They spew talking points generated by the left and right, depending on the station’s bias. Truth is unavailable on the mainstream media.
What the public doesn’t see is the rooms filled with PR maggots in the bowels of Congress generating talking points and testing them in over night polls of the public. Their sole purpose is to generate a message that will convince the public the fiscal debacle is the fault of the other party. The goal is to gain an advantage in the next elections. The long term future of our country is unimportant to the soulless autobots that get paid to misinform and mislead the masses. Leaving unborn generations with an un-payable debt so we can selfishly cling to benefits promised to us by corrupt politicians who only made the promises so they could be elected, is the ultimate in egocentric myopia.
The deceptive talking points created in smoky backrooms in Washington DC and vetted by Madison Ave maggots are easy to detect. Each side pounds home the exact same phrases on every “news” station:
Republican Talking Points
- We refuse to increase taxes on all Americans to fix a spending problem.
- Spending has been out of control since Obama took control of the White House (reference $800 billion stimulus package, home buyer tax credit, and Obamacare).
- Say that Obama doesn’t have a plan and mention his ten year budget.
- Tell the American people Republicans are fiscally responsible and the real party of change.
- The people told them to change Washington with the 2010 election.
Democratic Talking Points
- The Tea Party EXTREMISTS have hijacked the Republican Party and want to destroy the country by forcing the country to default on its debt.
- The Bush tax cuts and the Bush wars are to blame for the entire increase in debt and deficits.
- The Republicans want to protect the richest Americans while cutting Medicare and Social Security benefits for the poor.
- The Democratic Party will never cut Medicare or Social Security.
- The Democrats are willing to compromise and act like adults, while the evil Republicans resist all offers to strike a deal.
Depending on your ideology, you will find yourself agreeing with the talking points that strike your fancy. Don’t worry; they’ve all been tested on sample groups of ignorant Americans in order to strike the right nerve. As I listened to that bald headed prick – James Carville – screeching on CNN last night about Bush’s wars and tax cuts causing our economic peril today, I wanted to reach into the TV screen and throttle the weasel faced demagogue. The National Debt on the day Bush took office was $5.7 trillion. On the day he left office the National Debt was $10.6 trillion, a $4.9 trillion increase in eight years. Today, the National Debt stands at $14.4 trillion, a $3.8 trillion increase in two and a half years. That sounds bipartisan to me.
Bush certainly did get the U.S. into two wars of choice and his tax cuts, tax rebate checks and expansion of Medicare have contributed trillions to our deficits. He deserves scorn and contempt. But, I do recall that Democrats supported the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. I do recall that Democrats voted for the tax cuts. I do recall that Democrats were gaga about expansion of the Medicare program. A funny thing didn’t happen when Obama was elected. Defense spending did not go down. He increased spending on our war machine. His war budgets put Bush’s to shame. He doubled the war effort in Afghanistan. He upped the ante from two wars to three wars in Libya. The difference between most Bush and Obama policies has been indecipherable.
Carville’s shrill diatribe against the Tea Party freshman in Congress was the most humorous piece of misinformation of his entire rant. He inadvertently struck upon the most revealing point of this entire debt ceiling farce. He said:
“These Tea Party congressmen act as if they don’t care if they are re-elected in 2012.”
And there you have it. These people are not doing what is in their own best interest to get re-elected. They have shocked the vested interests in Washington by sticking to their principles and not playing the games that left the country bankrupt. This is an outrage to non-principled shills like Carville and Rove. This behavior is declared EXTREMIST by the liberal pundits and self interested Washington hacks. People acting in the long- term best interests of the country are seen as EXTREME by neo-cons like Charles Krauthammer and moderate RINOs like John “Crash” McCain. The entrenched Washington ruling class is uncomfortable with any change. The establishment would prefer to lie to the American public again and let future generations worry about the $100 trillion unfunded obligations they’ve created.
Only in America would people trying to balance the national budget be branded extremists. Is the average American who spends less than they make an extremist? In the eyes of Washington politicians and mainstream media talking heads, you would be an extremist. Let’s peruse some facts and judge who the extremists are:
- Federal government spending has risen from $1.9 trillion in 2001 to $3.8 trillion in 2011, a 100% increase. Federal government revenues grew from $2.0 trillion in 2001 to $2.5 trillion in 2008, before collapsing to $2.2 trillion today. GDP over this same time frame has grown 47%.
- The annual Federal budget deficit in 2007 was $160 billion. Annual deficits between 2002 and 2008 ranged between 1% and 4% of GDP. Since 2009, annual budget deficits have exceeded $1.1 trillion and will continue to exceed $1 trillion as far as the eye can see. Annual deficits now exceed 10% of GDP.
- The Federal government spends in excess of $1.2 trillion per year on the cost of present and past wars, or 55% of all tax revenues.
- With a gun to their head from Wall Street banks, Congress handed over $700 billion of taxpayer money to the criminal banks that had just crashed the worldwide economic system with their casino gambling. These banks have been getting free money from the Federal Reserve since 2008 and have rewarded themselves with in excess of $70 billion in bonuses since 2008.
- Obama handed $800 billion of pork to his constituents across the country in order to create 3.5 million jobs. The $800 billion is gone and we’re still waiting for the jobs.
- The home buyer tax credit scheme cost Americans $22 billion, or $100,000 per additional home sold, and home prices are now 5% lower than they were before this worthless Keynesian scam. And prices continue to fall.
- The Cash for Clunkers debacle cost Americans $3 billion, or $24,000 per junked car, as a payoff to Government Owned Motors and Obama’s union backers.
- The taxpayer bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has cost Americans $160 billion so far, with at least another $150 billion to go.
- The Federal Reserve tripled their balance sheet to $2.7 trillion and is now leveraged 55 to 1, twice the leverage of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers when they failed. A 2% decline in the value of their assets wipes out their capital.
- The government and Federal Reserve threatened the FASB into changing the accounting rules so the Too Big To Fail Wall Street banks could fraudulently report the value of the assets on their books, to appear solvent.
- Obamacare will add 30 million people to the government controlled healthcare system, while adding mountains of new bureaucracy, and trillions of added costs.
- And last but not least, the country goes $4 billion further into debt every day. Or for further perspective: $166 million per hour; $2.8 million per minute; $46,000 per second.
These are the facts of our current economic situation and the liberal mainstream media and slimy politicians like Chuck “I Love Wall Street” Schumer brand the Tea Party congressmen as EXTREMISTS for demanding an end to this out of control Roman orgy of spending. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so utterly disgusting and sad. The only serious proposal to reverse our course and steer away from the approaching iceberg was made by Tom Coburn a couple weeks ago. It was scorned by the ideologues on both sides of the aisle, as it slashed military spending, closed corporate and individual tax loopholes, ended subsidies, and really addressed Medicare and Social Security rather than changing the CPI index. It was DOA and so is this country.
The Boehner plan and the Reid plan are absolute jokes. The Boehner plan cuts $900 billion over ten years with, shockingly, a whole 2.5% of the savings in 2012. Why cut today when you can pretend to cut in the future? We are on track to add $10 trillion of debt over the next ten years and Boehner’s plan will only add $9.1 trillion to the national debt. That is cutting in Washington DC speak. Harry Reid’s plan is even funnier. His $2.2 trillion in “cuts” includes $1 trillion for wars that won’t be fought and the $375 billion of interest expense that won’t be expended for the wars that won’t be fought. No smoke and mirrors in that proposal. These revolting excuses for leaders have both proposed new commissions to recommend spending cuts that won’t be implemented. These brilliant ideas never grow tiresome and old.
The chart created by Mike Shedlock after Paul Ryan offered an alternative ten year budget three months ago shows you everything you need to know about who the real extremists in Washington DC are. The Ryan budget included much deeper cuts than anything proposed by Boehner or Reid and would still add $9 trillion to the National Debt by 2021. After examining this chart it is clear the establishment of both parties in Washington DC have no plan to cut anything. The good news is the national debt will never reach $23 trillion because our economic system will implode long before we approach that figure.
When you see the old time party hacks and the shrill pundits declare that an agreement must be reached on these fake distant theoretical cuts, you know they just want to protect the status quo. These people have gotten rich from keeping the status quo intact. If EXTREMISM is living within your means, spending less than you bring in, addressing unfunded liabilities, and leaving a country where our children have a fair chance to have a decent future, then count me in the extremist camp. The time is approaching when we need to stand up and be counted. What kind of country shall we be? Do you care?
“The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom? Do we care about responsibility and accountability? Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for? Do we care that average Americans are being looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government? Do we care? When the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and the media? Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.” – Ron Paul
A pre-op Cathy:
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Doc,
See what I mean? She’s got a broom in there!!
Awholedoc and admin-
Don’t miss it.
Cathy says: “Then the UK will take it under its wing and the British Empire will be jump started.”
Sic her boys!
Got this off a dating site, listed as “cathy”
Obviously post-op:
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Don’t worry Cathy..the street stuff may be coming soon enough . Everybody talks about how they can’t wait till the SHTF…..trust me..it won’t be fun and games . A neighborhood in total darkness can be a scary place !
Can you imagine the litter you would get out of that bitch? I mean, it would give a whole new meaning to butt-ugly.
Cathy’s beautiful smile
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Jeff…. Aggie jokes…..used to tell’em a lot when I lived in Texas .
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Cathy’s daddy and boyfriend.
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Cathy:
We’re still running a pool on when princess Kate will be screwing a rich middle eastern dude. Want to buy a chance?
If it weren’t for us, you and your ilk would still be speaking German and raising the swastika every day.
The only thing good to come out of England was Monty Python, and that was 40 years ago.
All you got is soccer, a sport for pussies and drunk pud pullers. I believe your term is “wanker”
Shitty weather, shitty cars, ugly people, the royal family, shitty food, shitty everything. I gotta go now and pinch some fish and chips…
“America was colonized by crazed criminals, psychopaths, and religious fanatics.” —- Cathy
Yes, I believe they were originally ALL from England.
Dumb cunt.
AwholeDr says:
“Shitty weather, shitty cars, ugly people, the royal family, shitty food, shitty everything”
That’s it Doc. Bury the bitch.
The British Empire floundered generations ago.
As will ours.
But to think that the Brits are gonna make a comeback…
Well, thats illusional.
Damn… that bitch is dumber than Bachmann, and what’s up with the constant references to castration? She must have been one of The Unfortunates that got slapped shitless by Smokey’s cock before he became a grizzled old bastard… and she still ain’t come to from that one.
At least the Greeks got out into the streets. Americans? nope. Sitting on their fat asses with their beer and chips watching football. -Cathy
I resent that remark not because its pre-digested group think retch but because I would rather watch Nascar.
“America was colonized by crazed criminals, psychopaths, and religious fanatics.” —- Cathy
Yes, but they were trying to get away from those bug fuck crazier than them.
You American men don’t have balls. Remember? -Cathy
Your really a TSA groper agent in hiding arent you?
Crazyivan – I make more than my share of typos, but what the fuck is “illusional”.
Is she gone yet?
I can’t sleep
crazyivan,
I think she’s gone, now do some relaxation exercises.
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Well that didn’t work! Find your own. I tried to help.
llpoh,
il·lu·sion (-lzhn)
n.
1.
a. An erroneous perception of reality.
b. An erroneous concept or belief.
2. The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief.
3. Something, such as a fantastic plan or desire, that causes an erroneous belief or perception.
4. Illusionism in art.
5. A fine transparent cloth, used for dresses or trimmings
Also can mean stupid.
The “al” addative is basic english grammer, I think,
From one neighbour to the next fellas? I think cathy outwitted you. You missed the points and like fools you played right into her hands. You proved her points 10 X over.
Crazyivan – I make more than my share of typos, but what the fuck is “illusional”. -llpoh
I think he meant a delusional person with illusions.
I kinda like it.
From one neighbour to the next fellas? I think cathy outwitted you. -MM
It could very well be she won a debate that know one knew what the hell she was frothing bout.
newsjunkie
No more photos of Salma, no matter how badly you screw them up. Salma is my exclusive territory. Thank you.
TBPers
Cathy’s first 7 comments, including the nasty battle with marianne, were under one distinct avitar. Then, she switched to another for further diatribes. Hmmm. Your ever vigilant spook, SSS.
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cathy
You underestimate Americans, as did the British (twice) and Japanese and Germans (twice). We can be totally clueless clowns, true, but when push comes to shove, we have shown in the past that we can rally as one people to meet grave threats to our democratic republic. Can we do it again? You think not. We shall see.
SSS has done it again. Thank God we have a spook onboard. We were all doppelganged by GOLDORACK. The last 8 hate spewing cathy posts were not really cathy.
Well played Goldie.
Apologies to the original cathy. Nevermind.
CI – I think you were perhaps searching for “delusional” in the deep dark infrequently used or visited recesses of your mind. I am almost beginning to understand crazyivanese – I will eventually master it.
I strive to be lucid for your sake, llpoh
Sometimes, fail.
Mostly so far.
Can ya just feel the Love around here?
Somtimes I can.
crazyivan is actually quite Shakespearean in his creative use of language and the structure of his sonnets. For those with less imagination, wishing to improve their skills, I refer you to the Shakespeare Insult Kit:
http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/shake_rule.html
Cathy, your welcome for the save from the wonderful nazi system of ww2. Now the corrupt federal reserve is bailing you out again. Who is corrupt you and yours or the federal reserve.
Fucking Goldorack…
Very well played indeed. Zoolander shows up late in the game with dopelganger skills. Funny shit.
newsjunkie-
The Shakespeare Insult Kit:
Now that is helpfull.
Read up on this folks, it will help you in your word war.
I copied all of “cathy’s” comments and ran them through a software “gender filter”. Every one is posted by a male except for one that came up gender neutral. Best odds were 96% male, worst was 50%. She’s a he.
Or she is a bull dyke… I kinda liked she/he’s rants here and there.
Count on Admin to flame her socks off..
MA
We knew who the extremists were before the 2008 election unfortunately 30% of the population is dumb as dirt and thats all you need to win an election when only 50-60% of the registered voters actually vote.
Muck: Did you separate the original cathy (last post 5:52) from doppelcathy aka goldorack?
The original cathy was tolerable, but marianne hopped in and started pulling hair and scratching giving us an epic cat fight…
That’s about where I, fooled by the swedish chicanery, concluded that it was a man…
Looking back, I still think the original was a woman who needed a drink and a tampon change and maybe to actually read more tbp.
By God Muck,
You may be right.
Tranny maybe
Wow, that’s hotter than just plain Cathy.
No, I didn’t separate anything out – it would have made the samples to small to work with. I think it was the same person who just lost its’ temper more as comments evolved.
MA
Ivan’s getting lonely on the plains…
The deer and antelope are restless. They know that the buzz of the cropduster is the sound of a strange man with vodka/gatorade breath looking for any port in the storm.
Hey, newsjunkie. Thanks for posting that link to the Shakespeare Insult Kit.
And for posting (poorly, I might add) that photo of Salma without my permission, I hereby declare you to be a weedy, weather-bitten wagtail, in addition to being a craven, clay-brained clotpole.
I think we should pull out of the wars we are in but with that being said all the factories that are producing for the war machine will have to shut down and all the troops will come home to not having jobs. I’m not saying we should be murdering to help our economy but the unemployment rate would go parabolic. I’m not sure we are ready for a shock like that.
SSS,
Thou roguish dizzy-eyed horn-beast! You may have her! She’s a bawdy full-gorged canker-blossom! Have your fun!
Maybe English Rose
That was most entertaining.
“You know what — I am sick and tired of all the so-called mainstream pundits out there lambasting the Tea Party. Those who know me, and know me well, know that I am not some right-wing nutbar but come on. Why is everyone so scared about committing to a balanced budget amendment? Why is there so much fear about admitting that living within your means is not a terrible thing? Government spending, in the United States, is simply out of control.
Over the past decade, federal expenditures rose at an average annual rate of 6% while the growth rate in the number of households has risen at a 0.8% annual rate. At around 25% of GDP, spending is higher now than at any other time since 1946. That is an outlier. Admittedly, revenues at 15% of GDP are abnormally low as well, and while a partial by-product of the recession and sluggish recovery, loopholes galore and endless tax gimmicks are also at play — in the 1991 economic downturn that ratio was around 18% and in the severe economic decline in the early 1980s, it was 19%. Revenues have to go up and there’s a cool trillion sittin’ right there in loopholes — oh, sorry, deductions and “tax expenditures”, we don’t want to offend anybody — that could be eliminated without sacrificing growth while reducing the ridiculous complexity of the tax code. A few less lawyers and IRS staff would be just fine by us.
But to think that the U.S. government cannot manage to deliver effective and essential services with a $2.5 trillion revenue base is absurd. If that is what spending has to ultimately equal, so be it. Isn’t 21 grand per household of government benefits enough? Before 2005, such a level of government expenditure per household was unheard of (in Bill Clinton’s final days as President, that ratio was barely above $16,000). At the height of LBJ’s “Great Society” glory, government spending per household didn’t even approach $3000.
So indeed, the problem is more with this massive spending infrastructure. Even the word “entitlement” is so grotesque. Entitled to what? Taxpayer funds? Come on, man! Tighten the belt and make the move towards fiscal integrity. After all, the shift towards austerity is already occurring at the state and local government levels. Households have been paring debt and raising their savings rates for two years. And Congress and the President should actually start behaving more like children (that’s right) because the Denver Post just ran a story titled Tooth Fairy Gets Frugal in Shaky Economy. Indeed, the “going rate” for that loose tooth that made it under the pillow has declined from $3 on average a year ago to $2.60 today. And guess what? The kids are all right.
Time for the guys in Washington to follow on the heels of that generation. All it takes is for the President to sign on to a balanced budget amendment, and this whole fiasco is over.
Then again, and we hope we’re not too harsh, but if Mr. Obama thought they actually did have a spending mismatch, he would have offered up some restraint on that score when he unveiled his budget six months ago.”
David Rosenberg
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy – you’re just as toilet mouthed as ever. I read some of your attacks on Kathy – bad, bad dog! I haven’t visited your site in a long , long time for this exact reason – you are a foul mouthed orge, Jimmy. You have actually written some good articles – too bad the potty mouth never goes away.
I only visited your site today because I saw a link to it on another website. It was actually a pretty good article with some genuine American ideas.
Poor Kathy – she was probably the only sane person in this comment section, until I arrived. Bye Jimmy. If you need a bar of soap to rinse your mouth out, I’d be glad to send you one Jimmy!
Titty, Titty, Titty……….let me answer for Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy.
Take your bar of soap and stuff it up your ass. Bye, Titty.
JImmy, I saw another article of yours one that shows a gold plated Porsche, a move designed to attract females. Maybe you, Jimmy, could get your weenie gold plated in order to attract females (maybe even Kathy). Or do you swing the other way, Jimmy?
Titanic
Didn’t you sink? Sounds like you are a little too concerned with weenies. Compensating titanic? Shouldn’t you be trolling on Seeking Lemmings pretending to be a wise investment sage. Have you invested in gold yet? Or are you still calling for a collapse after ten years. Afraid to use your Seeking Lemmings alias Doc?
Wow, Titan, you’re posts are pretty fucking creepy…
Your medication bottles say use as directed, don’t they? You should follow directions… your compulsion and golden cock obsession is winning the fight in your mind.
Use as directed.
Colma:
Appearently at the end of every month, the institutions for the criminally insane open up computer access for the inmates. Hence Cathy, the no T.V. (except in the day room), no nothing, and giving up sexual favors for internet access was the first clue. One of the administrators left TBP up, and Cathy and Titanic and all the wack jobs come out of the woodwork. Sex change or not, their brains are still stir-fried. Or maybe Goldy belongs in the institution. Good thing they’ll be locked up tight again soon. They get their meds shoved down thier throat every morning by a 300lb orderly. Even the electroshock they got doesn’t help anymore.
I think you’re on to something, Doc!