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xuenchen
Government Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Workers
The Census Bureau counted as recipients of means-tested government programs “anyone residing in a household in which one or more people received benefits from the program.” Many of these people lived in households receiving more than one form of means-tested benefit at the same time.
BlubberyConspiracy
This deficit spending is not sustainable, but the population depends on it now more than ever. At some point it will give, only God knows what that's going to look like.
Despite a $17 trillion debt, President Barack Obama assured high school students and teachers in Brooklyn on Friday that there are enough resources for the spending on education, research and infrastructure, so long as tax loopholes are closed.
elouina
Obama just recently claimed this:
$17 Trillion Debt, but Obama Says ‘We’ve Got Enough Resources’ to Spend More
Although the above title is way too biased, the article has what I was looking for.
I am a person of principle, so I will tell you this. Although I do not agree with raising the debt limit, I agree 100% on closing tax loopholes. You see, I do not disagree with Obama just to disagree with him personally. Most times he pulls some really rank crap. But, he is smack on with this tax loophole business, and if the republicans fight him on this, I will smear them as much as I have with dems recently.
buster2010
Maybe we can fix it by giving companies that send jobs overseas more tax breaks. Obama tried to give breaks to companies to bring jobs back to the states but the GOP blocked that one. So how does the GOP propose to fix this? Seeing how they didn't like Obama's idea.
Who will be our savior
Snarl
Who will be our savior
Evanzsayz
Why do you people always think someone should save you? You are responsible for your own fate. Waiting on a "savior" is pathetic.
buster2010
Maybe we can fix it by giving companies that send jobs overseas more tax breaks. Obama tried to give breaks to companies to bring jobs back to the states but the GOP blocked that one. So how does the GOP propose to fix this? Seeing how they didn't like Obama's idea.
xuenchen
Then everything takes care of itself.
buster2010
Maybe we can fix it by giving companies that send jobs overseas more tax breaks. Obama tried to give breaks to companies to bring jobs back to the states but the GOP blocked that one. So how does the GOP propose to fix this? Seeing how they didn't like Obama's idea.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, had warned Democrats before the vote that his party would want to amend the bill -- possibly with hot-button issues like repealing the health care reform law or extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all income levels.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, responded that those amendments were not germane to the bill and he would not allow votes on them.
SearchLightsInc
America, why dont you cut your military spending?
SearchLightsInc
America, why dont you cut your military spending?
3litechasr
The size of those 4 countries is only 466k sq miles. The CONUS alone is 6 times larger, we have more to defend.
EarthCitizen07
reply to post by Dfairlite
Who is the threat to europeans? The middle eastern "terrorists"? Please, dont make me laugh...