This whole political stuff is nothing but Bull_ _ _ t and its thanks to all of u

These are the most important contributors to the rising national debt:
• $3.5 trillion – Economic changes (including lower than expected tax revenues and higher safety net spending due to recession)
• $1.6 trillion – Bush tax cuts
• $1.5 trillion – Increased defense baseline budget and non-defense discretionary spending during the last 12 years.
• $1.4 trillion – Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
• $1.4 trillion – Incremental interest due to higher debt balances
• $0.9 trillion – Stimulus package and related tax cuts to individuals and small businesses.
• $0.7 trillion – Troubled Assets Relief Plan (TARP) aka the bank bailout.
The rest involves entitlements, mostly associated with Social Security and MEDICARE liabilities incurred as a result of the government collecting FICA taxes from contributors in exchange for eventual pension and medical payments.
Approximately half of our debt is owed to foreign creditors who purchased U.S. Treasury bonds to help us overcome our lack of fiscal responsibility and our largesse, and who are now collecting interest on those bonds. The latter has become a significant factor in our inability to balance the Federal budget and slow down the accumulation of debt.
While understanding what is behind our accumulation of debt is critical, what is really important is to focus on what needs to be done to stop the financial bleeding. We all understand the problem is caused by outlays exceeding receipts, and anyone with an average memory remembers what happened to the budget surpluses when Bush passed his irresponsible tax cuts. The question now is what can be done to balance the budget and restore our fiscal integrity.
Trying to balance the budget through spending reductions alone so that the wealthy can continue to enjoy the tax breaks they got 11 years ago is ridiculous and immoral. But even if we ignore the latter, which programs does the GOP plan to curtail or eliminate to achieve their worthy goal? The programs below account for almost 90% of Federal government outlays:
Defense, Social Security, MEDICARE, MEDICAID, and interest on the debt.
Instead of the usual tap dance, Republicans should be their money where their mouth is and tell the American people which of these programs they want to cut.

They will not change, and they will continue to lose. Heard a clip from the GOP gathering – did not catch the name of the congressman – “18-29 yo are socialist because they are living in their parents basement not able to find a job.” Just keep thinking – and, more importantly – talking that way guys. We’re listening, and it sounds a lot like your party’s death rattle.

Actually, when you look at it right? The GOP isn’t the GOP at all …not anymore…The GOP isn’t a political party as much as it is a representative of Big Business and men like Norquist.

In order to remove Big Business power from the government so that people, not business, are the main focus, you’d have to be willing to revoke the right of corporations to vote. The only way to do that is to remove their corporate taxes completely. According to the Constitution, only taxpayers can vote.

As for the threats of secession coming out of red states, that only benefits them until they have a natural disaster like Texas wildfire, tornadoes and floods and then a single state is totally incapable of covering the entire cost of the disaster relief. Which proves another thing…if these states think they are so well off they can make it on their own, why are they getting the biggest chunk of federal taxes the rest of the states pay for?

Thank U jarheadgene everyone has to get together and tell them this is what the people want not u politicans.How can u have change in anything if u put the same people back in office??.We must stand together tho .Politicans are taking more and more of our rights away and soon we won’t have aleg to stand on.I love my country and will defend it no matter what the price is but not when the politicans gain and we lose our rights with some people still supporting them….I hope we all make it with our country being divided the way it is…Anyways I liked Archie he was kool and truthful

It can’t be harder than the Republicans managing the tea party and evengelical Christians. There is TP strength in the states and there they will do the most damage to the national party. Anything the republicans try to do on immigration will be negated by Gov Jan Brewer in Ariz, or the Gov of Ala., or any other republican governor who enacts xenophobic polices or makes statements.. Republican governors are still carrying the fight against healthcare reform in their states, and the war to defund planned parenthood is always on going. Restrictions on abortion will be enacted in more red states this year. Apparently the states have learned nothing, and the Tealiban controls the primary process so that insures that only pure conservative republicans and not Rinos will be nominated. The other issue for national republicans is the power of their media stars. Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, Huckabee, Coulter, and all the local ones, all have a microphone and will use it to wage war against minorites, women, gays, Latinos, reproductive rights, and will always demonize enviornmentalists. The national party chairman will have little effect on any of this, and the states will ground the party down.
The Democrats always have coalition problems and seem to solve them. They have to do a better job of showing everyone that lifting the poor up helps the middleclass more than they realize, and that investments there will pay off later. The focus on green energy will create more jobs for workers, and so will investments in infastructure, and education. Their problem is less difficult than the republicans.

When I was the FIRST WOMEN MACHINIST hired at Allis Chalmers in Appleton,WI, if I didn’t produce as well or better than the men in the shop, I wouldn’t have lasted over nine years until the plant was being sold. But the thing is that I worked harder, produced more, programed more efficently so the younger guys were afraid of me. I would get told “your supposed to milk that job” in other words don’t get it done so fast, ie we can’t keep up. Be On Notice, Righties wake up & smell the coffee!

Just when you thought they crazies couldn’t get any more insane: President Obama is using a Cold War-era mind-control technique known as ‘Delphi’ to coerce Americans into accepting his plan for a United Nations-run communist dictatorship in which suburbanites will be forcibly relocated to cities. That’s according to a four-hour briefing delivered to Republican state senators at the Georgia state Capitol last month. On October 11, at a closed-door meeting of the Republican caucus convened by the body’s majority leader, Chip Rogers, a tea party activist told Republican lawmakers that Obama was mounting this most diabolical conspiracy. The event–captured on tape by a member of the Athens-based watchdog Better Georgia (who was removed from the room after 52 minutes)–had been billed as an information session on Agenda 21

Shhhh…..I suggest we let them keep doing what they’re doing!
Clearly the Hate Train just keeps rollin’ along. (let it!!)

The way I saw things play out is, I believe willard was running the
show the whole time. He doesn’t impress me as the type who plays
well with others. I see him more like a ‘my way or the highway’ kind
of fellow. A get outa my way, I’ll handle this kinda guy! So when he
lost, he was stunned! This is a man who is used to getting EVERYTHING
he wants and he wanted to be President!!!
Meanwhile, President Obama knew his opponent well…

President Obama is a student of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” ? Sun Tzu

This is what I was warning everyone about the other day. The GOP is not going to suddenly start cooperating with President Obama and the democrats. The GOP believe they received enough votes to validate their policies. We have roughly 14 to 15 months to charge up our base and get all those bench warmers as excited as we are otherwise we are right back where we started. If we fail then our president will fail and democrats won’t be winning anything for a long time.