believer;1617326 wrote:Liberals are experts at fuzzy math.

gut;1617428 wrote:Yeah, the distributions vs. recovery on TARP and all that business is a $300-$400B swing in the deficit without cutting anything....and we are still running $700B deficits.

There's been no real defiicit reduction beyond some window dressing on the margins - the sequester (when those evil Teabaggers were going to destroy our economy!). You combine the above with revenues recovering a few years after the trough and liberals are praising Obama for all this deficit reduction he's had NOTHING to do with.

jmog;1617334 wrote:You do realize that the quote you posted from Rice actually does suggest Benghazi was spontaneous as a result of the video right? It actually is contrary to your belief unless you want to play semantics and grammar plays on words. Anyone who isn't on the left wing tit would take away from her statements that she was saying that Benghazi was a result of the video and not terrorism. Even though at that point the US government already KNEW it was terrorism.

Manhattan Buckeye;1617426 wrote:"because he never worked at a White Shoe firm"

FIFY, he never worked at all. He couldn't even be bothered to have clerked for anyone. He is without a doubt the laziest POTUS we've ever had.

gut;1617428 wrote:Yeah, the distributions vs. recovery on TARP and all that business is a $300-$400B swing in the deficit without cutting anything....and we are still running $700B deficits.

There's been no real defiicit reduction beyond some window dressing on the margins - the sequester (when those evil Teabaggers were going to destroy our economy!). You combine the above with revenues recovering a few years after the trough and liberals are praising Obama for all this deficit reduction he's had NOTHING to do with.

believer;1617436 wrote:There's a familiar ring to that. I recall the press praising Clinton for running his alleged "surpluses"...via a Republican-controlled Congress.

Manhattan Buckeye;1617529 wrote:What the Left of Washington wants is simply opportunism. They have the power, and they get the glory and benefits - do you think it is just coincidence that the Clintons and Obamas increased their wealth by hundreds of percentages after taking office? They are playing you like a drum. Keynesian economics failed, and American politics are now based on what the government can give to me - forget future generations. It won't end well as long as we have "progressives" that fool stupid Americans. Unfortunately, we have everyone vote, including the stupid people.

BoatShoes;1617525 wrote:Lol no it doesn't. I am not playing semantics or "grammar plays on words." The only protest in the world that was a reaction to the video were the protests in Cairo. Everything else was a reaction to what happened in Cairo. The CIA mistakenly thought that was also the case in Benghazi, Libya and Susan Rice said as much adding in that it was extremist elements. But oh yeah, because the Obummer administration said extremism instead of terrorism that makes the conservative movement red with rage!:RpS_w00t:

However, the conservative spin machine turned it into Susan Rice blaming the Benghazi terrorist attack on a movie and the Conservative peons who are the marks in this con game fell for it hook line and sinker. This is how the GOP gets embattled middle class whites out to vote when they have nothing to offer them. You're playing your role with flying colors.

BoatShoes;1617527 wrote:The Deficit has gone from what Gut/Dr. Evil would complain about being over $1 trillion dollars! to a projected $514 billion in 2014 or 3% of our economy. That is well in line with what deficit scolds to the left of you in the Washington Consensus would consider acceptable. How you can say there is no real deficit reduction beyond some window dressing on the margins is absolutely ludicrous.

And Obama deserves no praise from this. He deserves vitriol and scorn. We had 0.1% growth in the first quarter and is directly attributable to this deficit reduction that is straining the savings and balance sheets of the private economy. Monetary Policy can prevent a full on recession for so long but as you readily point out, it can only do so through with bubbling asset prices. Better than perpetual depression but we should reverse course now and turn toward expansionary fiscal policy that would support healthier private sector balance sheets.

BoatShoes;1617528 wrote:Democrats are perpetually insecure. They like to point out that they are the party of "real fiscal responsibility" because Republicans have their number. When Republicans have the Presidency they smartly cut taxes causing huge relative deficits that expand the economy with stronger balance sheets and then become complete hypocrites when they don't have the presidency railing on and on and on about the deficit and democrats fall for it every time.

The correct understanding is that the collapse in private sector saving directly attributable to the so-called Clinton Surpluses proximately caused the conditions that lead to the early 2000's recession that we still have not recovered from.

Like every other surplus in United States history the "Clinton Surplus" lead directly to a recession. It is pathetic that the Democratic Party doesn't know this and tries to claim it as a success.

BoatShoes;1617525 wrote:Lol no it doesn't. I am not playing semantics or "grammar plays on words." The only protest in the world that was a reaction to the video were the protests in Cairo. Everything else was a reaction to what happened in Cairo. The CIA mistakenly thought that was also the case in Benghazi, Libya and Susan Rice said as much adding in that it was extremist elements. But oh yeah, because the Obummer administration said extremism instead of terrorism that makes the conservative movement red with rage!:RpS_w00t:

However, the conservative spin machine turned it into Susan Rice blaming the Benghazi terrorist attack on a movie and the Conservative peons who are the marks in this con game fell for it hook line and sinker. This is how the GOP gets embattled middle class whites out to vote when they have nothing to offer them. You're playing your role with flying colors.

BGFalcons82;1617642 wrote:Hey, I have an idea that will end this wordplay...let's talk to the 30+ survivors of the terrorist attack. If the truth is exactly as you portray, they should be able to back it up. It will be interesting to see if your government allows them to testify to the People and Mr. Gowdy.

believer;1617665 wrote:Not as long as this MOST TRANSPARENT EVER administration is in power.

Manhattan Buckeye;1617853 wrote:It is a clown show.

believer;1617856 wrote:Look at the bright side..The Dingling Bros. & Barry Bunch Circus has less than 1000 days to continue tearing the country apart.

Manhattan Buckeye;1617853 wrote:It is a clown show.

gut;1618265 wrote: Looks like the agitator-in-chief might have to scale down his campaigning and actually sit down to fix a problem.

QuakerOats;1618286 wrote:Impossible; activists by nature are little more than whiners and complainers. Having zero managerial experience and zero leadership skills on top of that renders him useless.

The beat goes on ......