Omaha Steve
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Sat Jun-12-10 03:42 PM
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Think you could balance the federal budget? Play the game. |
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http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/budget_hero/Budget Hero is produced by American Public Media, the largest operator of public radio stations, also producing top programs reaching 15 million listeners weekly.
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Sat Jun-12-10 04:04 PM
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1. Poor choice of cards to play |
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Like a pinochle deck -- no working class cards to play.
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Kaleva
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Sat Jun-12-10 04:14 PM
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Eliminating the Bush tax cuts and raising the gas tax 50 cents a gallon really helps.
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Sat Jun-12-10 04:32 PM
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3. COOL! but i wish we could control custom percentages & amounts cut/raised. NT |
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Sat Jun-12-10 05:32 PM
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There was a better simulator(text only) that really let you cut into the meat of it.
If I were in charge, you can bet the military budget per year would not be 1/2 a trillion dollars, for instance.
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Sat Jun-12-10 05:58 PM
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to stop the drug war and stop the real war (OK the permanent invasion)
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Warren DeMontague
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Sat Jun-12-10 06:37 PM
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6. Ridiculous. No matter what you do, you can't take more than a sliver off the Military. |
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Or, maybe that's not a mistake.
It should give you an error like, "Sorry, since Nov. 22, 1963, that option has been unavailable" :tinfoilhat:
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Sat Jun-12-10 07:41 PM
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7. Could have been interesting if it wasn't completely skewed. |
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The State of MN created this game about6 or 7 years ago and allowed real choices, and you know what people learned? That it ain't hard to balance the budget when you can exercise options that hurt campaign donors but are good for people.
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Sat Jun-12-10 07:57 PM
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8. They want you to think it would be hard |
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End the wars of aggression. Remove the capacity to launch wars of aggression.
Increase taxes on the top 10%. Increase taxes by a huge margin for everyone in the top 1%. Taxes on the rich that are so high that they need to limit their salaries because above a certain point they would make less money.
National universal single payer.
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Sat Jun-12-10 07:58 PM
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Sat Jun-12-10 08:07 PM
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If you are not a whore for special interests.
Tax the rich, end the military empire, and stop wasting money on corporate health services.
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HughMoran
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Sat Jun-12-10 08:11 PM
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11. OMG! We're being lead by whores! |
Taitertots
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Sat Jun-12-10 08:20 PM
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12. Do you like following insane economic policies? |
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What is your problem with ending wars of aggression, taxing concentrated wealth, and national health care.
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HughMoran
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Sat Jun-12-10 08:22 PM
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13. Wars are winding down, Bush tax cuts are expiring, HCR was passed and the clock is ticking |
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Not my problem if you don't like the implementation timeframe - it's getting done and that's a good thing.
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Taitertots
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Sat Jun-12-10 08:28 PM
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14. There is no end in sight for either war |
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We need to go pre-Reagan for the tax cuts to make a difference.
HCR is nothing but an insurance corporation handout, that is nothing remotely similar to Universal Single Payer.
All those policies are an insane perversion of the things I have listed.
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Sat Jun-12-10 08:32 PM
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Sat Jun-12-10 08:34 PM
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16. Let us know when you accomplish all of that. |
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Sat Jun-12-10 08:37 PM
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17. Let me know when you actually want it to happen n/t |
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Sat Jun-12-10 08:45 PM
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18. No systemic changes allowed, so the real question becomes, |
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Edited on Sat Jun-12-10 08:47 PM by Greyhound
"Can you balance the budget without making any substantive changes that will hurt the super-rich?"
For example; if you cut the military budget 10% across the board, all the specific program cuts become unavailable. The military budget could be cut 10% by simply not maintaining stockpiles of obsolete ammunition and supplies. No mention of even the most heinous waste and abuses such as employing mercenaries.
Remember when PBS was public?
Edited for a double negative.
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