While they're jerking around, no one is brave enough to do what will solve the budget shit fast.

[Stinky The Clown]

End the bush tax cuts and then raise taxes on the same people even more.

Cut the defense budget to make up the rest.






Instead, we get to watch these fuckers fuck around fucking us.

[mike_c]

1. that is the only solution likely to work in the long term, no matter WHAT else they do....

Rat bastards.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. That, and quit spending all our money on wars.

[liberal N proud]

3. Those are the third rail for the GOP

If they mention cutting defense or taking the tax cuts away from the wealthy, their masters will turn on them in an instant.

[Autumn]

4. Anything else doesn't mean dick

and that alone shows me neither side wants to solve the problem. I am disgusted with the whole thing.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. And THAT is the TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[Jmaxfie1]

6. A higher top tax rate is the only real solution to a balanced budget

Although I'm all for cutting out pork, I'd like to cut out waste in the military but, I'm really not all that much for taking major chunks out of the Military budget.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Your OP is very crude

I like it.

It's pretty much the only way to describe our situation. We're being systematically bent over and fucked.

[freshwest]

9. What, you don't like it missionary style?

;)

[freshwest]

8. That's the sane answer endorsed by the civilized countries. Which makes this country...

[90-percent]

10. Progressivism

The entire nation, including myself, needs to be educated on the history of progressive taxation.

The current stupid people that we elected seem to be oblivious to the destructive powers they are creating by manufacturing such an unhealthy concentration of wealth.

We all have to go out and re-fix stuff that was fixed 35 45 50 70 90 120 years ago!

This "if it ain't broke break it" Republicant law unmaking is ignorantly repeating the hard learned lessons and utter economic failures of our somewhat recent history.

-90% jimmy

MAKE THE WEALTHY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE, LIKE THEY USED TO WHEN THE ENTIRE NATION ENJOYED SHARED PROSPERITY

[alsame]

11. We already lost that battle, not one Democrat has

the guts to talk about it. In contrast, every GOPer I see on TV says "We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem".

We shouldn't cut one damn thing until the Bush tax cuts are repealed and the corporations pay their taxes.

[louslobbs]

12. Yes sir Stinky, you state facts, that unfortunately,Republicons and some Dems

choose to ignore to continue fucking us round and round and round in a vicious cycle of political babble and bullshit while they continue to do the bidding of the corporations and rich at the expense of We the People. We are being used as pawns in their political game of fuck the people.
Lou

[JDPriestly]

54. Sorry, but if you read Matt Taibbi's excellent book, Griftopia,

you will learn that they all know exactly what they are doing.

Matt Taibbi lays it all out for the world to see.

Greatest reporter of our time. And his writing style moves you straight through the most difficult financial information.

Read the book. Griftopia.

[indepat]

13. Those are sacrosanct, off the table, not ever to be considered, taboo, verboten,

and neither are the gaping corporate tax loopholes ever to be closed nor defense spending ever to be pared: the only options are for what remains of the middle class to be taxed more and social security, Medicare, and every other program that provides for the nation's general welfare to be gutted. :patriot:

[cameozalaznick]

27. I wouldn't be too sure about that...

Let your members of congress know how you feel about this. If the refuse to listen, work HARD to elect ones who will. With unemployment so high, and congressional salaries also high, I would think lots of people would want to run.

[Angry Dragon]

14. Here are some options

1. Most of congress are idiots
2. Most of congress put party first
3. Most of congress have no idea what to do to solve a problem
4. Most of congress are idiots
5. Most of congress worry more about the next election than doing their job
6. Most of congress are idiots
7. Most of congress worry about filling their pockets with cash

[Raksha]

36. 8. Most of Congress (D and R) are bought and paid for by the corporations.

9. Most of Congress (D and R) are bought and paid for by the corporations.
10. Most of Congress (D and R) are bought and paid for by the corporations.
11. Most of Congress (D and R) are bought and paid for by the corporations.
12. Most of Congress (D and R) are bought and paid for by the corporations.

Get the idea now?

[Missy Vixen]

15. Where the hell is Dennis Farina when you need him?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RHBOfM9CFQ

>Instead, we get to watch these fuckers fuck around fucking us.<

Absolutely.

When Boehner misses a period, he can tell me what I can and cannot do with my body, and he can defund the major source of healthcare and education for women who are low-income, or don't have health insurance.

[ladjf]

16. Simple and fair as that. Do it! If not successful initially, keep trying

until the idea is accepted by the majority of Americans and converted into political action. In can be done!

[cameozalaznick]

28. It IS accepted by the majority...

But they're just not listening to us. When's the last time you sent a letter to your member of congress? If enough people in the district or state did that, they might star paying attention.

[ladjf]

55. We've got to have overwhelming votes at election time. Step one

there is to make sure that the voting system is scrupulously legitimate. That can be done.

Step two is to teach as many as possible to stop paying attention to the propaganda machine.

Step three: Stop fighting each other over personal cultural issues. These fights among ourselves keep us distracted from our goal of overturning the power of the rich crooks. (Not all rich people are crooks, of course.)

If we can regain the House, the Supreme Court and the White House, the first thing we'll do is kick the tax rate up to about 50% for those in the top 2%.

[ladjf]

17. This thread has good possibilities. Get after those rich bastards

and make them pay.

[scarletwoman]

18. Succinctly put!

"Instead, we get to watch these fuckers fuck around fucking us."

Can't put it better than that! :thumbsup:

sw

[marew]

19. Absolutely telling it like it is! We are screwed! n/t

[lonestarnot]

20. K & R!

[treestar]

21. What bravery is involved in making the Republican house pass

something like that?

[Stinky The Clown]

26. Its always someone else's fault? What happened to real, strong, passionate leadership?

Standing on the sidelines and looking inscrutable is a coverup for failings and weaknesses. Leaders lead.

When we had both houses, that one senator we were short was the excuse. It is a lot easier to make excuses when they control at least one house of Congress.

Its always about why we can't, isn't it?

What happened to why we ought to keep trying? That's what a real leader would do.

[blindpig]

22. Good luck

Capitalism rules, Imperialism is it's tool.

Let's get to the meat of the matter.

[tavalon]

23. What? You don't like our Kabuki Theater DC style?

[Carni]

24. AMEN!

How freaking STUPID are we (the American public) to put up with this shit?!?! GRRRR!

[bvar22]

25. The overwhelming MAJORITY of Americans agree with you,

so WHY won't the politicians of either Party get the job done? :shrug:

THIS is a MANDATE!

Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
Lofty Rhetoric, Broken Promises, and Whiny Excuses mean NOTHING now.
"By their WORKS you will know them,"
and by their WORKS they will be judged.

[suffragette]

29. Succinct and spot on Stinky.

K&R

[Octafish]

30. K&R

Every word.

[tcaudilllg]

31. Yeah baby yeah!

[Corruption Winz]

32. It all seems so simple. But, you forget that the government would have to care about the debt. n/t.

[steelmania75]

33. Pass Medicare for All to achieve a budget surplus, so we can use the funds to rebuild America.

Healthcare, Infrastructure, Clean Energy, Education. Those are the big four.

[freedom fighter jh]

34. And nationalize the Fed so that the people, rather than the bankers . . .

. . . get the benefit of the creation of new money.

[SDuderstadt]

37. This is anti-Fed nonsense...

Where are you getting this from?

[liberation]

39. From the fact that we have to pay the Fed interest for the privilege of using our own money

perhaps?

[SDuderstadt]

46. Like I said...

That is anti-Fed nonsense:

http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/flaherty/flaherty7.html

http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/flaherty/flaherty8.html

Could you tell me where you got that "info" and why you did not bother to fact-check it?

[lastone]

35. it feels wonderful

to be sold down the fucking river doesn't it? and for what end, so the rich can stay rich and become richer. what a sham.

[Cleita]

38. Yes, it's so obvious what needs to be done that even

my cat would understand the concept.

[cali]

40. uh, no one person can possibly do that.

and my reps aren't fucking you around. they all support exactly that.

[Cleita]

41. Your reps in Vermont most likely do.

My Rep. is very happy with destroying all social programs and safety nets and I'm in liberal California.

[Stinky The Clown]

50. The OP was framed in the plural

[madinmaryland]

42. I with you on that 100%, Stinky.

[DeSwiss]

43. I've said it all along.....

...cut defense.

- In half. For a start.

K&R

[on point]

44. Also close tax loopholes, stop funding nuclear, stop giving 5 billion annual to Israel

[Zorra]

45. The opportunity to end the Bu*h tax cuts is now long lost, and the Dem House

majority got lost right along with it.

[glinda]

47. K & R

[DissedByBush]

48. We need far more than that

All millionaires and billionaires in the country combined have assets of 12 trillion.

This includes small businesspeople and farmers whose business assets (buildings, farmland, tractors, tools, etc.), plus their house, plus their retirement savings is over $1 million in value.

People with a million in liquid assets probably have a far lower combined value than that.

But if you confiscated EVERYTHING right now we still couldn't even pay off the national debt, and we'd still have the same deficit.

Smart taxing needs to be combined with less waste all around or else we'll eventually be in exactly the same position in the future.

[on point]

49. It also need to say loudly and clearly said that Supplyside Economics is a failure and a fraud

[Jakes Progress]

51. It hasn't worked for 30 years, but

the brain dead idiots that vote republican thin maybe it will this time. Definition of stupid.

[kooth]

52. Jerking ...

You have hit the nail on the head! Where is someone in Washington who'll step up and say this?

[caseymoz]

53. So, the next time the government is on the brink of closing . . .

. . . do we give them $50 billion?

It all seems like a show to me. Ultimately, the repubs are going to get their way with brinkmanship and Obama will give in at every step.