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	<title>Comments on: &#8220;Insane&#8221; party votes against debt limit increase</title>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2011/07/16/insane-party-votes-against-debt-limit-increase/#comment-4053</link>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think now is the perfect time to demand a balanced budget.  If it isn&#039;t accomplished now, it never will be.  This is a watershed moment for the country.  Either we get spending under control now and reverse the course over Niagra, or we fall into the abyss. 

Once the debt goes beyond GDP, our bonds will be downrated, the currency will lose value at an even faster rate, and the people we&#039;re borrowing from will begin to tighten the screws on us.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think now is the perfect time to demand a balanced budget.  If it isn&#8217;t accomplished now, it never will be.  This is a watershed moment for the country.  Either we get spending under control now and reverse the course over Niagra, or we fall into the abyss. </p>
<p>Once the debt goes beyond GDP, our bonds will be downrated, the currency will lose value at an even faster rate, and the people we&#8217;re borrowing from will begin to tighten the screws on us.</p>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2011/07/16/insane-party-votes-against-debt-limit-increase/#comment-4051</link>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Never let a crisis go to waste&quot;  Remember those words?  Do you really think it&#039;s an accident that the US dollar&#039;s value is in near free fall?  Things like that don&#039;t just happen.  Polices have to be put into place to cause it.  I can put up tons of quotes from the leaders on your side saying how America needs to be reduced in power.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Never let a crisis go to waste&#8221;  Remember those words?  Do you really think it&#8217;s an accident that the US dollar&#8217;s value is in near free fall?  Things like that don&#8217;t just happen.  Polices have to be put into place to cause it.  I can put up tons of quotes from the leaders on your side saying how America needs to be reduced in power.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2011/07/16/insane-party-votes-against-debt-limit-increase/#comment-4042</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, wait.  Paul Ryan has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://budget.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=252305&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt; on what Democrats have actually done.  Or again, to be precise, &quot;not done.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, wait.  Paul Ryan has a <a href="http://budget.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=252305" rel="nofollow">timeline</a> on what Democrats have actually done.  Or again, to be precise, &#8220;not done.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2011/07/16/insane-party-votes-against-debt-limit-increase/#comment-4039</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s also interesting that you desperately avoid any mention of what Obama has actually done in this arena since he was inaugurated.  Or &quot;not done&quot; to be precise.

Particularly fascinating is how any mention of Obama&#039;s own budget - the only thing from the Democratic side that actually has specifics - is instantly wiped from the discussion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s also interesting that you desperately avoid any mention of what Obama has actually done in this arena since he was inaugurated.  Or &#8220;not done&#8221; to be precise.</p>
<p>Particularly fascinating is how any mention of Obama&#8217;s own budget &#8211; the only thing from the Democratic side that actually has specifics &#8211; is instantly wiped from the discussion.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2011/07/16/insane-party-votes-against-debt-limit-increase/#comment-4038</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s not working, Buck.  All you&#039;re doing is screaming the same Democratic talking point over and over again.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZtVm8wtyFI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This is your brain on Leftism.&lt;/a&gt;

How many times have we been through this?  TARP?  The &quot;stimulus?&quot;  Obamacare?  All legislation that was jammed down our throats by people screaming that if we didn&#039;t give them this power and loot we were all going to die.

The Democrats can fix this in five minutes by agreeing to pass a short-term limit increase with a small spending cut.  You tell me who&#039;s using this for political advantage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not working, Buck.  All you&#8217;re doing is screaming the same Democratic talking point over and over again.  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZtVm8wtyFI" rel="nofollow">This is your brain on Leftism.</a></p>
<p>How many times have we been through this?  TARP?  The &#8220;stimulus?&#8221;  Obamacare?  All legislation that was jammed down our throats by people screaming that if we didn&#8217;t give them this power and loot we were all going to die.</p>
<p>The Democrats can fix this in five minutes by agreeing to pass a short-term limit increase with a small spending cut.  You tell me who&#8217;s using this for political advantage.</p>
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		<title>By: BuckGalaxy</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2011/07/16/insane-party-votes-against-debt-limit-increase/#comment-4034</link>
		<dc:creator>BuckGalaxy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You two are certifiably insane.  Especially you, Lee.  You have no real issues to stand on.  Your entire world view is based on pure nonsense.  Fairy dust.  What, is the &quot;world socialist government&quot; then going to hand over power to the aliens too?  You&#039;re a fucking kook. You can&#039;t acknowledge that there are other patriotic points of view.  Your opponents actually want to destroy America because they are evil conspiratorial socialist!  What a fucking joke you are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You two are certifiably insane.  Especially you, Lee.  You have no real issues to stand on.  Your entire world view is based on pure nonsense.  Fairy dust.  What, is the &#8220;world socialist government&#8221; then going to hand over power to the aliens too?  You&#8217;re a fucking kook. You can&#8217;t acknowledge that there are other patriotic points of view.  Your opponents actually want to destroy America because they are evil conspiratorial socialist!  What a fucking joke you are.</p>
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		<title>By: BuckGalaxy</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2011/07/16/insane-party-votes-against-debt-limit-increase/#comment-4033</link>
		<dc:creator>BuckGalaxy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t care what you believe.  I just want you to stop changing the subject and admit trying to get a balanced budget by threatening default is NUTS.  It&#039;s one thing for the loons on the right to deny evolution and climate change with their junk science.  It&#039;s another all together to have one&#039;s head up their ass and deny the stark reality of an event only a couple weeks away.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t care what you believe.  I just want you to stop changing the subject and admit trying to get a balanced budget by threatening default is NUTS.  It&#8217;s one thing for the loons on the right to deny evolution and climate change with their junk science.  It&#8217;s another all together to have one&#8217;s head up their ass and deny the stark reality of an event only a couple weeks away.</p>
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		<title>By: BuckGalaxy</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2011/07/16/insane-party-votes-against-debt-limit-increase/#comment-4031</link>
		<dc:creator>BuckGalaxy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It just can&#039;t get into your little brain can it?  No a balanced budget is not extremist.  THREATENING TO DESTROY THE GOOD CREDIT OF OUR NATION AND CREATE AN ECONOMIC DISASTER IS EXTREMIST.  Why that can&#039;t penetrate your skull is amazing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It just can&#8217;t get into your little brain can it?  No a balanced budget is not extremist.  THREATENING TO DESTROY THE GOOD CREDIT OF OUR NATION AND CREATE AN ECONOMIC DISASTER IS EXTREMIST.  Why that can&#8217;t penetrate your skull is amazing.</p>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2011/07/16/insane-party-votes-against-debt-limit-increase/#comment-4017</link>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re not telling me anything new, TB.  They want to crush the economy with debt so they can impose their global socialist agenda.  This is their way of creating a global currency once the US Dollar crumbles into dust.  So long as the US remains strong their global socialist utopia can&#039;t happen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re not telling me anything new, TB.  They want to crush the economy with debt so they can impose their global socialist agenda.  This is their way of creating a global currency once the US Dollar crumbles into dust.  So long as the US remains strong their global socialist utopia can&#8217;t happen.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2011/07/16/insane-party-votes-against-debt-limit-increase/#comment-4013</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It isn&#039;t about the money, Lee.  It&#039;s about the power.  If they  can destroy the GOP with this hysteria, the Democratic Party wins.

If the economy burns to the waterline over the next ten years but the Democrats have power, it&#039;s still a win.

&quot;Does this give us power&quot; is the ONLY aspect of any policy that is addressed.  Go down the list over the past few years and look for yourself.  Health care, energy, economics, budgets, education, you name it.  It&#039;s why any solution in any of these areas that removes power and wealth from the State is automatically not only dismissed, but demonized.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It isn&#8217;t about the money, Lee.  It&#8217;s about the power.  If they  can destroy the GOP with this hysteria, the Democratic Party wins.</p>
<p>If the economy burns to the waterline over the next ten years but the Democrats have power, it&#8217;s still a win.</p>
<p>&#8220;Does this give us power&#8221; is the ONLY aspect of any policy that is addressed.  Go down the list over the past few years and look for yourself.  Health care, energy, economics, budgets, education, you name it.  It&#8217;s why any solution in any of these areas that removes power and wealth from the State is automatically not only dismissed, but demonized.</p>
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