Re: Since We Care So Much About Our Children, How About If We Don’t Bankrupt Them?

WEe haven';t spent 1 / 10 th the time on spendingh cuts as we have on
tax increases. The pobn is not income. The problem is SPENDING

On Dec 30, 12:52 pm, lynn...@aol.com wrote:
> He did. Boehner just forgot to yell you. And exactly why did the caucus go home? If they are so against taxes? Because that's exactly what they are going to cause.
> PS. The power of the purse is granted solely to Congress. So you are once again blaming the President for something outside his purview.
> Your homework for today is to sit down and read the Constitution.
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> lew <lewc...@aol.com> wrote:
> >Republican caus=cus went home for Christmas????  It has been sitin
> >garound waiting for bama leadership on spending for four years - since
> >1/20/2009.  Obama did nothing.
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> >On Dec 30, 11:09 am, lynn...@aol.com wrote:
> >> It's still the Republican caucus that went home for Christmas. You can cry all you want but that's the fact.
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> >> Sent from my Samsung smartphone on AT&T
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> >> Larry Talbot <larry.tal...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >> >No jiggy, it's payback time for the republican's knuckledraggerism and record amount of filibusters.
> >> > Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:09:20 -0800
> >> >From: jgg1...@hotmail.com
> >> >To: opendebateforum@googlegroups.com
> >> >Subject: Re: Since We Care So Much About Our Children, How About If We Don't Bankrupt Them?
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> >> >Is the uncompromising Democrats principled or just hungry for power here???   In time Obama will be seen as the Emperor without clothes (unconstitutional recess appointments for one)...
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> >> >On Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:16:39 PM UTC-5, Lynne wrote:It is the republican caucus that went home proving that Boehner is not as competent as Pelosi.Sent from my Samsung smartphone on AT&Tlew <lew...@aol.com> wrote:>Since We Care So Much About Our Children, How About If We Don't
> >> >>Bankrupt Them?
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> >> >>powerline.com
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> >> >>We definitely don't want our children to be murdered in school
> >> >>shootings, as the post-Newtown furor has demonstrated. That is a
> >> >>sentiment with which I heartily concur. I also don't want my children
> >> >>to be struck by lightning, which is considerably more likely than
> >> >>being shot in school, or to be killed in a bicycle accident, which is
> >> >>around ten times as likely as being murdered in school. But while we
> >> >>are expressing concern for such remote contingencies, how about if we
> >> >>deal with an absolute certainty–that every American child is being
> >> >>saddled with a crushing burden of debt?
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> >> >>Currently there are around 74 million children under the age of 18 in
> >> >>the U.S. If you divide our $16.4 trillion debt by 74 million, you get
> >> >>$222,000 apiece. If you assume that two of those kids get married,
> >> >>they owe $444,000 together. And if you assume that your kid is going
> >> >>to be one of the 50% who pay any discernible amount of income taxes,
> >> >>the tab comes to close to $1 million. That is truly a crushing burden,
> >> >>and it isn't a one in million risk, it is a certainty. Michael Ramirez
> >> >>makes the point:
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> >> >>Barry, of course, doesn't have to worry. His daughters attend Sidwell
> >> >>Friends, which bristles with armed guards, above and beyond the girls'
> >> >>Secret Service detail. Nor do his children have to fret about their
> >> >>share of the national debt. Like Bill Clinton, Obama will retire a
> >> >>very, very rich man. So it isn't Barry's children we are talking
> >> >>about, it is only yours. And who cares about them? Not Barack Obama
> >> >>and the Democrats, obviously.
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