The budget’s out! The budget’s out! Did you hear? The budget’s out! Tra la la la la! It slashes so many programs and raises so many taxes to come in at that modest $1.6 trillion deficit. What fun we are having in America. Keep in mind, too, that that’s $1.6 trillion before Congress swoops in to eliminate literally all of the proposed tax hikes and budget cuts. After they fuck it up, the deficit will be….$fkekwl… WILL BE… REWFLE4f.f..ff.f.f..ew@@!… [-----]… sorry! The computer starts shaking and smoking when we try to type in that number. [Washington Post]
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Hey, it’s absolutely no fair that Obama is going to place new fees on the big banks just to help the bottom line. It’s not like the banks would ever come up with new fees to put on their customers, just to help the bottom line! That’s just wrong!
Peace dividends! Huzaah!
He axed the moon program. Where-oh-where will we get the next Tang and food sticks? Magically from our pants, most likely.
[re=505361]TGY[/re]: I’m not eating any food sticks that you magically pull out of your pants, thank you very much…
so, we all win?
[re=505361]TGY[/re]: Those scientists and engineers can transfer to the NGTN Program (Next Generation Truck Nutz.) If we can put a man on the moon, we can have truck nutz that sway or rise and separate upon acceleration.
Today, we are all computers.
[re=505368]BigDupa[/re]: Depending on the temperature. also. Hopefully
[re=505361]TGY[/re]:
And velcro. Didn’t we get Velcro from the moon?
[re=505357]Sparky McGruff[/re]: At some point, if big banks keep coming up with new fees to put on their customers, the customers will get their heads out of their asses and go to their nice local small or midsize FDIC-insured bank.
I eagerly await the Republicans and their Bagging cohorts to add their two trillion cents of suggestions to cut more taxes, increase defense appropriations, more funding for Alaskan abstinence programs, and tax breaks to gas and oil companies.
Have we not heard of IEEE 754? Stupid Wordpress.
As they say in poker, Washington is all in. Given what Obama did to Texas today, they must be playing Texas Fold ‘em. This has happened every single time we’ve gone to war, btw. War is hell — to pay for (Sherman forgot to add that, and so did Mr. Peabody).
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele promptly denounced the budget proposal, charging that it sets the stage for “economic stagnation” and uses gimmicks to hide “binge spending.”
Steele then swam back to the poolside bar and ordered another daquiri, joking with the scantily clad bartender and smiling in anticipation as the aroma of searing pork from the impending luau wafted through the tropical Pacific air.
[re=505361]TGY[/re]: More importantly, where-of-where will we get our govmint cheese?
Oh, right…magically, from our pants.
FORESKINS FTW!
[re=505361]TGY[/re]: It looks like the shuttle replacement program was such a boondoggle they’ve decided it’s better to just scrap it and start all over again. Of course, this is is the same NASA that created that mess in the first place, so I’m not too confident.
[re=505380]AxmxZ[/re]: Hahaha; silly, in most places there are no local small or midsized banks left.
I understood from various Republican sources that Reagan had said that deficits don’t matter. Does that only apply to Republican spending, or have the R’s realized that Ronnie was senile?
[re=505381]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Now, the Republicans have been harping on the deficit ever since Obama took office; they will have to support his tax increases and budget cuts, since to do otherwise would mean that they are nothing but total hypocrites who only care about the deficit as a cudgel to score political points.
Oh, wait; I remember 2001-2008. They are total hypocrites who don’t actually give a shit about the budget. Never mind.
“Reagan proved deficits don’t matter”.
Cut taxes. More troops. Palin/Paul 2012.
America, Fuck Yeah!!
Big Silly Barry. He should do what the Repugs did for 8 years. Ask for a bunch of money that will get approved as a “balanced budget” and then keep coming back every week and asking for more magic money to do things like actually pay for wars and stuff.
Get with the program.
[re=505361]TGY[/re]: Clap clap clap clap clap clap.
Alt text: Monopoly money for everyone! Mug your neighbor for that second shoe!
[re=505361]TGY[/re]: As long as they don’t cut the budget for giant-asteroid busting space lasers, I’m happy
[re=505402]JMP[/re]: Tim Pawlenty had an editorial in the Politico (of course) about the need to cut the deficit and basically spent the editorial talking about how important it is to without actually giving any specifics in doing so. Except by cutting taxes, of course. Needless to say, TPaw is considered one of the more promising Republican leaders
Oh Guy-in-a-Suit-Covered-with-$-Signs, where are you, now that we need you the most?
[re=505385]lawrenceofthedesert[/re]: “War is hell — to pay for”
Actually, it pretty much pays for itself when you win. But, go to war without a plan, and pay you will.
[re=505402]JMP[/re]: tax increases and budget cuts. I think this is what they call “austerity” when it happens in other countries. With this debt–12% of GDP–we could not even get into the EU. The Maastricht treaty required less than 3%. Of course the EU could not get into the EU, either. They are also at 12%.
[re=505418]Hooray For Anything[/re]: I, too, am all for giant ass turoid busting space lasers. But, never, ever, forget the primary goal of the Republican Party — to cut taxes on the rich.
Well, and all, I has this thing, its that, I work in an industry, and this industry engages in commerce. People come and buy the stuff we make. Only thing is, starting in 2009, only about 60% as many people showed up to buy the stuff. And therefore, since then, 20% of the members of my industry in my state have gone out of business, which means that their ex-employees are SOL, too.
I am guessing that in 1931, with Hoover proclaiming “prosperity just around the corner,” things were right about exactly where they are now.
[re=505379]Tommmcatt[/re]: The space program gave us a device that allows us to drink our own pee. Wait, that’s not so great. I think it gave us Carnation Instant Breakfast, also.
I can sure buy a whole lotta Five Guys burgers with 3.83 trillion Dollars. Mmmmm Burgers.
Video story recently on MSNBC:
“U.S. debt too big for National Debt Clock”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/27051006#27051006
I think I haz a sad.
[re=505398]JMP[/re]: This is still more or less a capitalist society. If the public bitches for small and mid-size banks with low risk and low fees hard enough, they’ll spring up.
Won’t somebody think of the National Debt Clock?
[re=505420]SmutBoffin[/re]: He died, last week. Hit by a blimp.
[re=505435]thesheriffisnear[/re]: The space program gave us travel mugs?!
Here’s to you, space program! *glug-glug-glug*
[re=505418]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Just as long as he recognizes the important conservative truth that tax and spending cuts are always good. Speaking of which…
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/no_cops_no_parks_halted_economic_activity_conservative_paradise/
“More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.
The parks department removed trash cans last week, replacing them with signs urging users to pack out their own litter. ”
Ha ha ha. Enjoy your tax cuts and the trash-filled, crime-ridden streets that go along with them, fundie-land!
[re=505520]JMP[/re]: Looks like a certain town/city is about to give themselves more tax cuts…..
[re=505520]JMP[/re]: Couldn’t happen to a nicer place.
Next year, a trillion dollars will buy a cup of coffee!
I’m in San Diego, where they are currently auctioning off police horses online to raise funds. WE ARE ALL SOCIALISTS NOW, also.
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