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<blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 812304" data-attributes="member: 29553">LOL, the emtea party is not grassroots. It was created by Dick Armey (not a pun) former Repub majority leader in the House in the 1990s and funded by &quot;Americans for Prosperity&quot; a huge group of corporations that funnell corporate $$ to this astro turf group of wing nuts. Look it up for yourself!&nbsp;As for the warped logic of cutting taxes and having tax revenue go up, &quot;voo doo economics&quot; doesnt work as george bush sr once remarked about supplyside economics. Reagan&#039;s own budget director David Stockman admitted that supplyside doesnt work too. He knew it was just a way of defunding government, by creating huge deficits that would force the government to cut spending drastically. As we know now, that never happened. &nbsp;On the debt, yes Bush caused over $2 trillion in more debt just with the taxcuts and wars and that was after being handed a suplus by Clinton in 2001. Obama didnt cause the $14 trillion national debt. That is the national debt of all deficits added up over 230 yrs or so. &nbsp;The military is the smallest of the budget?? really?? The U.S. federal budget is about $3 trillion this year. About $1 Trillion is spent directly on military (procurement, construction, rserach and development,familiy housing, retirement pay, nuclear weapons, homeland security, as well as the global war on terror($240 Billion ) very year . You could add another $100 Billion a year for vets benefits, the Intel agencies ($60 Billion) and lets not forget the interest on the debt we pay very year (billions)! So we are talking honestly about 40%-50% of the total budget! Smallest??Hmmm&nbsp;As for the &quot;troops &quot; overseas, why are we still sustaining 800 military bases throughtout the world. And such a huge Navy , seen the &quot;soviets&quot; lately??&nbsp;&quot;If we didn&#039;t have any wealthy people in this country&quot;, we would have way less poor people and way more middle income people. Lets experiment with that one day!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="804brown, post: 812304, member: 29553"] LOL, the emtea party is not grassroots. It was created by Dick Armey (not a pun) former Repub majority leader in the House in the 1990s and funded by "Americans for Prosperity" a huge group of corporations that funnell corporate $$ to this astro turf group of wing nuts. Look it up for yourself! As for the warped logic of cutting taxes and having tax revenue go up, "voo doo economics" doesnt work as george bush sr once remarked about supplyside economics. Reagan's own budget director David Stockman admitted that supplyside doesnt work too. He knew it was just a way of defunding government, by creating huge deficits that would force the government to cut spending drastically. As we know now, that never happened. On the debt, yes Bush caused over $2 trillion in more debt just with the taxcuts and wars and that was after being handed a suplus by Clinton in 2001. Obama didnt cause the $14 trillion national debt. That is the national debt of all deficits added up over 230 yrs or so. The military is the smallest of the budget?? really?? The U.S. federal budget is about $3 trillion this year. About $1 Trillion is spent directly on military (procurement, construction, rserach and development,familiy housing, retirement pay, nuclear weapons, homeland security, as well as the global war on terror($240 Billion ) very year . You could add another $100 Billion a year for vets benefits, the Intel agencies ($60 Billion) and lets not forget the interest on the debt we pay very year (billions)! So we are talking honestly about 40%-50% of the total budget! Smallest??Hmmm As for the "troops " overseas, why are we still sustaining 800 military bases throughtout the world. And such a huge Navy , seen the "soviets" lately?? "If we didn't have any wealthy people in this country", we would have way less poor people and way more middle income people. Lets experiment with that one day!! [/QUOTE]

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