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cthulu2016

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Sun Mar 3, 2013, 12:37 AM Mar 2013

I'm a Unicorn!

Last edited Sun Mar 3, 2013, 01:16 AM - Edit history (1)

What the fucking fuck... Seriously? So is this it, on the sequester?

It happened. Deal with it. Onward to the pending government shutdown (continuing resolution).

Really?

No deal, correction, resolution... nuthin'

Just some shit that happened. Life in the big city. Virgin meet volcano. It's Chinatown...

(If I may coin a phrase... "pull down your big boy pants&quot

For no reason. In service of nothing... and the deficit will increase as result, of course.

I appreciate the notion of not negotiating with extortionists, but there is usually a second part to it... you know, crime doesn't pay or some shit... millions for defense, not a penny for tribute... something.

This isn't multi-dimensional chess. It's not even "52 pick-up." It's just a farce.

Kicking the line in the sand down the road... how could that have not worked out well?

The place to draw a line in the sand might have been to not play the motherfucking deficit fool in the first place. There was no moment in the last few years when substantial reduction in federal spending was anything other than the dumbest idea on the planet. Dumb, like moronic. Imbecilic. Deluded. Insane. Childish. Crack-pot, wing-nut bull-gibbering-shit... some particularly ill-informed crazy man in the side walk word-jazz.





The IDEA that federal spending needed to be reduced by even a nickel in 2013 was, in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, well below the Ralph Wiggum bar... so of course it had bipartisan appeal!

Yes, the Republicans are the big problem, but Obama's childish fascination with deficit reduction is a Republican enabling program.

There was a right answer. There is a right answer. It was never even put forward... by almost anyone.

In the REAL ECONOMY in the REAL WORLD of today... the actual economy we are in, not some LEAVE IT TO BEAVER episode where dad explains to the Beave why his allowance isn't going up, but the REAL current economy, the deficit is not costing any jobs in the US economy. 0.00%. It is also not inhibiting economic growth. It is not doing anything except being an attractive nuisance for dolts. On the other hand, cutting Federal Spending does cost jobs, both private and public sector.

So of course the only question on the table was whether to cut a little or cut a lot.

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I'm a Unicorn! (Original Post) cthulu2016 Mar 2013 OP
! lostcat Mar 2013 #1
. cthulu2016 Mar 2013 #3
"austerity" will definitely harm the poor, but corporations and the banks are raking it in: Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 #2
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