lc: "I have a suggestion: since we comprise 5% of the world why not spend 5% as much on defense as the rest of the world does? That would eliminate $750 billion from the budget and the deficit!

You gotta love that gags!"

No, I don't love sophistry, which is your only stock-in-trade.

lc: "Every battle ship launched is a crime against humanity and takes bread from the mouths of our own children."

Pathetic, as usual, lc.

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -John Stuart Mill

Does anybody wonder why Democrats have always opposed indexing the AMT to inflation?

Defense spending on this kindergarten-level Cato Institute graph gets its own line, as though it exists outside the realm of government control, or that it's something special that should never go down. Are you blind, are do you just think everyone else here is??? Did I use enough question marks???

The graph demonstrates where the real growth is in the federal budget. There is no distinction there as to what is or isn't outside of government control. Anyone with even the ability to fog a mirror can understand that. Evidently, you must be in the process of being fitted for a toe tag even as we speak...

http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/...ously-reported/

This Just In: Obama Lost 824,000 More Jobs Than Previously Reported

OBAMA IS A COMMIE AND A FAILURE IN EVERYTHING HE DOES

no one will elect anyone like him FOR A LONG LONG TIME

Given the Obama administration's catering to one of its favorite special interest groups, the United Auto Workers union, during the government's bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler last year, it is difficult to avoid wondering whether Toyota has become a victim of the Chicago Way of dealing with competitors. Toyota overtook GM several years ago as the world's leading automaker. The potential of the current sticking gas pedal controversy to inflict damage on Toyota here in its largest single market is seen in the January sales figures. Toyota sales are down 16 percent while GM is up 14 percent (Ford, which declined a government bailout last year, is up 25 percent, while Chrysler is down 8 percent). Keep the controversy going and odds are good that Toyota sales will continue to drop. The biggest losers besides American consumers will be the men and women who own and work at Toyota's 1,200 U.S. dealerships and the 30,000 Americans who build Toyotas in its five factories here. LaHood might as well have said "Nice car company ya got there, be a shame if anything happened to it."

when Bush was in Office, it was called what is. Federal spending

US voters can have a preview of what's in store for this country if entitlements aren't drastically curtailed, in order to get the budget back on a sensible footing:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Dow-dips-below-10000-mark-on-rb-2592766041.html?x=0&.v=16

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow briefly fell below the crucial 10,000 mark on Thursday as stocks suffered their worst losses in more than nine months.

Escalating sovereign debt problems in Europe and an unexpected rise in jobless claims put investors on the defensive just ahead of Friday's crucial payrolls report.

Worries over the ability of Greece, Portugal and Spain to pay their debts fueled a flight from stocks to the safe-haven U.S. dollar, which hurt commodity prices denominated in the greenback.

That's the liberal myth that doesn't explain the collapse of the socialistic pacifists in Europe.

Wait until Americans begin seeing 10% cuts in their bennies that they thought were sacrosanct and deserved. I'm gonna lmao at them.

You are delusional. The stock market is almost universally agreed to be bubbled and a correction after the first of the year was standard wisdom.

Are Toyota's gas pedals sticking because of the entitlement programs too?

Fuckwad, there is a far simpler and more intuitive explanation for the plight of western economies than blaming their econ ills on socialism and entitlements.

The problem wasn't the paid for in advance entitlements, it was the military spending that stole money from the SS trust fund, monetarism itself and it's reliance on debt as a means to manage the money supply. Plus lots of excessive risk that is still pervasive from Athens to Wall Street and Tokyo.

The European markets certainly went down today -- 3% -- but normally they follow us down and we dipped below the Dow 10,000 yesterday.

Reporting DID include Greece and Portugal troubles as reasons, but reporting of the reasons for ups and downs are not especially reliable! And when told of that as a cause, I replied that I'd been reading about the problems with debt in southern Europe for WEEKS, so it's not like it hit yesterday, you know?

We could cut our military budget 50% and still be the most militaristic nation on earth.

Some years the US spends more on military entitlements than the rest of the world combined. Today almost half of every tax dollar goes to the socialist funded military. I knew a single payer military would be a disaster.

So you think that "single payer military" is a disaster, yet you espouse single payer healthcare. Isn't that the very definition of insanity???