What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

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For those watching at home, this is what Rightfield and Vette ran into in their very own CBO report when I asked that they read its deficit impact projection. They just never reported back and pretended like it didn't exist. Facts just don't fit their narrative.



Rightfield and Vette were misled into thinking that gross and net deficit impacts are the same thing. Had either of them graduated high school they would not have made such a mistake.

Or they were just lying - you decide.



what do you know about anything? what have you ever created in your life? you consume tax payer money, therefore you are no better than one on welfare. you are a sorry man
 
So when you're caught in a blatant deception (double-counting government spending to cook your numbers WTF?), your "defense" is finger pointing and subject changing?

So you aren't even going to try to defend yourself? You're just admitting you lied?

I'm still working and wasting too much time dealing with your silliness.

Obamacare is going to cost hundreds of Billions of dollars...the fact that some of it is going to be offset by a bunch of NEW taxes doesn't mean that it's going to cost less. To say otherwise is deceitful, now matter how often you say otherwise.
 
I'm still working and wasting too much time dealing with your silliness.

Obamacare is going to cost hundreds of Billions of dollars...the fact that some of it is going to be offset by a bunch of NEW taxes doesn't mean that it's going to cost less. To say otherwise is deceitful, now matter how often you say otherwise.

but its "free" healthcare and will be awesome
 
I'm still working and wasting too much time dealing with your silliness.

Oh so you have enough time to make a bunch of posts, but not enough time in them to address the fact that you were caught in a big lie? You just want to plead no-contest and hope others are willing to change the subject, eh?

Do you see why you have no credit now? It's this kind of thing that you keep doing over and over. Then you swear you're objective and non-partisan. It's pathetic.


Obamacare is going to cost hundreds of Billions of dollars...the fact that some of it is going to be offset by a bunch of NEW taxes doesn't mean that it's going to cost less. To say otherwise is deceitful, now matter how often you say otherwise.

Of course it's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. I'm not denying that. And I'm rightfully accusing you of focusing on gross when you should be focusing on net. Because you know, net is what matters. But gross looks like a scary number so you decided to look at that instead of numbers that matter.

What I'm telling you is that it's not going to be a significant factor in the deficit since it's paid for. The CBO's projection is that it's going to be something like a $250 billion deficit reducer over ten years (which isn't much per year). Let's say they were off by a huge amount, say a half trillion dollars. That's still only $25 billion per year which is a drop in the bucket relative to the entire $3.6 trillion budget.
 
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here is Merc, we need more taxes. we must tax and spend our way out of this.

Merc is GB biggest dumb-ass -- 2 years running


Oh so you have enough time to make a bunch of posts, but not enough time in them to address the fact that you were caught in a big lie? You just want to plead no-contest and hope others are willing to change the subject, eh?

Do you see why you have no credit now? It's this kind of thing that you keep doing over and over. Then you swear you're objective and non-partisan. It's pathetic.




Of course it's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. I'm not denying that.

What I'm telling you is that it's not going to be a significant factor in the deficit since it's paid for. The CBO's projection is that it's going to be something like a $250 billion deficit reducer over ten years (which isn't much per year). Let's say they were off by a huge amount, say a half trillion dollars. That's still only $25 billion per year which is a drop in the bucket relative to the entire $3.6 trillion budget.
 
Of course it's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. I'm not denying that.

What I'm telling you is that it's not going to be a significant factor in the deficit since it's paid for.



Aside from the fact it's totally pathetic an adult will turn over his health care to government, it's hard to believe anyone out there is actually buying the argument that ObamaCare is paid for. Some of the taxes are being collected now before any services are being offered, but in less than 10 years even the government acknowledges this health care cluster fuck is going to be running huge deficits every year.
This on top of our current deficit plus obligations that can't be met in Social Security.
And you morons continue to insist there won't be death panels. Only a fool believes that questions about how much something costs will never be asked when it comes to care for patients.


But you know, I think Obama is definitely winning the war on prosperity, so there is that.
 
Aside from the fact it's totally pathetic an adult will turn over his health care to government, it's hard to believe anyone out there is actually buying the argument that ObamaCare is paid for. Some of the taxes are being collected now before any services are being offered, but in less than 10 years even the government acknowledges this health care cluster fuck is going to be running huge deficits every year.
This on top of our current deficit plus obligations that can't be met in Social Security.
And you morons continue to insist there won't be death panels. Only a fool believes that questions about how much something costs will never be asked when it comes to care for patients.


But you know, I think Obama is definitely winning the war on prosperity, so there is that.



clearly we must tax the "rich" more, after all these people have the audacity to make money
 
Aside from the fact it's totally pathetic an adult will turn over his health care to government...

Nobody is turning their health care over to the government. Perhaps you want to rephrase something here?

it's hard to believe anyone out there is actually buying the argument that ObamaCare is paid for. Some of the taxes are being collected now before any services are being offered, but in less than 10 years even the government acknowledges this health care cluster fuck is going to be running huge deficits every year.

Show a link to where you're reading that "the government acknowledges that health care reform will be running huge deficits every year". Somehow I suspect you will not provide a lick of proof to back what you just baselessly claimed.


And you morons continue to insist there won't be death panels.

There are no death panels because nobody has ever been able to find them, or a Yeti, or a chupacabra.


Only a fool believes that questions about how much something costs will never be asked when it comes to care for patients.

Nobody believes that. You're just making things up.


But you know, I think Obama is definitely winning the war on prosperity, so there is that.

Meanwhile corporate profits are skyrocketing and they're hiring at a quickening pace. The stock market and hence people's 401ks, IRAs, and other investments are surging in value. Prosperity is upon us.

You claim none of this is happening based upon?

Um?

What?
 
wow you are just stupid or blindly part of the regime



Nobody is turning their health care over to the government. Perhaps you want to rephrase something here?



Show a link to where you're reading that "the government acknowledges that health care reform will be running huge deficits every year". Somehow I suspect you will not provide a lick of proof to back what you just baselessly claimed.




There are no death panels because nobody has ever been able to find them, or a Yeti, or a chupacabra.




Nobody believes that. You're just making things up.




Meanwhile corporate profits are skyrocketing and they're hiring at a quickening pace. The stock market and hence people's 401ks, IRAs, and other investments are surging in value. Prosperity is upon us.

You claim none of this is happening based upon?

Um?

What?
 
Oh so you have enough time to make a bunch of posts, but not enough time in them to address the fact that you were caught in a big lie? You just want to plead no-contest and hope others are willing to change the subject, eh?

Do you see why you have no credit now? It's this kind of thing that you keep doing over and over. Then you swear you're objective and non-partisan. It's pathetic.




Of course it's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. I'm not denying that. And I'm rightfully accusing you of focusing on gross when you should be focusing on net. Because you know, net is what matters. But gross looks like a scary number so you decided to look at that instead of numbers that matter.

What I'm telling you is that it's not going to be a significant factor in the deficit since it's paid for. The CBO's projection is that it's going to be something like a $250 billion deficit reducer over ten years (which isn't much per year). Let's say they were off by a huge amount, say a half trillion dollars. That's still only $25 billion per year which is a drop in the bucket relative to the entire $3.6 trillion budget.

There are huge new taxes in Obamacare that weren't talked about much in the fights to pass it. The new taxes will be a drag on the economy and will probably push us back into recession. The initial claim that it would reduce the deficit was only due to the fact that it had these HUGE tax increases built into it. I don't want to pay huge new taxes and will do everything I can to repeal Obamacare.

Now we get reports that the original tax/spending deal far underestimated the costs so we'll have to have another round of tax increases on top of those already planned if we want this to be "deficit" neutral...nevermind the fact that we're already spending $1.5 Trillion a year in deficit. We can't afford Obamacare. If they just made a $900 Billion "oops"...what other surprises are we going to find?

Maybe we'll find that this administration feels it can decide to tell the Catholic Church that they have to pay for abortion pills under the rubric of Obamacare?
 
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There are huge new taxes in Obamacare that weren't talked about much in the fights to pass it. The new taxes will be a drag on the economy and will probably push us back into recession. The initial claim that it would reduce the deficit was only due to the fact that it had these HUGE tax increases built into it. I don't want to pay huge new taxes and will do everything I can to repeal Obamacare.

Yeah well the new taxes are already in place. Are we in a recession yet? You do realize that every penny that's taxed for the program is immediately put back into the private sector, right?

Right???

And it doesn't matter that health care reform is deficit-neutral-ish in part because of taxes. That still makes it deficit-neutral. It a far better option than the previous administration's plan of "just tack it onto the deficit and let it accrue interest so it will cost us far more than it's actual price tag".
 
Yeah well the new taxes are already in place. Are we in a recession yet?

And it doesn't matter that health care reform is deficit-neutral-ish in part because of taxes. That still makes it deficit-neutral. It a far better option than the previous administration's plan of "just tack it onto the deficit and let it accrue interest so it will cost us far more than it's actual price tag".


please pass the drugs around THAT you are clearly abusing, after all you are not paying for them!
 
There are huge new taxes in Obamacare that weren't talked about much in the fights to pass it. The new taxes will be a drag on the economy and will probably push us back into recession. The initial claim that it would reduce the deficit was only due to the fact that it had these HUGE tax increases built into it. I don't want to pay huge new taxes and will do everything I can to repeal Obamacare.

Now we get reports that the original tax/spending deal far underestimated the costs so we'll have to have another round of tax increases on top of those already planned if we want this to be "deficit" neutral...nevermind the fact that we're already spending $1.5 Trillion a year in deficit. We can't afford Obamacare. If they just made a $900 Billion "oops"...what other surprises are we going to find?

Maybe we'll find that this administration feels it can decide to tell the Catholic Church that they have to pay for abortion pills under the rubric of Obamacare?



merc is taking stupidly to a new high, we should call merc, the new Jim Jones
 
Yeah well the new taxes are already in place. Are we in a recession yet? You do realize that every penny that's taxed for the program is immediately put back into the private sector, right?

Right???

And it doesn't matter that health care reform is deficit-neutral-ish in part because of taxes. That still makes it deficit-neutral. It a far better option than the previous administration's plan of "just tack it onto the deficit and let it accrue interest so it will cost us far more than it's actual price tag".

We had a good month so far. I hope it lasts. Time will tell. I think that the weight of the deficit is too high and the growth in spending is retarding what should have been far more robust growth. It's one of many reasons that the climb out of this recession has been slower and more anemic than any since the depression. If we didn't have all these Obamaisms spending programs and anti-business policies and had a growth out of the recession like the average of all the others since the depression, we'd have created millions upon millions of more jobs and probalby would have been out of this unemployment nightmare we're in. I hope the growth rate that we've seen so far this month holds, but am skeptical that it will.

If you're unemployed and suffering, thank the Dems and their policies. Now we're starting to see large tax increases because of Obamacare and Obama is talking about more and more taxes.....and will all these new taxes go to reducing the deficit or debt.....No!....they'll pay for the indigent to get healthcare as good as you and I and if the Obamahealthcare boards have something to say about it, they'll probably get discounted health-based memberships at the local gym. That's going to help create a lot of new jobs, isn't it....maybe gym clerks.

It's all additional spending, and spending that we can't afford. You can call it for healthcare or any number of a thousand other democrat spending priorities, the fact is that it's money that we don't have when considered against a $1.5 Trillion annual overrun.

The last administration was able to trim spending to the point where we had a $172B budget deficit before Pelosi and Reid took over Congress and now we're at almost 10 times that level of deficit on an annual basis.

We can't afford all this wild and practically worthless Democrat spending. Trim it back.
 
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We had a good month so far. I hope it lasts. Time will tell. I think that the weight of the deficit is too high and the growth in spending is retarding what should have been far more robust growth. It's one of many reasons that the climb out of this recession has been slower and more anemic than any since the depression. I hope the growth rate that we've seen so far this month holds, but am skeptical that it will.

It's all additional spending, and spending that we can't afford. You can call it for healthcare or any number of a thousand other democrat spending priorities, the fact is that it's money that we don't have when considered against a $1.5 Trillion annual overrun.

The last administration was able to trim spending to the point where we had a $172B budget deficit before Pelosi and Reid took over Congress and now we're at almost 10 times that level of deficit on an annual basis.

We can't afford all this wild and practically worthless Democrat spending. Trim it back.


but how dare we ask democrats to get a job and work! we must give out free:

free health care
free college
free car insurance
free GM car
free house
free welfare
 
We had a good month so far. I hope it lasts. Time will tell. I think that the weight of the deficit is too high and the growth in spending is retarding what should have been far more robust growth. It's one of many reasons that the climb out of this recession has been slower and more anemic than any since the depression. I hope the growth rate that we've seen so far this month holds, but am skeptical that it will.

It's all additional spending, and spending that we can't afford. You can call it for healthcare or any number of a thousand other democrat spending priorities, the fact is that it's money that we don't have when considered against a $1.5 Trillion annual overrun.

The last administration was able to trim spending to the point where we had a $172B budget deficit before Pelosi and Reid took over Congress and now we're at almost 10 times that level of deficit on an annual basis.

We can't afford all this wild and practically worthless Democrat spending. Trim it back.


Again you're intentionally mixing deficit-neutral spending with deficit-positive spending. The Iraq war is an example of something that adds to the deficit. Congress made no plan to pay for it other than borrowing more money.

Spending when there is revenue to match it adds nothing to the deficit.
 
Again you're intentionally mixing deficit-neutral spending with deficit-positive spending. The Iraq war is an example of something that adds to the deficit. Congress made no plan to pay for it other than borrowing more money.

Spending when there is revenue to match it adds nothing to the deficit.

spend baby spend
 
Again you're intentionally mixing deficit-neutral spending with deficit-positive spending. The Iraq war is an example of something that adds to the deficit. Congress made no plan to pay for it other than borrowing more money.

Spending when there is revenue to match it adds nothing to the deficit.

Spending is spending and increasing spending and entitlements when we're already in an entitlement financial prediciment is irresponsible.

Increasing taxes when we're still tottering on the edge of a recession is irresponsible too.
 
Spending is spending and increasing spending and entitlements when we're already in an entitlement financial prediciment is irresponsible.

Increasing taxes when we're still tottering on the edge of a recession is irresponsible too.
Refusing to raise the debt limit is also irresponsible.
 
Look mercury14 get you month on the government cock
Government is never the answer to anything it's the problem
I don't give a fuck about how much money spent all it's doing kicking the can down the road and given us more of a difict
Free market well always correct it's self doesn't matter how much money spent America needs to take it get over it yes it's going to suck but we be better off.
 
Refusing to raise the debt limit is also irresponsible.

I'm happy with the effort to slow the rate of irresponsible spending no matter how little chance it has to succeed. Not raising the debt limit is like the guy holding the dyke from breaking with two fingers saying "It's really not practical for me to plug that third hole with my toe"
 
Look mercury14 get you month on the government cock

I'm in the USAF reserves. I have a private sector professional career as well and make a significant percentage of my income from capital gains and dividends.

How are these personal attacks working out for you by the way? Do you find them a good substitute for talking rationally?


Government is never the answer to anything it's the problem
I don't give a fuck about how much money spent all it's doing kicking the can down the road and given us more of a difict
Free market well always correct it's self doesn't matter how much money spent America needs to take it get over it yes it's going to suck but we be better off.

These are just things you want to be true though. And you're probably right on things like how the free market will always correct itself. But without things like the financial sector bailout we would have suffered through a catastrophe on par with the Great Depression. Possibly even worse.

What I'm telling you it that I support the free market. But government intervention can be - in some instances - worth it.
 
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I'm in the USAF reserves. I have a private sector professional career as well. How are these personal attacks working out for you by the way? Do you find them a good substitute for talking rationally?




These are just things you want to be true though. And you're probably right on things like how the free market will always correct itself. But without things like the financial sector bailout we would have suffered through a catastrophe on par with the Great Depression. Possibly even worse.

What I'm telling you it that I support the free market. But government intervention can be - in some instances - worth it.

Want a cookie I don't care your in usaf reserves
You don't support the free market if we done nothing we ben better off would sucked yes but all we done make thing worse now when it does happen.
 
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