Sure Republicans may cut programs for the middle class/poor but that doesn’t mean they use the money to reduce the debt. Republicans have never reduced the deficit, only Democrats have balanced a budget.
What Republicans don’t understand is the only way you can balance a budget is through growth, you can’t cut your way to prosperity.
Why don’t other members of MSNBC stand up for working people and the middle class like Ed Shutlz?
He is the only one there who really fights for the middle class. Most of what he says is true. See if Liberals and Democrats were to stand by their principles. They could regain the House and keep the senate. There has been an assault on the middle class and one person alone is not going to help much. The middle class is now flocking to the Republican party because the Democrats only fight for welfare recipients and illegal aliens. That is a total turn off and this is not the same party as John F. Kennedy and Andrew Jackson who fought the bank. Its more like a Communist dump hole.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/ed-schultz-economic-state-middle-class-tie
Believe it or not most of the middle class who have joined the Republican party don’t like Republicans either. They know that party is just for the rich and they know that they suck the wee wee of Ben Bernanke, Rockefeller and many other rich guys. But the problem is that the Democrat party is nothing but a former shadow of itself. It too hates the middle class as much as the neocon Republicans. They too suck the same wee wee’s that the Republicans suck. Its like they are in competition to suck their wee.
Democrats need to get back to their principles and protect the middle class and stop passing out so much welfare. That is why Reagan left the Democrat party he was sick to death about welfare.
They forced Clinton to reduce it. So your assumption is wrong and Democrats have never done it on their own
strike that reverse it and place it squarely on the Dem’s…
How can we trust the liberals to do anything when they can so rarely speak without ignoring or distorting the facts?
I wouldn’t trust them with taking out my trash. Republicans are corrupt to the core.
Your last sentence is very true, if we try to cut spending now it will only increase the deficit. We have to put Americans back to work so they are both not using gov’t services and they are paying taxes.
By the way Clinton didn’t need a single Republican vote to raise taxes and balance the budget in the 90s.
Congress spends the money in this nation. Might be a time for a civics lesson. The GOP balanced the budget, reducing the deficit down to zero in the 90′s. Democrat Congresses explode the deficits.
And when will Democrats ever realize you can’t grow the economy being openly hostile toward business and employers?
Learn how your government works. Congress passes the budget and the Republican controlled Congress during Clinton’s administration balanced the budget. That means no deficits.
They can’t, the only time the economy does well is when Democrats are in charge. FACT
Right! You can’t cut your way to prosperity and you can’t spend your way to prosperity. You can only grow to prosperity.
We need to produce new things if we want to add to our wealth, to grow. Our strongest industries today are in the banking sector and all they do is move existing wealth from one party to another.
The challenge today is to get people educated in the sciences and mathematics. We won’t be going back to a day when we made things that require no specialization. We need educated people for tomorrows industries. Education should be a prime directive for our country because the world is getting better at competing with us. Trouble is, when you’re up to your azz in alligators, it’s hard to find the time to drain the swamp.
Government money spent on education takes full advantage of the multiplier effect. We get more “bang for our buck” there than in any other form of stimulus. Trouble is, the time window is long. And still, every dollar spent on education is returned to the government ten fold.
@George Washington: Ben Bernanke is not rich. He didn’t come from Wall Street, he came from academia, where he spent his entire career studying the Great Depression. Like him or not, he’s probably the best man in the country for the job he has.
Now is not a good time to reduce the deficit. It certainly has to be stabilized, but the idea that we are going to be able to cut trillions in government spending quickly without severe economic consequences is delusional. As for the deficit reduction during the Clinton era, that was easy. The economy was booming due to the invention of brand new media. It’s not going to happen when the economy is crappy. Trying to make it so will make it worse.
We were in debt much farther then we are now are a percent of GDP after WWII. What followed was the most prosperous 25 years of the twentieth century.
Democrats, Republicans, just opposite sides of the same bad penny. But, I figure it this way, which is better? Increasing revenue by increasing taxes, or to increase revenue by increasing the number of tax payers?
But increasing revenue is not the main problem, spending is. And before we give the government more money, I think they need to justify where the money they have spent or are spending has gone. Do you think, with a straight face, they can justify….
$25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties
$60 billion annually wasted in health care fraud
$9 billion annually Earned Income Tax Credit overpayments cost
$2 billion annually by Conservation Reserve program pays farmers not to farm their land
$3 billion re-sanding beaches (even as this new sand washes back into the ocean).
$13 billion in Iraq aid has been classified as wasted or stolen.
$7.8 billion in Iraq aid money cannot be accounted for
$600 million annually in food stamp overpayments.
$120 million annually in school lunch program abuse costs .
$800 million annually in veterans’ program overpayments cost
$50 million in erroneous refunds to 230,000 Medicare recipients
$3.9 million by Securities Exchange Commission for rearranging desks and offices at its headquarters.
$112 million paid out by the IRS in undeserved tax refunds to prisoners who filed fraudulent returns.
$2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased
$146 million annually in flight upgrades due to federal employees refusing to fly coach
$1.3 million per month by the National Institutes of Health to rent a lab it cannot use
$2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.
$442,340 million to study male prostitutes in Vietnam
$10 million to renovate an abandoned train station that has not been used in 30 years
$1 million in stimulus funds for a genitalia-washing program for uncircumcised African men.
$400,000 research in Buenos Aires bars on gay men engaging in risky sexual behavior
$100 million on unused flight tickets, Defense Department bought, never bothered to collect refunds even though the tickets were refundable
$ 50,000 a piece for paintings of high-ranking government officials.
$356,000 to study how kids perceive foreign accents.
$200,000 to study of why political candidates make vague statements
$228,000 per job, saved or created, by the stimulus plan
Only took about 10 to 15 minutes of research to find this stuff. Or do you believe this is money well spent?
I say get mad, stay mad, reelect NO ONE!
your question is way to long and self redundant.
just reduce it to the first five words.
“How can Republicans be trusted”
It’s funny how Republicans give whatever branch of government they have control over the credit, and whatever the Democrats hold gets blamed. The truth is, Clinton’s 1993 budget is what reduced the deficit the only time it has been reduced in the last 30 years, including 20 years of deficit spending Republican Presidents. And every last Republican in Congress voted against it. They are such fantastic liars.
@hotnwell,
Thank you for posting the truth.
Now, I just hope that @Libsmasher, Phil and Jay read it before they post more lies.
Clinton was NOT forced to balance the budget by Reps. Indeed, every single Rep congressman voted AGAINST his balanced budgets. Thus, it was a Democratic President AND a Democratic Congress that was responsible the last time the budget was balanced and a surplus was projected.
Further, for those of you who claim that Congressional spending is to blame, who controls the House now???