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LilAbner[_3_]

On 7/22/2011 11:32 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:48:43 -0400, wrote:

On 7/22/2011 8:25 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:50:02 -0400, wrote:

On 7/22/2011 7:31 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:27:57 -0400, wrote:

On 7/22/2011 7:08 PM, Florida Jim wrote:
On 7/22/2011 6:54 PM, LilAbner wrote:
On 7/22/2011 3:43 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:16:36 -0400, wrote:

On 7/22/2011 12:08 PM, wrote:
The easy, painless way to save $2T: PEACE

Each one of the following would save up to $1 trillion, or more, over
the next ten years. Guess what? The teabaggers are opposed to all of
them, including the $2T for not fighting any more wars for a while.

$1T: We could let the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire. (“No! No!”
shout the Koch brothers.)

$1T: We could let Medicare negotiate the price of drugs, the way that
the VA and private insurance companies already do.

$1T: We could require the rich to pay the same percentage of their
income toward Social Security and Medicare as the poor and the middle
class do. Not a higher percentage – my God, that would be progressive
taxation! Just the same percentage.

$1T: We could impose the same alternative minimum tax on giant
corporations that we mere humans must pay.

$1T: We could reduce U.S. military spending to a paltry 40% of the
world’s total, from the current 48%, which would still leave us
spending four times as much as any other nation.

$1T: We could make Warren Buffett pay the same tax rate on his income
as his secretary pays on hers, by eliminating the long-term capital
gains tax break, the great majority of which goes to the hyper-rich.
You going to get Islamic terrorists, China, Somolia pirates to cut
their
budget too.

Huh? Terrorists are an overblown threat. China is a business rival,
and Somalia pirates have nothing to do with our debt.
You have blinders on.

It deserves a better answer than that. She put a lot of thought into it.
Don't feel like feeding the troll. I assume she knows as much as anyone
else?

So, basically, you're unable to address any of the points about saving
money. Instead, you'd rather just blame Obama or jihadists or ?
Did I blame anyone? If I did they claimed it. don't listen to their
words. Listen to what they are doing. Reading for comprehension was in
the fiffth grade.

We're still waiting for you to address the several ways of deficit
reduction. Oh wait, you're just an imbecile.
Wow! Did you come up with that all by yourself?

I have to keep things simple for imbeciles.
There's probably a program, simple for morons. Maybe someone can send
you a copy.