DUmmy Husb2Sparkly, squatting over the basement litterbox, reflects on the state of the American economy. You can imagine the optimism of such a patriot before you read a word of it:
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-07-11 10:28 PM
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So . . . . . if not that, then what?
Across the country, governments at all levels are talking about cutting parks, services, programs, essentials. They're talking about finding new ways to raise taxes - most often consumption or use taxes, all very regressive - like beverage taxes, snack taxes, gas tax, dump tax, tolls, whatever.
Meanwhile, unemployment is still just below 10% (anyone else think that's a rigged number, just to make us feel than we would if we knew the truth?) and there's pretty much no change month after month after month. Remember the first time you heard the term "new normal?"
Anyway, so what do we do? Governments simply have no ****ing money. Wishing they did won't change anything. So what do we do other than cut shit out of the budget? Oh sure, the feds can print money. But even that has an end. We may not be at that end yet, but there *is* an end. State and local governments, however, are really and actually ****ed.
And so are we.
So . . . . if not taxes or closing things, what?
Yeah. DoD.
Okay, DoD. Done.
Then what?
We. Have. No. Viability. In. Our. So. Called. Economy.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x370712Yep, it's so bad that ol' DUmmy Husb resorts to Pittian dots in his gravitas-laden final statement. But DUmmy Husb makes a huge misstatement:
Governments simply have no ****ing money.
The fact is, the federal, state and local governments he sobs about have far more money than at any time in the nation's history. They would simply like to spend lots more.
Being a DUmmy, poor, stupid Husb has his answer and doesn't realize it:
So what do we do other than cut shit out of the budget?
There's his answer. In fact, most of the "cuts" are only cuts if you use the democrat definition. I spent a hundred last year, and want to spend a thousand this year. You only let me spend eight hundred, so that's a two hundred cut, a 20% reduction.
RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-07-11 10:36 PM
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1. We'll just start selling pieces of the country off to others and do lease backs 'till we
hit the hole in the bottom of the bucket called occupations and wars.
leftstreet (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-07-11 10:40 PM
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2. Seize the assets of the rich. Redistribute the wealth.
DUmmy lonestarnut, still suffering PTSD from the sight of all those corpses hanging from trees in Galveston:
lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-07-11 10:42 PM
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4. Repeal the extension of the tax cut to the rich.
It shouldn't have been authorized in the first ****ing place.
