Comments on: Cantor: Funds for tornado victims will be offset
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- by omega42 May 29, 2011 12:10 PM EDT
What took you so long? The morons went around the bend in the mid 90s when they spent 80 million dollars on their Clinton witch hunt.
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OH!! You mean Newt as speaker leading the charge every day calling for Impeachment/Resignation by Clinton....
And the whole time Newt was having an affair himself
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- There is one other thing I have done in the past when my family has been short of money. I took a second job and brought in some extra income until our financial situation improved. The federal government also has the means to bring in extra income. It's called a tax increase. Surely no patriotic American is going to object to paying a little extra in order to help their country and their fellow Americans get back on their feet. If we as a nation can find ways to offset unexpected expenses by making cuts to the federal budget, I'm sure that we, as individuals, can find ways to offset a small tax increase by juggling our personal budgets.
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- Cantor's example of a family having to use money intended for a new car to help a sick family member seems to imply that they either have no insurance or that their insurance will not pay for the healthcare for their family member. Is this the same insurance that the proposed Medicare voucher will buy?
And won't the Affordable Healthcare Act insure those that are currently uninsured?
So Eric, If we had healthcare then we could help our sick family member and still be able to buy that new car.
I think his comment was heartless. I would rather have my tax money go to help the victims of Joplin than the "victims" of Wall Street. And yes, any deficit from helping our fellow Americans is OK with me. If we can create deficits helping those in other countries, then why can't we do the same for our own citizens. - Reply to this comment
- Offset aid to RED STATES with cuts to RED STATES benefits. Why should these people get to vote for Republicans and not feel the direct effect of their votes?
A family in crisis uses their line of credit. We just got done paying for the Spanish-American War and are just beginning to pay for WWI which the Republicans got us into: JP Morgan buying 4,000,000 (Rockefeller) Remington Arms bullets and putting them on the Lusitania steamship, then JP-Morgan-Chase making a fortune off the war. We are still paying ReTHUGS for the wars they started. - Reply to this comment
- It seems that the posters here the liberal ones see diabolical political agenda in everything. Cantor stating that we should work on a balnaced budget seems sensible to me no matter what the ideological point of view.
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- New congressional elections are just 17 months away. Lets hope the voters don't make a mistake like this again.
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- It's time for corporate America to step up and bail out the disaster victims. If you support small government as Cantor does, then bailing out victims of a natural disaster should be no different than bailing out victims of an economic disaster. If he really feels that the tornado victims should be bailed out, then he should find a new revenue source to do it and not steal money from people in other parts of the country.
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- Fine, as long as the offsets come from red states.
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- For decades, since the beginning of trickle down economics adopted by Reagan, GOP's strategy has been to erode tax revenues to put us in exactly the place we are now, then argue that it must only be cuts to existing programs that will balance the budget. Part and parcel to this strategy is the argument that reduced income and estate taxes will grow the economy faster, pulling everyone up with the rising tide. The data over the last 25 years, and in particular the last 10 after 2001's major tax reductions for the wealthy, just don't support it. Too many Americans have bought into this fallacious argument, and the result is the GOP's confidence in pushing to retain the tax cuts and forcing middle and low-income Americans to shoulder these burdens. When will enough Americans wake up to this nonsense??? This is an affront to those who actually take the time to digest the information and analyze the arguments. It is not the "tax problem" that the GOP argues is the source of our woes. It's the unwillingness of the wealthy to sacrifice for the common good of this country. Plain and simple, it's the greed of the rich and powerful.
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- When will American wake up and realize that the Republican party is the party of big oil, big banks, big insurance companies and big wall street?
Does it take losing everything before they realize this?
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