781 Billion More Reasons to Hate Republicans

[Oi_Ve]

I noticed the following little tidbit of information seemed to slip by much of the media...

Your most beloved and respected multi-millionaire country club The Senate voted to raise the ceiling on US borrowing authority to $8.965 trillion, an increase of $781 billion from the previous level last week.

That's trillion with a "t". You know $8,965,000,000,000.

The thing narrowly passed with a 58-42 vote, a party line vote. And which party controls Congress! The "fiscally responsible", ever so loveable, the amazing Republican party!

Supporters of it said that without this cap hike, the U.S. would be unable to pay its bills: the idea that the U.S. should be spending less money is not an option to the millionaires club.

I am constantly being amazed by the sheer idiocy (or indifference) of some of our elected officials. The amount of money they have to borrow keeps going up, so what do they do? They raise how much they can borrow. Let's not cut spending, no!

THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE, AND WE ALL KNOW WE CAN NONE OF THAT!

And this isn't new, either. Its the fourth debt cap raise since 2002!

Democrats insist that Social Security and Medicare aren't in danger, yet the amount they need to borrow to pay the bills just keeps getting bigger, and Medicare and Social Security keep getting bigger...and they see no problem with this?

They see no problem with the fact that the U.S. government has to borrow 9 trillion dollars to pay their debt, which medicare and S.S. keep taking up a larger percentage of?!

Are these people idiots, or do they really not care?

I mean, for God's sake, even a chimp knows to move out of the way if it sees a 18 wheeler coming right at it! Yet neither the Republican or Democratic congressmen know to move out of the way of the 18 wheeler of debt...thus I conclude that chimps are smarter than our congressmen.

Once again the major parties are showing their true colors, and they aren't very different from each other. Republicans lie about big government and increased spending; Democrats make platforms on it.

Libertarian in '06.

[Guns R Cool]

Why don't you go run for Senate then?

[Oi_Ve]

Eh, I'm too old to get into that sh*t, Guns. I do have morals, after all.

Besides, people either vote for young (or young looking at least) people or incumbents. This old man wouldn't do much good. They aren't ready for someone like me anyways. :icon_lol:

[Guns R Cool]

I know it seems like a lot of money. I just don't see the effects on everyday life. We're the third largest country in the world, area and population-wise. We have the strongest economy, the cheapest gas, the best military, etc. It takes a lot to keep us going. When I walk around I just don't see anything that shows that our government is handling our money wrong.

[Oi_Ve]

I know it seems like a lot of money. I just don't see the effects on everyday life. We're the third largest country in the world, area and population-wise. We have the strongest economy, the cheapest gas, the best military, etc. It takes a lot to keep us going. When I walk around I just don't see anything that shows that our government is handling our money wrong.

The problem comes, Guns, in that the U.S.'s cost to maintain itself is getting to the point where we soon won't be on top much longer.

Medicare is SKYROCKETING, as is social security. Within the next 20 years these things will be too much for the U.S. economy to handle.

This increase is a sign of that.

There have been 4 cap hikes in four years.

And in those 4 years the cost of maintaining medicare and S.S. has gone up significantly, each year.

There's a pattern here.

The U.S. is digging a hole it won't be able to dig itself out of pretty soon.

But people insist the economy is doing just fine, that there is nothing to worry about, when, instead, we should be finding ways to cut our spending: like privatizing medicare and social security.

This is proof that something is wrong, and that both parties just want to bury their heads in the sand until it is too late.

[Bumblebee]

Well that's what Bush has been fighting hard for, but the Democrats don't like it.

[Devil_rules_in_extremes]

I know it seems like a lot of money. I just don't see the effects on everyday life.

You will. Just give it another 4-6 years... If not sooner.

Just remember. Baby boomer generation is about to retire. That alone is going to put a lot of drain on Government entitlement rescources...

[Dagummit]

OV and all,

It shouldn't be against the Republican Party...we conservatives need to push for a reform WITHIN the party. Do this by e-mail you congressman, etc. and voting differently in the next election (Constitutionalist, Libertarian, or what not). Let the Republicans fall on their ass and see that WE aren't freaking puppets to their bullshit. It will suck for a term or two, but the message will get across! We can't rely on the party to reform itself, we voters have to do it!

I am still a proud Republican, I am getting irritated at several caveats here lately that they are failing their base with. And please don't use the excuse of "if we don't vote republican, a democrat will win"...maybe that is what needs to happen (it will suck tremendously), because if we keep voting for them, they see nothing is wrong!