The Biden Presidency

What is the plan here, other than total collapse?

I know 57 assured me we have the money, son... but he never explained why

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'We have the money'

\\\\\\RUNS away.

Seems a common leftist trope here. Presents comment as fact, then never posts on the topic again.
 
Jesus.

He’s awful.

How was this aid relief plan not illegal?

Screwed all the ones that paid timely I guess. What america does best
 
Biden’s fbi can go after trump supporters but Antifa no big deal.

I can’t wait till we push out all these communist scum. We need show trials. Maybe even a public execution or two. It’s time.
 
sturg33 said:
The US has added over $300B to the debt in the last...

2 days

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https://reason.com/2023/10/05/the-real-scandal-in-washington-is-the-governments-reckless-spending/

You've undoubtedly noticed how up in arms everyone becomes when the government is on the verge of shutting down. I've also noticed that the people who most loudly express their horror at the notion of a partial government closure seem totally comfortable with the fiscal wall we are barreling into. That wall is being built, brick by brick, by two political parties that are unwilling to end Washington's spending debauchery.

Those sounding the loudest alarms last week are largely silent on the countless occasions when Congress ignores its own budgetary rules. They are rarely outraged when the government is financed with legislation that only expands the balance sheet regardless of whether the money is well spent. All that seems to matter is that government is metaphorically funded, since it usually means growing deficits and explosive debt.

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Where's the outrage about this fiscal madness? Where are the demands that politicians show us their plans for reform?

One thing's for sure: These calls aren't coming from the shutdown alarmists. How many of them write similarly panicky commentaries about how, in about 10 years, Congress' blatant inaction will lead to across-the-board cuts to entitlement benefits for both the rich and the poor? After all, if legislators decide to borrow more to avoid cuts rather than reforming the programs, it will add another $116 trillion over 30 years to our debt just for Medicare and Medicaid.

Newspapers should be full of reports about how Congress repeatedly fails to perform its core function and avoid this level of fiscal drama altogether. Elected officials should be too embarrassed to show their faces in public. Instead, they can just promise more spending because the real "crisis" is apparently that someone is trying to slam on the brakes—not that there's a fiscal wall looming ahead.

The federal budget is on a treacherous path and Congress is to blame. Politicians are continuously delinquent on their obligation to be good stewards of our fiscal health, but the "irresponsibility" that most reporters and commentators raise their voices against is the risk of shutdown. These people are upset about the symptoms, not the fatal disease.


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wake me up when September ends

never realized that Billie Joe Armstrong had such a keen eye for seasonality in economic data
 
thethe said:
Biden’s fbi can go after trump supporters but Antifa no big deal.

I can’t wait till we push out all these communist scum. We need show trials. Maybe even a public execution or two. It’s time.
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OR those folks who threatened the Supreme Court Justice Cavanaugh's home. They were just on TV after all, must be hard to track down.
 
Biden’s dog has been removed from WH.

No one else’s dog would’ve gotten 11 bites of the general public. They’d have been put down almost immediately. Maybe gotten two strikes.
 
acesfull86 said:
https://reason.com/2023/10/05/the-real-scandal-in-washington-is-the-governments-reckless-spending/

You've undoubtedly noticed how up in arms everyone becomes when the government is on the verge of shutting down. I've also noticed that the people who most loudly express their horror at the notion of a partial government closure seem totally comfortable with the fiscal wall we are barreling into. That wall is being built, brick by brick, by two political parties that are unwilling to end Washington's spending debauchery.

Those sounding the loudest alarms last week are largely silent on the countless occasions when Congress ignores its own budgetary rules. They are rarely outraged when the government is financed with legislation that only expands the balance sheet regardless of whether the money is well spent. All that seems to matter is that government is metaphorically funded, since it usually means growing deficits and explosive debt.

…

Where's the outrage about this fiscal madness? Where are the demands that politicians show us their plans for reform?

One thing's for sure: These calls aren't coming from the shutdown alarmists. How many of them write similarly panicky commentaries about how, in about 10 years, Congress' blatant inaction will lead to across-the-board cuts to entitlement benefits for both the rich and the poor? After all, if legislators decide to borrow more to avoid cuts rather than reforming the programs, it will add another $116 trillion over 30 years to our debt just for Medicare and Medicaid.

Newspapers should be full of reports about how Congress repeatedly fails to perform its core function and avoid this level of fiscal drama altogether. Elected officials should be too embarrassed to show their faces in public. Instead, they can just promise more spending because the real "crisis" is apparently that someone is trying to slam on the brakes—not that there's a fiscal wall looming ahead.

The federal budget is on a treacherous path and Congress is to blame. Politicians are continuously delinquent on their obligation to be good stewards of our fiscal health, but the "irresponsibility" that most reporters and commentators raise their voices against is the risk of shutdown. These people are upset about the symptoms, not the fatal disease.


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No one is qualified to criticize the Biden administration spending without first submitting a proposal for how they will make SS and MC solvent.

Moar jobs is mathematically not an answer so it’s not that one.
 
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