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TB — 1/7/2013 9:21:06 PM (archived)

How are you going to deal with it?

The deficit for just the first two months of this fiscal year was $292 billion. The tax deal just raised taxes an average of $80 billion a year, max. Go ahead and mark that increase on the above chart, where each horizontal line is $500 billion.

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Circling the fiscal drain - TB - 1/5/2013 4:03:30 PM
- The hostage takers will fail - BuckGalaxy - 1/7/2013 7:00:25 PM
  - Yes, the debt ceiling should be unlimited. - TB - 1/7/2013 7:29:29 PM
    - Wonder what the graph looks like if you add in the cost of the wars under Bush to the Bush years, and subtract them from the Obama years? - alcaray - 1/8/2013 12:57:40 AM
      - Then factor in the surplus Bush inherited. The one which created jobs in hedge funds. - bowser - 1/8/2013 2:10:06 AM
      - Re: Wonder what the graph looks like if you add in the cost of the wars under Bush to the Bush years, and subtract them from the Obama years? - TB - 1/8/2013 2:08:44 AM
        
        I'll even help you out. - TB - 1/8/2013 2:44:18 AM
        
        I'm not used to such capitulation on your part. - alcaray - 1/8/2013 8:15:51 AM
    - And so the way you would deal with this - BuckGalaxy - 1/7/2013 8:51:24 PM
      - Good points n/t - RobVG - 1/8/2013 1:17:25 AM
      - My side isn't running the show any more. - TB - 1/7/2013 9:21:06 PM
        
        Really? So the House has diddly squat to do with it? - Tony - 1/8/2013 9:10:31 PM
        
        Sort of like poking holes in the bottom of the ship then jumping overboard. - bowser - 1/8/2013 2:12:17 AM
        
        What's next? - BuckGalaxy - 1/7/2013 9:54:40 PM
        
        You might want to take a look at those 2011 "budget cuts." - TB - 1/7/2013 10:44:35 PM
        
        Again, - BuckGalaxy - 1/7/2013 10:48:12 PM
- Related: - TB - 1/5/2013 4:21:26 PM

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