The First Ever Recession in Washington DC is Coming!

How has this shithead not been assassinated by a woman yet?

 

Because they don't have the balls......

 

We need to cut some fat so we can pay for that investigation into voting fraud.

 

Spoiler

 

I would much rather have the Federal govt. spend money on the NEA and arts rather than a dumb ass wall.

 

Maybe we can get Mexico to pay for the NEA

 

Probably a better chance of that happening.

 

All your article shows that there is a balance, it's pretty easy to see why too much or too little government spending can be an issue. Heritage slants to the right, albeit not far right, but I have no qualms with the basic nothing that too much government spending is a bad thing. What we are spending the money on matters the most, not the amount.

Spending trillions on the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars is something that isn't beneficial. Automatic spending for when the 2007/2008 economic crisis hit kept our people's heads above water. The bailouts, which have been almost fully paid back by the companies still solvent, saves hundreds of thousands of jobs that would have required social spending if they lost. Spending on SSN and Medicare is beneficial because without it a majority of seniors would be spending their last decades/years in actual poverty. Do we need to reform entitlements to match today's conditions? Yep as people are living longer and healthcare is more expensive since we use more of it.

No, people make bad businesses decisions. In the ethanol case, it was private agricultural interests that proposed this plan to it's respective local and state governments and to the Feds who crafted the final plan.

I too am concerned about how the money is spent and since we have pretty good handle of the costs of obesity, I think it's asinine we subsidized obesity through our food policies from farm to cafeteria food to food stamps. I think it's asinine how much educational money is spent on administration.

Which is what the Supreme Court is for as these issues have actually been already decided battled and decided on.

I disagree that social programs are optional in the 21st century.

I agree that cuts will have to be made as we are not a sustainable path, with the boomers retiring in mass starting 2018ish. Depending on how large the Trump tax cuts, which will lower revenue, will also dictate what needs to be cut.

That is completely wrong as health and sanitation has greatly improved. Education has greatly improved from 1917 to 1957 to 2017 despite today's shortfalls. Crime rises and falls but we are still living in a safer era than before WW2. The quality of life has dramatically changed because we spent public money and created then enforced minimum standards.

Social programs were the result of the end of the first industrial (19th century) and then the second industrial revolution (20th century). Communism was a result of the inequality that the owners of the technology and capital were getting nearly all the wealth while the workers toiled, often in very unsafe conditions.There was a lot of social unrest due to technology making production easier and more profitable for the owners/shareholders.

Most of America's history is farming, ranching, and moving westward to farm and/or ranch more. We simply had no use of a strong federal government until technology drove us from the farms to the cities and changed how we lived. It certainly didn't help Jim Crow Laws showed what states were capable of.

I think we need to weaken the federal government in some areas and strengthen in it others in order to adapt to the 21st century.

Not according to the Supreme Court which is why the GOP is merely cutting funding to departments and putting people in charge who will be lax about enforcement and standards.

The founders made the Constitution vague intentionally. Instead of making it crystal clear, they created a court system to determine constitutionality. If the founders intended on a weak government then the anti-federalists faction would have prevailed instead we got this: Scroll down to the federalism section. The Supreme Court has had to decide on a lot of things, one of them being whether social spending is constitutional.

 

I like it. A wall is a much better investment than the NEA whether Mexico reimburses us or not.

 

Coming from a fundamentalist, it doesn't surprise much.

I recently learn a bit about art and religion and found one thing common between them. As with religion, arts evoke an experience in you. It's not something that you can explain and is quite personal.

 

Don't worry folks in 4 years they will tear down that stupid wall they build and undo the damage Trump has done. Well some of it.

 

Also gotta pay for Trump's golfing trips to the Mar-a-Lago

 

Democrats don't have a candidate tbh. And as seen by the DNC Chair Election disaster, they still don't have a clue.

The whole "Trump is a Russian spy working for the Russians" is literally the exact same thing as "Obama is a Muslim born in Africa working for the terrorists." They both sound just as stupid to the average person.

It's gonna be 8 years of Trump if the Democratic Party continues like this.

 

Original poster and his supporters on this thread have drunk the kool aid that government spending is bad inherently bad and somehow bad and thereforefor the economy. This meme was introduced by the folks way above these posters pay level who have enjoyed the tax breakd

Bobbie, quit trying to defend the Iraq War despite your role, small as it might have been, in the stupid Iraq War which has brought us so much terrorism and ongoing expenses.. You were misinformed by think tanks and media you trust on the war.. Too bad you have yet to realize that the same media /think tanks you trust have fooled you into simplistic government hating so you end up supporting support tax breaks for them and not little guys like you.