Was talking to a co-worker just today. No clue, no clue at all what’s happening to the country.
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askwhatif on February 17, 2012 at 10:45 AM

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Even the ones with a piece of paper that says they know something can be totally clueless… Very scary and sad.
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It really was an embarrassing hearing. Paul Ryan had to bite his tongue a number of times.

CoffeeLover on February 16, 2012 at 7:11 PM

yup, just keep biting your tongues you ‘Pubs, that will help us out./

I say, let it all out, this is for the big prize (our lives)! Go postal d@mn it!!

charts are hard.

Tim_CA on February 16, 2012 at 6:50 PM

Timmy to Ryan: “But the chart looked better when I was bending over and looked at it between my legs.”

Why would they want to solve the debt problem when they want the economy to fall apart. Americans will have no choice but to flock in droves to the federal government for assistance.

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banzaibob on February 16, 2012 at 7:14 PM

bob,

There will be lots of Americans (95% of them will be conservatives) who will be self sufficient, have water, food and shelter, who will be waiting the collapse out, and not taking a dime from the federal govt. They will also have the vast majority of the weapons, ammo, and prepared defensive positions necessary to keep the riots, freeloaders, and thugs at bay…..

There will be blood. Lots of blood. But it won’t be conservatives losing theirs in the largest margins. Liberals will starve, be beaten, robbed, and killed in droves because they are easy prey and because we won’t be victims to their thuggishness. The American Civil War, or the War of Northern Aggression as my Great Aunt called it, will no longer be the unpleasantness which caused the largest number of American casualties in history….

…. And it will all be because Barack Obama and his filthy Dhimmicrat minions in Congress thought their sh*t don’t stink, and that they knew more economics and fiscal trickery than we conservatives do. And they will be wrong…. right before they are dead of thuggery, starvation, and just plain good old boy vengeance.

Not a threat. But a prediction I feel confident in future occurrence. You folks need to buy ammo, fill sandbags, stockpile food and water, and then pray for the personal strength to do what is necessary to defend yourselves…. against ALL enemies, foreign AND domestic.

Subsunk

I think that this time next year we will be seeing the introduction of across-the-board tax increases, entitlement overhaul/cutting, and a slashing of the defense budget and other spending. They will have a window of about 10-11 months in 2013 to get this done, and the Bush tax cuts (and the payroll tax cut) all conveniently expire at the end of this year. In the meantime, it will be bread and circuses …

TouchdownBuddha on February 16, 2012 at 7:41 PM

There may be talk and blather but nothing will get done. Nothing will get done until a major collapse because that’s just not how the entitlement state works.

Until then, I’m off to sit in a dark room and drink myself into a coma.

Well, you’d best be quick about it, since the World Health Org. wants authority to “regulate alcohol at a global level“, including:

…enforcing such regulations as a minimum drinking age, zero-tolerance drunken driving, and bans on unlimited drink specials. Abiding by the regulations would be mandatory for the WHO’s 194 member states.

And just whose President’s alley does THAT sound right up?

Drink up, Shriners.

Criminal incompetence…

… pure and simple.

Seven Percent Solution on February 16, 2012 at 7:42 PM

There is no such thing. Criminal malfeasance is what you are looking for.

I am the Great Timholio! I need t-bills for my debt hole.

Capp on February 16, 2012 at 7:25 PM

8)

… pure and simple.