permafrost wrote:
jGlad you bring this up.. McConnell is one of the most evil of GOP evil doers, competing with the orange screw ball himself for the #1 spot..
when I stumbled down this morning, I found an interesting article in my inbox.. this is part of it..
For the past few decades, since the 1980’s, it has become very popular for elected officials to achieve that “elected” status by promising to cut taxes, even when the budget didn’t allow them to cut taxes. Sure they could have reduced spending, but they didn’t. They increased spending, and they cut taxes anyway.
So they had to borrow money.
And now they are being asked to repay the money that they borrowed. It’s that simple. Our elected officials cut taxes without paying for those tax cuts with spending cuts. One of the credit cards they used to help fund those tax cuts was borrowing from the Social Security trust fund. They have reached their credit limit on that credit card, and the bank is asking them to repay the money they promised they would repay.
It is really that doggone simple.
But Mr. McConnell and other weasels up in Washington want you to think that it’s more complex than that. They want you to think that Social Security has a problem. The problem is that Mr. McConnell’s creditor is asking him to pay back the money he borrowed, and Mr. McConnell is trying to weasel his way out of his debt by making it sound like the creditor has a problem.
Granted, the weasels like McConnell have been committing this irresponsible management on behalf of us, the American people. We elected them after all. And I do agree that we are accountable for who we elect. It is my fervent hope that we are getting smarter, and results of tomorrow’s election will indicate whether we are continuing to elect lying cheats like McConnell or whether we’re finally starting to turn the tide and send people to Washington who will behave with just a tiny little shred of honesty and decency. We’ll see.
As to the current situation, the federal budget answer is pretty easy. Mr. McConnell and our elected officials need to raise taxes in order to pay the bills that they have incurred. It’s that simple. They know it, but they won’t say it. Why won’t they say it? Because they just passed this massive tax giveaway debacle earlier this year, which compounded the problem even more. THIS IS WHY THEY ARE IN CRISIS—THEY CUT THEIR OWN FUNDING. This is why they can’t pay their bills.
Why is it that the media doesn’t expose their lies every time they utter them? Why doesn’t the media correct them every time they tell this lie, and ask why they are confusing the solvency of the trust fund with the federal deficit. They are two separate things. They are only intertwined to the extent that the federal government needs to repay the billions that they have borrowed from the trust funds. They borrowed that money to help pay for tax cuts. Now it’s time to repay the money. How they gonna do it?
Well, Mitchy boy, how ya gonna do it?
jGlad you bring this up.. McConnell is one of the ... (
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Another 1 of your LONG WINDED POSTS that say NOTHING but what you get from liberal MSM & other socialist/dems in the forum !!!