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TheMercenary 10-05-2010 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 685788)
Yup. And wealthy fucks will always support their right to pay an insignificant drop from their ocean of wealth as taxes. As long as the rest of us are prepared to pay substantial chunks of our meagre earnings to keep the country running why would they care?

The slate article 'reinforces' wealth envy, but that envy is alreayd there to begin with, and frankly, I think that envy is justified. The obscene extremes of wealth and privelege that provoke that envy in the first place: that's unjustifiable.
If everyone pays the same percent of income there is no substantial difference in the chunks of what you earned.

xoxoxoBruce 10-05-2010 09:03 AM
Oh, I see the TARP program looks like it will actually end up making a profit for the government. That's nice.

TheMercenary 10-05-2010 09:52 AM
Last I heard they were going to be in the hole for 65 bil or something, the amount that was never going to be paid back.

xoxoxoBruce 10-05-2010 09:58 AM
That's not what I've been reading this week. Not all the alloted money was spent, so if you add what was left, to what's coming back, it will be at least even and more likely a profit.

TheMercenary 10-05-2010 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 686584)
That's not what I've been reading this week. Not all the alloted money was spent, so if you add what was left, to what's coming back, it will be at least even and more likely a profit.
So what happens to the money not spent? History tells us that Congress just sees it as another pot of money to redirect, rarely put back into paying down the deficit.

xoxoxoBruce 10-05-2010 10:04 AM
The money not spent and the money coming back, but that is beside the point.

classicman 10-05-2010 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 686558)
Oh, I see the TARP program looks like it will actually end up making a profit for the government. That's nice.
George got lucky. . .

TheMercenary 10-05-2010 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 686596)
George got lucky. . .
George will get no credit.

Shawnee123 10-05-2010 10:14 AM
Of course not. Nothing is ever blamed on or credited to (or even attributed to) the president. It's all the congresswhores isn't it? Depending on which side is doing what, right? I wish there were a flowchart as to who to blame and credit. I got lost with Clinton's zero deficit, lo those many years ago. :confused:

TheMercenary 10-05-2010 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 686606)
Of course not. Nothing is ever blamed on or credited to (or even attributed to) the president. It's all the congresswhores isn't it? Depending on which side is doing what, right? I wish there were a flowchart as to who to blame and credit. I got lost with Clinton's zero deficit, lo those many years ago. :confused:
I have stated all along that Congress is the bigger problem in this country. But of course it depends on which flow chart you want to believe. There are charts for Clinton too. :3eye:

Shawnee123 10-05-2010 10:18 AM
I was pointing out a stream that runs both ways. Wade on in, the water's fine.

classicman 10-05-2010 10:26 AM
I think all the demoncrats that Rhammed this through should all get a bonus from whatever money is left. :haha: (I know he wasn't around then)

TheMercenary 10-05-2010 10:28 AM
I don't know about that but it would not surprise me if they tried to redirect it toward pork projects.

classicman 10-05-2010 10:47 AM
See the :haha: smilie?

THAT WAS A JOKE!

tw 10-05-2010 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 686635)
THAT WAS A JOKE!
He is still having difficulty because TARP may have made a profit. It contradicts what extremist politicians have been preaching for years. A bridge loan called TARP may have literally saved the American economy ... and earned a profit. It may have been one of the better investments that Republican made. (So why did those same extremists blame the Democrats? Or will they now take credit for creating TARP?)


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