Breaking: Rush Limbaugh Admits GOP Hysteria Over Rising Deficits Were Bogus All Along

Right, the Tea Party had nothing to do with "concern for the deficit and the budget"

Its not like i'm misquoting the guy. It's not like there's some mystery about who he's talking about. Take him at what he's said. He's had time to clarify any of this. Has he?

 

A. The Tea Party is dead. I don't know why you are still going on about it.

B. It's obvious to me who he's talking about. You seem to be clueless however.

 

And then the cons decided to vote for a non establishment Republican to be their POTUS because he would curb spending and he continues to spend like a lunatic. LOL

 

(1) Baseline the Budget
(2) Cut 1% from every department
(3) Additional Defense cuts

(a) Close excessive foreign bases
(b) Cut redundant weapons programs
(c) Stop weapons programs the Pentagon doesn't want, but congress funds to help local constituents​

(4) Additional 1% cut each year for (6) total years and the budget will be balanced, plus excess to start paying down the National Debt.

Leftist like you have NO DESIRE to do something this sensible. You want to spend our kids' future for immediate gratification.

 

Limbaugh is telling you the Establishment Republicans like Ryan, McConnell, etc... were bogus on the matter. But, you love to infer whatever you can to burn down anything that is not Globalists, Leftists, or Big Government.

 

The "Cons" voted for Ted Cruz and lost. They then had an option of Hillary Clinton or Trump and it was an easy choice.

 

While a republican signs off on the deficit spending. During Oblama there was sequestration and the DOD howled about how it couldn't function with a 5% reduction in the budget, yet during Trump it has only increased but you think you can make this about the party not in power, how delusional..

 

Yeah, I can see that. I was wrong that he must have been referring to the Tea Party.

However, what he says applies to the Tea Party. By staying silent during a time of obscene deficit spending during a supposed time of prosperity, the Tea Party are either pathetic for not caring enough to even mount a small protest or hypocrites for simply not caring anymore about debt now that Obama is gone. Either way, the Tea Party (or whoever they are now. Freedom Caucus?) don't come across looking too good.

Any howls of protest over the latest debt ceiling increase? From anyone? The only non-koolaid drinker I've seen lately is Rand Paul, who made a principled, if stupid, stand on debt spending and a 9/11 workers fund.

 

to what? 1975 dollars?

OK, you've cut spending by 1%. Wow.

It's a start, but how much do you really think the above is? Just cut the DoD's budget by 20%. But even then, you're only saving $160 billion a year. The deficit would still be $840 BILLION. And let's be real: we're not going to see anything like 20% DoD defense cuts for a LONG time.

So, as much as I would like to cut the DoD by even the palty amount you suggested, it's just not going to happen. Which leaves us with your 1% spending cuts.
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It won't even be close to being balanced. You can cut the defense budget- scratch that- you can REMOVE the military's ENTIRE budget and still have a $200 billion deficit. Your 1% cuts aren't going to do jack.

We're realists. If spending cuts aren't politically possible, then we either run deficits or raise taxes. The Rich are hated by everyone now, so they're going to pay. Even you guys can't stand them. Have you listened to Tucker lately? I think you're a couple moves behind in the ol 5D chess game. The rich have been taking it in the shorts lately. Verbally. It hasn't turned into policy. Yet.

 

You just figured it out then?

The Tea Party was built, financed, and promoted by the DC GOP establishment! They stirred up the mob for the 2010 mid terms. Once that was over, the money dried up, and the Tea Party slowly imploded.

 

And just like that, the cons stopped caring about the ever increasing deficit. Go figure.

 

It's kinda funny watching liberals hyperventilate about the current debt in one breath, but in the next breath they want free healthcare for illegals, free college, the Green New Whatever $$$$, and $1000/month for every American for doing nothing.

Comparatively, the Republicans really are still the most fiscally responsible.

 

Republicans lose what shred of fiscal responsibility you claim they have once they are in power.

 

Maybe before Republicans let "The King of Debt" take the helm.

 

While the ever rising national debt has been a two party affair all along. Especially since Reagan and Tip O'Neal working together to raise it. The Democrats never made the rising national debt a campaign issue that I can remember. Eisenhower was probably the last president that believed in being fiscal responsible. The national debt actually went down, was lowered in three of Truman's seven years and in two of IKE's eight years. No president since has ever seen when the national debt actually went down, was lowered after IKE.

Truman and IKE did have the advantage of WWII devastating Europe. There wasn't a global economy then, when taxing corporations and rich, they had to pretty much take it as they really didn't have anyplace to move to. Today, when taxes get too much, corporations don't hesitate to move overseas. There's a fine line there.

 

When clinton was in office, Gingrich demanded the budget be balanced
When obama was that in office trying to deal with the worst recession 70 years.... the gop wad outraged at the deficits
We only find out that the deficit doesn't matter when reagan, gw bush, or trump is in office
Btw, lets not pretend this is all new....
what is amazing is that voters fall for the same con game over and over and over again
The next democratic president will again be assaulted by hysteria about the deficit
And the sad thing is that ... by the time trump leaves office, it will be a crisis

 

yep, the Tea Party evaporated when Republicans took over, no where to be found

 

Welfare is largely a non-partisan issue, actually. It's something most people agree on fundamentally.

 

What are you babbling about now? Come on Walter... quit with the hackery. There are many in this thread not cool with Trump's spending approvals. I am one of them. He sucks as bad as Obama.... maybe worse.

 

Wow... what a lot of words that add up to nothing but a complete fail... sorry... you wiffed hard.

What I shared is a hybrid of the Penny Plan. The Penny Plan is a baseline as of now. Cut each department by 1% each year for 7 years and you will have a balanced budget. The math has been confirmed, it will work. My plan adds more from Defense and would work even faster. Please actually look at it. Even a Lefty like you might find it truly thinks of our children and our future.

 

OK, let's project out seven years. Let's be generous and say 3% growth per year, so you've got a roughly 20% bigger economy. How does lopping 1% off spending each year for seven years eliminate a trillion-dollar deficit?

 

It'd be nice to get a genuine fiscal conservative in the white house.

 

Why did the republican base choose Trump over 16 republican politicians??? Because republican politicians tend to be liars. They are blatent liars. No real news in the op.

 

People chose Trump because they were tired of blatant liars??? Trump, of all people?

 

Carter was
Clinton went along
Ghw bush did too, and got crucified