Spoiled Brat Of The Day: John Boehner « Proud to be a Filthy Liberal Scum

Spoiled Brat Of The Day: John Boehner « Proud to be a Filthy Liberal Scum

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Five Eye-Opening Facts About Our Bloated Post-9/11 'Defense' Spending | | AlterNet

I'm not one of those liberals who say that we should gut the Pentagon budget. I want us to spend enough to be able to defend ourselves and beat anything we have to beat (emphasis on the HAVE TO!) But our military budget has always been stupidly designed and stupidly administered (to the point that retiring President Eisenhower (retired GENERAL Eisenhower) warned us about it.) 

We need to have some serious policy debates about what we want from the military and some serious oversight as to how it gets done. Just by eliminating the waste in the military budget (talk about your Cadillac welfare queens!) we could fund most of what we've had to cut over the last few years and then move on to rebalancing the tax system and paying for some of the things we really need (education and universal healthcare, anyone?)

Five Eye-Opening Facts About Our Bloated Post-9/11 'Defense' Spending | | AlterNet

Nice Day for Trick or Treat?

My disdain for the 'Blue Dogs' is boundless. I hope they surprise us all and fuck the Repugs today.

First Debt Limit Vote Today As GOP Looks To Divide Dems | TPMDC

Love the Way They Balance the Budget!

4 Fantastically Stupid Projects Bankrolled By Republicans Aiming to Please Their Corporate Masters | | AlterNet

Good Article, Great Title :)

Stop the Austerity Craze! Massive Budget Slashing Can Lead to Economic Disaster, Violence and Repression

Little Paul and His Mystical, Magical Roadmap

They really are silly people.

Ryan Budget is Bad for Middle Class

And this is a surprise, why? Everything they do is bad for the middle class!

The 15 Min Solution

A little extreme, but truly, the end game of the Repug battleplan. With much the same logic behind it.

Where the Rubber Meats the Road

Or the Republicans meet the Reality.....

Key Takeaway: "Over the past couple of years, Republicans have done reasonably well
taking orders from Donohue and his crowd, while distracting Tea Partiers
with shiny objects. If I had to guess, I'd say Boehner & Co. will
stay the course with this strategy, and count on confused Tea Partiers
being easily misled, but it won't be easy...."

Alternative View on the Deficit 'Problem'

.. and why it really isn't an issue at all. Clues- we have amongst the lowest rates of taxing and spending of the OECD countries, so there's some room to expand both without worries of our turning into an economc success like oh say Germany :)

Wanna Balance the Budget?

The budget shortfall this year has been estimated at $250b. According to this:

War funding, which averaged about $93 billion a year from 2003 through 2005, rose to $120 billion in 2006 and $171 billion in 2007 and President George W. Bush has asked for $193 billion in 2008...

It would be a start.....