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| 21 Sep 2014 02:44 AM |
The US has more debt than it has money ...
Shouldn't someone be doing something about that? |
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| 21 Sep 2014 04:09 AM |
| They really can't do anything about that but cut costs.. mainly the army. |
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| 21 Sep 2014 05:41 AM |
| nah because congress would lose it's leverage |
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Zech9005
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| 21 Sep 2014 06:04 AM |
Trim the military and legalize herb.
If congress can then agree on a budget we'd actually have it balanced for once. |
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| 21 Sep 2014 07:41 AM |
Wow, this is news to me! Not. And a nations economy is never easy to fix m8, we are trying as hard as we can. |
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| 21 Sep 2014 08:36 AM |
| Isn't this every government ever, mate. |
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| 21 Sep 2014 08:40 AM |
| Yea but 5 trillion of that debt is owed to ourselves. |
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warmboy29
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| 21 Sep 2014 09:25 AM |
"Isn't this every government ever, mate."
The US has the most debt than any other country at 13 trillion dallors.
We owe a lot of money to china as well.
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jjj344
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| 21 Sep 2014 09:32 AM |
We are at $17,750,317,100,000 dollars right now.
Take that one shot because if you do, you hold the keys to change the future. |
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| 21 Sep 2014 09:40 AM |
| Most countries are like that. |
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Dulexo
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| 21 Sep 2014 01:11 PM |
Cut social welfare and social security programs, they shouldn't exist, period.
Trim the size of the military down a bit.
Sell surplus military equipment to other countries.
Legalize ganja and tax it to hell. |
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| 23 Sep 2014 04:20 PM |
>"Cut social welfare and social security programs, they shouldn't exist, period."
Sorry, I'd have to disagree. I think using social Darwinism as a model for running our country is not a good thing, which is exactly what you're proposing.
With no safety net programs, the large will crush the weak. If you can't get a job, you'll just starve to death on the streets. Especially social security. Without this, the elderly, who can't work, will die off. Which I think is immoral.
Welfare isn't a bad thing at all. People like to lie to you and say only lazy people use it, but only 1% of welfare has been shown to be fraud. 99% of it is people using it who actually need it. It's not like you can go on things like unemployment forever. You can only go on it for a certain amount of time, unless you're working full time, then you can get welfare just to help make ends meet since many jobs don't pay living wages in this country.
It's not like this is even a financial problem. We can easily pay for all this if we trimmed town the military, as you said. The military takes up 30% of the budget. Cut that to 10% and we have fortunes to spend on this program. We could afford to give everyone free healthcare, rather than just the elderly. I mean, if Canada could have a good free healthcare system, why can't we?
And before you say their's is bad, let me respond a few disproven myths: The wait times in Canada for healthcare are not ridiculously long, and Canadians aren't coming to America for healthcare. Both of these are disproven and just falsehoods.
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Zech9005
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| 23 Sep 2014 04:26 PM |
Yeah, if you think only 1% of the people on welfare are fraud, you need to expand your horizons.
Seriously. Visit an inner city. Or Trailer park.
Other then that, I agree with you.
And 0zone, if you "Tax it" to the point it's ridiculous, nobody is gonna buy from dispensaries. Moderately tax is like Cigs and i'll gladly pay a little extra for every purchase to be legal. |
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| 23 Sep 2014 04:31 PM |
"People like to lie to you and say only lazy people use it, but only 1% of welfare has been shown to be fraud."
agree with most things you said but would appreciate source on this since i have trouble believing that |
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| 23 Sep 2014 04:34 PM |
| As long as there are banks all governments will be in debt. |
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| 23 Sep 2014 04:37 PM |
| We could pay it back fasterif we stoped devalueing our money by printing so god damn much of it |
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| 23 Sep 2014 04:58 PM |
| Also OP confirmed for not understanding how national debt works. PROTIP: It's not anything like credit card debt |
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| 23 Sep 2014 04:59 PM |
"We owe a lot of money to china as well." We do owe a lot of money to China, but that's not the country the most debt is owed to from the USA. |
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| 23 Sep 2014 05:49 PM |
| I found out, even with the debt, that the UK is poorer than every US state except fro Mississippi. |
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al648
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| 23 Sep 2014 05:57 PM |
Actually most countries are in debt. Claiming debt would practically be an act of war.
The Chezburger Lover, ♥❶❸❸❼♥ |
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| 23 Sep 2014 11:35 PM |
2/3 of that debt is to ourselves (federal reserves, local governments, etc.)
and it isn't a measure of "how much we owe china/how much china owns us/why amurca le-teriialer suckles xD"
you know what much of that debt is?
borrowing between branches of the government trust funds pensions bonds mutual funds
and fun fact - less than 10% of our debt is owed to china!
"Cut social welfare and social security programs, they shouldn't exist, period.
Trim the size of the military down a bit.
Sell surplus military equipment to other countries.
Legalize ganja and tax it to hell."
upper class trust fund kid detected
and we already do
and people would complain about the ridiculously high price of herb and keep buying it from the shady dude in apartment 8c |
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| 24 Sep 2014 02:11 AM |
| And what's worse china will surpass the united states to become the worlds biggest economy sometime soon, Because it has lower debt. Only heard it in the news though. If this continues not only is there going to be a cuts in the military, But also in other things. Were talking about food stamps,Insurances etc. Note that It's in Orange-yellow condition in Economic growth stats. |
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| 24 Sep 2014 02:49 AM |
| That debt doesnt do anything. Its just growing number. |
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