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AbbyGreenhill
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
19 Sep 16
God is nice but something else actually fell from the sky yesterday - rain, glorious rain.
It started out mid-morning as light drizzle and we were rather disappointed. However, all that changed in the afternoon. When the...
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hoseasmate
@hoseasmate (720)
• United States
29 Nov 12
Instead of forcing individuals to pay taxes, can't the government force them to buy lotto tickets? This surely would wipe out the deficit in just a few short years. Each month a certain amount of people would be required to...
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dcunni2990
@dcunni2990 (120)
• United States
5 Oct 12
I watched the 1st Presidential Debate on Wednesday night after tyring to take a nap from 7:30-8:55. I couldn't. I had a bad night sleeping the night before. I had a headache & was tired, but I really paid close attention to the...
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ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
4 Nov 11
The financial blunders of 3 friends of mine, and a mother who just couldn't say "no" are a great analogy of left and the Federal Government...
These three sisters were raised in a good home, taught in good schools, and...
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estherlou
@estherlou (5015)
• United States
9 Aug 11
I never even knew the US government had a credit rating until recently. And now, for the first time in our history, we have lost the AAA rating we have always enjoyed. Does that define us as a world power? Or does the change just...
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estherlou
@estherlou (5015)
• United States
7 Aug 11
Wow. The government gets $400 Billion in allowable borrowing power, and added $239 billion in debt YESTERDAY. Sounds like same old same old...business as usual in...
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ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
5 Aug 11
First, Wall Street hands Prs. Obama the first punch... the dramatic drop of the Dow Jones average, and right on his birthday!
But the presents just keep on a-rollin' in.
Today Standard & Poor reduced the United State's...
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ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
4 Aug 11
"If the US Government was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year....
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kingparker
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
5 Jul 11
As you might know, our nation, the United States of America is indebted, deeply in debt for the next decades. I don't know how we gonna solve this deficit problem on hand, and how we going to be compete with other nations who will...
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valentinesdiner
@valentinesdiner (1214)
• United States
26 May 11
Part of the deal to pass the budget last month was to cut the WIC program (food and counseling for women, infants and children 5 years old and younger) by hundreds of millions of dollars that had already been approved.
Really?...
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ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
21 Apr 11
There has been deficit spending for as long as there has been a United States of America. That are nothing new. What is new is deficit giveaway programs.
For the first time in our history, the government now gives out more...
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ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
31 Jan 11
I have a quick and easy solution that will save the state budgets tons of money... Let the non-violent, first time offenders out of prison, since they don't belong there anyway!
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laglen
@laglen (19759)
• United States
17 Jan 11
Detroit Public Schools may close half of their public schools and increase high school class sizes to 62 students. Yikes!
Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb is trying to balance the budget with a huge deficit of $327...
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ladybugmagic
@ladybugmagic (3978)
• United States
7 Nov 10
Here is his weekly address.
He addresses the tax cuts that Eric Cantor and the GOP refuse to compromise on....
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gewcew23
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
24 Sep 10
What to do about the Bush era tax cuts have sparked fierce debate. Three positions have emerged, the let all of the tax cuts expire, let the tax cuts for only those above 250K to expire, or let none of the tax cuts to expire. I...
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