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To: tejek who wrote (598315)	1/17/2011 12:21:06 PM
From: TopCat	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576867

"Let me give you a little secret, as a class, most actors are pretty stupid." Let me give you a little secret, as a class, most unemployed SI posters living in the Seattle area are pretty stupid.

To: tejek who wrote (598315)	1/17/2011 1:02:32 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576867

>>> If your frigging precious stupid Reagan had not come into power, this is what this country's debt would look like: It is a dead link, but it doesn't matter because the argument is sheer idiocy and presumes that some other president would have been able to control expenditures better than Reagan, which they WOULD NOT. More importantly, we would have never seen the peace dividend from Reagan having won the Cold War, and we would STILL be engaged in an arms race today with the Soviet Union. Don't reply. You're too f*cking stupid to have this discussion.

To: tejek who wrote (598315)	1/20/2011 4:21:12 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576867

Your link is irrelevant to the point you quote and respond to. The deficit increasing a lot when Reagan was president (although not as much as it has with Obama as president), doesn't imply or suggest that it wasn't largely because of spending that was driven by programs started by FDR and LBJ. Those programs represent the majority of the budget, and they increase automatically with no new congressional action needed to increase the spending. Spending on those programs drove the deficit even when Reagan was president, it drives it to a greater extent today, and absent major changes that portion will increase even more in the future. They have been gradually taking over the budget.