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To: TimF who wrote (68650)	1/7/2014 10:40:11 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

The graph you used clearly did not reflect reality. It showed a shrinking of the deficit in the next decade. COme on with lunatics like Obama, Pelosi and Reid do you really expect it to decline? With no fiscal leadership in GOP leadership do you really expect it to decline? While RMF is arguing that it is really not democrats' fault you are both ignoring the elephant in the room. It is going to explode until the rug gets pulled by foreign lenders. Yes Virginia (RMF) the blame rest squarely on the shoulders of democrats. That is not to say that Republicans are blameless. Clearly the Bush 43 years without fiscal leadership of any kind the deficit expanded. Obama made Bush look like a piker, which was no easy task.

To: TimF who wrote (68650)	1/8/2014 11:38:01 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 71588

LOL!! Another convoluted and meaningless rant. It's great how you simply overlay your belief on any template and then espouse what you think is meaningful based on it. Great stuff… and utterly consistent! In Science they have a name for that… and you get laughed out of the lab… know what it is??? DAK

To: TimF who wrote (68650)	1/10/2014 1:43:15 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Their was more to Reagan than just that "blurb of blue". He also seemed to create this impression with Republicans that lowering taxes was ALWAYS good. They seem to just ignore the later tax "raises" that came under Reagan. There's nothing more popular than CUTTING taxes and the Republican mantra in later elections seemed to be based on that. Things have reached a fever point on that now in Congress. They don't want to raise ANY taxes and the Tea Party will hold them to it. So what has happened is that the tax increases are coming at lower levels. At the City level, the County level, the State level. In many cases they aren't referred to as tax increases, they are referred to as FEES. A new fee here, a raised fee there. The MAIN thing is that the vast majority of these new taxes and fees hit the LITTLE guy the hardest.