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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (143731)	6/16/2014 4:33:51 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

>> Have you noticed how this nation's approach between 2000 to 2008 landed this nation in a deep hole. No interest in these transitory issues -- there is no agreement about any of it because everything is ambiguous. What matters is that SS, Medicare, Obamacare, and interest on the debt are the four things that Doug Elmendorf testified make our deficits "unsustainable". Unsustainable deficits mean that ultimately, the nation's economy will collapse under the weight of these four items. Three of which are liberal social programs, and one of which is the interest on the debt they created. You can blame Bush or Reagan, or Nixon or Eisenhower. But the reality is that the things that threaten the existence of the nation are SS, Medicare, and Obamacare. And no amount of tinkering with other things matters. Which is the point Elmendorf was making. So, if you want to argue about minutia that doesn't matter, you're really wasting time. Why don't you explain how you're going to fix the mess liberals have created in the short span of less than 80 years, most of it in the last 50?