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Turns out, those D.C. pols fighting
over our money make much more
than we do

Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm

Original Article

Posted By:SurferLad, 2/28/2013 9:12:05 AM

You may have noticed in the news recently that the folks we just sent to Washington to do the people´s business, aren´t. In fact, lead from behind by President Obama, they´re not doing much of anything except trying to dodge blame for not getting much of anything done. You may recall the "fiscal cliff" we were driving over not so long ago. Now, there´s "sequestration," which has to do with -- read this carefully now -- mandatory cuts of future increases in federal spending.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: olcap, 2/28/2013 9:26:51 AM     (No. 9200650)

Another article which attempts, among other things, to paint the republicans as responsible lawmakers who feel that it´s irresponsible to allow the deficit to climb as it is. Further investigation by ANYONE, hiwever, would find that e republicans spent like drunken sailors durung the Bush years, half of that time while having FULL control of the presidency and both the hiuse and senate.

All of Washington are do nothing freeloaders that all need to be FIRED!


Reply 2 - Posted by: Ranger Applejack Dawson, 2/28/2013 9:33:11 AM     (No. 9200670)

Aaaaamen #1 -

Both parties are awash with POLITICIANS without a STATESMAN in either bunch (except maybe CRUZ). Republicans? Democrats? Makes nary a hair´s worth of difference.

SEQUESTER LAYOFFS?

The first 535 would be easy - and so would the next two (Barack and the BS Bumbler called Joe)


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: bob913, 2/28/2013 1:27:02 PM     (No. 9201140)

Congress raised spending by over 300 billion in January alone!



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