Spending Cuts, Anyone?

[Zam-Zam]

According to a CNN poll, that's what a majority of Americans want:

CNN Poll: 60% say debt ceiling increase should come with spending cuts

Sixty percent of Americans say Congress should only raise the nation’s debt ceiling if it cuts spending at the same time, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, as the government’s June 1 “hard deadline” to avoid economic catastrophe looms large over Washington. Few see President Joe Biden or the Republicans in Congress as acting responsibly in negotiations over the debt limit, with most in both parties more concerned that their side will give up too much than that the United States will default on its debt.


Complete text: CNN Poll: 60% say debt ceiling increase should come with spending cuts | CNN Politics

If CNN's findings are anything close to accurate, it would seem that most people don't place a great deal of faith in the people who run the country.

Shocker!

 

[Addy]

I find it interesting how the repubs are always eager to tighten their belts in when the country has a dem president.
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From your link:
Still, a broad majority of Americans favor raising the debt ceiling (84%), with just 15% saying Congress should not do so under any circumstances. Besides the 60% who support raising the ceiling alongside spending cuts, 24% say it should happen no matter what.

 

[sensible don]

I find it interesting how the repubs are always eager to tighten their belts in when the country has a dem president.
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From your link:
Still, a broad majority of Americans favor raising the debt ceiling (84%), with just 15% saying Congress should not do so under any circumstances. Besides the 60% who support raising the ceiling alongside spending cuts, 24% say it should happen no matter what.
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You know this above is so true, yet here we are once again. People aren't that stupid anymore, well maybe the cult base is OBVIOUSLY.
Let's GOP Brandon

 

[Zam-Zam]

I find it interesting how the repubs are always eager to tighten their belts in when the country has a dem president.
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From your link:
Still, a broad majority of Americans favor raising the debt ceiling (84%), with just 15% saying Congress should not do so under any circumstances. Besides the 60% who support raising the ceiling alongside spending cuts, 24% say it should happen no matter what.
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Republican politicians like to say they want to lower debt, but history shows that they are complicit with the Democrats in raising it year after year.

Both sides will squabble like poorly behaved children, both sides will blame the other for everything, and some partisan voters on both sides will fall for it. Nothing new under the sun.

Meanwhile, the debt just keeps getting bigger, the government more bloated and inefficient, and the politicians ever more corrupt. That's our system at present.

Faith in government is faith wasted. They have their best interests at heart, not ours.

There is at least a sliver of good news in that they are fooling fewer and fewer people everyday. Eventually, we all answer for our actions, and there are no exceptions.

In the end, it's all good.

 

[TBLee]

You know this above is so true, yet here we are once again. People aren't that stupid anymore, well maybe the cult base is OBVIOUSLY.
Let's GOP Brandon

It appears the majority of American’s want some sense of responsibility from those elected. Spending cuts would be a good start.

 

[Zam-Zam]

You know this above is so true, yet here we are once again. People aren't that stupid anymore, well maybe the cult base is OBVIOUSLY.
Let's GOP Brandon

A few thoughts on "stupid":

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell


It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Thomas Sowell


If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Epictetus





It's all good.

 

[sensible don]

Let's have a default party and watch the elites jump from their ivory towers !

 

[middleview]

I find it interesting how the repubs are always eager to tighten their belts in when the country has a dem president.
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From your link:
Still, a broad majority of Americans favor raising the debt ceiling (84%), with just 15% saying Congress should not do so under any circumstances. Besides the 60% who support raising the ceiling alongside spending cuts, 24% say it should happen no matter what.
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The time to cut spending is when they vote on the budget...not after having passed a budget and it's time to pay the bills.

 

[middleview]

Let's have a default party and watch the elites jump from their ivory towers !

It wouldn't be the elites that get hurt.

 

[Zam-Zam]

The time to cut spending is when they vote on the budget...not after having passed a budget and it's time to pay the bills.

It's never a wrong time to do the right thing.

 

[middleview]

It's never a wrong time to do the right thing.

The right time to vote on spending cuts is before you spend the money.

 

[Zam-Zam]

The right time to vote on spending cuts is before you spend the money.

Our government routinely spends money they don't have.

Are they not doing the right thing?

 

[as seen on tv]

According to a CNN poll, that's what a majority of Americans want:

CNN Poll: 60% say debt ceiling increase should come with spending cuts

Sixty percent of Americans say Congress should only raise the nation’s debt ceiling if it cuts spending at the same time, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, as the government’s June 1 “hard deadline” to avoid economic catastrophe looms large over Washington. Few see President Joe Biden or the Republicans in Congress as acting responsibly in negotiations over the debt limit, with most in both parties more concerned that their side will give up too much than that the United States will default on its debt.


Complete text: CNN Poll: 60% say debt ceiling increase should come with spending cuts | CNN Politics

If CNN's findings are anything close to accurate, it would seem that most people don't place a great deal of faith in the people who run the country.

Shocker!



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Democrats in the house and senate are receiving reassuring phone calls from Biden's closest advisors, telling them not to worry. Nothing important is facing the axe. White man speak with forked tongue!"

 

[Zam-Zam]

Democrats in the house and senate are receiving reassuring phone calls from Biden's closest advisors, telling them not to worry. Nothing important is facing the axe. White man speak with forked tongue!"

Politicians and associated minions, perhaps, "speak with forked tongues".

 

[middleview]

Our government routinely spends money they don't have.

Are they not doing the right thing?

No. The republicans are not trying to be fiscally responsible. If they were they'd have voted against tax cuts.

 

[Zam-Zam]

No. The republicans are not trying to be fiscally responsible. If they were they'd have voted against tax cuts.

Agreed. They should have. So should Democrats, unless you believe it is right for one and wrong for the other.

That's all in the past, however, and nothing can be done about that, so let us concentrate on the present.

I believe that there is no wrong time to do what is right.

I also believe that it is possible to do more than one thing at a time.

Ergo, if reducing the burden on the taxpayer and raising the debt ceiling in order to avoid default are the right things to do, then that's what our elected representatives should do.

And, if CNN is correct, that's what most Americans think they should do.

I agree with them.

 

[middleview]

Agreed. They should have. So should Democrats, unless you believe it is right for one and wrong for the other.

That's all in the past, however, and nothing can be done about that, so let us concentrate on the present.

I believe that there is no wrong time to do what is right.

I also believe that it is possible to do more than one thing at a time.

Ergo, if reducing the burden on the taxpayer and raising the debt ceiling in order to avoid default are the right things to do, then that's what our elected representatives should do.

And, if CNN is correct, that's what most Americans think they should do.

I agree with them.

Biden should have already submitted the budget for next year. The debt ceiling is to pay for what congress has already passed. What McCarthy is trying to do is to reverse a budget that was already passed.

 

[Zam-Zam]

Biden should have already submitted the budget for next year. The debt ceiling is to pay for what congress has already passed. What McCarthy is trying to do is to reverse a budget that was already passed.

Shoulda coulda woulda.

None of that matters anymore. What matters is what they do now.

 

[middleview]

Shoulda coulda woulda.

None of that matters anymore. What matters is what they do now.

It would be helpful if you actually paid attention to the budget process.

If McCarthy wants to cut spending the place to do it is in the budget that either is in the house or has yet to be submitted. Not in the legislation intended to pay for what Congress already passed.

 

[Dawg]

Majority means nothing to politicians, if voting made a difference they wouldn't allow WE THE PEOPLE to vote.

It's not IF USA will default, it's WHEN and if we continue as now it will be sooner than later
A US debt default is the wake-up call the world needs (msn.com)