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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle At The Door
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:00:57 -0800
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:05:59 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 1/10/2025 9:09 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:11:49 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
>> wrote:
>>=20
>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> Pearls Before Swine: Uncle At The Door
>>>>     https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2025/01/08
>>>>
>>>> I figure before this nightmare is over, they will come for all of =
our
>>>
>>> It's your fault.   Voting for for the spend and no tax republicans.
>>=20
>> I call them "spend and spend". As opposed to the "tax and spend"
>> Democrats fiscally-conservative Republicans used to attack.
>>=20
>>> One should reduce spending - before - reducing the income.  Any =
rational
>>> non-republican recognizes that.   The "starve the beast" idiom is =
stupid
>>> GOP thinking that obviously hasn't been effective.
>>=20
>> The goal of the GOP since Ronnie has been to destroy Social Security.
>>=20
>> The National Debt is their primary weapon.
>>=20
>> They aren't going to reduce it -- they are going to use it to destroy
>> Social Security, and probably Medicare as well.
>>=20
>> Because, after all, 1%-ers don't need those programs, so nobody else
>> does either.
>>=20
>> The /real/ problem is that the Dems aren't going to reduce the
>> National Debt either. Even if they collect money to do so, they will
>> find something else to spend it on.
>>=20
>> Both Parties need severe wedgies. Republicans more than Democrats, but
>> the Dems are by no means exempt.
>
>Historically the Dems have reduced the national debt and balanced the=20
>budget MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more than the Repubs.  The Repubs don't even try=
=20
>to do either.

To be sure, but that was in the past.

Clinton, our last fiscally-responisble President, left office with a
/surplus/. His Republican successor found nothing better to do with it
but reduce taxes on rich people. At least /that/ tax cut was funded.
Unlike the one in 2017.

And, let's face it, "reduce the Debt" just isn't as /sexy/ politically
as "let's spend the money on [just about anything else]".
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"