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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle At The Door
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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:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I call them "spend and spend". As opposed to the "tax and spend"
> Democrats fiscally-conservative Republicans used to attack.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The goal of the GOP since Ronnie has been to destroy Social Security.
> 
> The National Debt is their primary weapon.
> 
> They aren't going to reduce it -- they are going to use it to destroy
> Social Security, and probably Medicare as well.
> 
> Because, after all, 1%-ers don't need those programs, so nobody else
> does either.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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 
budget MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more than the Repubs.  The Repubs don't even try 
to do either.

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dirty old man.