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<blockquote data-quote="HMFIC" data-source="post: 1587710" data-attributes="member: 7539"><p>Lies lies lies.</p><p></p><p>I'm pleased that Inhofe and Coburn voted no and I'll be calling their offices today to commend them and let them know they have my support.</p><p></p><p>Bunch of crooks in Congress... they blame the spending on "the government". It's THEM! THEY are "the government".</p><p></p><p>Let me break it down. They raised the debt ceiling by $2.4 Trillion. It is the largest debt increase EVER + it follows the second largest increase EVER, ALSO during Obama's reign. That increase was $1.9 Trillion, just LAST YEAR in Feb 2010!!!</p><p></p><p>RIGHT NOW, the current total debt is $14.3 Trillion. So they raised the limit by 17% to $16.7 Trillion!</p><p></p><p>The 2012 Federal Budget is $3.7 Trillion. That means they raised the debt limit by 65% of the budget!!! Insane!</p><p></p><p>The $21 Billion that they claim they "saved" when compared against the proposed 2012 budget of $3.7 Trillion means that Congress and the White House in their infinate wisdom have agreed to cut that spending by .57% (that's a little over a HALF of ONE PERCENT).</p><p></p><p>Compare this to the projected tax revenues for 2012 of $2.6 Trillion. They're already proposing to OVERSPEND by $1.1 Trillion and all they can cut for us is $21 Billion.</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">This all would be comparable to you making $50,000 a year while having a current total debt of $275,028. Then going out and opening a line of credit for an additional $46,102 to bring your total indebtedness to $321,130. Then, actually spending $21,154 MORE than you made for a total of $71,154 in the year. You would justify taking out that extra $46,102 line of credit by saying that it's ok because you've already identified ways to trim $406 from the extra $21,154 that you wanted to spend originally.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HMFIC, post: 1587710, member: 7539"] Lies lies lies. I'm pleased that Inhofe and Coburn voted no and I'll be calling their offices today to commend them and let them know they have my support. Bunch of crooks in Congress... they blame the spending on "the government". It's THEM! THEY are "the government". Let me break it down. They raised the debt ceiling by $2.4 Trillion. It is the largest debt increase EVER + it follows the second largest increase EVER, ALSO during Obama's reign. That increase was $1.9 Trillion, just LAST YEAR in Feb 2010!!! RIGHT NOW, the current total debt is $14.3 Trillion. So they raised the limit by 17% to $16.7 Trillion! The 2012 Federal Budget is $3.7 Trillion. That means they raised the debt limit by 65% of the budget!!! Insane! The $21 Billion that they claim they "saved" when compared against the proposed 2012 budget of $3.7 Trillion means that Congress and the White House in their infinate wisdom have agreed to cut that spending by .57% (that's a little over a HALF of ONE PERCENT). Compare this to the projected tax revenues for 2012 of $2.6 Trillion. They're already proposing to OVERSPEND by $1.1 Trillion and all they can cut for us is $21 Billion. [SIZE="4"]This all would be comparable to you making $50,000 a year while having a current total debt of $275,028. Then going out and opening a line of credit for an additional $46,102 to bring your total indebtedness to $321,130. Then, actually spending $21,154 MORE than you made for a total of $71,154 in the year. You would justify taking out that extra $46,102 line of credit by saying that it's ok because you've already identified ways to trim $406 from the extra $21,154 that you wanted to spend originally.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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