George Bush Resume

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Gibbits' Resume
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I live in an irrelevent country on a global scale and think color has a "u" in it. Therefore my political opinion is worth what you paid to read it.

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Laugh at my country all you want, when your family is dying of mad cow disease we sent you we might be relevant then.

youandwhosearmy - do a search for "starve the beast" on google.

It's a conservative idea which suggests that the only way to reduce the size of government is to cut taxes by huge amounts. The theory is that since the public likes tax cuts, but it doesn't like deficits, and it's ambivalent about big government, by creating a huge deficit (through tax cuts), the public will be okay with major cuts in government.

Well, instead of just using tax cuts to "starve the beast", how about we use tax cuts - and huge spending increases? If the public has to choose between a bankrupt US government or a government with far fewer social services, which one will they choose?

I don't know if it's true, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Bush was pushing up the deficit wildly in order to justify massive, massive spending cuts in, say, 2006. He doesn't need to get reelected, does he?

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Originally Posted by Melf

Thanks 7F. I kind of thought it didn't sound right when a friend of mine said it but I don't know anyone else in the military around here so there was no one to ask.

Damn, he's in the military and doesn't know about his own benefits. Wait until I tell him! :lol:

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Sorry about that:P I'm not active duty yet and havn't started to get paid so I'm not really "in the system" as of yet.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

And people who don't understand economics have been saying the same thing for the last 50 years. You are wrong. Supply side economics absolutely are to the benefit of everyone.

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no, we dont make anything anymore. all we do is buy. what happend when no one has money to buy and all the cards are maxed. the market will crash.

If you can explain how this simple equation doesnt make sense, feel free to enlighten me.

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Originally Posted by Stone

Well, instead of just using tax cuts to "starve the beast", how about we use tax cuts - and huge spending increases? If the public has to choose between a bankrupt US government or a government with far fewer social services, which one will they choose?

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either way were fucked, its a catch 22.

Arnold is starving the beast in California, he cut taxes, but he also cut state spending, cops are being fired (my friend who would have made a great police officer was told to leave the training program immediatley after the cuts took place), schools are being closed, retirement and senior programs are going. hes privatizing the state.

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Arnold is starving the beast in California, he cut taxes, but he also cut state spending, cops are being fired (my friend who would have made a great police officer was told to leave the training program immediatley after the cuts took place), schools are being closed, retirement and senior programs are going. hes privatizing the state.

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After what Davis did to it, the state needs to be privatized to some degree. California is a fucking train wreck. You need a lot more than a band-aid like tax increases or the car tax to fix the problems. And as far as I know, tax CUTS are not part of his budget - but neither are tax increases. The only thing he cut to my knowledge was the car tax, which should've been cut anyway.

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no, we dont make anything anymore. all we do is buy. what happend when no one has money to buy and all the cards are maxed. the market will crash.

If you can explain how this simple equation doesnt make sense, feel free to enlighten me.

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Ill tell you what, thats not an equation.

its a simpletons's interpretation of capitalism. makes sense to me.

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Originally Posted by Gibbits

Laugh at my country all you want, when your family is dying of mad cow disease we sent you we might be relevant then.

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yeah, you sent it, but who is going to find a cure for it? Not you and your socilized medicine.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

After what Davis did to it, the state needs to be privatized to some degree. California is a fucking train wreck. You need a lot more than a band-aid like tax increases or the car tax to fix the problems. And as far as I know, tax CUTS are not part of his budget - but neither are tax increases. The only thing he cut to my knowledge was the car tax, which should've been cut anyway.

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by the way, the word "tax" is a easy word to use during a campaign, all Arnold did to make up for the tax cuts, roughly 1.3 billion for local governments, was rais fees, college, university, and state park fees. so it all evens out.

Let me also remind you that we are talking about a budget that has not yet been signed into law.

true enough.

by the way i thought of this while reading this thread...

China's great reformer Deng Xiaoping had the message....he effectively ended policy dogmatism by declaring that "It does not matter what color the cat is, as long as it catches the mouse."

In the US you still have people arguing over the color of the cat rather than the real issue - - does it benefit most of the people, and bring up the whole society? Does it float all boats? I could give a rats ass about the color of the cat.