Comments on: To Spend Or Not To Spend: That’s The American Question https://barelyablog.com/to-spend-or-not-to-spend-thats-the-american-question/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gringo Malo https://barelyablog.com/to-spend-or-not-to-spend-thats-the-american-question/comment-page-1/#comment-11245 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:56:07 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=27641#comment-11245 The problem contains its own solution. An unsustainable government must eventually collapse. The only questions are how long the collapse will take and how much unpleasantness it will involve.

]]> By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/to-spend-or-not-to-spend-thats-the-american-question/comment-page-1/#comment-11239 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:39:35 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=27641#comment-11239 As I have said before robbing Peter to pay Paul will always get you Paul’s vote. We need to get tough here and we are so wussieized and womanized and spineless we won’t/can’t do it. Land of the free and home of the brave? More like land of the whiner and home of the same.

]]> By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/to-spend-or-not-to-spend-thats-the-american-question/comment-page-1/#comment-11234 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:41:33 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=27641#comment-11234 I’m a skeptic on Mitch McConnell who has done his utmost to oppose Rand Paul.
No doubt that he objects to “Democrat overspending” but did he EVER object to “Republican Overspending”?

How many of the “Republikeynesians” have voted to end, phase out, or even seriously cut:
(1) Agribusiness subsidies, (2) The Department of Education and “Leave No Child Behind”, (3) Abstinence Education, (4) Manned space exploration, (5) Fannnie Mae, (6) Freddie Mac, (7) Student Loans, (8) The War on Drugs, (9) Housing and Urban Development, (10) The War in Afghanistan, (11) New Attack Submarines while retiring current Submarines, (12) The War in Iraq, (13) Foreign Aid, (14) Steel import quotas and (15) Prescription Drug Benefits???? No doubt there are vastly more programs that violate Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution and economic sense without even getting to the two BIGGIES – Medicare and Social Security.

And where was Ebenezer Scrooge McConnell when Bush and the Republikeynesians were in power? Leading the credit card charge! Making sure Republicans re-elected a loyal “principled” Republican “winner” like Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in 2004.

Had McCain won in 2008, the GOP would be happily handing out promissory money and pushing through amnesty.

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