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GOP’s New Ad Tells Dems: Just Admit You Have a Spending Problem!

Mar. 6, 2013 10:12am Becket Adams

The Republican National Committee on Wednesday released a video imploring Democrats to face up to the reality of the U.S.’ spending problem.

“The first step to fixing a problem is to admit you have one,” the video claims:

It’s no secret that top Democrats are comfortable with the current levels of government spending. Indeed, several of them have proudly disputed claims that, as Ronald Reagan once said, the government spends like a drunken sailor.

“At one point several weeks ago,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told the Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore, “the president said to me, ‘We don’t have a spending problem.’”

“We have to make a judgment about what — how do we get growth with jobs?” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said during on Fox News interview. “That’s where the revenue comes from … So, it isn’t as much a spending problem as it is a priorities [problem], and that is what the budget is, setting priorities.”

“First of all, I want to disagree with those who say we have a spending problem. Everyone keeps saying we have a spending problem,” said Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA). “Is it a spending problem? No, it’s because we have a misallocation of capital, a misallocation of wealth.”

“Does the country have a — the country has a paying-for problem,” Rep. Stenny Hoyer (D-Md.) said during a testy exchange on CNBC. “We haven’t paid for what we’ve bought.”

But, you see, there might actually be a little spending problem:

Now, to be clear, the explosion in spending isn’t a red or blue problem. Indeed, there’s enough blame to go around. But it’s probably best if, you know, everyone’s on the same page.

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Totally Domestic
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 8:08pm
A little to late GOP!

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GravitySailor
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 5:04am
Great post!

But let’s remember that President Obama has not created that chart all on his own–as everyone is claiming. He came into office with two expensive wars and a financial meltdown. The economic experts said we have to spend are way out of the problem os he listened to the experts–we did recover from the nightmare. So yes, the President did spend (stimulus and bailouts) but only to address the giant FIRE Bush & Cheney left in his lap.

Without two wars and a financial crisis, there would have been no need to raise out debt so high.

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Army_of_One
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 4:17pm
Great ad, but 51% of the country is too stupid to understand or care about it’s message. What a shame! Old democratic thought process: repeat it enough and you and others will eventually believe it. Ask the vile peolosi. She actually believes the words that come out of her mouth.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 3:25pm
They know they have a spending problem. They just don’t want you to know they know they have a spending problem.
Well.. It’s not really a ‘problem’. It’s more by design = fundamental change = take down the system = socialism = caliphate = death to the jew and the rest of the infidels = obama’s precious self-salvation (how megalomaniacal is THAT?).

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elosogrande
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:45pm
The big spenders in Congress will not admit they have a spending problem until they run out of money, whether it be tax revenue or borrowed revenue. If there is one dollar left in the treasury to piss away, there won’t acknowlege a spending problem until that dollar is gone.

When they finally piss it all away, the only spending problem they’ll have is no more money to spend.

Vote ‘em all out in 2014! We don’t need any one of them in Congress. Any ****** or thief walking the streets can do at least as good a job as these bozo’s have done for the last sixty years.

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blarman
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:04pm
The problem is that government makes the blanket assumption that it can just keep spending more and more each year – regardless of tax revenues. That’s been a problem for decades. If spending was tied to revenues, it would be under control.

When someone goes to a debt consolidation adviser, the first thing they are told is to create and live by a budget. A budget is mandated by the Constitution, but the Senate Democrats have refused to pass a budget for more than four years.

The video is exactly right: you have to admit there is a problem before you can deal with it. Democrats don’t want to deal with it, don’t want to acknowledge it, all while they lead this country off a literal cliff that will plunge this economy into recession – or worse.

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AUsername
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 1:48pm
Democrats have a problem on welfare and stimulus spending an Republicans have a problem on war and military spending.

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- Mstr Smith
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 3:00pm
  You are correct….Democrats have a problem on welfare and stimulus spending and Republicans have a problem on war and military spending…..Democrats spend on non constitutional items they invented to grow Government and to control you life because they believe they know better than you how to run your life…..Republicans do what the Constitution demands of them, to protect our Liberty by establishing a military….something all Dems want to take away, even your right to protect yourself & loved ones. Get a clue ya maroon!
  
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truthnstuff
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:17pm
WOW! The GOP getting harsh and firing back with both barrels. Really calling out he Marxist regime and exposing their agenda. NOOOOT. These idiots are incapable of exposing the Dems and making a hard factual case against the attack on freedom. This is why the GOP is dead. The regime is laughing all the way to the politburo.

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- naughtycal
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:47pm
  You can’t get a message out when only one station will even report it. Fox is the sole hold out on the creation total monopoly political news propaganda machine. No other station airs the facts.
  Obama and the dems point blank picked the areas for the sequester cuts which is why the military was the biggest hit. He did so think pro defense republicans would never let those cuts happen and he’ld get his debt ceiling raised over and over. He came out time and time again stating that any attempts to change the spending cut placing them in other areas would be vetoed on his desk.
  And now that the cut are happening we have officals that want to target waste instead of primary spending and Obama is sending e-mails that the cuts most be made in areas that will cause the most pain on the citizens and the economy.
  ONLY FOX TOLD IT ALL.
  msnbc,cbs,abc,cnn,,,if you serach for those articles all you’ll hear is crickets.
  
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Salamander
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:15pm
The Dems need an INTEREVENTION! They need EXPOSURE on their HABIT! If the voting public could see that they have broken into OUR PIGGY BANK, and raided it for everything they could get their hands on–and THEN LOOKED FOR MORE IN THE FORM OF NEW TAXES, maybe, just maybe people would wake up! It needs to be in terms of what they understand, like how many school lunches are bought for $x vs. how many students DON’T get school lunches! (Private schools, college students, etc.) The point is to show how ‘the poor’ is really ‘the privileged class’–at the expense of that horribe 1% the press is always knocking!

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Salamander
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:08pm
How about exposing the change in wealth of all the pigs from time of original election to present? They need a little Sunshine!

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DebateMe
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:00pm
We have a spending problem only if you want traditional America back (i.e. capitalism, free marketplace, individualism, liberty etc.).

The democrates want socialism and better yet perhaps some form of communism or marxism. So spending the country to kingdom come isn’t a problem it’s their SOLUTION. We all know it. If we had an honest media, they would have reported this a long time ago.

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shorelineliz
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:50am
Ha. Ha. Spends like a drunken sailor. Ha. Ha. Reagan must have been talking about Boozie Boozie Uncle Joe back then too. Or everyone at the UN Budget Meeting. Or. , hell, the entire congress.

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whobkhazar
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:43am
Now this is the perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black. Evidently hypocriscy is now part of the republikud platform. With a straight face one will now see the super zionist agent, Cantor, talking about how he never spent money like those damn kadimacrats.

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garystinnett
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:53am
First admit you have a problem. If they could just accept that.

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- monitor
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:19am
  You should view these politicians with the deepest contempt you can possibly imagine. What they are doing to this country, what they are doing to our finances – there is not a criminal in any federal prison, state prison, city or county jail, with respect to financial crimes of any sort who collectively could have done the kind of damage that Barack Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and YES, willing, timid, gutless Republicans have done to this country! To your future, to your children and your grandchildren! What they are doing is with malice and with forethought…. What the hell does the Democrat party stand for today? The destruction of America? And what the hell does the Republican party stand for today? To sit there with their thumbs in their mouths while it’s going on? Any politician with an ounce of common sense should be getting on any soap box imaginable and screaming from the top of their lungs that these policies are destroying America!
  
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- Maggie in Indiana
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:31am
  Odd because this new and we all just accepting it as what they have always thought. Again the left steers the discussion.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:35am
  “We haven’t paid for what we’ve bought.” Well at least he got this one right. The FACT is that SS and Medicare trust funds were and are technically solvent from an accounting standpoint. The problem is that going back before Reagan, the government spent more on other things, DEFENSE being one of them than the other tax revenue could pay for so they borrowed from the SS and Medicare. Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. ran up $10 trillion in deficits while SS and Medicare were paying for themselves. So therefor we need to identify which military contractors, infrastructure contractors, IT companies, etc. were the beneficiaries of this government spending and place a surtax on them and their wealthy investors. Oh and let’s not forget that Bush Jr. left the PRESIDENT with a $1.2 trilion deficit run rate when he left office along with the worst recession since the great depression. Yes we have a spending problem, but it is not SS and Medicare at this point and if you stop being lazy and a lemming to the talking points you will realize it isn’t the 15 year old, crack head mother. If the Republicans or Democrats were honest, honorable people they would have set the SS and Medicare funds aside years back and not robbed them to pay for things they refused to fund at the time. For example, you can’t throw 2 wars, implement a Medicare drug benefit and cut taxes when you already have a deficit.
  
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barber2
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:47am
Never happen. The Democrats are still running the Blame Bush meme. And for their old Collapse the American Capitalistic goal ( Hugo must be smiling through the flames ) , the radicals do not view this over-spending as a ” problem” – it is their solution ! Destroying ( oops, they use the more PC word ” change ” ! ) capitalism is their Big Brother C goal !

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SREGN
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:43am
The first thing you do when a family member has a spending problem is to take away their credit cards and cut them up. The Republican majority in the House could do that to Barry and the Senators. But they don’t. Guess they’re just as bad. That’s why I’ve changed parties from Republican to Anarchist.

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hauschild
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:27am
The problem with ads like these is that it only appeals to productive people – roughly 53% of the American population.

Why is this such a difficult concept for so many of us to grasp??? This ain’t your Daddy’s America, people (and particularly the GOP establishment).

You have to begin running ads that blast the 47% and I mean simply shame the hell outta them. It is almost entirely their doing that they find themselves in the position their in. Can you imagine blaming somebody for being in the 47% in a country that affords such opportunity??? It renders me speechless at times.

Losers need not apply. It’s a simple concept and would be a long term winning strategy because when you challenge, a significant majority will respond.

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- MCON29
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:46am
  When you shame or guilt someone, it usually motivates them to do better or do what you ask of them. Atleast it works on me when my wife does it, but I’m also a tax paying productive member of society so I think a little different than your average 47% freeloading low information liberal voter.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:47am
  Is it possible to shame them? Seriously.
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:11am
  Yeah right dumb sh@@.If this were still my daddys america opportunity wouldn’t have been lost.You act as if if its all on being lazy stupid or on the dole.If that were the real and only problem your fix would work perfectly.Its not.We have had overreaching over regulating over spending politicians for decades.Instead of doing what works they do the exact opposite and then double down on it.I just closed up a would be business opportunity.Why?The city I live in has overregulated the small businessman out of business.
  Jobs are drying up due to the downturn in the economy,obamacare and disgust with all the unnecessary hoopla of overregulation overtaxation
  
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- DebateMe
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:57am
  @Hauschild
  “This ain’t your Daddy’s America, people…”
  
  “You have to begin running ads that blast the 47% and I mean simply shame the hell outta them.”
  
  You are right, this is not my Daddy’s America. That’s why shaming the 47% (which I believe is not 47% but at the very least more like 51% but that’s a debate for another day) does not work.
  
  Today’s America celebrates, let me write that one more time for emphasis… today’s America CELEBRATES shameful behavior.
  
  And to varying degrees, all of us are culpable. If you’ve ever watched a ‘reality’ TV show. Bought a book about someone who is nothing but dispicable. If you’ve ever faced the ramblings of a liberal and kept quiet. These are actions that make otherwise good and decent people complicit. I’m guilty too (though not anymore because I’ve changed).
  
  The will of the ’47%’ have the momentum. Their entitlement is emboldened. Try telling someone at the grocery store buying Doritos and lottery tickets using their welfare card that it’s wrong to do so. You’ll get more finger waggling neck bending obnoxiously loud in-your-face shouting than you can throw a stick at. As far as these entitlement people are concerned, ‘DON’T TELL ME HOW TO LIVE’ is all they’ve got.
  
  They never think about how controlled and limited productive people have become in order to pay for the scraps the entitled covet. They remind me of Gollum from Lord of the Rings hissing and snorting at anyone who tries to take hi
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:01pm
  Seriously, guys. And, you actually believe the current road this country’s been traveling down works???
  
  If anybody wonders how a Marxist got “re-elected”, they need look no farther than the negative responses to my post.
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:58pm
  @debateme
  Thanks you get it.Unfortunately hauschild doesn’t.He doesn’t see how limited and constrained those who are productive have become.He doesn’t see the bigger picture as to how and why we ended up with this entitlement society.He either sees what he wants or is a liberal in disguise.Frankly I got tired of debating someone like that along time ago.They are a waste of my time and personal space.
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:28pm
  Yet, you just attempted to debate me.
  
  Again, continue down this road and then sit there beside yourself when the GOP gets hammered again, wringing your hands and muttering foolish things like we didn’t get out enough people to vote, or people have to realize such and such.
  
  In all your beloved elitism, you fail to realize that the citizenry of this country is drastically different in terms of traditional American thought.
  
  Me? I’ll continue down the road far less traveled these days. Probably won’t make a difference, but at least I know I am at least trying.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:24am
They’re too addicted to it. Look at the temper tantrum they throw with a tiny percentage of cuts in money they don’t have to spend.

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- naughtycal
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:33am
  If they can’t buy elections with tax dollars they won’t be elected on their policies or intelligence(they don’t have any)
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:37am
  What cut? Reducing an increase is not a cut. I know you know that, but I hate hearing people refer to the sequester as a cut.
  
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huey6367
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:22am
We have had a spending problem for at least 40 years. When are peole going to realize (Reagan quote) “Government is not the solution to your problem – government is the problem”.

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- hauschild
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:40am
  When you refer to “people”, remember, the vast majority of people in this country are receiving government benefits (in some for or other). And, Americans are no different than any other – they’re greedy and selfish.
  
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- huey6367
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:59am
  It has been said that it is far easier to give things to people than to take them away. You can see that with entitlements.
  
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- AINT_SKEERT
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 11:30am
  The old teach a man to fish quote has changed, it is now; Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, and he will come back complaining about terrible working conditions, and demand another fish.
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 1:09pm
  @hauschild
  You are eat up with it.You live in a fantasy world where almost everyone is on the dole.Hum seems you and my torturers had something in common.They used a myrid of tactics.One was that I was somehow on workmens comp[getting a real spanking from that they are]on the government tit.None of it was true.They displayed the same amount of ignorance you do.Tell me have you posed as someones dead father or husband to claim fraud on them while you commit it.Actually it was one of the methods used to glue them to me until I died or they could convert me[good luck with that I choose death instead if its the only two choices I have]
  Maybe you might want to look in to becoming a welfare fraud investigatior.Then you would have reason to stick your nose into every one elses business and bit@@ about it
  
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- earache-my-eye
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 5:57pm
  @AINT-SKEERT, quote of the day.Awesome!
  
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Gonzo
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:22am
The first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem Barry. Pick up a white chip and repeat after me: My name is Barry and I’m a spendaholic.” Hi Barry!

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- tzion
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:31am
  We should start a new group, SPN: Spendaholic Politicians Non-anonymous (Non-anonymous so we can be sure they complete the program).
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 10:59am
  to both of you.Couldn’t have said it better.Even worse than their spending habits is their over reach and overregulation.I’d like to see them attend meetings on that as well.
  Hi My name is Barry and I’m an overregulating zealot.I simpy not happy unless I’m micromanaging every area of your business and life.I can’t even get out of the way long enough for you to start a business to pay me the taxes I think I deserve.I am your worst enemy and my own as well.
  Welcome Barry,We know its tough to admit this type of problem.We also know the very high rates of relapse.So we have introduced a stronger set of measures.Every time you or anyone in your administration attempts to overregulate you will be cattle prodded the first time and shot the second time.
  The only other treatment option is deportation.Oh and Bon Voyage we knew you couldn’t adhere.
  
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