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Democratic Congressman: National Debt is a ‘Myth’

Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL):

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  • adifftake
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:46am

    Sorry I’m laughing to hard to comment.

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  • Autonomous_System
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:42am

    If the debt is not real, Please Obama….Gimme and everyone else $5,000,000 of those Obama Bucks.

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  • matinva
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:40am

    This is the same idiot who was videotaped stating he didn’t care about the Constitution. Go figure.

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  • Damage6
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:39am

    This clown reminds me of the other dhimicrat a couple of weeks back (can‘t remember which they’re all starting to blend together in one giant clown calvalcade). He was saying that the current spending level is OK because we spent 110% of GDP in 1945. One major difference back then is we had almost all of the worlds heavy and light manufacturing capacity since the rest of the world’s factories were bombed flat. We also produced the lion share of the world’s energy and the rest of the world had no choice for decades but to purchase what durable goods they needed from us. That‘s what fueled the boom years of the 50’s and 60′s allowing us to pay down that debt. Now we’re bleeding what little manufacturing capacity we have left overseas and dependent on others for the greater portion of our energy. If we don’t get spending under control and do something meaningful to spur the growth of the manufacturing sector ASAP we are SCREWED. Period.

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  • free2bme1961
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:34am

    The debt is real,it just hasn’t been revealed yet where some of it came from…: ((

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  • charliego
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:32am

    Sooooo—ignorance is bliss and denial solves problems. Hope he never teaches in our already assaulted schools-education system that has been overwhelmed by such attitudes and propaganda. I would not insult my children’s minds–with lies and half-truths. they need to know so they are fore warned and forearmed, not led down a path like mindless sheep. thank you

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  • charles48
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:32am

    progressives live in this fairy tale land where animals speak to you and nothing is ever wrong while the rest of us live in reality. They must have good drugs over thier always high as a kite

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:32am

    does anyone wonder what drugs some of these people do?

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  • Patriot
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:30am

    Wow! He must have worked for the unions before he went to Washington. If this guy was any more detached from reality they would have been broadcasting that speech from the asylum. Oh yeah, wait, that’s where he was? The DC Asylum?

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  • Steve
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:30am

    Is this the same guy who thought “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…” was part of the Constitution, and not the Declaration of Independence?

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  • maxstout
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:29am

    Here’s a little item for thought:
    A trillion is a thousand billion.
    How many years are in a trillion seconds?

    31,260 years!!

    And we’re 13.5 trillion in debt?

    November will send the ultimate message to DC:

    STOP SPENDING – STOP SPENDING – STOP SPENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Steve
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:06am

      1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) is equal to one million millions, or
      1,000,000 x 1,000,000

      That’s a lot!

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    • Freelancer
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:56am

      If you stacked the $13.5 Trillion in just our national debt in $1 bills, it would reach a height of 810,000 miles.

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  • wingedwolf
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:29am

    They aren’t keynesian or anything else. They want to collapse the system for their one-world-totalitarian governance under social/communist rule. I can understand that they think, being so “elite” that their lives will be just fine, it is only us, the unwashed and stupid, whose lives will take a downward spiral. But how do they thing they will care for their own families when they have run out of evil rich people’s money to spend on themselves? The system we have established has infinite possibilities, whereas they system they desire to create establishes a finite amount of money allowed to be made. What happens when that runs out? Look at Cuba, Spain, Greece, Old Russia and so on. That is what will happen here if these people are permitted to accomplish their objectives. And there will have to be rivers of our blood shed to take our country and freedoms back if we let them win now.

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 3:22pm

      Inflation – stealth taxation

      Inflation is not a recent phenomenon. During the 19th Century the inflation rate in the United States was 12% for the entire Century. In 1800, $0.89 had the purchasing power of $1.00 in 1900, a change of about 12% in 100 years. From 1900 to 2007 the inflation rate was about 25 to 1, a change of 2500% in 107 years. A Google search lists over 20 pages of “inflation calculators” three of the most popular inflation calculators list the inflation rate of between 24.6 and27.71 from 1900 and 2007. In other words, $1.00 in 1900 was worth around $25.00 in 2007.

      What happened? In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s four factors emerged that caused inflation to increase. These are:
      • Creation of the “Fourth Branch of Government” the Bureaucracy
      • Enacting and enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act.
      • Creation of the Federal Reserve
      • Enacting the income tax
      • Wars

      How did these factors cause such erosion in the value of the dollar? Chapter 9 of “21st Century Common Sense” explains in simple terms how these factors produced inflation of the dollar and aided the “Wannabe Peers” in usurping our freedom. http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • tierrah
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:58am

      Toby, just visited your site – it’s wonderful!!! I’ve never been overly bright when it comes to economics or the workings of the stock market; but your explanations are mostly simplistic, enabling me to grasp, for the first time in my life, an understanding. Thank you. I don’t have the money right now to purchase your book, but plan to add it to my “wish list” at amazon. It was a pleasure meeting you via your website!

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  • ed0315
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:29am

    Democrap from Illinois what more needs to said? Who else came from Illinois?

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  • egosumverum
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:29am

    What?/?/?/?/?///?/////???///????? I hate to admit this, but I am laughing so hard that my eyes are watering. This person has proven himself to be too stupid to hold any office. Please catch him in a net, put him in a straight jacket, and lock him in a rubber room forever.

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    • Freelancer
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:34am

      The rubber rooms are all full of teachers that can’t be fired because of union rules….

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  • Ricky Bobby
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:28am

    Brilliant !

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  • jowolo
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:27am

    first thing that comes to mind…IMBECILE…….as are most demonicrats

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  • Jmanzione
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:25am

    No Mr Hare, UNICORNS are a myth, the debt is very real. Of course, statistics that say there are a certain percentage of people that will believe anything “their” political party says, it doesn’t surprise me that you are attempting to enforce a myth as dangerous as this. Sure, your party has more than its share of uneducated, generation-by-generation of welfare recipients (of ALL colors), but even those that refuse to listen to an opposing view are beginning to think something isn’t right. You sir, are a damned fool.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:24am

    HAHAHA He’s from CHI TOWN, the land of delusions, what do you expect? They all have their heads where the sun don’t shine! ;)

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  • Poverty with a view
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:22am

    He’s right, I know this because a unicorn told me the same thing as I was hiking across a rainbow to see the fairies in the land of lolliepops.

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  • ron342
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:22am

    Phil Hare, D-IL….debunk the myth that you will remain in your congressional seat after the 2011 general election!!!!! It’s inept politicians like you that spin lies upon the American people and have contributed to the grave circumstances we find ourselves in.

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  • claymoremacm
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:22am

    clueless

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:22am

    What a moron. There is no national debt, so spend as much as you want.

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    • TheQuill
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 8:53pm

      Well since the Easter Bunny and Santa are myths, so is our debt. We demos are not spending money and turning the country into a socialist paradise. We are all for the American way, Charge It, Charge It. Please is everyone in Illinois politics shy a few brain cells and sniffing glue?

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  • Beckofile
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:20am

    Help your children down the road by maxing their credit card and ruining chances of opportunity to the prosperity to pay it off??? Another Keynesian that thinks we can spend ourselves and our children into prosperity…..Dumb

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  • JohnnyGalt
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:19am

    Woah if our debt is a myth, I think it should be a Liger, half Lion half Tiger with wings… You know their bred for their magic and skills right?

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    • JohnnyGalt
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:25am

      EDIT: You know they’re bred for their magic and skills right?

      I hate mixing those up….

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  • Freelancer
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:17am

    All I can say is on WHAT PLANET does this clown reside?

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    • DevotedDad
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:27am

      I guess it is also a myth that:

      The dollar is losing value

      Record number of people are buying gold

      Obama has socialist beliefs

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    • rusty2x
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:39am

      The same planet all the liars and theives are living on… Uranus

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    • ConsiderThis
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:48am

      Planet’s name is “ObamaWorld”

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    • momsense
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:52am

      ditto !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:01am

      he must be a graduate of univ of illinois, maybe had professor bill ayers

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:21am

      GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND TAXES

      The “standard operating procedure” of the aspiring “PEERS” is to present inflated predictions of the effects of their proposals with no hint of the disasters that one would reasonably expect to result from such action. That is just how the $825 billion “STIMULUS PLAN” was presented to us.

      The aspiring “PEERS” deliberately misrepresent the relationship between government spending and taxes. The tax is levied when the government spends the money, unless the government is operating with a surplus (a very rare occurrence). A tax, enacted by the legislature to pay for expenditure, only effects who pays for the expenditure. If the government pays for the expenditure by printing money (“STEALTH TAXATION), the value of the dollar is reduced, effectively taxing everyone who has money. The dollar buys less goods and services, especially devastating to the poor and those living on a fixed income.

      Aiding the “PEERS’” misrepresentation is the common fallacy that money is wealth. Money is a medium of exchange, a claim on the nation’s wealth.

      The “Stimulus Plan” was essentially a plan to have the government invest your money. What effort has been made to insure that wealth redeployed by the “STIMULUS PLAN” increase the nation’s wealth rather than destroy that wealth?

      Remember, these are the same people who created the current financial meltdown of our banks by pressuring the banks to lend money to people with little or no prospect to repay the loans. When did they get smart enough to invest $825 billion?

      The destruction of wealth by the “STIMULUS PLAN” added to the “global warming” initiatives have disastrous consequences for the economy.

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    • magnum357
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:23am

      My debt is a myth also, guess I can forget about it!

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    • CoFX
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:34am

      Thanks Illinois. Really appreciate you guys giving this man a chance to vote on our future. Would you like to come over to my house and kick my dog too?

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    • letmykidsbfree
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:35am

      The Fabian society from Kevin Rudd to China….Pass it on to everyone……
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjhFfEG4t84

      letmykidsbfree  
    • tjdavid21444
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:51am

      Don’t forget the myth that unemployment is almost 10%, or the myth that the penalty for violating the individual mandate in ObamaCare is a tax (they are arguing in court now that it is, BTW)

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    • pajamash
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:59am

      @letmykidsbefree – Don’t post a link to that which is falicy!!!!!!! -1000 points to you.

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    • drbage
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 11:46am

      He is definitely on the same planet as Rep. Stark in CA who said that debt is a good thing, adding to our financial stability. Using their logic, I guess we should all go out and max out our credit cards.

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    • Masamune
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 12:55pm

      I don’t know what planet Freelancer, but i’m pretty sure the lack of oxygen fried his brain there.

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    • Texas.7
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 12:55pm

      The emperor is wearing no clothes! They are always trying to get us not to believe our eyes or our brains!

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    • vennoye
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:11pm

      tjdavid21444—-According to Gallup
      October 7, 2010
      Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment at 10.1% in SeptemberUnderemployment, at 18.8%, is up from 18.6% at the end of Augustby Dennis Jacobe, Chief EconomistPRINCETON, NJ — Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, increased to 10.1% in September — up sharply from 9.3% in August and 8.9% in July. Much of this increase came during the second half of the month — the unemployment rate was 9.4% in mid-September — and therefore is unlikely to be picked up in the government’s unemployment report on Friday.
      Notice the “and therefore is unlikely to be picked up in the government’s unemployment report on Friday”. What else is new.

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    • casseopea42
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:52pm

      So, if I say that my creditcard debt, my mortage, my car payment and my other debts are “myths” I don’t have to worry about them anymore? I wonder why the collection agency would say to that…

      “you need to pay!”

      “No, that debt is a myth”

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    • dfestoon
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 2:23pm

      ……..and it’s a myth that the dems will most likely lose the house and possibly the senate too, in Nov………

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    • ILFarmer
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 3:19pm

      @CoFX:
      Oh come now, not everyone in IL is responsible. I sure as hell didn’t vote for him…but then again he isn’t of my district. The politics in IL may be be more corrupt than a Windows ME operating system, but it doesn’t mean all the people are bad too.

      anyway, this guy is a nutcase. he could have at least said that we have “a little” national debt instead of it being a hoax. And if you really want to get technical, an actual Little amount of Debt in the country is good, but that’s mostly in the form of a buffer between imports and exports and can be covered and backed with ease. Not the out of control nonsense we have now and have had for decades. It all boils down to Fiscal Responsibility, something that Washington has had a lobotomy over so they might forget.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 3:37pm

      I hope that after this election this congressman is a myth.

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    • George Washington
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 4:12pm

      I just realized that all of my financial obligations are myths. So from now on, as soon as I get a bill in the mail, I am going to feed it to the shredder. As for “which planet is he from?” He is from Earth. The only thing is that the doctor dropped Representative Hare on his head as soon as he was born.

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    • Pericles
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 8:37pm

      The dollar is losing value – as compared to what?

      Record number of people are buying gold – So.

      Obama has socialist beliefs – No. If he did then we would be lucky enough to have single payer health care.

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    • arx
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:38pm

      tersticles…Obamao is a socialist and worse….and wanted much more than he was able to get with healthcare.

      Question: what hurts worse, your empty cranium or black soul?

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    • FreedomMissMeYet
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 4:45pm

      Bbbbwwwwaaaaaaahahahahaha!!…. Hey, what’s a Liberal Contrarian? They sound like this: “I’m going to Debunk the TRUTH…..by ummm…ummm….saying it’s a MYTH over and over again until both you and I believe it..”….Yeah, Yeah, that’s it…..Watch your head jackass, you may be trying to debunk GRAVITY…

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