Government

Rep. Ryan on ‘Grave Danger’: Spending Crisis Still Looms

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Hello. I’m Congressman Paul Ryan from Janesville, Wisconsin – and Chairman here at the House Budget Committee. It’s no secret our government has a spending problem –- and the problem has gotten so bad it’s threatening our future and hurting our nation’s ability to create jobs.

Republicans made a pledge that we would work to change this if given the opportunity to lead. Since January, we’ve been urging President Obama to listen to the people and work with us to reduce spending. The president started this year by proposing a freeze that would make no cuts at all.

But now bipartisan legislation is in sight to enact the largest spending cut in American history.

Full transcript here.

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  • bigal883
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:59am

    THE GOP CAVED IN ITS ALL OVER NOW..RINOS MUST GO.they had a chance to challenge the dems and they blew it..2012 no more rinos..the dems stick together why dont the republicans? answer no true conservatives…IMPEACH THE USURPER OBUMASS NOW..vote out the rinos in 2012 or start the revolution we have no easy answers..God help America…

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  • Lt_Taz
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:59am

    Dear Lord, please allow the wisdom of Cong. Ryan, in his proposal at least give us a glimmer of light and hope in the future of this great nation. which was founded with your guidence.

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:12pm

      America is like an addict……right now the right wing are nagging and warning……but like an addict, nothing will happen untill it hits rock bottom and sorry to say it will take generations to rebuild and get back up on its feet….sadly America while rebuilding will never be the country it once was it will be a homogenious one car European look like…..why?….because people want goods and services without working for them and cannot stay home at nights and SAVE

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  • usmcmexdi
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:59am

    So how do we get ahold of this proposal? I would like to read it for myself. I guess both parties are proud of themselves for cutting a measly 38 billion vice trillions. We really do need to fire all of them in Washington in order to break this cultural cycle of politicians who don’t act like servants. They are suppose to be SERVANTS!! Do what the people want!

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  • ORSO
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:58am

    I don’t see this situation changing even though the dire predictions, with 35.3% of possible voters being democrats and there lack of urgency to fix our nations budget crisis its all just hot air for the most part. What needs to happen is an all out relentless campaign to demonize the demarcates/liberals/progressives as country destroyer’s thieves and traitors.

    It is also time to put the shame back onto entitlement programs , generation upon generation of welfare families needs to stop, there needs to be a cut off point weather it’s a time line or dollar figure. Foreign aid needs to be abolished and our stance as the world police force also needs to stop and those bases closed.

    Our boarders need to be secured and the word (Illegal) need’s to come with such a cost and punishment that none would be willing to take the chance.

    We also need to reel in unions and lobbyists, it needs to be illegal for unions to contribute to political campaigns and this also goes for lobbyists, to keep our political system clean of corruption from unions and corporations this needs to happen, they are there to represent the people not corporations and organized labor who just wish to buy the politicians to further there financial welfare and pensions.

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  • Oil_Robb
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:55am

    Reiterating 60 minutes…….most of the American top companies have allready moved thier corporate offices over seas where they only have to pay 15-20% taxes as opposed too the 35% in America …Canada has a 19% coporate rate and provinces of Ontario and Alberta are loving it….thankyou America….. where Politicians act like American Idol rock stars and the rest of the G-8 countries the politicians are NOT glorified and have a little hono0r

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  • Oil_Robb
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:49am

    The fall of Modern day Rome……the Canadian dollar has grown by 40% in the past 2 years and now even the Americans are setting up accounts in RBC and TD,…..The Saudis have deposited 1.4 trillion in Canadian banks in the past year and Canada has 4 banks in the top 15 world wide when the USA doesnt have 1 bank ranked in the top 100

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  • kman
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:39am

    He speaks the truth. The turth has no agenda.

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  • 28_ID
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:39am

    I hope Ryan can implement his plans ASAP.

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  • maryslittlelamb
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:29am

    @ NAYSAYERS EVERYWHERE
    Enough already!!! You are NOT helping the cause so go sit in the corner and shut up! Where there is life there is hope. Last time I checked I was not only alive I was sitting in the comfort of my home firing off messages to my congressmen. Pretty cushy way to fight a war, no?

    If you have to write snarky notes direct them to your congressmen and not to those of us who carry the torch. We didn’t get everything we wanted – THIS TIME – but the battle isn’t over. How dare you suggest that we lay down arms and give up?!!!!

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    • Dale
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:40am

      Well said, Mary!

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    • suzy000
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:56am

      mary….a lot of people had their lives destroyed in 2008 when Wall St. took everything from many people across this land. The wealth flowed from our homes to theirs and there was nothing we could do. So if we all sound a little bit despondent about that right now…forgive us…but we are still licking our wounds.

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    • maryslittlelamb
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:57pm

      @Suzyoo
      Washington’s men at Valley Forge jumped into a freezing river to ferry boats of men and cannons under cover of darkness. When they reached the other side they still had 30 miles to go through snow – MANY WITH NO BOOTS! Tell those guys about “despondent”.

      I realize many have lost their treasure – are they to lose their sacred honor as well by surrendering to despair?!!

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    • TANK3584
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:04pm

      Amen Mary well said…..we American’s will never give in….

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  • Excomunicatedmarine
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:26am

    We are seeing what happens when God turns his back on a nation…….chaos, back biting, lies and general pandemonium .

    If we continue to blow Him off it will only get worse and worse.

    Romans 1:18. Forget the end times if you must, but take this comment by Paul about a gov. Run amok in his time:

    18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

    21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

    24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

    26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

    28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

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    • Uncurable wound
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:47am

      This is the description of right before the roman empire fell,Sounds very similiar to now.History never repeats itself,RIGHT???
      Where are Gods mighty men?
      The sleeping giant must awke

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    • mrclean
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 1:32pm

      Romans Ch. 1 is about as plain talkin’ as it gets.

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  • promodan
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:24am

    When all is “said & “done”, more will be “said” than “done. The operational mode apprende of congress.

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  • suzy000
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:22am

    Rep. Ryan is the one of two GOP with the courage to put forth a gut wrenching budget but it it still may come up short. I wish someone would tell me if they can what our National Debt would be under this budget in 10 years. After all, this sacrifice is about bottom line and the final figure will be what saves or destroys this country. Anybody know?

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    • NOBALONEY
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 2:26pm

      scroll back to 4/5/11 1:29pm Paul Ryan Explains $6.2 Trillion Budget Cuts To Glenn As Gov’t Shutdown Looms.

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  • noleftturn
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:19am

    Is there a “RESET” button we can push for our executive and legislative branches? All talk, no walk. If this was a business, they’d all have been fired long ago. Right Donald?

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  • maryslittlelamb
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:19am

    Now is the time to keep the pressure on. I noticed after I sent a pretty snarky note to Boehner about turning his back on the Tea Party he started getting some backbone. I’m not flattering myself that my note did it – it was those 100,000 other notes along with mine that did it! We are having an effect. Do not get demoralized – keep writing and calling.

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:10am

    He is right, nobody has seen the problems coming our way for quite awhile, get ready because it will not be pretty.

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  • BubbaCoop
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:09am

    Is repayment of $14 trillion built into this budget? It’s one thing to cut 6 trillion, but how is that enough to start paying back these loans?

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:08am

    I hate to be the pessimist but I am long over my own normalcy bias.

    We’ve missed the turn off years ago, this is the cascade effect of in actions of the past to properly budget and restrain over spending and the failure to rein in Fannie and Freddie which started this whole mess in the first place. It is now spilling into every facet of the worlds economy.

    The Bible clearly points out that there will be economic travails in the last days and that every evil deed of man will be exposed. What a better way to expose his deeds than to pull his money out from under him. This will persist and there is no stopping the coming collapse, we have already taken the step of printing money to paper over the bleedng gash our economy is and the tranfusion of cash into the patient will make the patient more sick. The patient needs to take his medicine and let the body heal naturally but since our physicians (politicians) don’t believe the diagnosis they have prescribed a treatment that will actually kill the patient. It happens everyday. It is happening now on a grand scale like never seen before in the history of this world.

    We are all witnesses to the failure of mans ultimate prized system of banking and monetary management. God has given and or allowed all these systems to be tried for thousands of years and to be documented thoroughly in our development so will be all be able to see that man needs a God centered system and not the one we have where we have kicked him to the curb.

    In the final analysis every knee will bend and every tongue will confess he alone is God.

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    • Bullwinkle
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 7:42pm

      Chief, you are so right. We are not going to recover from this, no matter who’s in office, what they say or how well-intentioned they are. It’s beyond redemption. America is under the active judgment of God whether we like to admit it or not. No amount of positive thinking or rallies is going to change that.

      The economy is so far gone that there’s no getting it back to normal without taking steps that seem so radical that most Americans, including many who frequent this site, would violently take to the streets if they were implemented. The amount of money that we are in debt and locked into paying n the future, publicly and privately, is so enormous that we can’t begin to grasp it. The changes required are beyond the comprehension of our entitlement mindset. Most Americans can’t take a little discomfort let alone make painful sacrifices. As far as the crash which is coming, it’s only a question of details and timing not inevitability.

      http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html

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  • Catfish
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:06am

    I( hope Rep. Ryan reads the comments on the Blaze, I want to Thank Gleen Beck for creating the Blaze so we have a plave to vent our anger, and paul neerd to hang tough

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  • neverending
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:03am

    God bless this guy – he is one of the few that gets it and knows what needs to be done. No grandstanding just addressing the mess we are in and everybody better listen up. Have too many politicians and very few leaders.

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  • powhatan
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:58am

    We are right on the edge people…for real…now, if they don’t raise the debt ceiling…the stock market will crash, badly….but if they do raise it…The whole financial system will crash and Soros will win…mark my words….

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:31am

      Glenn says it isn’t too late, but I think you are correct. Either way we go with the debt ceiling, our economy is headed straight off the cliff thanks to both parties!

      Obama is just going to make sure he jumps out of the front seat just before it goes over! Hmmm…I am sure the President of the United States would never do such a thing! Maybe Obama was just trying to “protect us” when he said we could come along for the ride as long as we sit in the back…NOBAMA 2012.

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  • creativeogre
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:57am

    What will they do when the majority of Americans get to the point of refusing to pay taxes? After all, “taxation without representation” was the battle cry of the revolutionary war, I do not see Washington listening to the people any more, nor representing their constituents wishes.

    I do believe that you could attain better governance randomly picking names from a phone book.

    Time to vote out these career political hacks , and send them a reminder that the offices, and the power they carry are by the consent of the governed, and not a self serving career.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:57am

    Obama & Co. are dedicated to bankrupting America. They will NOT agree to cuts sufficient to making our economy healthy.

    Although I am disappointed to a degree with the new budget, I applaud the Republicans’ effort to do everything they could to bring spending under control. They could not do as much as they liked because Obama would have vetoed such legislation.

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    • Dale
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:37am

      odumob (and olive drab harry, etc) will be apoplectic when they get Ryan budget. Boehner showed he was willing to shut it down – polls showed that the odemocRATS would loose the political battle, and THEY folded. The House republicans (especially the Tea Party folks) control spending, they showed they were serious and would force a shut down – I believe they will do it again. Things are beginning to move in the RIGHT direction, but this is a huge ship, and it will take a long time.

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    • dawg of gawd
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 1:30pm

      Folks, folks, folks, you’re not tracking the play. It’s not a budget. It’s an “aspirational document.“ It was ”never intended to be a budget.”

      Don’t take my word for it. Those are the words of none other than the exalted grand wizard of the Tea Party Klan . . . Jim DeMint.

      Tough week, eh? First Glenn gets his ass handed to him by Media Matters. Then Obama beats you like a rented mule on the budget. And now paul Ryan is being shoved to the back to avoid further embarrassment on the “results” of his budget planing.

      Wow, sucks to be you.

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 2:27pm

      Come one dawg, I always try and look on the bright side. So when we all look like Sudan, we’ll at least be able to thank all your buds for the wonderful services they have rendered to our country. You think a government shut down looks bad, a government collapse is probably about a hundred times more fun, and this time there won’t be a bail out to save us.

      I think I’ll enjoy my teaparty clan, while you and yours go have your dumpkof fest.

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  • stmike
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:56am

    Lol Omg tell us something else we don’t already know! This is never gonna end just a dog and pony show. A crash is coming it can‘t be stopped and won’t be stopped. It’s not a matter of if its a matter of when.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:46am

      It can be stopped if the Washington elite can wrap their heads around the idea that they don’t get to raid the country piggy bank anytime someone wants steak for dinner (food stamps) or an abortion (planned parenthood) or they need to indoctrinate our youth (university and NPR)or anything else they waste money on.

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    • prepper1776
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:57am

      @stmike your absolutely right , this budget fiasco is a joke, all this bickering over less than 100 billion. whats going to happen when thet work on the debt ceiling. that a 2 trillion dollar spending bill , you can only cut so many entitlements, they’ve got alot of cutting to do and it aint gonna be pretty

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    • iamanurse
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 4:53pm

      I too have enough confidence in some of the people we have elected…we can stop this train before it runs off the tracks…the left is just clueless..we have to overcome their spending spending spending and save this nation. I think the budget for 12 will help if we can get some of the clueless on board..they will scream like stuck pigs about how bad we are but we have been branded before..look what they have done to glenn..

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  • alaskajohn
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:54am

    yeah paul , he needs some help

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:59pm

      EXACTLY … we must get more like him into congress and take the White House in 2012 with a REAL Conservative! Don’t listen to the RNC and DEMOCRATS telling us who can “win” like last time with that RINO McCAIN .. we need a real candidate .. not some Democrat light!

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:50am

    God help us, we need to make the changes and make them now. Let it happen and allow us to get on with saving the nation. And may the Almighty deliver justice unto those who have squandered the trust and duty He gave to them to be good stewards of the nation.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:56am

      Amen to THAT!!!!!

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:59am

      Snowleopard, just remember, and take comfort, in the words of Johnny Cash.

      Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
      Workin’ in the dark against your fellow man
      But as sure as God made black and white
      What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light

      You can run on for a long time
      Run on for a long time
      Run on for a long time
      Sooner or later God’ll cut you down
      Sooner or later God’ll cut you down

      Go tell that long tongue liar
      Go and tell that midnight rider
      Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
      Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut you down
      Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut you down
      Tell ‘em that God’s gonna cut you down

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:59am

      Amen, SNOW. Good morning to you, hope all is well with you and yours. Great day here, clear and sunny, birds are singing and cats are salivating at the window.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:04am

      @Snow

      We need to pray as though it were all up to Him but act as though it is all up to us. We need to use our free will to pay as we go as a country. It’s the “politics” that have us bogged down so badly. Everyone in Washington has to stop thinking about re-election and start thinking about the long term future of our nation. If they do the right thing we will send them back at election time.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:07am

      If only we could convince ‘the other side’ that just because they have the ability to confiscate our hard earned money doesn’t mean that they should do it. As long as they believe in social justice and that we the working class should give up our lifestyles to lift up the dregs of society, they will continue on their path of distruction.

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    • Uncurable wound
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:23am

      “ ” Let God sort them out!

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    • Uncurable wound
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:26am

      SCREW the repubes-No TAXATION without representation!

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    • SPOT_OF_TEA
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:30am

      A large percentage of the population has become so dependent on Massive government spending that there will be rioting in the streets when the tap is turned off.

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    • 28_ID
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:33am

      Ditto!

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    • theonefromabove
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:46am

      Glad to see some common sense.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • Skippy Toes
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:19pm

      TexascommonSense:
      AMEN.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:33pm

      Ryan doesn’t want a good crises to go to waste. He wants to milk it for what he can get, which will be very little based on Boehners performance this week.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 1:02pm

      Get ready folks, because the U.S. Bond market is about to collapse, due to all the created money that the government is pumping into the economy, and when it does, you will be trying to figure out what your dollars are good for, since they will be worthless. Great Depression 2.0, here we come!!

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    • dawg of gawd
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 1:26pm

      Texasnionsensical . .. yeah, Elvis had a big hit with that one . . .of course he was a junkie and a pedophile and liked to have sex in his underpants. Hey, wait . . . hallelujah! . . . hallelujah! . . .Elvis isn’t dead. He’s alive and living in Palm Beach Florida. He’s the dean of the Center for Advanced Conservative Studies.! Oh, Hosannah, thank you Jesus for delivering Elvis back to us . . . and just in time!

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 3:33pm

      “Republicans made a pledge that we would work to change this if given the opportunity to lead.”

      When does this start to happen. The charade that took place yesterday by trying to sell the American people that they actually cut the budget, when the amount of money we are talking about doesn’t even amount to 6 months of waste in just medicare alone, is an abomination. Try again.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 4:16pm

      dawg of gawd, perhaps you should read my message more clearly. It was the Johnny Cash version of the song, of which I was speaking. The imperfect Elvis is dead; there’s no mystery about that.

      Mock God if you’d like; it really doesn’t bother me what you think. That’s between you and a God in which you obviously do not believe. Remember, you won’t find what you’re not looking for.

      I can assure you, people who lie and deceive will answer for their actions one day. If you think the president isn’t lying to us, you’re even more naive than your writing would have me believe.

      I wish you luck after your biological life has ended.

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:20am

      We made huge strides in Nov 2010, all we need now is to stay focused and turn that tide again in 2012. Successful impeachment means nothing, as we would then have ….God forbid…“President Biden”, who is the best bullet-proof vest any President has ever owned.
      Stay focused, people. Take obama out of office in 2012, take out any RINO or lib in your district or state (for Rep/Sen respectively), elect conservative Governers, and 2012 may be a shining light for America once more.

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 10:11am

      Starve the progressive BEAST! We need to shut this gov’t down and repeal all of the progressive laws enacted since Woodrow Wilson came to power – the dark side shall not win, they shall not stand, this will be our creedo!

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    • mongobob
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 12:49pm

      Absolutely!!!… Especially the part about delivering justice to our incompetent participants in government.

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    • gray lady
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 6:42pm

      You’re right snowleopard, let’s do something now and get this country back on track. It will,of course, be an uphill fight every inch of the way. The Obama liberals who are acting for the utter destruction of this country will pull every dirty trick in the book and the entrenched politians (of every party) sitting on their lazy butts not wanting to do any thing that might diminsh their power even slightly will conspire with them. But, by God,we need to get busy.

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