Where is the US economy headed?

Hey, Rabel, we're the same age; no wonder we "battle" so often on a2k. LOL

I know. I used to think that one gained wisdom with age, but I an having to rethink that old bromide. Not you, me.

Are you really 75? You don't look it.

You're 75 as well? Gee, you don't look it either.

Hey, I have more senior moments too! There's nothing we can do about it.

Hey, we've noticed.

You don't know Physics. It is a design minor failure. The Jeep also disappeared as it had the same feature - too high centere of gravity.

You are mistaken.

I know Physics and I know how they apply to different vehicle designs and different driving conditions. Even a vehicle with an extremely low COG and a perfect 50/50 distribution of weigh can be rolled by an inexperienced driver. I have driven all sorts high profile, high COG vehicles and none of them have rolled over.

What you and others fail to recognize is that most Americans are not very good drivers.

No I dont. I look more like 90 and feel 1oo!

But I think we have all recognized that water softener repairmen aren't very good when it comes to logic.

Parasites like paradoo are irrational and untrustworthy.

House Passes G.O.P. Budget Plan With No Democratic Votes
By CARL HULSE
Published: April 15, 2011


WASHINGTON — House Republicans forced through a partisan budget blueprint on Friday that, if enacted into law, would pare federal spending by an estimated $5.8 trillion over the next decade while reshaping Medicare, a proposal certain to instigate a fierce clash with Democrats.


The bill has no chance of passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate. But it will effectively serve as the House Republican bargaining position in talks with the administration and Senate over how to reduce annual federal deficits and the accumulated national debt.

The action came a day after Congress finally concluded its fight over spending for the current fiscal year.

The vote in the House on the Republican blueprint, drafted by Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin and chairman of the Budget Committee, was 235 to 193, almost entirely on party lines. Not a single Democrat voted for it; four Republicans voted against it.

The proposal, which would cut maximum corporate and personal tax rates and would overhaul the Medicaid health program for the poor as well as Medicare, is the new House majority’s most ambitious effort so far to show that it wants to rein in spending and aggressively shrink the federal government.

“The spending spree is over,” Mr. Ryan said. “We cannot keep spending money we don’t have.”

Democrats ridiculed the notion that Mr. Ryan’s plan was somehow bold for taking on the Medicare program despite the political risks, and accused Republicans of promoting a morally skewed vision of America by taking aim at services for the elderly and poor while supporting tax breaks for corporate America and the affluent.

“It is not courageous to provide additional tax breaks for millionaires while ending the Medicare guarantee for seniors and sticking seniors with the cost of rising health care,” said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the Budget Committee.

Congressional Republicans were eager to turn their focus to future budgets in the aftermath of Thursday’s approval of legislation that financed the government through Sept. 30. That bill imposes $38 billion in spending cuts, much less than the $61 billion sought by House Republicans, and immediate impact of those reductions on the deficit will be modest, prompting 59 Republicans to oppose it. “Yesterday we cut billions,” Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the No. 3 House Republican, said on Friday. “Today we cut trillions.”

In the Senate, a group of lawmakers from both parties is trying to develop a long-term plan for reducing the deficit, and the Democratic leadership is unlikely to take up the House Republicans’ blueprint in its place. Still, the House bill can provide a template for Republican legislative efforts in the coming months, as they try to enact some of the blueprint’s specific proposals.

All the media has to do - to do their jobs as professionals - is to expose the GOP way of cutting Medicare for seniors, handicapped, and poor people - to give bigger tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations who don't need it. All while increasing the national debt.

If they do their jobs correctly, we should see the takeover of the white house and congress by democrats for many decades to come. If they don't, we'll live in a third world country that's fallen from grace, the US deficit will increase, and the US currency will turn into monopoly money over night.

All the media has to do - to do their jobs as professionals - is to expose the Obama
administration for the liberal progressive democrats with Marxist leanings that they are.

I wish facts were enough. The Republicans are expert liars.

You and Obama lie!

Raising taxes results in less productivity and less revenue taken in by the government.

I earned $24,867 working two jobs, six days/week during 2010. My taxes were $1,536. That seems a substantial amount.

History shows that YOU lie

In 1993 taxes were raised.
From 1993-2000 we saw increases in productivity
From 1993 - 2000 we saw increases in revenue taken in by the government.

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For your kind of safety the high CG car would have to be driven at 25 mph.

You mean you kept back $23,331. How are that 10% of the rich going to get ahead with you holding out on them?