Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle At The Door

On 1/10/25 18:05, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 1/10/2025 9:09 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:11:49 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
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Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

Pearls Before Swine: Uncle At The Door
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2025/01/08
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I figure before this nightmare is over, they will come for all of our

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It's your fault.   Voting for for the spend and no tax republicans.

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I call them "spend and spend". As opposed to the "tax and spend"
Democrats fiscally-conservative Republicans used to attack.
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One should reduce spending - before - reducing the income.  Any rational
non-republican recognizes that.   The "starve the beast" idiom is stupid
GOP thinking that obviously hasn't been effective.

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The goal of the GOP since Ronnie has been to destroy Social Security.
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The National Debt is their primary weapon.
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They aren't going to reduce it -- they are going to use it to destroy
Social Security, and probably Medicare as well.
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Because, after all, 1%-ers don't need those programs, so nobody else
does either.
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The /real/ problem is that the Dems aren't going to reduce the
National Debt either. Even if they collect money to do so, they will
find something else to spend it on.
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Both Parties need severe wedgies. Republicans more than Democrats, but
the Dems are by no means exempt.

 Historically the Dems have reduced the national debt and balanced the budget MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more than the Repubs.  The Repubs don't even try to do either.
 

Yes but the Democratic Party at the National Level seems to
fumble getting this across to the Electorate. As well as the truism
that Democratic dominance means the people have better lives and
more secure employment. I do not like the present Republican Party attitude towards wealth and taxation.Even George the Second (the bush) saw the need to raise taxes but of course George the Third (bush) was all about invading Iraq and not raising taxes to pay for the War.
The last truly sane Republican President was Eisenhower
who taxed the rich at high levels. His successor was a rich man
and a Democratic party member who cut the taxes on the rich which
his family and his pals were very grateful for.
The National Debt is a big nothing but money we owe to
ourselves. If we raised taxes on those to whom it would not
represent a hardship we could do without it but that is against
Republican Mythology.
Tricle down economics is not even a trickle but more
like the Chinese water torture of myth.
bliss