Unemployment Still Above 8%

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by beej

No, no, no; you stimply don't get it. Barack Obama, you know, that Kenyan Muslim (or is it Muslim Kenyan?), is responsible for running up the national debt. Eric Cantor said so.

One thing I've learned recently. Anything and everything Cantor says is exactly 180 degrees away from the truth. He gives pompous, cynical @ssholes a bad name.

[piece-itpete]

So the stimulous was free?

Pete

[icenine]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Whatever it is, you can bet your hind parts it has something to do with us little people giving something up, so Mitt can hand out more candy to his buds on Mahogany Row.

Well at least there is going to be a small bump up in the employment of private home indoor automobile elavator installers.....in La Jolla anyway

[icenine]

Originally Posted by finnbow

One thing I've learned recently. Anything and everything Cantor says is exactly 180 degrees away from the truth. He gives pompous, cynical @ssholes a bad name.

Yeah it is hard to imagine anyone more symbolic of idiotic Tea Party intransigence than Cantor. I mean has he even done anything for his own district....brought home a slice of bacon for the people who elected him?
I wonder....

[beej]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

So the stimulous was free?

Pete

Actually, no, Pete. However a good bit of the increase in the national debt since Obama has been in the White House is directly attributable to interest on previously incurred debt as in:

Reagan - $2 trillion increase in national debt
Bush I - $1 trillion increase in national debt
Bush II - $5 trilllion increase in national debt

And those numbers do not include the interest on what they ran up.

Not my numbers; U.S. Dept of Treasury.

Just sayin'.

[BlueStreak]

Republicans don't run up debt, they just refuse to pay it down..............

Ummmm, er.......Looks like they do both.

[piece-itpete]

The treasury puts debt at just over 11 tril in april 09, now its just under 16:

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPD...application=np

So Obama has indeed topped Bush - in half the time

Pete

[beej]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

The treasury puts debt at just over 11 tril in april 09, now its just under 16:

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPD...application=np

So Obama has indeed topped Bush - in half the time

Pete

Any thoughts on how much of that is interest on the $11 trillion which was really my point to begin with?

[piece-itpete]

Your wish is my command, O moderate one

http://www.usdebtclock.org/2008.html

Pete

[beej]

Jesus Christ in a dump truck!!

Did you read that link you posted? If so, could you please tell me what the hell it said, Pete? Those numbers are changing so f*&kin fast I can't decipher them.