(May 29, 2016 at 7:43 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(May 29, 2016 at 7:03 pm)Chad32 Wrote: With Bill I think it was supposed to be the deficit. Not the debt. Meaning the amount of money we lost every year went down, though the debt continued going up.
It's possible to reduce the deficit provided you cut non-mandatory spending. In most cases that's not a good idea because you will end up hurting a lot of vulnerable people.
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The deficit exists because the Congress Critters won't raise taxes to cover all of their obligations. So they borrow money to make up the difference and that's the deficit. The more they borrow the greater the national debt becomes and because they are always borrowing money the national debt continues to grow and is never reduced.
Yeah, they'd rather raise the debt ceiling than do something to lower the debt.
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html