S&P downgrades U.S. credit rating

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  1. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    A pittance. Is that all you can cut?
     
    red55, Aug 8, 2011
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    The public outcry quashed it quickly. You are going to see this again.
     
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  3. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    You never check the numbers, so you don't know what you are talking about.

    Don't try to speak for me. You always get it wrong. Just tell us what you think. Then I'll shoot it down.

    Reforming them, sure. But privatizing them will never pass a vote of the people. They want social security for the security and you want to make it less secure. All it does it put a private company, raking off profits, into the picture. It's a pure right wing extremist "favor-business-over citizens" approach that failed and will always fail.

    We are not being destroyed, fear-monger.

    STOP IT! I have never said this and I have listed ideas for SS reform in this thread. Pay better attention, junior. All you are interested in is casting insults. Either debate the topic or be ignored.

    Once again, you confuse your "principles" with your dogma.
     
    red55, Aug 8, 2011
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  4. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    red dont you think it is weird that you always accuse everyone of putting words in your mouth? perhaps this is because you have no real principles? you oppose the logical conclusions of your own arguments.
     
    martin, Aug 8, 2011
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  5. Rex_B

    Rex_B Geaux Time

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    Rex_B, Aug 8, 2011
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  6. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    First of all, the deficit shouldn't have been tied into debt ceiling negotiations. Yes this is the fault of the Tea Party. The GOP holds the house, the Tea Party, controls them. The debt ceiling should have been raised, like it did 8 times under Bush, 18 times under Reagan.

    This is completely the Tea Party's fault.
     
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    No that's second. First was the Dems and Obama shouldn't have dodged the debt discussion for a year. They are complicit.
     
    kluke, Aug 8, 2011
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  8. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    That's the surest way to get someone to look. You're right; I wish I hadn't. Down 9% in a week. Juuuuuuuuuust beautiful.
     
    mctiger, Aug 8, 2011
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  9. LSUsupaFan

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    Do you retire next week? Otherwise, why worry?
     
    LSUsupaFan, Aug 8, 2011
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  10. LSUsupaFan

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    How is it the Tea Party's fault. Did they rake up the trillion dollars of debt? Did they create the trillion and a half dollar deficit budgets? Did they fail to produce a plan that cut the 4 trillion S&P said we would need to cut?

    This is the result of decades of Democrat and Republican control of Washington. The Tea Party may be a bunch of looney simpletons, but they were 100% right in the stance they took on this issue.
     
    LSUsupaFan, Aug 8, 2011
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