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How solid is our economy when the only way for it to grow is the government borrowing money? Currently we are borrowing money to pay the interest on the money we borrowed. I think it helps our economy more if we could spend those hundreds of billions of dollars on stuff instead of interest payments. MOst recent budget numbers from the CIA Factbook Are you telling me $1.782 trillion does not grow the economy, but $2.156 trillion does? What if we raised revenues, would we need to raise spending?

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This is were I have a problem with those big government, free spending Republicans. They want to spend all this money they do not have and be like Reagan. Somewhere down the line the growth in the economy will pay for all this, they claim, but during the years we should be paying down the debt, they are busy spending even more. Plus where are the new workers coming from? Not just population growth, that wouldn't be enough. We need immigrants, but of course the GOP is trying to stem immigration and H1B Visas for foreign, skilled labor. Spend, spend, spend, big government conservatives will bankrupt this country. Where do we go when we cannot borrow more money? Print it?

You can still have the jobs and growth without borrowing. What is so magical about the dollars we borrow vs. dollars we do not? The government spends $100 and takes in $90 and you believe that helps the economy. Does it hurt if the government takes in $100 and spends $100? It's the same $100.

So we pay taxes and the government spends money for the benefit of the economy? Does it have any relationship to what the government needs to run, or the amount of taxes being paid? If I understand what you are saying, each year we should decide how much spending would help the economy and spend that, regardless of what we take in. Do we ever need to pay this back or could we let the debt escalate to $10 Trillion? $15 Trillion. Is $450 Billion in interest enough or would $650 Billion, taken out of programs, help the economy more? You talk about government waste on hammers and such. How about we buy a hammer for $5 and then pay interest in the purchase for 100 years, how much does the hammer cost then?

That's what I thought when the GOP talked about Clinton's inhaling or not.

So we pay taxes to stimulate the economy? There is no relationship to what we pay in taxes and what lavish benefits we can receive? If $7 Trillion and $450 Billion in interest is OK, is $10 Trillion in debt? Can we just allow the deficit to grow and grow and never pay it down? Which is better, spending $450 Billion in interest or being out of debt and spending $450 Billion on infrastructure or health care, or education, or against terrorists, or more police, or any number of programs?

I cannot remember anyone getting DQ'd in High School or College for jewelery. It also states that someone was DQ's for an elastic hair tie. I know that wasn't a DQ, or I would have been nailed at least once. IIRC watches were ok to wear in college. I recall at least one finish line picture of me stopping my watch as I went through the finish chute. In our conference championship in 1981 most of us wore black socks as a tribute to the Kenyan distance runners. A couple guys did not. No one was DQ'd for that.

Frost was one of the congressman targeted by the REPs in the 2nd redistricting power grab. It was the most partisen event I have ever witnessed.

Speaking of redistricting, here's what happens when two long time Texas lawmakers get tossed into the same ring . . .

All this talk about favorites got me to thinking of a few of my favorite things Logging on and seeing a dozen new threads. South Padres Island Sunsets and Sunrises, during the same all night party. Full house to someone's straight A great book These are a few of my favorite things.

OK, skip the foreign angle, make this easy. Why do we pay taxes? Are we better off owing $7.3 Trillion and paying almost $400 million in interest every year?

One are he has also championed is that consistant policies yield greater results than increases and decreases. My turn to ask the questions. Why do we pay taxes? Are we better or worse off paying $430 million in interest to foreign investors on our $7.3 Trillion debt?

So maybe the adult who found her had more than God whispering into her ear.

I question that cost estimate. I wonder what else in includes. I'm not certain I would want my wife/son/daughter/uncle/cousin/friend interned for all eternity in a landfill.

Here's the no win for a mod or admin. If they jump in too soon, it's unfair censorship. Jump in too late and it's favoratism.

Excellent web site, my favorite form of fencing

Of course Animal House was his best movie. I'm thinking Belushi as an actor. I just saw Continental Divide again and I think Belushi was turning into a decent actor at that point in his career. Blues Brothers

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Are their school colors stil green and yellow? I remember back in the early 80s they wore the ugliest green and yellow shorts and shirts for cross country.

Actually that can be proven. You can test for a positive. Find one and the theory is false. Trying to prove a negative is a logical impossibility. You have to exhaust every option, before you could conclusively say it doesn't exist.