They’ll probably just blow it by ordering a half-dozen (or 175) new aircraft carriers or something.
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So thats what, Federal spending for a few days at this pace?
Hey, don’t get me wrong, I’m a GOP idiot myself. I just hope they learned something from the last time they were trusted with power.
We’re running out of chances to get things fixed.
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True, but to put that into perspective.
Barry, Harry, and Nan have spent enough to have built nearly 175 Nimitz Class carriers with the $787Billion Porkulus alone.
Seriously though, none of the current politicians have the stones to do what needs to be done to repair the Republic, so they will go on moving the deckchairs.
Since the day Obama took office the debt has been raised by 1.7 trillion. Almost 3x as much as any previous “record” in the same amount of time.
175? That really puts it into perspective doesn’t it? Where are the 24x7 TV ads saying that? That would get people’s attention, IMO.
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That is fucking ridiculous. Tax and spend politicians gotta go no matter what their political affiliation.
Agreed. We all hope they’ve learned…but past experience indicates otherwise.
It’s really getting depressing when we’re hoping that one group of idiots cancels out the other group of idiots enough so that our lives aren’t completely screwed up.
Not that I think we should (I am libertarian on spending etc) but that would be pretty cool:
175 Nimitz class carriers to park off of China’s coast and along Iran’s waters. Would put plenty of people to work in the shipyards too.
Building 175 aircraft carriers would have put a whole hell of a lot more people to work than Obama’s pork laden stimulus bill, but I digress.
They could put a lot to work without spending a penny.
Open season on nuke plants and oil drilling.
175 aircraft carriers or 700 B-1 stealth bombers or how many f-22 raptors?
At least or kids would have befitted from them also. Instead of going into a black hole.:mad:
At least the gov’t would be spending money on what they are Constitutionally mandated to spend money on. Whether we need it or not is a different story.
Think I did the math right. $787B/$4.5B = 174 .89, so it is 174 Nimitz Class and one AEGIS cruiser as change.
I would love someone with Photochop skills to make a picture showing that many Nimtiz class carriers. If someone could do that I might have to be evil and start one of those annoying emails for people to forward around. 
Well make sure you send a copy to the Tea Party people!
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Seems as though every adult in my entire life is comprised of one of these decrepit types now. There is no relief, no oasis anymore.
Except some of the good folks here, that is…
Yep. Thread over. If its the current crop of Republicans and they take over in 2010 then yes they will blow as much money as the Democrats historically have done. What ever happened to the party of fiscal responsibility?
It depends on what Republicans win. Elect the same idiots that have been in office for years and we are screwed no matter what party they claim. Elect new Candidates with new ideas and true Republican values… Well we may just be ok.
Me too but I’m not holding my breath.
And I personally view that opinion as realism, not cynicism.
TERM LIMITS…
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