Is President Obama playing an April Fool's joke on us?

[PLATO]

Once more DD proves he's an idiot who does nothing more than spam garbage from right wing blogs.

Knee jerk reaction or just Jerk reaction?

[DaShi]

Can I get in on this circle jerk too?

[MrFun]

Fixed.

Excessive contract defense budgeting and subsidization of defense contractors far outweighs public/social spending.

[Tupac Shakur]

I thought this thread was going to be about the President's god awful shooting performance today...



Note: I found this on a right wing blog!

[Tupac Shakur]

At one point, POTUS handed a ball to a boy and asked for help. The boy made the layup.

“He couldn’t make one. I had to help him out,” said Kahron Campbell, 10, of Landover, MD.

Barack Obama Not Good at Basketball Today

[Aeson]

Obama is just working the kid over. Next game they'll put some money on it. Kahron won't know what hit him ... and POTUS will have a few more dollars to pay down the debt.

[DaShi]

Lowing the national debt, one crying child at a time.

[giblets]

No we won't. Not even close. You have to cut entitlement spending and curtail its growth.

How about we start with cutting the things MrFun dislikes and then when that's done we just ignore the deficit?

[giblets]

Excessive contract defense budgeting and subsidization of defense contractors far outweighs public/social spending.

Fascinating could you present the figures on which you base this assertion?

[Hauldren Collider]

How about we start with cutting the things MrFun dislikes and then when that's done we just ignore the deficit?

Now that's a plan you (demonstrably!) win elections with!

[Egbert]

Fascinating could you present the figures on which you base this assertion?

you should know better than to ask for facts and evidence in a Poly discussion.

[kentonio]

Of course. Kinda like when a Nobel winning economist tells you the deficit problem isn't really a major problem, and the natural Poly response is 'OMG SLASH EVERYTHING!!!'.

[Jon Miller]

Is isn't even just Krugman or other Keynesians.

Scott Sumner is very right wing, and is a monetarist, but still doesn't think that the deficit problem is (currently) a major problem.

JM

[Jon Miller]

Is isn't even just Krugman or other Keynesians.

Scott Sumner is very right wing, and is a monetarist, but still doesn't think that the deficit problem is (currently) a major problem.

JM

[PLATO]

I'm no nobel peace winner, but I do know that if interest rates on T-bills rise three or four hundred basis points, then we are screwed. It is only a matter of time. Eventually, the government will have to let inflation run rampant in order to devalue the debt. There is no good outcome without beginning to exercise some fiscal responsibility.