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John Boehner’s Defense of the GOP Budget is Pure Fiction, if Lies Can be Called Pure
John Boehner wants you to believe the demands of ideology over demonstrable facts, the same recipe that led us to the crash of 2008
Tagged Deficit reduction in the United States
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Mocking Democrats’ Deficit Concerns, GOP Passes Permanently Unfunded Tax Cuts
Some people may errantly conclude that Republicans, as typical conservatives, are so set in their ways they are naturally unwilling to change, but although that is a very accurate conclusion, it is not the case when it comes to the nation’s deficit.
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Republicans Proven Wrong As Under Obama The Deficit Falls Below the 40 Year Average
The Treasury Department announced that the 2014 deficit as a percentage of GDP has reached its smallest point since 2007, which also happens to be below the average deficit of the last 40 years.
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GOP May Refuse To Believe It But CBO Shows That Budget Deficits Continue to Shrink
On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office released a report discussing the economy and budget. The report showed that the deficit continues to shrink.
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Republicans Won’t Admit that Cutting Social Security Is Stealing From the American People
What Republicans, and some Democrats, refuse to tell the American people is that cutting Social Security is stealing from the people, creates poverty for senior citizens, and is bad for the economy.
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Republicans Expect the Elderly, Poor and Unemployed to Pay Off Their Debt
For some reason, only Republicans remember that it was the poor, public sector workers, and retirees who created the country’s economic malaise, and they are duty-bound to make them pay restitution.
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The American People Are Being Punished Because Republicans Refused Pay Their Debts
Americans are being held responsible for Republicans’ debt for two unnecessary wars, costly prescription plan, tax cuts for the rich, and gifts to the oil industry.
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Senate Republicans Plan to Shut Down the Government Unless Obamacare is Defunded
Senate Republicans plan to withhold funding to keep the government running as hostage for a ransom of defunding the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
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Fitch Ratings Shoots Down Every Republican Talking Point on the Debt Ceiling
Fitch ratings poked a huge hole in Republican talking points by warning that using the debt ceiling as a mechanism for fiscal discipline is ineffective and potentially dangerous.
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Hypocrite Republicans Ignored Decades of Debt Until Obama Became President
Republicans never place a high-priority on spending and the national debt until there is a Democrat in the White House that has been a regular occurrence dating back to the Reagan era.
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Sen Graham Exposes Republican Debt Lie by Attacking Social Security
Sen. Graham insisted that we must raise the age for Social Security in order to deal with the debt, but Social Security has nothing to do with the debt.
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The Media Ignores Facts in Order to Push Republican Lies on Fiscal Cliff
The AP is assisting Republicans with their desperate meme that Democrats are to blame for the failure to avert the Fiscal Cliff.
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Obama’s Record Destroys the Republicans’ Big Spending Democrat Propaganda
There has been no huge increase in spending under President Obama, and yet Republicans claim he has been on a spending binge that is the sole cause of the nation’s economic woes.
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Republicans Are Once Again Trying to Hold The Economy Hostage Over Christmas
This Christmas is shaping up like every other year’s end since President Obama has been in office, with Republicans holding the economy hostage over the level of damage they can inflict.
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You Lost Republicans, so Stop Pretending Like Obamacare is On the Table
The latest joke from Republicans was offered up by Eric Cantor who called for Obama to put Obamacare on the table for elimination in order for Republicans to compromise on revenue increases.
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The Federal Deficit Will Be Cut By 40% By The End Of This Fiscal year
When President Obama took office, the federal deficit was $1.413 trillion dollars. Three years later, at the end of fiscal year 2012, the deficit has been cut by 25% to 1.089 trillion dollars.