Federal deficit grows by 32% to $900B

Well, he's right about one thing: the Bush Administration dramatically weakening underwriting standards for subprime loans beginning in 2004 and extending through 2007.

This is what caused the 2008 mortgage crisis and recession.
Straight from the horse's mouth

Another moronic claim from an idiot on steroids. You liars have no shame. You keep repeating the same lies over and over again pretending that repeating them makes them look less ignorant. STFU, seriously.
 
Sigh...

Conservatives cut individual SNAP benefits.

It's literally in the link you didn't read, in the post of mine you quoted.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-food-stamps-snap-hunger-815327
Typical, lying, Conservative shitbag.

You make the uninformed assumption that someone who is concerned about wasteful government spending and huge deficits must be a conservative. Many of the Democrats posting on this forum are now concerned about deficits and debt.

With such huge increases in SNAP spending since 2009 cuts in benefits is one way to keep that deficit and debt down Democrats now worry about. News today reported a record number of people quitting their jobs to take higher paying ones---makes those food stamps less necessary.

SNAP is primarily welfare for the rich with most of the money going to big ag, truckers, food processing plants, grocery stores, convenience stores, and now fast food places. The FBI reports food stamp fraud is one of the easiest crimes to commit.
 
Use all your own adjectives on yourself here. Not sure why you choose to protect the Fed but you are

We need a central banking system because of the size of our economy, and the risk banks take. Also, we need the central bank to fight inflation by raising interest rates when appropriate. Only a central bank can do that.


And you're blaming capital gains cuts for the dot com bubble?

Yes.

And it's not just me, but rather reputable economists that cite that tax cut as the cause of volatility in the market at the end of the 90's.

Here's Why The Dot Com Bubble Began And Why It Popped

We infer from the findings in this study that the volatility left, after controlling for every known determinant, reflects the influence of the 1997 capital gains tax rate cut. Stock return volatility was substantially greater after 1997. Furthermore, firms most affected by the rate reduction showed the greatest change in volatility. Specifically, non-dividend paying firms had a greater increase in volatility than dividend-paying firms and firms with large unrealized capital losses experienced a greater increase in volatility than firms with small unrealized losses.
 
Again, you hate tax cuts so you create a false narrative to blame them

I hate tax cuts because they're a cynical way for Conservatives with bad intentions and bad faith to attack the spending to which they're ideologically opposed, but lack the courage, will, and support to repeal through conventional legislation. So you all commit fiscal terrorism by flying planes of tax cuts into the budget to manufacture a deficit crisis, and then use that crisis you created as the excuse to exact punitive cuts against people you sanctimoniously judge.

That's fuckin' terrorism, pal.
 
Yes you did.

You hid the fact that individual SNAP benefits have declined because of cuts to SNAP by Trump and the Conservatives.

It's literally in the link in my post that you didn't bother to read because you're an entitled, lazy asshole.

And you hid the fact that SNAP spending has increased from $17 billion to $68 billion since 2000. With unemployment at 3.9% why hasn't that spending fallen back to pre-recession levels?

SNAP is an entitlement program with spending generated by number of people eligible for benefits.
 
And you hid the fact that SNAP spending has increased from $17 billion to $68 billion since 2000. With unemployment at 3.9% why hasn't that spending fallen back to pre-recession levels?

SNAP is an entitlement program with spending generated by number of people eligible for benefits.

Your anger is obviously responsible for looking for people to insult and attack. You are as bad as the Trump supporters in your hatred.
 
SNAP is primarily welfare for the rich with most of the money going to big ag, truckers, food processing plants, grocery stores, convenience stores, and now fast food places. The FBI reports food stamp fraud is one of the easiest crimes to commit.

If you want less SNAP, raise wages.

SNAP is determined by income. The higher your income, the less in benefits you qualify. So if SNAP spending is truly your concern, you should be arguing for higher wages starting with an increase in the minimum wage to at least $15/hr.

But you oppose raising the minimum wage, don't you?

So explain to me how your trolling over SNAP isn't just masturbation.
 
Pointing out your hypocrisy on the debt doesn't mean we share the same position.

I sure hope not. I don't share your anger and hatred, your need to attack those you disagree with, your hypocrisy in acting like you care about individuals while insulting and denigrating them, and your simplistic assumption that a person is a conservative because they want to be fiscally responsible, and your inability to engage in civil debate.
 
And you hid the fact that SNAP spending has increased from $17 billion to $68 billion since 2000

I didn't hide that at all. In fact, I responded to it directly. YOU DIDN'T RESPOND TO WHAT I WROTE.

All you do is lie. I think you don't even know what it is to tell the truth anymore. You seem to just say whatever the fuck you want, whenever you want, and don't care if it's truthful. You're just a troll, and a pretty shitty one at that.
 
With unemployment at 3.9% why hasn't that spending fallen back to pre-recession levels?

Because SNAP eligibility and benefits are determined by income, and you assholes refuse to raise the minimum wage to at least $15/hr. Doing so would move millions off SNAP, and/or reduce the amount of SNAP for which they can qualify.

So you screech about SNAP, leave out the fact that while more people are on SNAP their benefits are lower, and then refuse to raise the minimum wage to a level that would reduce SNAP eligibility.

So you're just masturbating here. You're perpetuating a problem that you are concurrently complaining about.

What a fucking fraud.
 
We need a central banking system because of the size of our economy, and the risk banks take. Also, we need the central bank to fight inflation by raising interest rates when appropriate. Only a central bank can do that.




Yes.

And it's not just me, but rather reputable economists that cite that tax cut as the cause of volatility in the market at the end of the 90's.

Here's Why The Dot Com Bubble Began And Why It Popped


Does needing a federal banking system mean it's above reproach and can't do wrong? Because that's what it sounds like you're saying here
 
SNAP is an entitlement program with spending generated by number of people eligible for benefits.

Right, and what determined eligibility? Income. So the more you make, the less in benefits you qualify. So if you raised the minimum wage to $15/hr, that would significantly reduce the amount of SNAP benefits for which those workers qualify.

But you oppose raising the minimum wage, and it seems you do for the sole purpose of perpetuating a problem in order to sanctimoniously complain about it. But it's only a problem because you made it so with your support of poor economic and wage policy.

So change your thinking. Change your position. Change your beliefs to reflect the facts and reality. Don't complain about a problem and then oppose the only solution. That's just masturbation. So are you a jerk-off? You very well might be.
 
If you want less SNAP, raise wages.

SNAP is determined by income. The higher your income, the less in benefits you qualify. So if SNAP spending is truly your concern, you should be arguing for higher wages starting with an increase in the minimum wage to at least $15/hr.

But you oppose raising the minimum wage, don't you?

So explain to me how your trolling over SNAP isn't just masturbation.

I'm not concerned (or trolling) over SNAP. I just responded to your post which inaccurately claimed SNAP spending had been cut. Then you changed it to individual benefits rather than total spending and blamed me for "hiding" something because I checked the federal budget for total SNAP spending. I read your article about individual benefit cuts and now understand what you were talking about. It does not make my statement about large increases in SNAP spending untrue.
 
I sure hope not. I don't share your anger and hatred, your need to attack those you disagree with, your hypocrisy in acting like you care about individuals while insulting and denigrating them, and your simplistic assumption that a person is a conservative because they want to be fiscally responsible, and your inability to engage in civil debate.

Throughout Obama, and after him, Conservatives screeched tirelessly about the debt and deficit. Then, when given control what do you people do? Increase the debt and deficit. Pointing that out doesn't mean you and I both feel the same way about the debt. Pointing it out only shows how disingenuous your debt position actually is.
 
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