Federal deficit grows by 32% to $900B

[Flash]

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.

I don't know who you mean by "you assholes refuse to raise the minimum wage" but the minimum wage was last raised in the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. It looks like "you assholes" refused to raise it, either.

You need to see someone about your anger issues. People usually resort to insults and foul language when they have run out of rational arguments.

 

[LV426]

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

So this is "bothsiderism" in its most debased form. You can't seem to bring yourself to admit the need for a central bank, so you try and impugn the bank's necessity by saying that the people who run it are flawed. Well guess what, man? Everyone is flawed. No one is perfect. You should be the first person to admit that. It's why the people who run the central bank are supposed to be vetted by the President.

What a fucking lazy, cowardly sack of shit you are. Just admit that you've been talking out of your ass! I would actually respect you for admitting that. But I guess you just don't want respect. So you try and search for any tenuous thing that can help you save face.

What a fucking fraud and phony.

 

[Flash]

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.

We were obviously talking about separate things. I did not mention individual benefits and you did not mention total spending. That means we both "hid" stuff to make our point (according to your view).

 

[LV426]

I'm not concerned (or trolling) over SNAP. I just responded to your post which inaccurately claimed SNAP spending had been cut.

It has been cut for individuals.

The average monthly individual benefit has been cut.

That's what I linked to before. A link and a fact you seem allergic to acknowledging.

It's pretty obvious why.

 

[LV426]

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.

Right, you acted in bad faith because you either didn't realize individual benefits were cut, or you did and tried to pretend you didn't.

 

[cawacko]

So this is "bothsiderism" in its most debased form. You can't seem to bring yourself to admit the need for a central bank, so you try and impugn the bank's necessity by saying that the people who run it are flawed. Well guess what, man? Everyone is flawed. No one is perfect. You should be the first person to admit that. It's why the people who run the central bank are supposed to be vetted by the President.

What a fucking lazy, cowardly sack of shit you are. Just admit that you've been talking out of your ass! I would actually respect you for admitting that. But I guess you just don't want respect. So you try and search for any tenuous thing that can help you save face.

What a fucking fraud and phony.

Yes, I'm a fraud and a coward because you can't acknowledge the Fed could be at fault. You have serious anger issues.

 

[LV426]

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.

What it does is complete your statement, because it was incomplete. You were presenting it like SNAP funding increased, therefore individual benefits increased. But the opposite is actually the case. So when you leave out the detail that individual benefits were cut, you end up presenting an incorrect argument because it lacks detail.

Being detail-oriented is something most Conservatives aren't. The reason is because Conservatism is inherently a lazy belief system and ideology. So it comes as no shock that its arguments are also lazy and incomplete.

 

[LV426]

I don't know who you mean by "you assholes refuse to raise the minimum wage" but the minimum wage was last raised in the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007.

Which was 11 years ago.

Since then, inflation has cumulatively grown 24%, but the minimum wage has not been raised at the federal level.

Interestingly enough, back in 2014, there were 13 states that all raised their minimum wage. The result? Faster rate of job growth than the 37 states that didn't.

Raising the MW is just good economics.

 

[LV426]

We were obviously talking about separate things. I did not mention individual benefits and you did not mention total spending. That means we both "hid" stuff to make our point (according to your view).

I didn't hide anything, jackass. You're trying to shift the goalposts so you don't have to admit that what you presented was generalized, vague bullshit that you were trying to force through a false conclusion. We're not both in the same boat here; I'm in the boat, and you're in the water.

 

[Getin the ring]

It has been cut for individuals.

The average monthly individual benefit has been cut.

That's what I linked to before. A link and a fact you seem allergic to acknowledging.

It's pretty obvious why.

and you don't think your snap benefit should be cut? how long am I suppose to buy you food?

 

[LV426]

Yes, I'm a fraud and a coward because you can't acknowledge the Fed could be at fault. You have serious anger issues.

"Could be at fault"?

TOTAL GOALPOST SHIFT THERE!

So we go from you saying the Fed is at fault to saying the Fed could be at fault.

The Fed didn't cause the dotcom bubble, and I gave you a link to an academic paper reported by Business Insider that showed what caused volatility in the market at the end of the 90's were the tax cuts. You just completely ignored that because it didn't let you have your bottle where you could blame an institution you seemingly know less-than-nothing about, for the economic turmoil caused by the very policies you support; tax cuts & deregulation.

The Fed didn't cause the dotcom bubble, your shitty tax cuts did.

The Fed didn't cause the housing bubble, your shitty deregulation did.

The Fed didn't cause the S&L Crisis, your shitty laissez-faire capitalism did.

Everything always seems to come back to the poor policies and practices Conservatives routinely engage in and push, while denying that they are the root cause because you just have to socialize blame so you don't have to change your thinking.

What a lazy fucking asshole.

 

[LV426]

and you don't think your snap benefit should be cut? how long am I suppose to buy you food?

No one believes for a second that you have a job.

So stop.

You're not convincing.

 

[cawacko]

"Could be at fault"?

TOTAL GOALPOST SHIFT THERE!

So we go from you saying the Fed is at fault to saying the Fed could be at fault.

The Fed didn't cause the dotcom bubble, and I gave you a link to an academic paper reported by Business Insider that showed what caused volatility in the market at the end of the 90's were the tax cuts. You just completely ignored that because it didn't let you have your bottle where you could blame an institution you seemingly know less-than-nothing about, for the economic turmoil caused by the very policies you support; tax cuts & deregulation.

The Fed didn't cause the dotcom bubble, your shitty tax cuts did.

The Fed didn't cause the housing bubble, your shitty deregulation did.

The Fed didn't cause the S&L Crisis, your shitty laissez-faire capitalism did.

Everything always seems to come back to the poor policies and practices Conservatives routinely engage in and push, while denying that they are the root cause because you just have to socialize blame so you don't have to change your thinking.

What a lazy fucking asshole.

Nope. The Fed did cause the housing bubble. My previous comment was from your perspective. You think because the Fed exists it can do no wrong.

It's funny you think you can bully people with all the cussing and threats if they have a different opinion. Doesn't work that way. You're not correct because you cuss.

 

[Leonthecat]

what a goof

never mind the 10 trillion in additional debt under OBAMA,
which surpasses anything known in history

We will never dig out of that

If Obama was here right now I'd make him explain that to the youth who will spend their lives with that anchor around their neck.
But he's probably back in Kenya so let's let hat sleeping dog lie

You are a ridiculous liar, and not a very good one at that.

 

[LV426]

Nope. The Fed did cause the housing bubble.

No it didn't. Dramatically weakening lending standards for subprime loans from 2004-7 is what caused the bubble. The Fed had nothing to do with that. It was all Bush and the Conservatives.

 

[LV426]

You think because the Fed exists it can do no wrong

Total straw-man argument from a lazy fucking prick.

The Fed's just as susceptible to bad practices as any public or private institution.

That's why it's bigly important that the President picks a Fed Chair that knows what the fuck they're doing.

I've never said the Fed is infallible. All I've said is that a central bank is a necessity in an economy this size, that is globalized, and that can combat inflation and rescue failing banks that need to be rescued.

 

[LV426]

It's funny you think you can bully people with all the cussing and threats if they have a different opinion. Doesn't work that way. You're not correct because you cuss.

See, this is the thing. Your opinion means jack shit to me. You might think you're entitled to your opinion, but you're not. Entitlements are earned, and you've done nothing to earn the entitlement you think your opinion has or deserves.

Not all opinions deserve validation, and none of them are entitled. It's just more of that Boomer psychology that everything is about you, and that you must have your opinion taken into consideration merely because it exists. But I'm not about rewarding bad faith and bad intentions with any kind of participation trophy.

 

[cawacko]

Total straw-man argument from a lazy fucking prick.

The Fed's just as susceptible to bad practices as any public or private institution.

That's why it's bigly important that the President picks a Fed Chair that knows what the fuck they're doing.

I've never said the Fed is infallible. All I've said is that a central bank is a necessity in an economy this size, that is globalized, and that can combat inflation and rescue failing banks that need to be rescued.

Once again the name calling when you can't acknowledge fault. You essentially did say the Fed could do no wrong. Greenspan was considered a mistro in the '90's for his handling of the economy yet he was a large reason for the financial meltdown. Bernanke and Yellen had great academic pedigrees but it didn't stop them from creating our current asset bubbles.

 

[cawacko]

See, this is the thing. Your opinion means jack shit to me. You might think you're entitled to your opinion, but you're not. Entitlements are earned, and you've done nothing to earn the entitlement you think your opinion has or deserves.

Not all opinions deserve validation, and none of them are entitled. It's just more of that Boomer psychology that everything is about you, and that you must have your opinion taken into consideration merely because it exists. But I'm not about rewarding bad faith and bad intentions with any kind of participation trophy.

Gotta love people with the God complex, especially millenials

 

[LV426]

Once again the name calling when you can't acknowledge fault.

You're trying to assign blame according to your inherent biases.

I just told you that the Fed, like everything else, is vulnerable to bad practices, but those practices come from the leadership.

So if the President picks someone to lead the Fed that has poor leadership, the institution itself will fail.

But that's not what happened during the mortgage bubble. Not at all. And you've been unable to explain exactly what the Fed did to cause Bush's regulators to dramatically weaken underwriting standards for subprime loans, which both Bush's Working Group and the Fed said was the cause of the financial turmoil.

You keep insisting the Fed is to blame, the Fed is to blame! But you don't say why or how. You just say it's to blame merely because it exists. And that's why you are a lazy fucking prick.