Should Government step in and build a bigger and faster Debt Clock?
Maybe Brownie could do that job. He did a heck of a job at FEMA.
2007-12-05 06:11:33 · 10 answers · asked by whirling W dervish 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It needs a new mainframe for that much computing power.
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2007-12-05 06:29:43 · answer #1 · answered by Zardoz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to remind you that the President can not spend anything that ISN'T authorized by Congress. So saying the clock can't keep up with Bush makes an implication that is untrue. Now to say the clock can't keep up with the US Government would be true.
All appropriations had to go through the House and Senate. Now the House can't filabuster. But the Senate CAN. And even as late as 2004-2006 the Republicans didn't have enough votes to stop a filabuster.
So if the Democrats were so concerned with excess spending, why didn't they filabuster? They could have been putting the brakes on spending IF they really wanted to. They did nothing to even try and stop this excessive spending by, as they put it ,Bush and the Republicans.
If the Democrats who are now so against excess spending really wanted to do something. Why didn't they do it then? Were they ignorant it was going on, complicit in doing it, totally incompetent in knowing what was going on and how to stop it, or all the above?
But to put ALL the blame on Bush? I'm sorry that dog won't hunt. It may have been Bush's fault to an extent, and the Republicans in Congress may have helped. But to say the Democrats had no part in it is a bigger lie than "I never had sex with THAT woman".
2007-12-05 06:50:45 · answer #2 · answered by namsaev 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sure that for a few billion Halliburton could build a clock that would keep up with the debt - of course it would take ten years, go a few billion overbudget, and be in texas, but hey it might work.
2007-12-05 06:18:15 · answer #3 · answered by Shadow Knight 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Great job for Brownie.. of course we will have to promote him and pay him countless millions.. and he will never finish the job.. but that seems about par for the Republicans.. Big starters... can't finish.
2007-12-05 06:16:10 · answer #4 · answered by Debra H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Debt and deficit spending is squandering our future and making the success of future Americans very diffcult.
2007-12-05 06:15:29 · answer #5 · answered by Billy Dee 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How about cutting all the bull sh*t spending....Why do Democrats refuse to cut funding for a bridge that goes no ware and other waste full spending....It come down to if we don`t have a deafest they won`t be able to get more of your tax money
2007-12-05 06:20:35 · answer #6 · answered by charlie s 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Maybe we can have a Dick Clark-hosted count down as the economy implodes....
2007-12-05 06:17:51 · answer #7 · answered by outcrop 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Just another example of the present exceeding the expectations of the past. :P
2007-12-05 06:15:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe this will help:
http://brillig.com/debt_clock/
http://www.babylontoday.com/national_debt_clock.htm
2007-12-05 06:32:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is.
The national debt is going down.
(Sorry about that, numbers don't lie...)
2007-12-05 06:19:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋