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Old Nov 25, 2012 | 04:42 PM
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Default Can you solve the budget deficit?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...s-graphic.html



Lets see how well some of you guys do.
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Old Nov 25, 2012 | 05:16 PM
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Old Nov 25, 2012 | 06:27 PM
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You know how you stop spending a trillion dollars more than you have every year?



You stop spending a trillion dollars more than you have every year.



/logic
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Old Nov 26, 2012 | 07:16 AM
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Wait...you mean we just cant keep printing money? I thought we could since we own paper, ink, and printers!























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Old Nov 26, 2012 | 08:25 PM
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No you CAN keep printing more money, IF you don't mind crushing the middle class and having no extra money to pay for anything else besides paying the minimum balance on your credit card national debt.



. . . until you become a credit risk for having too much debt, and the bankers start demanding higher interest on new debt - but I already lost 90% of the population with the first response in the threads SO . . .



pennies from heaven!
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Old Dec 4, 2012 | 09:47 AM
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I wanna give this a shot later, when I'm not at work
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Old Dec 4, 2012 | 04:45 PM
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I have this plan, an easy 12 step program:



1.) Strangle all of our biggest business and tax their chairs until they can't see strait

2.) Spend tens, if not hundreds of billions to encourage foreign countries to drill for oil, meanwhile outlaw oil drilling within 600 miles of US borders.

3.) Bail out every "to big to fail" company no matter what the cost.

4.) Hire gubmint goons to go wreck every small business less they pay IRS insurance.

5.) Extend unemployment benefits to 5148 weeks

6.) Piss off our greatest allies

7.) Give billions in aid to warring countries with no preconditions

8.) Send the wife for groceries in "the company car" (IE: Air Force One)

9.) Spend millions of dollars enforcing customs bond breaches, ignore illegal immigration

10.) Did I mention those evil millionaires and billionaires?

11.) $5 per gallon gas would be a good thing in regards to the middle class

12.) Print lots more money!! So long as we print more the people can spend more.



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