The Barnyard

Obviously you can not read or comprehend because nothing I said is a lie. Maybe I should spell it out. Clinton did nothing good for our economy except sign a Republican bill that balanced the budget for a few seconds. Raising the top marginal tax rates was a mistake and did not increase revenues at all. You check the facts. The deficit did not decrease until the spending cuts went into effect.

Again, selective memory and the mantra of saying it enough makes it true. As I tell my students, read and comprehend for yourself, don't take any single person's word on anything, especially in politics.

Maybe, maybe not. If they follow through with the idea that the wealthy will be paying 75%(depends on loop holes, as well, like we had under Ike)...eventually, they will decline. You cannot punish success and thrive...it cannot happen. There is a reason why we are the wealthiest most powerful country in the world...and they are not.

I bet you call them American fries as well.

Some folks call ‘em French Fried Potaters, I call ‘em American Fries mmm

Frogs seem a little much and somewhat demeaning ... to the frogs. There is certainly no love lost between me an them although ma belle-mère est canadienne-française so I deal the best that I can.

As it stands right now - I don't think too many countries are wanting us to save them right now although I'm sure they would take any bail out money - I mean stimulus money - Mr Obama throws their way.

before departing via air france lets not forget a few salient points in re the french:

without the french we would still be kissing the ass of the queen of england. personally, i say thank you france. i know you went overboard and chopped off some heads, but truly, some surely deserved chopping. when to chop when to stop. ah, the questions of live

second, while mocked for their lack of military prowness, please consider their having been in the way of the germans, leading them to see entire generations of young men be buried in intractable trench warfare. the americans arrived late in the game and lost some men but in ww1 the french lost more than just flesh the war was on their turf and it was destroying to land as well as people. then the french got in the way of the germans again, who propagate well and kill people exceedingly well

shit, if the french could have just been located in asia somewhere they would be kick ass

now, some freedom fries and recall no france no freedom from odious oppression'

we were not odiously oppressed for that matter

I guess as you tell these lies, you aren't aware that they keep track of these things and post it on the world-wide interwebs.

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10871/historicaltables.pdf

Let's review some of your lies.

You lied: "Raising the top marginal tax rates was a mistake and did not increase revenues at all."
Reality: Clinton raised the top marginal tax rate in 1993 without a single Republican vote as they said it would wreck the economy. In the next fiscal year, 1994, federal revenues increased by over $100 billion, more than they had increased in the previous three years combined and the largest one year increase ever up to that time.

You lied: "Clinton did nothing good for our economy except sign a Republican bill that balanced the budget for a few seconds. The deficit did not decrease until the spending cuts went into effect. "
Reality: The deficit decreased immediately after the Clinton tax cuts for only the second time in the preceeding eight years. It decreased every year of the Clinton administration.

You lied: "Clinton did nothing good for our economy except sign a Republican bill that balanced the budget for a few seconds."
Reality: Under Clinton the budget was balanced and in fact in surplus of as much as $200 billion for FOUR years, half his time in office, more years than in the preceeding forty years combined and the National Debt decreased for four straight year for the first time since Andrew Jackson was president.

And the good news is its all right there in writing:
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10871/historicaltables.pdf

And BTW , Dubya told the same lies you did. He said his tax cuts for the wealthy of 2001 would charge up the economy and increase federal revenues. Instead federal revenues dropped for each of the first four years after his tax cut for the wealthy, and in four years we went from $236 billion dollar surplus to a $400 billion dollar deficit.

Read it and weep, liar:
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10871/historicaltables.pdf

Mahatma, as a man of the people I thought you would have a better understanding and appreciation of the renaissance attitude prevalent everywhere but at your house.

You are aware of the Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen territory once a French region ceded to Germany following the Franco Prussian war. It has a lengthy history of going back and forth between the two countries. French as well as German is spoken by most.

The same is true when you travel up through Luxemburg. There is a prevalent trilingual presence there. Many among our Barnyard military community may have (fond) memories of Reforger and making the trek there to secure a caravan of deuce and a half’s for the exercise.

As an art critic and aficionado, I'm sure you are aware Germany is known more for its architecture than its art. Oddly Hitler was quite the artist – he was somewhat of the Thomas Kinkade of his time.

Italy and France were much better known for their masters in the art world; even the Dutch had more world renowned artists. Monet?...not so much – I much prefer a Leroy Neiman or for grits and grins a nice Jackson Pollack.

Dude, these are numbers. They write this stuff down and keep ledgers.

Example, when a guy insults me and says that Clinton's tax increase in 1993 didn't increase federal revenues at all, and the Congressional Budget Office, which I provided the links to, says they produced what was at the time the LARGEST one year increase in federal revenues in US history, that my friend is a lie. A whopper in fact.

As the late Pat Moynihan said, "you have the right to your own opinion, but you don't have the right to your own facts."

Let's review the chronology. I posted facts about the Clinton tax increase of 1993. Dodgerblue42 comes on and insults me tells me how wrong I am and doubles down, says I should do my research but offers no links himself. I point out he's lying with links to the CBO, in fact telling a really big lie. You say nothing to him but call me partisan! LOL! I believe the term is hypocrisy.

The only thing I've ever posted on this board that was not factual was that the Canal Zone wasn't a legal entity in 1934. I acknowledged my mistake, apologized and thanked the poster for the correction. It's called being a grown-up . Wonder when DodgerBlue42 will do the same. Since we're on the subject of breathing, I wouldn't hold mine until he does.

So take the etiquette lecture somewhere else. No mods have deleted any of my threads for personal insults.

The official historical budget numbers from the non-partisan CBO are easily manipulated. Wow
Newsflash, kid, Bill Clinton didn't run two wars off-budget like Dubya did.

Don't keep your mouth shut. Take a second and look things up for yourself and back up what you say.

Now you're ragging me for typos! When do you sleep? Obviously I meant "wasn't factual" or "was not factual." Thanks for catching it for me so I could correct it.

BTW, as John Hunt said to you, "is you or is you ain't a birther?"

oh i know the germans are real thinkers and all and even hitler had some artistic bent.
einstein was german. very very smart people

but they have a penchant for wanting to take over continents.

The French like a of the European countries except Germany were unprepared for ww 2 and were well behind the Germans in technology and tactics.

When the Germans upset the paradigm from precious wars and flanked them, the war was over. They did not have the luxury of retreating across the English channel in disarray.

You can debate about Vichy and collaboration, but there were free French units and French resistance during the war.

Historically, the French were a formidable military power of course.

So the idea that if the gov. "allows" the private sector to keep more of it's own money...which will be spent and invested and spur more economic activity is mathematically dubious? Certainly there is a point of diminishing returns, however, I believe that point to be lower rather than higher.
Of course, regardless of where that point actually is, the government should be taking only what is absolutely needed...because it's not their money(which is contrary to the liberal mindset on this subject imo).

Could/should the government perhaps consider trying to scrape by on maybe just a couple trillion a year? At times I really don't think we're asking the right questions.

We can certainly curtail defense spending and the age for social security should have been raised a long time ago...glad to see you don't just take the dem. party line on this. I'm not sure what you mean by healthcare being in the untouchable category. I definitely disagree regarding taxes and the entire premise behind it.