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Have you heard about the price of tea in China lately? Not gonna happen here at work.

I don't get it.

Oh That is funny.I guess I couldn't get past thinking "butt foam"...

The shutdown actually had an effect on me this weekend. We went camping. The park we were going to camp in was run by the Army Corp of Engineers so it was closed due to the government shutdown. We had to go to the next campground up, which was run by the state.

WHY WOULDN'T YOU RSVP!?

But I actually noticed that the government was shut down! That was the point. He said that good people don't notice, and I hadn't noticed, until I went to that campsite. We don't notice those things. I was responding in tune with the shutdown affecting me in a way that I'd notice. What kind of idiot would want to leave the greatest country on earth? Huh?

They forfeited any claim of greatness when they joined the Nazis.

okay now I know you must be joking. We could kick all those country's asses.You know, the U.S. has over 300 million people spread over almost 10 million square kilometers, spanning across four time zones and eight distinct physiographic divisions.When you start comparing country wide statistics against tiny little countries with a handful of people in one time zone and one division, you're going to get some confusion about which one is greater. Me personally? I make more than that.

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Mr. President, I rise today to talk about America’s debt problem. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

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And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

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Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities. Instead, insterest payments are a significant tax on all Americansa debt tax that Washington doesn’t want to talk about. If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we would see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies.

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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘‘the buck stops here.’’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.

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-Senator Obama, 2006

If you've got something to say then say it.

I wasn't talking to you.

Lowering the deficit is not lowering the debt.

What!? There was a payroll tax increase in January that affected everybody who was employed. My weekly check dropped by almost 5%.

So, we got informed of the changes to our health insurance here at work. I'm paying a little more per week now, the co-pay went up a little, and the percentages that they pay went down.I am literally paying more money for less insurance.One of the problems I have with you lefties is that the wonderful things that you tell me that your policies are going to result in don't actually happen to me in real life.

Our's has been consistent until this year. I was told on these forums here that this new healthcare stuff would cause the cost to go down. Why not just pass a law against that then? Seems odd to fine people for not buying insurance to further that goal. What's stopping people from forming groups and bartering with the insurance companies and making plans? Why would you need the federal government involved for that? Yeah, I was smart and did the right thing in the first place... fuck me, right?