[deMolay]

From Mish. Unionized government workers descend on State Capitals. The anti-teabaggers rally. http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/04/15000-illinois-protesters-chant-raise.html

[hillsidedigger]

The budgets and the wars need to be funded with something other than borrowed money.

[Roy]

The defense budget of ~$754 Billion uses up about 80% of the total revenues from the IRS.

The remainder of the US budget is borrowed.

Anyone here think that the 'defense' budget isn't the highest priority right now?

If it weren't maybe people would be willing to admit that it alone is bankrupting us. yet in all the budget cutting discussions I see and hear, welfare and other entitlements are the most commonly blamed. Its like 'defense' is a sacred cow that must not be touched and this cow must grow by 7% a year or we will all lose our freedom. yes those guys in Afghanistan are doing a great job of protecting my freedom <sarcasm>.

If the armed forces were tasked with that, they would have DC under siege right now or it would already be captured and all the liberty-takers would be in Gitmo right now.

Taxes ain't goin down, I don't give a crap what new 'plan' is devised. VAT will just be added to our current system IMO.

Extend and Pretend can't go on forever.

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[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hillsidedigger', 'T')he budgets and the wars need to be funded with something other than borrowed money.

[deMolay]

You are right there Threadbear. Some wise man said that when the ratio of soldiers in a country to the number of farmers in a country gets too far out of whack, famine follows. But my original post was sort of a question. What will be the end result in the USA for example. The Tea Baggers are growing in number, protesting high taxs, big government in the Capitol cities all over the USA. Now the Unionized workers are protesting demanding no cuts and more Taxes to pay for their wages and benefits. This could be a very interesting year in politics and life in the USA. Seems the tensions are ratchetting up.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', ' ')The Tea Baggers are growing in number, protesting high taxs,.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', ' ')Now the Unionized workers are protesting demanding no cuts and more Taxes to pay for their wages and benefits.

[deMolay]

Ludi I don't live in the uSA but read their signs, and many of them are about Taxes and Big Government.

[deMolay]

Ludi in the story link it shows Unionized Teachers, cops etc. Public worker Unions, working for Governments.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'L')udi I don't live in the uSA but read their signs, and many of them are about Taxes and Big Government.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', ' ')Public worker Unions, working for Governments.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'F')rom Mish. Unionized government workers descend on State Capitals. The anti-teabaggers rally. http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/04/15000-illinois-protesters-chant-raise.html

[Blacksmith]

Two observations:

Everyone likes to recieve, but no one likes to give.

Public employees and unionized workers feel they have an iron rice bowl.

[Jotapay]

I pay about half of my income in taxes on some level. That's a helluva lot. And government workers are getting raises at a much higher rate than private sector employees.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'I') pay about half of my income in taxes on some level. That's a helluva lot. And government workers are getting raises at a much higher rate than private sector employees.

[PrestonSturges]

The tea party is a splinter of the GOP with massive dose of free PR from Fox and corporate sponsorship.

Pat Buchannan claims they are a new White Power movement, in a column he published on Hitler's birthday along with a statement from that Polish guy being tried as a Nazi. The real Nazis at Stormfront were very very excited over this.

The Tea party is flabby elderly "Christian" dingbats, flabby elderly libertarians, flabby elderly conspiracy theorists, and flabby elderly racists. If they were atracting veterans and skinheads, they would scare the bejeezus out of me, but this is just the GOP cannibalizing its own resources.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'T')he tea party is a splinter of the GOP with massive dose of free PR from Fox and corporate sponsorship.

Pat Buchannan claims they are a new White Power movement, in a column he published on Hitler's birthday along with a statement from that Polish guy being tried as a Nazi. The real Nazis at Stormfront were very very excited over this.

[Plantagenet]

Of course government workers want higher taxes.

They know that their bloated salaries and benefits depend entirely on squeezing tax revenue from the private sector.

[Dawn]

Teachers in Michigan are the highest paid in the nation. What's the graduation rate in Detroit anyway?

[bshirt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'O')f course government workers want higher taxes.

They know that their bloated salaries and benefits depend entirely on squeezing tax revenue from the private sector.