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cstanleytech

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8. Not true, big business can provide them as well they just are choosing not to

Reply to Yavin4 (Reply #5)

Wed Oct 30, 2013, 07:16 PM

Oct 2013

and are instead choosing to hire more and more part timers and directing those same part timers to apply for food stamps and other assistance programs in order to avoid paying people a living wage so as to keep their corporate profits up.

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US Budget Deficit Down to $680B, Lowest in 5 Years [View all] hue Oct 2013 OP

Remember when Bush* had record Deficits year after year and they were under $400 billion Bandit Oct 2013 #1

I agree. mdbl Oct 2013 #20

Yep Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 #23

kick. Thanks for posting. eom +1 Purveyor Oct 2013 #2

This means the Repukes will have to work harder to damage the economy to keep the deficit up. DCBob Oct 2013 #3

Correlates well with the creation of crappy jobs, and inversely with jtuck004 Oct 2013 #4

future kardonb Oct 2013 #6

You forgot this... progressoid Oct 2013 #10

This is bad news. Really bad news. Yavin4 Oct 2013 #5

Not true, big business can provide them as well they just are choosing not to cstanleytech Oct 2013 #8

And they will continue to do that unless our gov't does something about it. progressoid Oct 2013 #9

The answer isnt to expand programs or atleast not all of them. cstanleytech Oct 2013 #14

Raise rich people's taxes enough and we won't have a deficit at all. True Blue Door Oct 2013 #7

FOXspin ourfuneral Oct 2013 #11

Or "The Sequester works"... n/t hughee99 Oct 2013 #16

GOP sputters: But, but, there aren't enough deaths yet! We'll try harder, Satan! freshwest Oct 2013 #12

Sick! Sick Sick! ourfuneral Oct 2013 #13

K&R DeSwiss Oct 2013 #15

Do you really Munificence Oct 2013 #18

Nope, it's the rate of growth in spending. DeSwiss Oct 2013 #19

Pretty sure those numbers are percentages, not multiples.... Wounded Bear Oct 2013 #24

Deficits Don't Matter. blkmusclmachine Oct 2013 #17

Budgets as % of GDP now Lower than in 4 of Reagan's Last 6 Years Stallion Oct 2013 #21

But but but Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 #22