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Who's selfish? The entertainers or the fans?

Remember, however bad you make Bush and Republicans look, Obama and the Democrats have performed at least 3 times worse on the deficit. I'm still befuddled why you come down so hard on those guys but defend the guys doing three times more damage. By the way, I'm not advocating for a cut...

What did I say that was untrue? I didn't deny that taxes went up. I argued that spending slowed down while the Republicans were in charge of Congress. On a trivial notes, the tax hikes occurred in 1993 before the Republicans took the Congress. In 1997, they even passed a tax relief bill...

Here are a few facts you left out. Republicans controlled the Congress during the Clinton years and kept spending under check. Clinton ended up going along with it. The rate of spending slowed significantly during that time. In my opinion, spending is much more important than tax rates...

About 15% of my income already goes into FICA taxes, and that's just how much I pay in direct taxes. When Medicare and Medicaid don't pay enough to cover doctors' costs, they have to make it up elsewhere, so they charge more to other patients' insurance companies. That's an indirect tax...

Entitlements are set to explode with baby boomers retiring and living longer than previous generations. In order to cover that with tax revenues, it will require raising taxes significantly on not just the rich, but everyone across the board. Basically, it will require greater transfers of...

Sure? So you love entitlements but you're fine letting them collapse? Also, could you explain exactly what you mean by dealing with spending and taxes?

So you're for doing nothing to entitlements even if it means they go insolvent?

No, Obama himself said the checks might not go out. Republicans never did say that. There would be enough money to cover Social Security and debt payments. It's up to the administration to prioritize where money goes.

You know, if you can't confront my points, this may be a good time to consider changing your views on some things to match reality or at least studying up on the issues I presented. It may be uncomfortable to consider that Social Security and Medicare really are leading us off a fiscal cliff...

You're talking about the entitlements that are leading to fiscal disaster. If they wanted to destroy these programs, the best way to do it is to do nothing and watch them implode on their own in the coming decades. To save them means to either cut them or increases taxes significantly across...

By the way, just because this thing doesn't pass doesn't mean social security checks won't go out. There will be enough money to pay Social Security and according to Stephen Goss, Social Security's chief actuary, it's up to the treasury department (i.e. the administration) whether or not the...

Look at the date. That was 2006 and it passed by 52 votes in the Senate. My point is that he was singing a much different tune even when the debt was much lower.

He certainly did. U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Votes > Roll Call Vote

Most of them aren't against raising the debt ceiling- they're just against raising it without drastic spending (not some vague promise that probably consists of gimmicks and cuts in the out years that will never happen). Most of the Republicans absolutely opposed to it are newbies who weren't...

No.

So I lied?

So do you think I taught or not?

Then do you think I was a teacher or not? And I'm not writing about the age comment.

Are you saying I'm lying? I clarified what I meant because I didn't communicate it clearly the first time. That's pretty low. This is just too low. I'm going to keep this one private. Check your PM in a few minutes.