Why has Arkansas been electing weak cuckholded Senators and Reps for decades?

I'd rather they not get anything done.

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I don't see Tom Cotton doing anything but bolster himself and his donation bucket.

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I'm not even going to candy-coat it...Tom Cotton is a neocon warmonger who is owned by the Israeli lobby.

You didn't sugar-coat it a bit. Dude is a puppet.

I liked Dale Bumpers pretty well.



I think too much of the new guard are more concerned with voting no on everything that might get done to actually do anything useful

Troy's right.



We don't need roads, or a military or schools or things like vaccinations. That's all fricking liberal bullshite.




I should probably specify that this is sarcasm. With Trump's lead I'm not sure that complete idiocy as a joke is still possible.





btw..


The most hated president in history by the right, Obama, is the only president post WWII to preside over decreased federal spending twice.





The old joke was that the Democrats are the tax and spend party.



The new reality is that they tax and spend... and the republicans spend as much if not more.. and CUT taxes while doing it.


There's your federal debt.

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I liked Dale Bumpers pretty well.

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I did too.

Divisive partisan politics is worse than it has ever been in this country. But both parties have one objective in common....wasteful spending of taxpayer money to advance the ever increasing size of government and the reliance upon its teat.

And I'm not talking about spending on useful infrastructure projects. That makes a lot more sense than spending taxpayer money on increasing the size of government bureaucracy and pissing it away on frivolous wars waged under false premise. Most of us are already aware of the tail that wags that dog.

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I'm not even going to candy-coat it...Tom Cotton is a neocon warmonger who is owned by the Israeli lobby.

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frick Tom Cotton.

That is all.

Increasing federal spending by historic proportions, and then spending slightly less in successive years is a numbers game. The national debt has doubled under Obama. Drunken sailors look at Obama and say "damn, that guy spends a lot of money fast." Idiocy is to claim otherwise.

It is a numbers game.. unfortunately you don't know how they work lol.




The deficit relative to GDP year over year has been declining under Obama. Like it did under Clinton. NOT like it did under Reagan, Bush and Bush.


I realize that the Democrats being the fiscally responsible party doesn't fit the narrative.. just the facts.






Here's a suggestion.. do some actual research, try to find out your own information and not just repeat what your buddy told you on facebook. You might be surprised.

Instead of just assuming you're ignorant about how the numbers work, and making fun of you for it, I'll attempt to explain things:





Let us take Murders as an example.


There is an absolute murder value and a relative murder value.


(making these numbers up for an example)


In 1950 in a nation there were 1,000 murders and 10,000,000 people.


That's a murder rate of 10 per 100,000.


In 2000 in that same nation, there were 4,000 murders and 80,000,000 people.

That's a murder rate of 5 per 100,000


Statement A (which is what the debt statement is) is that murders quadrupled in the last 50 years.

The Murder RATE has actually been cut in half. You're much safer despite an increased number of murders.



That's how our Debt and Deficit works. The big number nearly Always goes up. The year over year deficits are more important than the overall debt.


You want the Deficit to be decreasing relative to GDP. Why is this important? If the size of the economy is growing faster than the size of the deficit, then you're actually cutting away at it. The value of that deficit is decreasing relative to the overall value of the economy.

It's related to inflation.. and the key amounts aren't important as absolute.. but typically as relative numbers.



example: The United States has the largest debt in the world. That is a factual statement as far as an absolute. However, we also have the largest economy in the world and relative to our economy, our debt. Our public debt to GDP is lower than most other industrialized nations.



The Obama presidency has our deficit going in the correct direction relative to the GDP. It's a pretty dramatic improvement btw. Those are facts. It might not be popular, it might not fit the rally cry of certain groups.. but it's reality.


As Stephen Colbert said.. Reality has a liberal bias