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:::If [http://www.therebel.media/ezra_levant_in_paris_the_saddest_thing_i_ve_seen_so_far this] or [http://www.steynonline.com/7298/imagine-there-no-imagination this] are any indication, France has no stomach for a fight. We can only hope sheer inertia can keep the country going until the U.S once again has a president willing fight for Western Civilization. In the meantime, [http://www.meforum.org/5630/what-france-can-learn-from-israel#print this article] has some good advice for the French. With Belgium riddled with ISIS safe havens, the dream of a Europe with open borders will have to wait. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 03:04, 17 November 2015 (EST)
:::If [http://www.therebel.media/ezra_levant_in_paris_the_saddest_thing_i_ve_seen_so_far this] or [http://www.steynonline.com/7298/imagine-there-no-imagination this] are any indication, France has no stomach for a fight. We can only hope sheer inertia can keep the country going until the U.S once again has a president willing fight for Western Civilization. In the meantime, [http://www.meforum.org/5630/what-france-can-learn-from-israel#print this article] has some good advice for the French. With Belgium riddled with ISIS safe havens, the dream of a Europe with open borders will have to wait. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 03:04, 17 November 2015 (EST)
::::At his press conference, Obama made it official that U.S. policy is not to defeat ISIS or even to retaliate for the massacre in Paris. Instead, we'll "stay the course" and "contain" them, whatever that means.[http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/11/16/walid_phares_explains_obama_s_strategy] It was apparently too much even for the White House press corp, normally a base constituency for Obama. They had to ask the question three times before they could accept that this was Obama's for-real answer. Retaliating wouldn't even require U.S. boots on the ground since the Jordanian army is willing to do the dirty work. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 08:51, 17 November 2015 (EST)
::::At his press conference, Obama made it official that U.S. policy is not to defeat ISIS or even to retaliate for the massacre in Paris. Instead, we'll "stay the course" and "contain" them, whatever that means.[http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/11/16/walid_phares_explains_obama_s_strategy] It was apparently too much even for the White House press corp, normally a base constituency for Obama. They had to ask the question three times before they could accept that this was Obama's for-real answer. Retaliating wouldn't even require U.S. boots on the ground since the Jordanian army is willing to do the dirty work. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 08:51, 17 November 2015 (EST)
== While you were enjoying the holidays... ==
The ink was hardly dry on the final estimates of the U.S. economic statistics for Fiscal Year 2015 ending September 30, when we are given to learn the [[National debt of the United States|United States federal debt]]/GDP ratio jumped 4% from 101.8% to 105.7% in the three short months afterwards (Oct. 1 to Dec. 31). The Greek Debt Crisis of 2010 was precipitated when Greek debt reached 115% of GDP.
This increase in the ratio was due to the elimination of the debt ceiling and an increase in debt of about $800 billion (which is a higher rate of new debt in proportion to GDP in three months than for the entire fiscal year 2005 or 2006 at the height of the Iraq War) and a large slowdown in GDP growth just recently being indicated by a large stock market correction.
In those three months, whatever the results of any tax increases put into law for current spending, the U.S. Government has committed itself to ''four percent of the size of today's entire U.S. economy'' over and above that.
If you are preparing a budget with a competitor for resources, you would probably be willing to haggle over spending on various items in the range of one-half to one percent. If there were a built-in increase of four percent on your competitor's side, the haggling would become something of a farce. If you successfully argue for a one percent advantage, your competitor can loudly complain of his cut (while netting three percent) and win sympathy, because the four percent, through sleight of hand, isn't part of the competitive process and happened "at some other time".
The taxpayer arguing for lower taxes is like you in the example: he or she might get a publicized one percent tax cut from the budget while four percent over the budget has already been spent. [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) 19:01, 8 January 2016 (EST)