Comments for We Can't Pay That Tab http://www.wecantpaythattab.org Creating A Dialogue Between Young Americans and Policymakers Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:11:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on The Conversation by wecantpaythattab http://www.wecantpaythattab.org/conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-31 wecantpaythattab Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:11:01 +0000 http://borrowed.startlogic.com/?page_id=20#comment-31 Jon and Donna, Thanks for the great comment. You make an excellent point. Can we be fiscally conservative and socially liberal? We think you can. This issue is going to affect everyone in the political spectrum. It's going to take people and congressman and women who can separate the need to deal with the debt from social issues. We are going to have to put aside our disagreements on the standard social hot button issues like abortion and gay rights to solve this problem. Most importantly because they have no effect on bringing down the debt. Feel like orphans no longer because our team is a mix of liberal and social values. Here we are focused on controlling the debt so that we can continue to believe what we want to believe. -The WeCantPayThatTab Team Jon and Donna,
Thanks for the great comment. You make an excellent point. Can we be fiscally conservative and socially liberal?

We think you can. This issue is going to affect everyone in the political spectrum. It’s going to take people and congressman and women who can separate the need to deal with the debt from social issues. We are going to have to put aside our disagreements on the standard social hot button issues like abortion and gay rights to solve this problem.

Most importantly because they have no effect on bringing down the debt.

Feel like orphans no longer because our team is a mix of liberal and social values. Here we are focused on controlling the debt so that we can continue to believe what we want to believe.

-The WeCantPayThatTab Team

]]> Comment on The Conversation by Jon and Donna http://www.wecantpaythattab.org/conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Jon and Donna Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:57:12 +0000 http://borrowed.startlogic.com/?page_id=20#comment-30 We are VERY worried about the debt - but we see that we are SO much more divided as a nation. Talk of the debt has become so politicized! And conservative social issues are so often bound up with fiscal conservatism. Where do social liberals who are fiscally conservative go? Can we separate these issues? We so often see them bound up together. And we are strongly pro-choice - enough to make reproductive rights our #1 issue, all the while, worrying that our grandchildren will be paying the tab for what we're doing right now. Every time we write to our representatives about our deep concern about the debt and "deficit spending," we include our strong desire that these politicians keep their hands off Roe v Wade. But we feel we are not heard - our voices are not heard. What can we do? What can fiscally conservative, socially liberal people do? WHY must "conservative" mean you are fiscally responsible and anti-gay rights and anti-choice? We feel like orphans. Jon and Donna We are VERY worried about the debt – but we see that we are SO much more divided as a nation. Talk of the debt has become so politicized! And conservative social issues are so often bound up with fiscal conservatism.

Where do social liberals who are fiscally conservative go? Can we separate these issues? We so often see them bound up together. And we are strongly pro-choice – enough to make reproductive rights our #1 issue, all the while, worrying that our grandchildren will be paying the tab for what we’re doing right now.

Every time we write to our representatives about our deep concern about the debt and “deficit spending,” we include our strong desire that these politicians keep their hands off Roe v Wade. But we feel we are not heard – our voices are not heard.

What can we do? What can fiscally conservative, socially liberal people do? WHY must “conservative” mean you are fiscally responsible and anti-gay rights and anti-choice?

We feel like orphans.

Jon and Donna

]]> Comment on Your Tab for 2012… $1.3 Trillion! by wecantpaythattab http://www.wecantpaythattab.org/debt-posts/your-tab-for-2010-1-3-trillion/comment-page-1/#comment-25 wecantpaythattab Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:00:16 +0000 http://borrowed.startlogic.com/?p=88#comment-25 Thanks for the positive comments! Our goal is to weed through the governments complicated lingo and provide you with the information you need to know. Thanks for the positive comments! Our goal is to weed through the governments complicated lingo and provide you with the information you need to know.

]]> Comment on The Problem by rschoenike http://www.wecantpaythattab.org/the-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-13 rschoenike Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:13:24 +0000 http://borrowed.startlogic.com/?page_id=18#comment-13 Thanks! Please keep checking back as we have a lot more info coming. -WeCantPayThatTab Thanks! Please keep checking back as we have a lot more info coming.

-WeCantPayThatTab

]]> Comment on Solutions by Delbert Heverly http://www.wecantpaythattab.org/solutions/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Delbert Heverly Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:33:32 +0000 http://borrowed.startlogic.com/?page_id=22#comment-14 Super way of seeing things! My partner and i particularly liked the writing style - clear and to the point, just what we like Super way of seeing things! My partner and i particularly liked the writing style – clear and to the point, just what we like

]]> Comment on The Conversation by Leonard Francis Grundy http://www.wecantpaythattab.org/conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Leonard Francis Grundy Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:28:00 +0000 http://borrowed.startlogic.com/?page_id=20#comment-3 Before we vote in November, let's require every politician to sign a contract a "Representative Relief Contract". Let's demand every candidate for Congress give us a guaranty in writing that they will do and vote the way we tell them. If they don't do as we say, the contract lets us terminate them, throw him or her out of office. Let's apply "Fiduciary Responsibility" to everyone in Congress. Get a guaranty that a "Rehabilitated Congress" could never again be useless, would you join in this effort to stop it? Before we vote in November, let’s require every politician to sign a contract a “Representative Relief Contract”. Let’s demand every candidate for Congress give us a guaranty in writing that they will do and vote the way we tell them. If they don’t do as we say, the contract lets us terminate them, throw him or her out of office.

Let’s apply “Fiduciary Responsibility” to everyone in Congress.

Get a guaranty that a “Rehabilitated Congress” could never again be useless, would you join in this effort to stop it?

]]> Comment on Your Tab for 2012… $1.3 Trillion! by Charles Edwards http://www.wecantpaythattab.org/debt-posts/your-tab-for-2010-1-3-trillion/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Charles Edwards Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:11:16 +0000 http://borrowed.startlogic.com/?p=88#comment-7 Bush tax cuts expire. I don't think BR understands the difference between debt and deficit Bush tax cuts expire. I don’t think BR understands the difference between debt and deficit

]]> Comment on PAYGO? Pay Who? by Charles Edwards http://www.wecantpaythattab.org/debt-posts/paygo-pay-who/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Charles Edwards Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:08:59 +0000 http://borrowed.startlogic.com/?p=97#comment-9 The PAYGO proposed by the Democrats was an abortion. 38 pages of exceptions and to make it worse the exceptions were just a hodgepodge of Teiresias pet projects. Making even more of a mockery of the process the first bill they proposed after PAYGO didn't comply. What idiots! The PAYGO proposed by the Democrats was an abortion. 38 pages of exceptions and to make it worse the exceptions were just a hodgepodge of Teiresias pet projects. Making even more of a mockery of the process the first bill they proposed after PAYGO didn’t comply. What idiots!

]]> Comment on Your Tab for 2012… $1.3 Trillion! by B. R. http://www.wecantpaythattab.org/debt-posts/your-tab-for-2010-1-3-trillion/comment-page-1/#comment-6 B. R. Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:27:20 +0000 http://borrowed.startlogic.com/?p=88#comment-6 $5,200! There goes my Bush tax cut money. I would have rather foregone the tax break and let the country have it if it meant keeping the federal debt low... $5,200! There goes my Bush tax cut money. I would have rather foregone the tax break and let the country have it if it meant keeping the federal debt low…

]]> Comment on PAYGO? Pay Who? by B. R. http://www.wecantpaythattab.org/debt-posts/paygo-pay-who/comment-page-1/#comment-8 B. R. Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:25:38 +0000 http://borrowed.startlogic.com/?p=97#comment-8 Yeah, I don't get it: PAYGO is a great idea. It's how I run my household! PAYGO was a success under Clinton but Bush let it expire and allowed the Iraq war to be funded without being included in the budget, plus forced us to sell a trillion dollars of bonds to China and Japan, while giving a tax break to the country. We need to be responsible and pay our debts as they mount, not force them into the future. Yeah, I don’t get it: PAYGO is a great idea. It’s how I run my household! PAYGO was a success under Clinton but Bush let it expire and allowed the Iraq war to be funded without being included in the budget, plus forced us to sell a trillion dollars of bonds to China and Japan, while giving a tax break to the country. We need to be responsible and pay our debts as they mount, not force them into the future.

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