Romney mentions mopologists in debate

[_Jason Bourne]

It is not nonsense. I said it was the only SPECIFIC budget cut he mentioned all night.

He used it in reference to the need to look at everything and decide if it is still worth borrowing to pay for it. He has repeatedly made that position an issues. He simply used PBS as one example. In your last post it sounded like you claimed that this was the only cut he is proposing. Sorry if I misunderstood.

And we are not borrowing from the Chinese to fund PBS. That's just dumb. The Chinese own about 8% of the U.S. debt. But that doesn't mean we "borrowed" from them to fund Big Bird.

Have you heard of rhetoric and hyperbole? But we certianly are borrowing from someone to fund a large part of our budget.

[_Equality]

It is not nonsense. I said it was the only SPECIFIC budget cut he mentioned all night.

He used it in reference to the need to look at everything and decide if it is still worth borrowing to pay for it. He has repeatedly made that position an issues. He simply used PBS as one example. In your last post it sounded like you claimed that this was the only cut he is proposing. Sorry if I misunderstood.

I think I have derailed my own thread. I never meant to get into a policy debate about the merits of anything that was said at the debate, really. My point in saying that Romney only mentioned that one specific budget item was to illustrate one reason the Big Bird thing has taken off to the extent it has. If he had given a laundry list of cuts to make and PBS was one on a list of many, I don't think it would have been such a big deal. But because it was the only specific thing, AND he specifically mentioned Big Bird, there just wasn't much else for the comedians and meme-generators to work with.

[_harmony]

Big Bird and Big Bang in the same thread. Oi vey.

I refuse to vote for someone who would erase my ability to own my own home.

[_Bob Loblaw]

Big Bird and Big Bang in the same thread. Oi vey.

I refuse to vote for someone who would erase my ability to own my own home.

Who is doing that?

[_harmony]

Big Bird and Big Bang in the same thread. Oi vey.

I refuse to vote for someone who would erase my ability to own my own home.

Who is doing that?

Anyone who takes my mortgage deduction.

[_Bob Loblaw]

Anyone who takes my mortgage deduction.

My understanding is that they are proposing capping the mortgage deduction so that it doesn't apply to the big McMansions. Do you have one of those?

[_Cicero]

I think I have derailed my own thread.

Yup, pretty much

One more month to go and our quadrennial nightmare will be over . . .

[_Ceeboo]

Here's the latest excuse: Romney cheated!

So dumb. It was clearly a hanky. But stfw if he did have notes? Obama had his own that he kept taking during the debate:

Peace,
Ceeboo

[_Equality]

Anyone who takes my mortgage deduction.

My understanding is that they are proposing capping the mortgage deduction so that it doesn't apply to the big McMansions. Do you have one of those?

No, that was only a one-day trial balloon. Mitt's spokespeople made it clear that the idea of a $17,000 cap on all deductions was just one of many ideas they would look at. Just trust them with your vote and let them hammer out the details with the GOP Congress next year.

[_Bond James Bond]

I never liked big bird and I don't think borrowing money to pay for him is worth it.

A TV program should be run by the private sector. I would put big bird under a want not a need to have.

How do you feel about subsidies to the oil industry? 4 billion dollars a year in oil subsidies cut would fund PBS and 3.6 billion dollars worth of Medicare costs.