Congressman Phil Hare's Fickle Fiscal Philosophy

Congressman Phil Hare from Illinois' 17th Congressional district lays out his various positions on the current fiscal state of The Union. Interview taken on 8 Sth Michigan Ave Chicago IL after a Big Labor fund raiser

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[NCMan28025]

@pexw Read Article I of the Constitution and get back to me. As for my numbers, their from whitehouse dot gov. Its Obama's 2012 budget. You stated the filibuster wasn't in the Constitution. I stated the Constitution granted Congress the power to regulate themselves, as Article I proves. Now run off because anyone reading this debate can check what I'm saying against your false claims. Check the GAO (Government Accountability Office) and the US Treasury to see the deficits. Obama is deficit king!

[pexw]

@NCMan28025 You contradicted your own point two sentences later. Maybe it's not understanding the Constitution but the English language that's your problem. Your numbers are way off and clearly a product of a redstate.com blog post. Whatever, we're clearly talking past each other now. Enough.

[NCMan28025]

@pexw Obama has already added over $3 trillion to the national deficit in only 2 years. The US Treasury show that under Obama, the National Deficit will be well over $20 trillion by 2018. This is due to Obama spending. Since the Dems have been in control (2007) the national deficit has grown by $5 trillion. Nice revisionist history, but anyone can read the GAO and US Treasury reports to bust your claims. Try to debate with someone who has no clue because you have failed miserably here.

[NCMan28025]

@pexw Another Constitutional illiterate. The Constitution allows Congress to regulate itself and it granted them the power to set rules on how to handle debate. Nice try to deny this but it is in the Constitution. Congress came up with the filibuster rule. I'm sorry you don't know about the Senate rules. As for Obama and his deficit, his 2012 budget calls for $3.67 trillion in spending and will leave another $1.1 trillion deficit. Bush's last year, the deficit for 2008 was $459 billion.

[pexw]

@NCMan28025 The filibuster is NOT in the Constitution. The Senate's ability to make rules is, not the filibuster. By your definition, speed limits are in the Constitution. They aren't. Grow up.

And Obama is responsible for less than 25% of the deficit. And if you want to look at charts, go find a GNP chart for the past several decades and notice the drop in 2008 for the first time since 1949. That's your supply-side trickle down BS at work. Congratulations, conservatives, you broke the country.

[NCMan28025]

@pexw The Constitution allows Congress to set rules and regulation. Congress did this and the filibuster is part of Congression rules. Someone doesn't know much about the Constitution and the powers it grants Congress. As for your Reagan claim, anyone with half a brain cell can defeat it. Go look at the US Treasury charts and you will see that Obama is the current deficit champion. Hell, you can even find this on MSNBC. 

[pexw]

@NCMan28025 Just checked my messages and saw that I completely ignored this all those months ago. Must not have been very important. But I did want to point out that the filibuster is actually NOT in the constitution. Might want to know the facts you care to argue about. And anyone who doesn't understand that supply-side economics has dominated our politics for the past 30+ years is either a corporate shill or plain ignorant. And by the way, Reagan created the biggest deficit in history. Dig it.

[shawno66]

awesome video. Plus I like it that I can actually comment, as opposed to Phil Hare's vids where everything needs moderator approval, which is why "friends of Phil Hare" videos have no comments...

[woodnc4u2c]

This man needs to have his head dislodged from his ass!!!!

[Trenaway]

@pexw Taxes are theft, legal theft. What do you call taking MY money to give to the government. I earned that money, the government did not. Governments only need a little to provide for the defense of the country, THAT IS ALL!!!! It is not the role of government to be my safety net, that is the role of the community. America is the MOST generous country in the world and would be more if government did not take so much of our money. OUR MONEY!!!!!!!!