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Conservatism, Not in Bush White House: FY09 Budget Deficit Will Reach $482 Billion
National Journal ^
| July 28, 2008
| the eagle has landed
Posted on 07/28/2008 9:53:26 PM PDT by TheEaglehasLanded
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To: TheEaglehasLanded
489 billion?
How about you turds in the govt. quit spending MY MONEY?
Federal govt. is way too big. cut or gut it by about 65 percent and it will be about the right size then.
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posted on
07/29/2008 3:08:25 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: TheEaglehasLanded
I’m hoping McCain will reign in spending.
His joy at reaching across the aisle tells me he won’t.
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posted on
07/29/2008 3:12:00 AM PDT
by
Glenn
(Free Venezuela!)
To: TheEaglehasLanded
Not to nitpick, but there’s only been a Republican Majority in both houses of Congress for just a shade over 4 years of Bush’ Presidency. (does “Jumpin Jim Jeffords” jog your memory?)
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posted on
07/29/2008 4:28:13 AM PDT
by
digger48
To: TheEaglehasLanded
It’s true. If it wasn’t spending he wanted it was spending he let the RINOs have. A better leader would have made liberal use of the veto pen.
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posted on
07/29/2008 4:37:17 AM PDT
by
Impy
(Spellcheck hates Obama, you should too.)
To: TheEaglehasLanded
Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad slammed the new numbers and blamed the increase in part on the tax cuts Bush pushed through in 2001 and 2003, which are scheduled to expire in 2010. Bush "squandered a record surplus on tax cuts for the rich and drove us deeply into deficit and debt," The tax cuts INCREASED federal revenue! And the tax cuts were for all income levels and especially lower and middle income!
And there was only a surplus from 1999-2001 thanks to the Republican Congress under Clinton. Clinton ran a deficit from 1993 to 1998!
And Congress controls spending, Bush can only ask for things. The Democrat now control Congress!
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posted on
07/29/2008 5:04:08 AM PDT
by
avacado
To: TheEaglehasLanded
"The Bush administration today projected that the budget deficit for FY09 would be $482 billion,..." Keep in mind that that budget is the budget of the Democratic-Controlled Congress!
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posted on
07/29/2008 5:13:09 AM PDT
by
avacado
To: djsherin
A Constitutional Federal Budget would be well under half the current budget.
So cut taxes by 30% the first few years, and then back to the actual constitutional spending (no “extending debt”). Pay off most of the federal debt in those first few years, and then require (another Amendment) a balanced budget. One that does not allow end-run creative financing to make it look balanced.
Any tax increase (including fees that they don’t call taxes) must be approved by 2/3 majority of both houses, and then receive a majority vote of citizen voters.
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posted on
07/29/2008 7:32:34 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Vote your conscience, or don't complain about RINOs!)
To: TheEaglehasLanded
President Bush did this with 6 years of Republican Congress and did nothing to control spending. Damaging the Republican brand.
Yup. The GOP has failed big time. It's easy to blame Bush, and he certainly deserves much of the criticism for some of the decidedly un-conservative programs he pushed, but he had a Republican Congress as well, and they did everything they could to engorge themselves (and their lobbyists) at the expense of the taxpayer.
Unfortunately, I don't see things changing If McCain somehow won and Republicans somehow took back Congress (neither of which will happen), they would just keep on lapping up the pork.
To: digger48
Not to nitpick, but theres only been a Republican Majority in both houses of Congress for just a shade over 4 years of Bush Presidency.
A truly conservative, Republican President with a truly conservative Republican Congress could have accomplished a lot with just four years, or even two.
To: TheEaglehasLanded
In 1983 the deficit was 6% of the GDP but I dare speak about who was President at that time.
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posted on
07/29/2008 9:57:22 AM PDT
by
tobyhill
(fraud -noun;(1)deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, (2) Obama)
To: bluerose
Dr. No, Tom Coburn, for president.
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posted on
07/29/2008 11:01:47 AM PDT
by
bluerose
(When all is said and done,McCain has not spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate.T Sowell)
To: TheEaglehasLanded; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; ...
see post 1
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.
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posted on
07/29/2008 12:55:00 PM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: frankiep
“The ONLY person running for president this election who seriously talked about the extreme dangers of out of control spending and the impending disaster our nation debt will bring was summarily dismissed by many people as a naive wingnut......”
This was on my mind as well.
To: djsherin
"It has turned the limited government party into another big government party which happens to oppose abortion and talk tough."
That about sums things up.
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posted on
07/29/2008 1:13:32 PM PDT
by
rob777
(Personal Responsibility is the Price of Freedom)
To: fella
Bush has a veto pen. He didn’t use it for six years.
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
While I agree completely with your sentiment on the stupidity/futility of the $50B in HIV related aid to Africa (like trying to catch water with a sieve), I do sympathize with the 540,000 HIV babies born each year in Africa. I don’t know what the rape victim stats are, but considering the estimates of 58,000 rapes per year in South Africa alone, I suspect there are a lot of HIV infections that way. I’m hoping that our tax dollars are at least reaching a few worthy recipients.
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posted on
07/29/2008 7:29:51 PM PDT
by
amchugh
(large and largely disgruntled)
To: FlyVet
I used to say ‘tax relief’ without government cutbacks was merely ‘tax suspense’.
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posted on
07/29/2008 7:31:27 PM PDT
by
amchugh
(large and largely disgruntled)
To: djsherin; DTogo
Humor isn’t my long suit. (grin!)
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