[TheEaglehasLanded]

When President Bush arrived in DC, the Federal Gov't was spending $1.865 Trillion and took in $2.0 Trillion,

Now it's spending $3,15 Trillion and taking in $2.65 Trillion. He won't veto housing bailout for $300 Billion. The fact the Iraq War is at $650 Billion and should have been managed alot better from 2004-2006 and not cost nearly this much.

President Bush did this with 6 years of Republican Congress and did nothing to control spending. Damaging the Republican brand.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Thankfully, they wre able to squeeze in another $50B of borrowed future taxpayer wealth to give to Africa to “treat” people who can’t control their sexual organs.

[Gondring]

Not to mention the $2 trillion in additional costs of the war down the road, for things such as health care and training, etc., for the wounded.

[Reagan Man]

Bush43 is the biggest spender since LBJ!

[TheBattman]

The Federal Government should be able to EASILY function with half the current budget... but it would mean surrendering a lot of the tools it uses to keep power.

Return to the
constitutional bounds of the Federal Government and there is suddenly over $1 trillion less tax extraction necessary... that is over $1 Trillion back in the economy, to pay towards mortgages, to give to charities, to do what the private sector does better anyway.

We could have a military that would be unchallengeable, a currency that is more stable, a medical system that is second to none (and not socialized), and an economy that is not subject to the whims of foreign dictators.

[DTogo]

But it’s always “too expensive” to secure our southern border and enforce existing immigration laws.

[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......

[FlyVet]

Bush "squandered a record surplus on tax cuts for the rich and drove us deeply into deficit and debt," Conrad said in a press release.

Dirty liar. Tax cuts were not the problem. Tax cuts combined with out-of-control spending were the problem.

You scum-sucking Congressmen, along with Bush's willingness to sign off on YOUR "anything-goes" spending, IS the problem. Both the Executive and Legislative branches have utterly failed their duties on spending.

[djsherin]

It has turned the limited government party into another big government party which happens to oppose abortion and talk tough.

[Finalapproach29er]

Another Liberal Texan.

LBJ is smiling wherever he is right now.

Disgraceful.

[fella]

Oh! Silly me. All this time I been thinking that the Congress of the United States was the sole power to raise and spend the public revenue of the Federal Government. Now I find that like a king the President has that power all to himself. I wish my old civics teacher was still around so I could tell him the truth about how our government works.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Just think of all those people who might be paying taxes today if they had not been aborted.

[Joe Boucher]

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.

[Glenn]

I’m hoping McCain will reign in spending.

His joy at reaching across the aisle tells me he won’t.

[digger48]

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?)

[Impy]

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.

[avacado]

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!

[avacado]

"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!

[af_vet_rr]

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.

[tobyhill]

In 1983 the deficit was 6% of the GDP but I dare speak about who was President at that time.

[traviskicks]

see post 1

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