[RiflemanSharpe]

It would take 50 years for America to recover.

It may take fifty years for this country to recover from GWB's deficits.

[EllaMinnow]

No, just 10.

If you'd rather have liberal judicial appointees from a democratic president on the bech for life than a 10 year deficit, then we obviously disgree about what is more important for the future of this country.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

You should have finished school. The Deficit under the President is lower than it was in the Clinton White House. It is just barely at 2% of the GDP. That places it very low on the list compared to other administrations. The WAR has given it a bump but as the economy gets stronger, it will come down as it always does.

This President has done nothing to cause it however.

By the way, how's things over at DU? You have the mantra down well!

[PhiKapMom]

How many years did we have huge deficits before Republicans took over Congress and the economy boomed?

But then on September 11, 2001, something happened that changed the budget outlook. After years of the military being cut after the cold war ended and the wall came down, we were suddenly faced with a choice. President Bush could either lead and go after the terrorist with our military or go to the UN and demand they do something. That choice was easy for this President -- no organization is going to be asked to defend this Country! That meant huge amounts of money had to be appropriated to repair the damage done by Clinton.

Our military and CIA were both gutted during the Clinton years. Any money added on by Armed Services was fought tooth and nail by Bill Clinton. When President Bush took office our military morale, weapons, and personnel were at a very low ebb.

A lot of the deficit is due to the fact that we had to increase the budgets of Defense, CIA, FBI, Justice Department, and the new Homeland Security in order to fight the terrorists on their turf not on ours.

At the same time the economy that was going south in Clinton's last year, took a real nose dive after 9/11 which added further to the deficit. Without tax cuts, the economy still would not be rebounding. You have to put money back in people's pockets so they will spend the money to buy more goods which improves the economy. All you had to do was watch the rebound in buying when the child credit checks were sent out to taxpayers.

The funding increase for Education was a drop in the bucket to the upgrades that are necessary in DoD. It is obvious that you have absolutely no Defense Department experience or you would know how bad the situtation in DoD had become under Clinton and how much money it has taken to get us back to where we could fight a war in Iraq.

Next time you talk about deficits at least have the courtesy to acknowledge there have been extenuating circumstances and a lot of the problem goes back to Clinton for gutting our National Security agencies that have had to be rebuilt!

[ohioWfan]

"GWB's deficits"

You kinda forgot to mention that we were attacked, and American's slaughtered, so that we are AT WAR!

Where is your head, Rifleman?? You sound like a spokesman from the DNC!