Posted on 01/13/2005 12:37:18 PM PST by Maigret
Naw they will find something to complain....
What Clinton did was get his initiatives blocked by the Republican congress, so he couldn't spend what he wanted to spend.
Unfortunately, it took a Republican president to begin to grow federal outlays.
According to the Washington Post, the Bush budget totals planned for fiscal year 2006 may be essentially unchanged from the totals for fiscal year 2005 (excluding defense and homeland security). According to reporter Jonathan Weisman, the administration’s first really tough budget request (due out next month) “would freeze most spending on agriculture, veterans and science, slash or eliminate dozens of federal programs, and force more costs, from Medicaid to housing, onto state and local governments.”
Sure, but defense and homeland security are going way up, so we should be cutting somewhere else.
Yay! $100 billion less deficit. Now how about the $5+ trillion in debt?
LoL!
Every day I thank my maker for my sense of humor ---you can't buy comedy material like this!
Who's going to tell Michael Savage???
Gee, the "Guardians of Truth" ignoring this...imagine that...
How dare you insult the former president!
Here is the thing.. Yes GW could have stopped the growth of Government by stopping the No Child Left Behind and stopping the mediscam drug prescription thing. What is done is done.. Time to move on. Most of the spending is earmakred for the military cause we have a little war on terror going right now. It looks like he is going to cut spending.. It is a good start, however, I would wish he get rid of a few departments here and there. Mainly the Department of Education would be a good start.
It is actually almost $8 trillion, but who's counting?
Snort!
Excellent point. BTW I like your tagline.
"...slash or eliminate dozens of federal programs, and force more costs, from Medicaid to housing, onto state and local governments.”
But woah... hey our deficit spending is down. Shiver me timbers. So we are slowing slightly slower into the abyss.
Are they SURE there is nothing they can do to STOP, or even REVERSE this trend? Like getting rid of an unConstitutional Agency at the Fed Level or two? Like the Dept of Education or the BATFE? That oughta even things out nicely. Getting rid of the IRS and Socialist Insecurity would even allow us to keep up with Pentagon spending with no worries what-so-ever.
It'd cause heart attacks on the Left, but so what? Not like they are doing us much good anyway right?
The libs will have a huge hissy fit if that happens just before the election.
Perhaps all our Bush bashing over uncontrolled spending by a GOP congress is having an effect. I hope so, this is mildly good news, but a balanced budget or even better a surplus would be much better news.
That's his idea of shrinking?
That the Democrats didn't win and send us back to the Clinton era or worse. I'll cheer for that any day!
I'll also cheer for a President who is doing his best on every front he can! We are at war people, the military and intelligence communities were not only decimated by infiltrated by leftists under Clinton, leaving us vulnerable to what Bush is now trying to correct! So let's all make sure we increase his burden by complaining that all things aren't to our liking yet.
No wonder I pray for him a hundred times a day!
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