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BULLETIN >> U.S. FEDERAL DEFICIT SHRINKS TO $53 BLN IN JULY
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| 8/10/05
| Rex Nutting, MarketWatch
Posted on 08/10/2005 11:15:11 AM PDT by SierraWasp
BULLETIN >> U.S. FEDERAL DEFICIT SHRINKS TO $53 BLN IN JULY
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: busheconomy; deficit; thebusheconomy; wgids
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To: SierraWasp
The one that REALLY disgusts me is Schwarzenegger!!! To me, he's enough to gag a maggot!!! He's benefiting from a recovering CA economy while having done much to thwart said recovery!!! But that's all another subject... So negative! :-P I did what I thought was right and voted for GWB in 04. I don't regret it, but I didn't enjoy it much either. There really was no choice. The John Roberts nomination doesn't please me either. At best, he's a definite maybe. We deserved better. He is talented and accomplished, but that doesn't make him conservative. The best thing you can say about a GOP admin is that they aren't a Dem admin. In my opinion, we don't have a two party system, we have two one-party systems.
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:39:50 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Whatever.)
To: TheForceOfOne
I tried it. My results...
You have increased the deficit by $12.61 billion.
Your new deficit is $413.61 billion.
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:41:49 PM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
To: BOBTHENAILER
Like I said, Clinton surpluses are explained away; Bush deficit blips are instantly celebrated. Back when Reagan was running up deficits, the GOP used to blame the Congress. Can't do that anymore.
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:42:02 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Whatever.)
To: TheForceOfOne
I cut the deficit by 391 billion, but I quit halfway thru from loss of interest.
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:45:42 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Whatever.)
To: Huck
And what were the end results of Reagan's defecits?
I rest my case, and oh by the way, facts surrounding Clinton surpluses are different than explaining away.
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:46:55 PM PDT
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
To: Huck
What did you do, cut everything 100%? LOL!
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:48:36 PM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
To: BOBTHENAILER
Clinton never fought the war he should have (Iraq), never prosecuted the, MCI's, Global Crossing's, Enron's, etc., never had the 9/11 hit he could have prevented (est. $1.8 trillion economic hit), never faced sustained $6-8.00 natural gas prices, sustained $40-$60 crude prices, never faced up to his buddies dot-com bubble bursting, never did shit but claim credit for the spillover Reagonomics that fell in his SCUM stained lap.
I agree wholeheartedly. People tend to forget the somewhat-stunned reaction when the growing 1990's economy threw the budget into surplus. Very few were expecting it ... iirc Clinton went from promising to eliminate the deficit in 10 years to promising to eliminate the entire debt in 10 years.
I think that there's some solid analysis out there that Clinton and Bush41's tax increases acted as brakes on the economy ... but that even with the brakes the economy still wildly outperformed expectations based on the unanticipated tech bubble.
I wouldn't attribute the 1990s surplus to Clinton by any means ... it was a product of the tech boom. Likewise the 00's deficits are a result of that boom crashing, plus wartime spending, plus the spending deals that have to be cut on Capital Hill to get the wartime spending (something that President Reagan had to deal with, btw, to get the military buildup that helped end Soviet Communism).
To: TheForceOfOne
I did some massive draconian cutting. Dept of Energy? GONE!
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:50:27 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Whatever.)
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To: Huck
I cut benefits for the poor but I gave it to the veterans.
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:54:14 PM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
To: All
To: BOBTHENAILER
And what were the end results of Reagan's defecits? The national debt tripled.
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:55:02 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Whatever.)
To: Dolphan; Huck
So how do you two feel about the war....or is it Bush's War?
To: TheForceOfOne
I wanted to help the vets, so I held even.
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:55:47 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Whatever.)
To: Huck
You realize that the 53 billion shortfall is for one month, right? So far this year, we're over 300 BILLION in the red. Go ahead and celebrate. Woopdidoo. Where were we last year?
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:56:58 PM PDT
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I am not confident in the civilian leadership, but given the choices in the 04 election, I voted for GWB. Time will tell about whether the war in Iraq was "worth it." Right now we need to train 100,000 Iraqis so we can get out.
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:58:35 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Whatever.)
To: bnelson44
We were 400+ billion over last year. We're over 300+ billion over so far this year. That's over 700+ billion in two years. break out the bubbly.
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posted on
08/10/2005 12:59:40 PM PDT
by
Huck
(Whatever.)
To: SierraWasp
You posted a chart from "Centrist.org" that includes the non-existant "surplus" from the Clinton years"Non-existent"? Please explain. Does the Bush administration consider it to have been non-existent?
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posted on
08/10/2005 1:00:24 PM PDT
by
inquest
(FTAA delenda est)
To: tanknetter
(something that President Reagan had to deal with, btw, to get the military buildup that helped end Soviet Communism). Couldn't agree more. We all will be forever in his debt for that move.
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posted on
08/10/2005 1:00:32 PM PDT
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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