[wyattearp]

Year___Deficit/Surplus ($Billions)______Debt ($Billions)

2000______+236.2____________________3,409.8
2001______+128.2____________________3,319.6
2002______-157.8____________________3,540.4
2003______-377.6____________________3,913.4
2004______-412.7____________________4,295.5
2005______-318.3____________________4,592.2

Source: CBO

(I hope this formatting comes out OK. I couldn't remember how to use courier, and had to wing it).

So, this will get the deficit back to roughly 2002 levels. However, our Republican President, Senate, and House have added ONE TRILLION DOLLARS to the national debt in those three years, and the out-of-control spending just keeps on going.

I'm not impressed. I wont be impressed until I see the numbers on the right go down to at least what they were before Bush took office.

[in hoc signo vinces]

Added a trillion in national debt...huh?

I'll give you three guesses what that spending has been on over the last three years...but you are only going to need one.

[Jameison]

"I wont be impressed until I see the numbers on the right go down to at least what they were before Bush took office."

What did Klinton do about Bin Laden, Al Quaeda and the Taliban again, despite repeated attacks against America during the Klinton administration?
Apart from firing cruse missiles into empty huts in Afghanistan that is.
Throughout history, counrries have run deficits when fighting big foreign wars.
Much rather have deficits then get planes driven into my office one morning

[SmoothTalker]

Very good post. I have been tremendously disappointed on that front. Our guys have talked like fiscal conservatives, and spent like liberals.