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Bush sends $2.9 trillion budget to Congress
Belleville News-Democrat ^
| February 5, 2007
| Staff
Posted on 02/05/2007 7:50:51 AM PST by MadIvan
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To: Puddleglum
I'd go further -
- Get rid of the Department of Education - privatise the entire system and grant vouchers to the poor.
- Privatise Social Security for anyone new, raise the retirement age, means test anyone who is in it now.
- Get rid of the Department of Energy.
- Get rid of the Department of Agriculture.
- Get rid of the Department of Transportation; make all roads toll roads.
- Get rid of Housing and Urban Development; oi, mayors, want new housing, relax the planning laws!
- Get rid of Medicaid; give health insurance vouchers instead.
- Means test Medicare; grant the same health insurance vouchers.
- Privatise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
- Cut the entire foreign aid budget.
- The war on drugs to be ended - drug users to be denied health insurance vouchers.
The amount of screaming in Washington would take years to die down, but it would work. Furthermore, taxes could be slashed further.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:06:05 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: flashbunny
"No Dollar Left Behind" budget.
No dollar left in your pocket is more like it.
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:06:09 AM PST
by
WKB
(A wasted day is a day in which we have not laughed!)
To: webstersII
The FY 2007 Budget was about $2.8 trillion. So it is about a 3.5% increase.
However, Clinton's final budget, FY 2001 was $1.8 trillion, meaning that for Bush's 7th budgetary year (his first was 2002), he has increased spending 62% above what he had when he came into office, or nearly 9% per year, if you do a clean average.
Conservative my ass. He's grown government larger and faster than LBJ!
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:06:36 AM PST
by
xrp
(Republicans Message: Vote for us, we suck less than Democrats.)
To: MadIvan
good ideas all. It's going to take a second Reagan and a grass-roots revolution, but that's how Reagan did what he did (to the extent he did it).
To: WKB
No dollar left in your pocket is more like it.It will get worse if a Democrat is elected. They'll be producing budgets much larger than this one to pay for universal health care.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:09:50 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: MadIvan
It will get worse if a Democrat is elected.
Are you sure?
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:11:29 AM PST
by
WKB
(A wasted day is a day in which we have not laughed!)
To: Puddleglum
I don't agree with the Libertarians on foreign policy or illegal immigration, but I think their economic and government agenda is spot on. This growth simply cannot go on.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:12:19 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: WKB
Are you sure?Two words: "Universal healthcare".
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:13:10 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: MadIvan
True but that doesn't stop me from being sick
of pretend-conservatives.
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:15:47 AM PST
by
WKB
(A wasted day is a day in which we have not laughed!)
To: WKB
I don't disagree. We're talking about the difference between bad and worse.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:18:05 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: WKB
Today's government policy on the fed and state levels is "no lobbyist left behind." I sincerely believe that the deck is hugely stacked against the middle class and that it is going to take a special persona to spark their collective will. A scandal won't do it - government inoculates itself against scandals by having so many of them.
When the baby boomers hit retirement and find the cupboard bare, despite their massive payments into it over decades, that may be enough to tilt the board extremely - but whether the tilt is toward more personal autonomy or more state "benevolence" will be iffy.
To: Puddleglum
and that it is going to take a special persona to spark their collective will.
And as of today that person has yet to materialize.
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:21:38 AM PST
by
WKB
(A wasted day is a day in which we have not laughed!)
To: flashbunny
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:27:23 AM PST
by
bluebeak
To: EQAndyBuzz
The conservative revolution of 1994 led by House Republicans is DEAD. All that is left is "Hey, we're not as bad as that other party".
If spending patterns from 94-98 remained the same, there wouldn't be any deficit to cut in half, and we could have additional tax cut rates.
Further this issue is more than a matter of deficits. The conservative revolution was supposed to be about devolving power and control away from the federal government. There is no sign of that anymore.
Conservatism does not mean having Republicans rather than Democrats running a bloated federal bureaucracy that seeks to continually exert control over every aspect of our lives. No Child Left Behind is a perfect example of that-"we're going to run education but we'll do it right because we're Republicans". Wrong. education is the purview of local control, and the trend should be toward reducing the Fed's control. That's true conservatism - not just voting against Al Gore.
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:42:18 AM PST
by
almcbean
To: MadIvan
What's the UK budget by comparison?
To: MadIvan
I agree...but I think even if you took every right testicle in every branch of government, and combined them into a freakish Frankensteinian mass, there would still not be enough balls to get it done.
![](http://www.federalbudget.com/chart.gif)
There aren't many in government who look at that and see what a conservative should see (about 70% waste, fraud, pork, ignorance, ponzi schemes, outright theft, lunacy, and naivety - a disgrace).
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:50:08 AM PST
by
M203M4
To: M203M4
There aren't many in government who look at that and see what a conservative should see (about 70% waste, fraud, pork, ignorance, ponzi schemes, outright theft, lunacy, and naivety - a disgrace). So the solution...for a dem...is bigger government...LUNACY!
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:55:48 AM PST
by
highlander_UW
(I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
To: trumandogz
He spends money like a French Socialist.I think Jorge is trying to be number one. He's trying to leave office with the all-time low approval rating, removing Jimmy peanut from first place.
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posted on
02/05/2007 9:16:46 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
To: Non-Sequitur
Our budget for this year is £552 billion.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/05/2007 9:18:15 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: MadIvan
Is he trying to get Hillary elected?
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posted on
02/05/2007 9:33:49 AM PST
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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