Posted on 12/07/2009 9:02:46 PM PST by advance_copy
With President Barack Obama's decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan by sending 30,000 additional troops to battle Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, he has put his imprint on the war on terror, and at the same time, given up the Democrats' most famous fallback position: blame George W. Bush.
Couple that with the economy and we are seeing the end of the president's first year in office coincide with him having to accept the full responsibility for the condition of the country.
Obama rode into office on the "blame Bush" tidal wave as the nation sickened of everything he touched. The economy? Bush was horrible at stewarding it. Giving banks billions in TARP funds? Dumb idea by Bush and Treasury Secretary Hank "Mr. Wall Street" Paulson. Sick of billions going to the war? It was all the fault of Bush and his chief crony, Vice President Dick Cheney.
The blame Bush mantra proved effective because it totally silenced Republicans, who were loathe to defend a conservative president who began with a surplus and ended with a deficit, as well as the architect of a war in Iraq based on never-proven claims of weapons of mass destruction. They couldn't even muster the strength to call him a conservative.
(Excerpt) Read more at campbellbrown.blogs.cnn.com ...
“There was no BUDGET deficit in 2001. You are wrong and dense.”
Outlays exceeded income. So, yes... there was.
In 2001, Treasure reported receipts of about $2 trillion, but that includes an “off-budget” line-item for social security to the amount of $507 billion. This on-budget, off-budget treatment began under LBJ.
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/BudgetTreatment.html
When you learn to read you’ll find that on and off budget is included in the budget outlays.
Feel embarrassed yet? You should!
SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS, OUTLAYS AND THE DEFICIT/SURPLUS BY MONTH OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/mts1009.txt
“When you learn to read you’ll find that on and off budget is included in the budget outlays.”
The deficit/surplus thing includes them. The difference between SS outlays and receipts off-budget is by law invested in Treasuries. These liabilities are counted as INCOME for the purposes of computing deficits or surpluses, but the are NOT INCOME.
“Feel embarrassed yet? You should!”
There’s nothing less becoming than ignorant arrogance. Perhaps you should look into fixing that flaw.
So I guess that portion of my paycheck for SS that goes to the federal govenment is not income. lol!
“So I guess that portion of my paycheck for SS that goes to the federal govenment is not income. lol!”
Not for the general fund, no. Those Treasuries held by SS will have to be redeemed at some point. Just like any note.
I’m done with you.
You still struggling to read that monthly statement!
“You still struggling to read that monthly statement!”
You are still ignoring what the numbers mean.
Here, go chew on this...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403132/posts
“Here, go chew on this...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403132/posts";
The actual deficit is much larger.
National debt, yes. Budget deficit, no.
Keep chewing.
I've been saying that you Paulites favored Obama over McCain all along. Thanks for making my point.
You ARE a loser.
The left favored Obama over McCain, just like you. The left cannot discuss politics without resorting to personal attacks, just like you.
Because I favored the Republican (McCain) over the Democrat (Obama), I'm a Republican in Name Only? In other words, I'm supposed to be like you and favor the Democrat over the Republican in order to be a true Republican. Typical Paulite logic there.
show me the statement where I endorsed Obama
Of course you, just like the far left, favored Obama over McCain. You terrorist appeasers stick together.
Sure, you’re right, LOSER. I held my nose with industrial strength visegrips and voted for McLame. Then I immediately had to go vomit.
Save your bullbleep for someone else, dufus. You are such a loser, it’s INCREDIBLE. You are a LOSER’S loser. Yet your poor mom still holds a place open for you in her basement so you can go online and belittle all the honest, hard-working Constitutional Conservatives who are working to save your sorry ass from socialism. You’re un-fricking-believable.
You favor Obama while running around claiming that the Iraq war was an illegal war based on false pretenses. No wonder you hero is some isolationist kook who blames Israel for terrorism and compares islamic terrorists to concentration camp victims.
Blah, blah, blah...come back to me when you can come up with something other than childish personal attacks.
“National debt, yes. Budget deficit, no.
Keep chewing.”
You really don’t understand what those off-budget numbers mean. Treasury bills are notes. Notes are liabilities.
Like YOUR personal attacks? Please teach me how to conduct a personal attack that YOU won’t consider childish... not that it matters at all.
On second thought, never mind. I’ll just put your sorry, loser ass on ignore.
Criticizing Ron Paul is not a personal attack. Maybe you take it as a personal attack, but that doesn't mean it is one.
A free and democratic Iraq that is allied with America is in America’s national security interests. Going by your logic, after WWII, we should have abandoned Europe to the Soviets.
No, you don’t get away with that. Using the peejorative, paulites and calling a good conservative an obamite for not voting in lockstep with you is a personal attack.
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