Posted on 04/07/2010 10:33:57 AM PDT by jentilla
As politically unpopular as raising taxes is, cutting spending is much, much harder. And it’s getting harder by the day, as the share of the budget going to entitlements and interest on the debt increases and therefore “discretionary” spending becomes an ever smaller slice of the pie.
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Looking back over past administrations, it would appear that cutting spending, is not just hard, it’s impossible and just won’t happen. The only spending that an administration wants to cut, is the other parties spending, not their own. Then the other party gets in power, and it’s the same thing, different names.
You are saying the Republicans are as much to blame as the democrats. I agree.
Only problem with this “analysis” is it ignore everything the Republican Congress accomplished, despite the Clintonites best efforts between 1995 and 2000.
It is possible to cut taxes, cut spending and balance the budget. It was done during the 1990s.
GOP Congress's last deficit. 4160 billion. Obama 1st deficit $1.6 TRILLION.
Only the completely clueless cannot see the obvious difference between the 2 parties on this issue.
Politicians are to blame, that’s how it works.
It ain’t 1990 anymore.
I didn’t say there’s no difference. I’m saying that all the major socialist initiatives in the past 50 years have been bipartisan. Are you going to deny that?
The fact, that the Democrat Party moles here all conveniently forget, is the Republican Congress not only balanced the budget, they produced a surplus in the late 1990s.
They did it without tax hikes. Those are the fact
The fact, that the Democrat Party moles here all conveniently forget, is the Republican Congress not only balanced the budget, they produced a surplus in the late 1990s.
They did it without tax hikes. Those are the fact
Is it 1990 now? Is that a fact?
Send me an e-mail when all that happens, and I’ll retract my statement.
I deny that I am a democrat mole.
Do you care to deny that all the major socialist initiatives, and the general usurpation of power by the Federal government had bi-partisan support?
“Do you care to deny that all the major socialist initiatives, and the general usurpation of power by the Federal government had bi-partisan support?”
Just days ago the new ObamaCare HCR passed, with no GOP votes, in either house.
Doesn’t that disprove your contention?
No. Not in the least. All the existing socialist institutions foisted on is by the democrats and republicans continue sucking the vitality out of the country.
A lot is said about the 'balanced budget' and even 'surplus', but it wasn't really there. Look at the national debt, it went up in each of those 'surplus' years - so much is 'off budget' that we weren't really 'balanced'.
Your next post talked about the 400+ billion vs 1.6 trillion budget from the 'O', and I have a question about that. You have to add 700 or 800 billion to Bush's budget - that is how they get to the '1.4' number. How much of that has been 'repaid'. And a follow-up, since Bush's last number stays at '1.4', do the repayments count towards O's budget, so that it is actually worse than the '1.6' number?
Yes, and a little-known fact is that Bush might well have been on his way to surplus as well until the Witch Pelosi lied her way into the Speaker's chair in '06.
The blame ultimately goes to the people who were electing milquetoasts for Congress because they were infatuated themselves with socialistic programs for the most part.
If the people change, the politicians change. Here's to hoping that The Tea Party may signify a sea change in who gets elected.
Fail.
Exactly. I hope the republicans disavow the path they’ve been on for fifty years and I hope the new party takes power. If they don’t change, then who cares?
I’m sorry, did you have a point?
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