” Step 1 : To claim all the ‘experts’ recommend the federal government run up huge debts to ‘save’ the economy while promising us we will not have to pay for it, only the rich will. To call the spending ‘investments’.
Step 2 : Then bring in all the ‘experts’ to tell us they must cut our social security, medicare and raise our taxes to fix ‘the deficit’.”
Jackie Mason, POTUS: “ Oh my God, look what Bush left me! Nobody ever left anything like this! We gotta spend a trillion bailing out these inveterate gamblers on Wall Street! We gotta invest a trillion more putting Americans back to work! I can’t believe Bush did this to me!
One year later.......
Jackie Mason POTUS (slapping forehead) Oh my God, look at those deficits! I tell ya, I never seen deficits like this! There is no way we can sustain these kinda deficits! We can’t even pay the interest on these deficits!
LOL, perfect. Jackie and I must think alike !
You got it FRiend!
It is an inconvenient truth (w/NO apology to Al Ghoul) that Jimmy Carter had MORE vetoes during his brief 4 year slow-motion train wreck, than George W. Bush had in his EIGHT years in office.
The federal government expanded under GWB in ways unseen since the Great Society days of LBJ.