[sinkspur]

Oh how I long for the days of a balanced budget and a, what was it they use to call it?... a "surplus???"...I am with Michael Savage...we have been hoodwinked by George W...It may be cheaper to retire now rather than pay the higher taxes for the remainder of the Bush presidency...If we only had Reagan when we need him the most...

Ronald Reagan sanctioned huge deficits, under the theory that high deficits would squeeze social spending.

We're fighting a war, pal, or did you forget?

The "surplus" under Clinton cost 3,000 American lives.

Savage's schtick is blasting whomever is in office...that's how he keeps his audience jacked up.

[Willie Green]

Ronald Reagan sanctioned huge deficits, under the theory that high deficits would squeeze social spending.

Financial deregulation, the S&L crisis and subsequent bailout added a cool $-TRILLION to the debt as well.
Makes the Enron fiasco look like a child's busted piggy bank.
There were nowhere near enough scalliwags lynched for that one.

[kellynla]

pal? pal? First of all you are not my pal...second when you get as many combat ribbons and combat promotions as I you can talk to me about war...in the mean time keep your ignorant comments in texas...or enlist and find out about war on a first hand basis...this is not a war this is a waste of taxpayers money...if this was a war we would have bombed Medina and Mecca on 9/12...rounded up all the towelheads living on US soil and sent them back to sandlot hell! The lack of FBI, CIA & NSA interagency intelligence cooperation failed...had nothing to do with the surplus...where did you get your economics degree....university of alamo...Bush with his illegal alien amnesty, universal medical insurance and lack of a spine (he has not vetoed one spending bill since he arrived), has refused to secure the borders, federalized airport security (another Dimwit idea), might as well be in the Dimwit party....Bush is a fraud and a RINO...

[Torie]

Refusing to up the debt limit after the money is spent is well - sort of like closing the barn door after the horses are gone. This debt exercise is solely one of posturing, and solely for the cameras. It has no meaning, and of course is always raised in the end, since no one except some loons at FR want the government to shut down.