First off, I want to note that I probably am in favor of most of this highway bill. But I would like to note that George W. Bush, the Republican president who is supposedly of the mindset that we should reign in government spending just signed $286.4 billion for highways. So, after 4+ years in office, we go to the giant tote board to see how many bills George Bush has vetoed. Drum roll, please…
0
(which incidentally is the amount of times he’s ever balanced the budget)
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I also wish that the Republican congress would cut back on its spending. At the same time, if they did, this article would have been about how the Republicans are trying to starve women, children, and minorities.
Because everyone knows the only way to balance the budget is by starving poor people!
Bush and the DC crowd have a “borrow and spend” mentality. And it’s ruining our country.
We need more Senators in Washington who know what it’s like to really work for a living — I have those experiences. I’ve punched a time clock, I’ve worked a double shift, and I’ve raised a family while running a business.
And I’m ready to take those experiences — and the values learned from a lot of hard work — to Washington.
I doubt President Bush would recognize hard work if he saw it.
Funny thing about those horrible tax cuts that will cause the end of civilization as we know it … Apparently tax revenues continue to increase.
Let me see, where can I cut the budget, hmmmm. Oh, how about we get out of Iraq? That’s $150 billion there, and how about we roll back tax credits for large corporations? That out to make up the rest- just for fun we’ll make the rich and corporations pay their share, so we’ll have money for REAL homeland security. We can also roll back the pay increase the Republican Congress voted itself.
Balancing the budget, it’s hard work.
“Apparently tax revenues continue to increase.”
Unfortunately, not as fast as spending.
“Funny thing about those horrible tax cuts that will cause the end of civilization as we know it & Apparently tax revenues continue to increase.”
Yeah that’ right, JD. “Trickle Down Economics II” is why the National Debt is pushing 8 Trillion now )(7.8B to be more precise). The deficit is only going to be around 300 Billion (~250 Billion of that is interest on the debt). Bush’s prescription drug bill, tax cuts, the Iraq war, just to mention a few, have resulted in the government having to borrow more and more money from, would you believe China and other countries? And now he wants to borrow more for his Social Security Privitization plan.
Great job neocons! After all those promises for a balanced budget amendment back in 1994, you guys will finish off the country sooner than those “tax and spend” democrats by borrowing us into oblivion.
Unfortunately, you are right. But as I mentioned before, were spending actually to be cut, rather than just slowing rates of growth, can you image the wailing from the left about how the Republicans were trying to kill old people, starve children, etc … ?
Yes JD, and if you noticed the comments that proceeded your initial one you would see there are several ways to make budget cuts without cutting social services.
What is going to happen in the next ten years when 40 million baby boomers will retire and quit paying into social security and will begin drawing their social security benefits. There will not be much if any surplus for the government to spend. That means that taxes will have to go up or spending will have to be reduced. I am already paying 35% of my income for state, federal and social security. I know several millionaires who do not pay any taxes. We need to get rid of the income tax and go to a flat tax or sales tax system (fair tax) where everyone pays.
Silly southpaw,
There is no crisis, according to Oliver and his cohorts.
You’ve got to understand whats going on here. Oliver isn’t really PO’d about a big governemnt spending bill. He’s aliberal after all. the real message is that he would like to claim Bush is some sort of extreme rightist bogeyman out of one corner of his mouth and out of the other a big govenment big spender out of the other – that WE conservatives should not like. Think I’ll make my own descions. Bush spends too much. But still I’m completely convinced that at his worst he will spend less than anybody ever put forward by the Deaniac wing of the party – which is calling the shots.
Dugger
Say, didn’t I see you on another thread chastising someone about…lessee…oh, yeah!…mindreading?
Quaker,
Uhhh, uhhh, …bluster… sputter – good point!
Dugger