Bush Hails ‘Fiscal Responsibility’ As GAO Warns of ‘Ever-Larger’ ‘Out of Control’ Deficits
Bush Hails ‘Fiscal Responsibility’ As GAO Warns of ‘Ever-Larger’ ‘Out of Control’ Deficits
President Bush on our country’s fiscal health, 9/15/06:
If the American people would take a step back and realize how effective our policies have been, given the circumstances. … I’ve strongly believed the reason it is because we cut taxes, and at the same time, showed fiscal responsibility here in Washington with the people’s money. That’s why the deficit could be cut in half by 2009, or before.
Government Accountability Office on our country’s fiscal health, 9/15/06:
GAO’s current long-term simulations continue to show ever-larger deficits resulting in a federal debt burden that ultimately spirals out of control. … [U]nder either optimistic (”Baseline extended”) or more realistic assumptions, current fiscal policy is unsustainable. … The question is how our current imprudent and unsustainable path will end. At some point, action will be taken to change the Nation’s fiscal course.
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Cut in half? Cut in half by 2009?!?!?!? Mate, you couldn’t cut this deficit in half if we strapped it down to an operating table and gave you a chain saw!
September 15th, 2006 at 5:48 pmCut in half? Cut in half?!? Mate, you couldn’t cut this deficit in half if we strapped it down to an operating table and gave you a chain saw!
September 15th, 2006 at 5:49 pmExpenditures go from Clinton’s 1.863 trillion to Bush’s 2.6 trillion in 5 short years and that’s ‘fiscal responsibility’? Is there any doubt Bush is an idiot?
September 15th, 2006 at 5:53 pmGAO’s current long-term simulations continue to show ever-larger deficits resulting in a federal debt burden that ultimately spirals out of control. …
Bow your heads, and say a prayer of forgiveness for “fiscal conservatism.” It takes its place in the Graveyard of Conservate Ideals alongside the other deceased conservative “principles” - killed by sheriff chimp.
September 15th, 2006 at 5:54 pmYou know the old saying; You can fool some of the people all of the time……
September 15th, 2006 at 5:55 pmOther than sheer entertainment value, there’s absolutely no reason to listen to Chimpy anymore. The disconnect between the happy little world that exists only in his head and the gritty reality us poor slobs have to live in is complete.
It’s hopeless.
September 15th, 2006 at 5:58 pmthis has got to be dragged thru the mud this weekend. He’s depleted the reserve forces readiness and military hardware that has to be replenished and not dime one from The Great Terror Eradication Campaign has been added to the budget.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:01 pmHow can he even begin to discuss “fiscal responsibility” when he doesn’t even know the meaning of the word “responsibility”???
September 15th, 2006 at 6:01 pmIf it wasn’t for all the damage that Bush does, his many lies and all of his counter-productive policies would be hilarious. Actually, it’s very sad.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:01 pmBush: All fart, no heart.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:01 pm“The higher the deficit the closer to God” - Republicans
September 15th, 2006 at 6:05 pmWill some half-courageous journalist PLEASE ask Bush to clarify his idiotic fiscal voodoo given the following facts:
1. foreign debt at an all time high
September 15th, 2006 at 6:07 pm2. costs for the war in Iraq kept out of budgets
3. future costs for caring for Iraq war vets likely to be astronomical
4. the detrimental effects of unstable gas prices on the whole general economy
The height of insanity is trying to claim any kind of fiscal responsibility while spending $4 billion a month in Iraq. A true compassionate conservative would certainly realize that that amount of money would help rebuild the Gulf Coast, help build schools and libraries in this country, provide much needed health care for the poor and disadvantaged, as well as providing much needed health care for veterans and those veterans who are returning from that quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let us see if the opposition party actually bring up these obvious points during the November elections. Just one more reason to end the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan and to bring those troops home as rapidly and as quickly as possible.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:10 pmHas anyone ever informed this assbag that we didn’t have a defict until he F*cked with us?!!?
Has anyone told him that he’s increased the deficit ceiling twice?
God in Heaven this man has been the worst thing to happen to America since it’s inception.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:11 pmHe must be impeached after the Dem’s win the House.
We need to end this, or he just may succeed in ending America as we know it.
What a moron!
September 15th, 2006 at 6:13 pmThe problem is that people will hear the “decider’s” words but how many will read of the GAO assessment? Gotta go to a newspaper for that. The 24/7 news won’t cover it, not when there are anorexic models to cover.
When the Democrats finally take over - first in November and then in full charge in 2009, and taxes will have to be raised, even while services are further cut, because Bush’s debt is too great to sustain, who will get the blame? Who will the fact-free Fox bigheads slime?
September 15th, 2006 at 6:16 pmDebt Clock
Has been posted before, but needs a second look.
Help me, TP posters -
September 15th, 2006 at 6:16 pmDidn’t someone recently post a link that showed this estimate to be skewed (by a whole lot) on the low side?
I know I can count on you to get the link. ;)
Excuse the hell outta me, Wtf is wrong with this crazy sob…Even a truly ignorant person would know this is all lies. Look at the trade defecet, the national debt, the raiding of the S.S. fund, huge squander and spend on an unjust war, we are bankrupt and china and foreign countries are going to call in the debt…The only ones with money are the top 2% and all big businesses that have been given huge tax breaks to pay their CEO’S bonuses….Nothing is going back into our econemy or infastructure and not a nickle into the debt. Hell the crazy nut job’s in office are giving more to Hallaburton and having no accountability than all our service persons combined…8 billion lost and no accounting….Rotten basterds all……Blessings….
September 15th, 2006 at 6:17 pmHe started a war to wag the dog…a distraction while he and his buddies looted the treasury. Now the distraction is not working and he’s in meltdown.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:17 pmThe GAO must be a Commie Front.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:20 pmWhich deficit? Certainly not the General Fund deficit. Cut in half since when? Certainly not in comparison to the fiscal situation in 2000.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:23 pmRepublicans are the fear and smear party sez:
This war was no ‘distraction’…it’s part of the neocon’s PNAC plan to establish a permanent military presence in the Middle East.
At this point, they’re so far along that I wonder why they even bother to lie to us anymore. Of course, when the next big Reason to Fear comes along (may be another ‘terrorist attack’, may be us precipitiously attacking Iran), there won’t be time to worry about paltry little concerns like ‘deficits’, ‘rights’, and ‘freedom’.
It’s coming…expect something very big sometime in October.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:23 pmMaybe not “wag the dog” as much as “bag the hog”
September 15th, 2006 at 6:23 pmYou have to keep the Militiary - Industrial Complex well feed .
September 15th, 2006 at 6:26 pmSharon,
I like how you go off on a rant, which I agree with, then end with a nice polite “blessings”. Its classic.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:28 pmLets look at this whole thing objectively. Two and a half trillion deficit… for what? What’s all this money being spent on?
Education? Nope.
Health Care? Try again.
Military Gear? Troops say Hell no.
Rebuilding the Middle East? Sure doesn’t look like it.
So where is it all? Just what the hell did we spend all that money on?
September 15th, 2006 at 6:30 pmI expect the October surprise will be a claim that the administration thwarted a terrorist attack that would have killed one million people. (They could insert 2 or 3 million people depending on how well they think it will play.) The verification will come after the election from irrefutable evidence supplied by some “informant”…who has a history of lying.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:36 pmI have a solution to the fiscal problems of the US. Every Democrat and Liberal chips in a penny or two (Liberal Democrats) and we will buy DUHbya for what he is really worth. Then we will sell him back to the Rethuglicans for what he tells them he is worth. No more deficit but a BIG bunch of poverty stricken Neocons.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:37 pm#17 Debt Clock. Has been posted before, but needs a second look.
Comment by trueblue
Thanks trueblue. I looked at it, got sick to my stomach and now have a huge pain in my bowels.
That was either brought on by Bush’s huge debt or the e-coli outbreak—-one of the two.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:38 pm#26
Halliburton, et.al.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:38 pmRonin,
I think all the money was spent on R&D, to find out how to make a turd smell better.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:39 pmYeah, I am gonna bet we have a thwarted terrorist attack before the elections, or a terror attack somewhere else, and it “could have been us”.
Seriously trolls mark these words.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:41 pmSo, we go from a surplus budget, where we were actually paying down the national debt, to “cutting the deficit in half” by 2009, and that is being fiscally responsible. Oh, and let’s not forget that the cost of Bush’s War is not included in the deficit.
Republicans, the Borrow and Bankrupt Party.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:43 pmClyde the Ripper
September 15th, 2006 at 6:43 pm1 cent total from all Democrats + 0 cents from Republicans (hey, they aren’t going to spend their money on anything!) = no deficit reduction.
Karl is just pulling out all the bullshit talking points to try to appeal to the disgruntled Repubs.
“Oh yeah and we are interested in fiscal responsibility now that elections are coming”
September 15th, 2006 at 6:46 pmThank You, For Truth, That’s the way this witch is….Go kicking and screaming at wrongs commited against our counrty and the world and send blessings to every one not responsible…Sometimes I even send more blessings to the bad guy’s..LOL…
Good one Clyde..where di I send the pennies.?……Blessings
September 15th, 2006 at 6:46 pmRepublicans, the Borrow and Bankrupt Party.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
That’s just been added to my Slogan List - nice!
September 15th, 2006 at 6:51 pmWhat does making money the top priority get you?
Well, my money grubbing Republican mother in law spent the last 2 years tearing down a nice little inherited cabin in Lake Tahoe, to replace it with a huge 3 story version. She was so snotty to her freinds they don’t call her now.
It has been complete for 3 months now, and she is crying and whining that she is alone and its too big now. No one wants to come over and play. And she now regrets it.
This is what the US is doing to itself on the world stage. In the process of making money the top priority we are eroding away the very things that we will miss the most.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:52 pmIf the American people would take a step back and realize how effective our policies have been, given the circumstances. … I’ve strongly believed the reason it is because we cut taxes, and at the same time, showed fiscal responsibility here in Washington with the people’s money. That’s why the deficit could be cut in half by 2009, or before.
president bush needs to take a step back to 1st grade math. He acts like the deficit occurred in a vacuum. the tax cuts cuts caused the deficit you f*cking idiot, and will remain the largest single factor contributing to it for the forseeable future, expensive though the war is. tax cuts are forgone revenue, and the effect on the budget is the same as any gov’t spending: all things equal, if you spend $1 on tax cuts, youve got a $1 budget deficit. apparently thats too much for him to absorb.
also, surprise, his mantras to halving the deficit by 2009 range from misleading to utter bullsh*t. first of all OMB inflated deficit projections to make it look like theyd cut more off the deficit when the expectedly lower figures came out; second, and more important, their deficit projections dont take into account making the tax cuts permanent, which is exactly what bush advocates every time he gets a chance. in other words, if he gets his way, his own projections will be wildly optimistic (you know, meaningless), and the country’s financial security will be headed to hell in a handbasket, right when we’ll have needed it most. but of course that was probably the point all along.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:54 pmI’m sure you guys love when I come in and get off-task. I’m obviously not as knowledgable as you all are, just equally as pissed off.
My short point: Do you notice how the larger, more detrimental issues are raised before the weekend…so that people have time to relax and forget?
It’s scary, that as moronic as our “leader” is, that things seem so particlarly deliberate as to timing.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:55 pmThe neocons have never been about small governments.
September 15th, 2006 at 6:56 pm“under the circumstances”…give me a break. Bush CREATED the circumstances. NO EXCUSE!!
September 15th, 2006 at 6:58 pmDear Bush Supporter
Imagine living your life in the following scenario. You are the head of your household and have a nice job with a comfortable wage. You quit your job and take one that pays less. Then, you finance a brand new mini-van from a shady, high interest car dealer. Then, soon after, the unruly son of your (insert “other culture”) neighbor across the street vandalizes your home. You don’t report the vandalism to the police, but, in retaliation you load your family into your mini-van and drive it through the front door of the (insert same “other culture”) neighbor who lives down the street at the end of the block.
Is this a responsible life-style for the head of a household? If you don’t think so, then why do support BushCo’s parallel leadership style as head of America?
September 15th, 2006 at 7:09 pm#40 southpaw
September 15th, 2006 at 7:10 pmOf course you are right on topic - People get busy on weekends, starting Friday evening.
The stories with the greatest potential for harm to the Bushies are always released on late Friday and early Saturday.
Saturday is also the day when the least number of papers are read.
I noticed that my very right wing newspapers (Chgo. Suburbs) publish more of the Democrats’ letters to the editor on Saturday, while Sunday (and most days of the week) almost guaranteed to be full of Bush lovers, by a ratio of 5 to 1.
Joe Sixpack!!
You know I love to hear from you, and I doubly love when you quote me!
But there’s no way on God’s Green Earth I’ll believe you eat pre-packaged spinach!
September 15th, 2006 at 7:11 pmI hope TP is collecting videos of all the times this Administration has suggested the “deficit would be cut in half by 2009″ because it is going to make a great 2008 campaign video… FOR DEMOCRATS!
September 15th, 2006 at 7:15 pmhttp://www.cnn.com/ 2006/ US/ 08/ 15/ dobbs.august16/ index.html
Lou Dobbs gets it:
Our federal government keeps two sets of books: one that shows our budget deficit shrank to $319 billion last year and the Treasury Department set that shows $760 billion. Now, we don’t want anyone to get needlessly anxious here. It turns out that our national debts and commitments actually stand at an incredible $49 trillion. But let’s just keep that little number amongst ourselves.
The federal government uses a quaint accounting system that would be illegal for any large enterprise in America, and there are those who believe our government should be more transparent, or perhaps honest, if you will. One of those with a very unpopular wet-blanket attitude is David Williams of the Citizens Against Government Waste. “If this happened in the private sector, we would call the government ‘Enron,’ ” Williams says.
David, David, David…A little less negativity, please. David Williams is among that small, insignificant and clearly irrelevant group of eccentric rationalists who care about cause and effect, truth and consequence.
Rep. Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, is among them as well. In his new book, Cooper writes about things like the fact that our federal government last year paid out $38 billion to the wrong people and that $20 billion of taxpayer money simply disappeared from the government’s treasury.
September 15th, 2006 at 7:17 pmPay no attention to the massive budget deficit behind the curtain. Nothing to see there.
September 15th, 2006 at 7:19 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
http://www.bloomberg.com/ apps/ news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=a5zS1ZWR__O4
Republicans have raised federal spending 9% this year. This goes against everything they used to stand for and a major reason people vote republican. The US voter needs to know this. lets get dems talking about this. attack their strengths.
Not to mention all the tax breaks they gave to the richest. who’s paying for this? 99% of americans.
September 15th, 2006 at 7:28 pmBush is clueless especially about Fiscal Responsibility’ and ‘Ever-Larger’ ‘Out of Control’ Deficits
Experts: U.S. is spending its way to financial ruin
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ html/ nationworld/ 2002606771_budget06.html
By Kevin G. Hall
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Excerpts:
Even though the White House and Congress pledge to trim $35 billion to $50 billion in spending over five years, that’s chicken feed. The government spends more than $2.5 trillion every year. Congress’ savings would trim less than half of 1 percent of annual spending.
Walker, along with budget experts from across the political divide, believe Congress is shifting deck chairs on a sinking financial ship. Lawmakers are making symbolic spending cuts while skirting the real drains on the federal budget.
In addition, Republicans intend to make tax cuts permanent, which would drain $70 billion in revenues through 2010 — more than the spending cuts Congress is struggling to find.
And that’s only the tip of the iceberg. The real problem is that the government’s unfunded liabilities — items that include everything from public debt to promised Medicare and Social Security benefits — are growing at staggering rates.
Those liabilities totaled $20.4 trillion in 2000. They reached $43.3 trillion by 2004, after President Bush and Congress increased spending and cut taxes.
When the government next reports these numbers Dec. 15, the total is expected to reach $46 trillion to $50 trillion.
How much is $50 trillion? About $166,000 for each of the almost 300 million Americans.
This imbalance between what government takes in and what it spends is the federal budget deficit. It totaled $319 billion in fiscal 2005, which ended Sept. 30.
To bridge that shortfall, the government takes on additional debt, 46 percent of it now held by foreigners, especially the governments of Japan and China.
The gross national debt is now more than $8 trillion. The government owes itself much of that in accounts such as the highway trust fund. When IOUs in those accounts come due, the government just issues itself some more debt.
The net national debt — the amount that must be financed by borrowing in capital markets, which affects interest rates and the economy — is a mind-boggling $4.6 trillion.
“Unless the situation is reversed, at some point, these budget trends will cause serious economic disruptions,
Think of America’s financial future this way: A large family goes to a restaurant and stuffs itself on a full-course meal with drinks and dessert. The waitress then hands the bill to the babbling infant in a high chair. Budget deficits make today more enjoyable, but future generations of Americans will have to pay the bills.
Undisciplined government spending has done the unthinkable: It’s united experts from two rival think tanks with great influence in Washington — the left-leaning Brookings Institution and the conservative Heritage Foundation. Both accuse Congress and the White House of a “leadership deficit,” punting when it should be tackling issues affecting the nation’s financial future.
“It’s very obvious that something has to give. It’s as simple as that,” said Stuart Butler, vice president of economic policy for the Heritage Foundation.
September 15th, 2006 at 7:30 pmIt turns out that our national debts and commitments actually stand at an incredible $49 trillion
I knew the 8 trillion was too low.
September 15th, 2006 at 7:32 pmWhat comes after trillion?
September 15th, 2006 at 7:33 pmJoe Sixpack,
I’m always a day late and a dollar short when it comes to you. I always seem to just miss you.
In case you come back to TP: I have to watch a show with my daugter @ 8:00.
September 15th, 2006 at 7:38 pmBe back ~ 9:00. DON’T go to the bar!! ( ;) that was the old Joe Six thing as I remember!)
I would swear that his eyes are getting closer together every day. We all know that his”I’s” are getting closer together. From the look on his face in the earlier posts today I suspect DUHbya is well on his way to a full mental (he didn’t have far to go here) and physical collapse. It would not surprise me if he is put away before November. Particularly if the Repubs (McPain, Powell, Graham, et. al.) continue to taunt him and/or ignore him. The Dems need to get together and one or another make some claim every day that the idiot will be forced to deny to save face. Bring up anything to put him on the defensive and watch the melt-down. It has started and hopefully it will be exponential rather than linear.
September 15th, 2006 at 7:44 pmBecause America is in love with the almighty $$$, this maybe his ultimate lie to “We The People”.
Bush is the ultimate distractor.
McFlightsuit’s ultimate orange prison suit will suit the bill. And it can’t happen soon enough.
Oh, when is the next orange alert?
September 15th, 2006 at 7:51 pmOh, this site is bonzo again.
September 15th, 2006 at 7:56 pmIs home land watchin me?
Cutting the deficit in half by 2009 is not a big deal because in 2009 the Democrats will be preparing the budget and may well have a surplus. The deficit is from one year to the next and is merely a shortfall of income to cover the expenditures. Cutting taxes anywhere will not reduce the deficit, cutting spending will reduce the deficit on a one-to-one ratio.
Another point: while the yearly deficit clearly adds to the National Debt they are not the same. The total deficit contributes to the National Debt but there is a more important factor. In the Government Accounting procedures all capital expenditures are expensed in the year of purchase and are not carried over from year to year as fixed assets. In a normal (private sector)accounting system the capital expenditures are depleted or depreciated over several years. In the private sector system there is a thing called Stockholders equity which, very simply, equates to the capital assets of the entity. If we place a value on all the Government Buildings, land holdings, military equipment, National Parks, etc. The National Debt would be erased and there would be a positive amount called the Citizen’s Equity in the United States.
The problem with all this is that bushco is not shepherding the Citizen’s Equity as the law requires. With his out sourcing of jobs, illegal war and contracts, privatization and other schemes he is stealing your and my Citizens Equity by converting assets to cash and stealing the cash. How’s that for a sermon and the sun hasn’t set and it isn’t Sunday.
September 15th, 2006 at 8:04 pmGreat Post Clyde….One question, in light of you’re post..I have for 5 plus years watched and screamed a lot about the distruction of our park’s, wilderness, wildlands and now port’s…..This bunch has been working over time to eliminate and sell off as much as possible all of the above to big business and or lease for cheap to big timber companies and oil companies….My thought has been all along in doing that we no longer have equity in our country and there is nothing to be left for future generation’s……When everything is turned into a parking lot and condos looking out at oil wells we will have lost it all…….What’s you’re spin on this and any ideas on stopping the madness?…..Blessings
September 15th, 2006 at 8:19 pmSharon,
You have caught exactly my point. The timber on public lands, the oil, the public buildings, every thing owned by the Federal Government belongs to you and me and the other CITIZENS of this Country. All income from oil royalties, timber leases, etc belongs to us to be used for the functions of the Government. Every illegal alien that comes to this Country and claims a part of our assets is stealing them from you and me. Those people that are willing to pay the price to be a citizen are welcome to share the wealth as long as they contribute to the accumulation of that wealth.
An aside, but germane to the topic. The town of Boulder City, a suburb of Las Vegas, has close to the largest incorporated area of any city in Nevada. Most (+/-90%) of the land is undeveloped land acquired from the BLM and, by law of the city cannot be developed. One enterprising gentleman must of taken a page out of DUHbya’s book and circulated a petition to remove the development restriction and sell the land to private builders. The proceeds of the sale were to be distributed equally to every resident of Boulder City to the tune of in excess of $1million each. The courts would not allow the petition to go on the ballot. Bushco is doing the same thing but instead of distributing the money to you and me he is giving it to the oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, health care companies, the Halliburton clan, and other various and sundry crooks big and small.
The immediate answer: impeach or shoot the entire bushco. The short term answer: oust every Republican incumbent in Government from the local water district to the Senate in November and the rest of the lot in 2008. The long term answer: extreme measures of fiscal responsibility with transparent oversight. Federally funded campaigns, no lobbists, no pork or thumbnails (I guess that is earmarks) and the institution of a “Vote of Confidence” by the people. Put the right to call for impeachment in the hands of the citizens. Actually, this can be done in individual precincts by providing a directive to each Congressman and Senator to initiate and vote for impeachment of any federal official. Brief but it will work if we want it to bad enough.
September 15th, 2006 at 8:59 pmFISCAL RESPONSIBILITY?!!! BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
September 15th, 2006 at 9:08 pmComment by Sharon Cox — September 15, 2006 @ 8:19 pm
LIGHT.
Let those who know of the crimes and corruption step forward. Let their stories be published in the mainstream media. May this be the trickle that presages the flood, a flood of truth that sweeps away the darkness that has overcome this great country.
Peace and Blessings.
September 15th, 2006 at 9:09 pmGoes to prove you simply cannot trust Republicans with money.
September 15th, 2006 at 9:20 pmJust wait to Herr Hindler finds about this irresponsible monetary practices. The budget should be balanced. Jasons people are in charge and they are not rainy day people. So I wait Jason to lecture Bushco on how to run the government. This seems simple- don’t spend more than you earn. The problem with Herr hindler is he is a perverted hateclintonbot. Therefore, he can not think stright. The party he supports is his worse night mare. That means Jason has a deeper problem not related to budgets or patents. Jason do you have a clue?
September 15th, 2006 at 9:21 pmBravo Clyde and Thank You, You see I knew all that but am not nearly as good at putting it all down as you, so I threw the question’s out there and you did what I hoped you would do….Inform the people…. Jackpot Nevada year’s ago had the same problem, only a few rich casino owners were allowed to own land…Most was owned by BLM ( that’s us) and leased, real cheap by large cattle grazers. Trouble was they were sloppy about their herds and what they were doing to the land and stream’s…Same thing was happening in Montana before I left…..Sad mess and no one bothering to oversee their distruction.. Now with Pombo being bush’s henchman they are trying to sell off everything..Thank You again Clyde….Forgive me..Blessings
September 15th, 2006 at 9:21 pmGreat post to you as well BnF..Thank You……Still having huge problem’s posting..Was better for an hour and now not so good again..Oh Well….Blessings…Peace, for us all
September 15th, 2006 at 9:33 pmSharon,
No apologies necessary.
Actually, I have been preaching this sermon since 1972 when I used the theme as my Master’s Thesis for my MPA (P=Public as opposed to Business).
Thanks for asking and reading.
September 15th, 2006 at 9:34 pmClyde, You’re welcome and Thank you again…..Blessings
September 15th, 2006 at 9:43 pmNews to all of you good people. They have taken over this country and will strip mine it without restraint. Bush has appointed heads of every government department those that have a proven record of wishing to destroy it. I think it is to late-hope I am wrong.
September 15th, 2006 at 9:49 pmThis President always mounts a horse “Ass Backwards!”
September 15th, 2006 at 10:04 pmThats what happens when your all hat and no cattle…
nytimes: BUSH: Guantanamo rebells putting nations sec at risk; loox like bush wants to push law thru b4 nov elex
September 15th, 2006 at 10:06 pmAlways mount the horse ASS BACKWARDS
September 15th, 2006 at 10:07 pmnytimes: BUSH: Guantanamo rebells putting nations sec at risk; loox like bush wants to push law thru b4 nov elex
September 15th, 2006 at 10:07 pmI am so sick and tired of the Bush family. Even the other do nothing one in Florida waiting his turn (Daddy Daddy its my turn now). Well Im pretty sure big brother just blew your chance of ever getting in the WH. I hope the country has learned a long lesson here. Poor GHWB after all those years of pulling the family name away from the NAZI party. GWB PULLS THEM RIGHT BACK IN! Pappa must be so proud of his dumbass ignorant son running the country into the tank… Yeap! Thats ma boy…
September 15th, 2006 at 10:32 pmCan we get a clean up crew in here for my other son? C’mon…Clean it like a thousand points a light…
September 15th, 2006 at 10:35 pmHello
September 15th, 2006 at 10:36 pmBLAH BLAH BLAH…
September 15th, 2006 at 10:36 pm#20 As a bean counter I am extremely proud of the GAO. They are the one government agency that has not been subverted into being a righty puppet. Let’s here it for ethics!!
September 15th, 2006 at 10:37 pmHello!
September 15th, 2006 at 10:37 pmOh yeah, there is another BUSH coming up the young silent one thats being groomed like a Kennedy DON”T LET HIM IN EITHER. The big reason why….. He’s a BUSH in more ways than one…. Enough said!!!
September 15th, 2006 at 11:58 pmFor a view of the fiscal situation, see the BUSH TAX CUTS:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SA1f2MefsMM
September 16th, 2006 at 12:05 amWethepeople, tell me it isn’t Pierce Bush….Dude, like, he is way cool.
September 16th, 2006 at 12:09 amIf I practiced the same sort of “fiscal responsibility” GWB does, I’d be in the penitentiary.
September 16th, 2006 at 12:13 amWah-wah-wahhhhhh, wah wah wah wahhhhhhh…. Harmonica playing… prison style. See you in Hell George!
September 16th, 2006 at 12:36 amWhen I think of the good that could have been done with the money this administration has pssed away..
September 16th, 2006 at 1:50 amIt is not a question of if but when.
The comment about cutting the deficit in half by 2009 requires smoke and mirrors. First, Bush is using a phoney projection on what the deficit would be (the actual deficit came in about $75 billion under the phoney projection) and second, 2009 is after the current tax cuts are set to expire (the very tax cuts he is asking be made permanent).
Then as bad as the budget deficit is, the current account (trade) deficit is an even bigger problem. It is projected to exceed $700 billion this year. Recent history shows it going up almost $100 billion each year. This year the twin deficits will exceed $1 trillion for the first time. So, as I said, it is not a question of if but when.
September 16th, 2006 at 2:40 amAfter reading all the comments all I can say is the reform mantra should be as Josh Marshall has suggested, very simply:” HAD ENOUGH ?”. I can’t tell by viewing the President’s recent public confrontations with the media if he is just scared shitless because a major cat is out of the bag or on it’s way, or he just happens to be less insulated and this is his real persona. I think the sad reality is summed up in TripMaster’s comment. The President of the United States should not be a source of humor based on pity.
September 16th, 2006 at 7:25 amThis administration has borrowed more money than the previous 41 administrations combined, and he calls that fiscal responsibility? Someone please slap some sense into him.
September 16th, 2006 at 12:05 pmThe Iraq Occupation is a giant money laundering operation for the NeoCons and all of their Corporate Cronies. 9 BILLION dollars, IN CASH just does not disappear without a trace. And that’s just what we know about. There is no doubt that it is much more than that. But the haphazard ‘bookkeeping’ practices make it virtually impossible to locate it. It’s not by accident either.
September 16th, 2006 at 12:27 pmCryaBrown - how about cry me a river. I as a repub know that the entire govt over the past 30 yrs has put us into major debt. I don’t know what it is - Reagan during the 80s with a dem congress spent like drunken sailors and 90s nobody cared becuase the revenue was coming in. Now that we’re in a war (yes kids, it IS a war regardless of what you think) we keep spending but at least revenue is coming back…..WHO KNOWs. But I GUARANTEE the answer does not lie in CRYMEARIVER’s response of some massive consipriacy theory about money laundering in Iraq. This is Exactly why nobody takes you kook fringe seriously. Screaming at the moon about consipracy theory and bush knowing about 9/11 is silly.
Think about it - who do you think americans would rather have in power - the kook left or the kook right? I believe your point is that the kook right IS in power, so I guess there’s the answer.
Question: If everyone you talk to is right of you, where are you?
September 16th, 2006 at 10:08 pmTest…
September 17th, 2006 at 1:21 am#89- b-2- Your opinion of my opinion is beside the point. What revenue is ‘coming back’? What do you mean by that? I said nothing about any conspiracy theory. Money laundering operation is the way I chose to describe the blatant theft of our tax dollars, by companies that do not have to account for anything, and in fact are permitted to audit themselves, and do not have to share any information with any governing authorities. A billion dollars a DAY goes into Iraq. It seems reasonable that ‘progress’ there should reflect that. And it doesn’t. What in the hell is that money being spent on? Our new Embassy? The biggest one in the world? The new prison we built in Iraq? All of those new military bases? Why don’t we know? Why won’t they be honest with us? And to answer your ‘question’, well I’d have to be at some Republican event, and I am looking for the nearest exit.
September 17th, 2006 at 4:40 amthey won’t be accountable for the spending of our money for
all the government services that we need because Mr.
Attorney and our public servants signed it in to law. OUT
Of $1 you get half and we get half to provide all the services
you need from us.
Unfortunately there is no accounability whatsoever… it’s tell all
the promise which as soon as they win the election all the
promises were a facade… broken promises…
AS CORRUPT AS CONGRESS AND ALL OF THE GOVERNMENT HAS
BECOME WITH THE REVOLVING DOOR BETWEEN PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE IT IS NO WONDER IT HAS BECOME CORRUPT.
How can the american people tolerate that fraud of K Street?
September 17th, 2006 at 7:03 amIt is beyond my wildiest befief the american people allow this
corruption to occur as far as it does, enough to make
you and i PUKE :(
We all know that frat boy can’t count.
Vote for fiscal responsibility… vote for Democrats in November and never trust Republicans with your money.
September 17th, 2006 at 9:48 amIf anyone bothers to read the report these are what drives the longterm outlook.
Oddly Bush tried to address Soc. Sec. somehow this is lost with many liberal congressmen blocking the way to reform. How can anyone forget that? who is really to blame
I guess the real point of this piece is that the Dems are in the way..again…
(BTW Pork barrel congressmen need to get their hands out of the till)
September 18th, 2006 at 7:33 amThis is typical of the left. Blame Bush for anything bad that happens anywhere in the US. Yep, Bush tax cuts killed the kids in that Amish school. Why wasn’t Clinton blamed for Columbine? Did anyone even make that huge leap? Of course not because it is idiotic. But what can you expect from a party that uses forged documents (AWOL Memo) a proven liar (Joe Wilson) and unproven allegations (Bush Cocaine use) to attack a man they hate simply because he beat the heir apparent to Clinton’s “camelot” Al Gore in 2000
So keep up the idiotic accusations against Bush libs because the voters are listening.
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