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September 16, 2010 01:43 AM UTC
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the Dems could not have done it without you. Oh, wait, we did.
If you can, include sources that validate your …skepticism.
Also- I recall you once claiming to be a student of HIstory as part of the cause of your admiration of President Reagan. I pointed out that that students read and asked you waht you have read. You never answered, and so I’m still wondering.
What’s funny about actual deficit reduction?
of Beavis. Or, maybe it was Butthead.
and the other was a TA
then spend 13% less the next, and have the gall to call that deficit reduction? LOL!
That is precisely what deficit reduction is.
because you’re a moron and never listen, but I’ll say it again- Fiscal Year 2009 deficit was the last budget of George W Bush. But you’re just too stupid to admit that your “gotcha” really got your guy.
This is the last time I will waste my breath on you Beej. Good night.
the biggest year of federal spending yet, is Bush’s budget?
I’ve seen other graphs showing 30% of the cost of any piece of legislation since ’02 to be the cost of the tax cuts.
Thank you again Bush and GOP.
Extending the tax cuts for the top tax bracket (enjoyed only by the top 2% of Americans) will cost $800b over ten years; of that, $100b will be debt service on the other $700b, because Republicans have not proposed any budget offset measures to pay for the cut. So we the taxpayer get to pay an extra $100b so that the wealthy, who have made out extraordinarily well over the past decade with these tax cuts, can continue to pay less than what is needed to fix this country’s deficit.
What about Dems proposing cuts to spending? Why does it have to be the Republicans getting the blame for not proposing cuts that wouldn’t see the light of day (until January heheheh).
Obama Administration Moves to Trim Defense Fat by $100 Billion.
Like a lot of “conservatives,” defense spending for him is immune to budget concerns. He said as much to me when I asked him about that.
I thought Republicans said overpaying contractors was wasteful. Or was that so 1980’s?
if they’re in a union.
of HCR. Gotta love that consistency from the GOP on the deficit.
Don’t tell Beej that the federal fiscal year runs from October through September and that FY 2009 was budgeted, appropriated, and well underway while Bush was in office.
If you look at 1992 you’ll see a record deficit (for then) resulting from 12 years of Republican rule inherited by a Democrat named Bill Clinton. Steadily reduced in his administration to several years of budget surpluses ( the first surpluses since 1969).
Then Bush and 6 years of Republican control of Congress with borrow and spend policy (two wars finances by China and others).
Both parties share blame for deficits, but for the Republicans to lay claim to fiscal responsibility is poppycock.
He said he was a letters student, which probably gives passing coverage of history, but it’s not the same as learning the critical discipline of historiography which history majors have to study. As such, beej has probably read a few positive books about our 40th president but no critical ones.
At least I remember those green cardboard cards with the Palmer Method stuck up across the front of the classroom above the blackboard in all my elementary school classes.
I think BJ, and others of his age, probably don’t learn “cursive”. I notice that it cramps my hand more and more since I spend so much more time with a keyboard.
But, I think BJ probably, in the home school, spent much more time just learning the alphabet “letters”.
. . . although, I have to admit, the number of syllables is a bit of a surprise.
excellent in all aspects!
I hear heads exploding, teeth gnashing, eyes popping. Lovely.
Libertad loves him some graphs.
From what I’m seeing, everyone goes by the year, so this period is too small to be seen in a meaningful way. Which makes sense, to see it on a grand scale would take a gigantic map. So the differences have been updated in the monthly budget report, but not on a graph.
Fortunately, Dems have a way of sticking with this trend in general, so we’ll see it soon enough. At that time I suspect all Republicans to continue to deny its existence anyway. No one likes to believe their lying eyes. Making your question, my search, and my answer an exercise in futility. Nice for us anyway!
(How long until I’m presented with a graph from two years ago for that “lying eyes” comment, ignoring what I’ve just said about its accuracy? Taking bets…)
It would’ve been a good pool!
I would have bet, but BJ had the graph up so fast that I didn’t have time to put my money down.
From your own link:
But it’s the right direction.
you would be calling the trumpeters, historians and faux news to tell the world of what a great success this is. (considering the damage done by the previous administration.)
admit it.
(oh gawd I threw up a little thinking “president Palin”)
is what are we buying?
Cutting spending isn’t bad but it isn’t as important as funding necessary development. We need development in sustainable energy not more military bases overseas. We need education for our children not wealthy welfare. We need to help the most vulnerable in our society as they struggle to become self-supporting taxpayers again.
The declining deficits only works if it is coupled with renewed priorities on spending for those items which will help create a peaceful, prosperous and pluralistic society.
Like President Obama said in his address announcing the honorable conclusion of combat operations in Iraq, we need to turn the page on the War on Terror and work on the other issues that affect the security of our country. The misguided invasion of Iraq is emblematic of the waste and wrong direction the country endured during the first decade of the 21st century. This reduction in the deficit is a start at trying to reestablish better priorities and smarter funding for our most pressing needs.
you post remarks like this, and I really have to wonder if you’re a true conservative.
Do you agree or disagree with MADCO’s response?
in today’s Washington Post (another “really liberal” rag)
Senate Republicans unveil a plan to make Bush tax cuts permanent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
Just when you were forgetting how much you loved those guys when they were in charge?
they did not fund the tax cut to the wealthy in the early 2000’s, and did not fund the Medicare prescription drug bill. Add to that the disaster created by the financial industry that finally blew up in the late 2000’s, and I guess we have a lot to thank the conservatives for. But wait, there’s more – job creation during the Bush years was a disaster – the Bush administration created about three million jobs (net) over its eight years, a fraction of the 23 million jobs created under President Bill Clinton’s administration and only slightly better than President George H.W. Bush did in his four years in office.
So after the decade of fun, any small improvement looks good to me.