Bush’s new budget: We waited five years for this?

[applegrove]

Bush’s new budget: We waited five years for this?
UNION LEADER (right-leaning)

10 hours, 10 minutes ago

"... SNIP

The President frames his 2007 budget as one that starts the process of serious deficit reduction. (That would be the deficit made ridiculously large by Republican profligacy.) Unfortunately, the deficit reduction Bush touts is largely a fiction. His budget does not include spending on Iraq and Afghanistan, and it absurdly assumes that Congress will restrain spending in the next few years.

Even if a miracle occurs and Bush magically meets his deficit reduction projections by the end of the decade, the deficit will spiral out of control almost immediately after that, as soon as the Baby Boomers start to retire and collect Social Security and Medicaid.

It is bad enough that Americans had to wait five years before Republicans in Washington began thinking about presenting budgets that looked as if parts of them might have been written by Republicans. Then we finally get one and it takes no real stab at controlling entitlement spending.

Mr. President, you are not fooling anyone. Stop these short-term political games and give us a budget that brings federal spending down to a sustainable level. Don’t let the American people down by passing this problem on to our children.

END"

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleID=f19792bc-79e6-46f5-97bf-23abc12b431a

[rkc3]

1. "Even if a miracle occurs..."

Another one of bush's faith-based initiatives.

[BlueJazz]

2. If the Democrats do take back the White House and Congress,

..they're going to have to raise taxes to EVER get us out of
this financial mess...which of course, the Repugs will scream about in
the next election and the American Idiots will, Once again, fall for
the same old Bullshit...Friends..we are (Probably) Fucked.. :(

[applegrove]

3. Except that if Dems get in - and alternative fuel takes off - OPEC would

be desperate to stay on USA's good side. And wars & radical madras funding would dry up.

[ClintonTyree]

4. This is hilarious!

"The President frames his 2007 budget as one that starts the process of serious deficit reduction". :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Oh boy, that george bush is a laugh a minute! I don't know what color the sky is in HIS world, but in our world it's RED! As in, all of the RED INK the "Conservatives" have drowned us in.

Cutting the amount of revenue the government takes in is a SURE-FIRE way to reduce the deficits alright! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Please, someone wake me when this long national nightmare is over. I can't take it anymore. I'm going to bed for a long, long time and when I get up, I want this shit over with. OK? See ya' then! :hi: