Bush to announce deficit cut in half...???? Huh?

[Union Thug]

I swear I heard this as I was waking up this morning on one of the cable news channels. Anyone else heard this?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Simple. He'll defund all programs except for the military and

salaries for the White House and Congress. That'll cut the budget in half (for a while).

[radfringe]

2. he's going to demonstrate how

he cut the deficit in half,,,,,if they can find some safety scissors

[enough already]

3. He's lying

Everything the Chimp says is a lie. Our people can't say that enough in the media.

[Democrats_win]

4. There are no WMDs in Iraq & Republicans never had sex with Abramoff.

[mtnester]

5. My BS meter is buried in the redline area

I will call it...BS!

[Union Thug]

16. My BS meter started smoking and I wondered if I was just dreaming!

They'll do anything to try to divert attention from, oh, just about everything else that they've 'accomplished'!

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. Sure.

He took a $250b surplus, turned it into a -$450b deficit which is now about $-225b.

It's about like killing 20 of your neighbors last year and only killing 10 this year. You are then singlehandedly responsible for cutting the neighborhood murder rate in half.

[radfringe]

21. doesn't include cost for Iraq

http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

averaged over 3 years: $112,000,000,000 Iraq

[Hav]

7. .

I heard that claim before. And I think, when one takes a look at the deficit, it's not getting better.

[asjr]

8. When he leaves office and retires

to Crawford, he can write fairy-tale books.

[Toots]

9. They tell us at the beginning of the year the deficit will be five hundred

billion dollars. then they say it will only be 250 billion so that means they cut it in half. They are not right now nor were they right when they first made their prediction. They have never included monies spent in Iraq or Afghanistan which would double their numbers. Those numbers though are "off budget" The Administration is nothing but a sack of LIES.

[Kookaburra]

10. I guess if you're going to tell a Whopper

You may as well tell a great big giant whopper...

[mtnsnake]

11. Yeah, the monstrous deficit he created. At least he can't say he cut

Clinton's deficit in half.

[SpreadItAround]

13. He also said that...

...if the Democrats win this November, they'll raise taxes.

I am so sick of the "raise taxes" boogeyman. I know it's an effective election cycle ploy but it's so aggravating.

I mean, why don't people understand that you can't raise spending and cut taxes at the same time which is what Bush has been doing since he took office.

Of course we're going to have to raise taxes to clean-up his mess and deficit.

:grr:

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. I hate that too!

:grr: I heard Ahnuld pulling that crap in his one debate last week. Smarmy jerk! Someone is going to have to pay for **'s spending spree and the richy rich don't want it to be them. And the working class republicans are clueless!

[Atman]

12. He's lying...he has included the S177 BILLION in Social Security funds

Don't forget, the SS "trust fund" is still technically running a large surplus. It was published last week that Bush has subtracted that $177 Billion from the REAL deficit in order to come up with a lower figure. He's just lying again. SURPRISE!

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[Union Thug]

18. Aha.. so now the talking point is that Reverse Robin Hood Bush

...robs from those who need SS to cover his bad checks?

But seriously, thanks for pointing this out. It ALL makes sense now (although 'makes sense' is probably not the right phrase...)

[kenny blankenship]

14. by raking social security funds over onto the general budget

[Solly Mack]

15. A Record of "Fuzzy Math" by the Bush Administration (link)

A Record of "Fuzzy Math" by the Bush Administration

[Union Thug]

22. exc. link, thx! n/t

[elehhhhna]

26. VOODOO ECONOMICS?!!!!

[originalpckelly]

17. BOTH parties have been crowing and blowing...

Clinton did not have a surplus, and Bush is not about to cut his deficit in half, because both stole from the social security trust fund to fund their deficits.

It is a nasty little trick that people will find when they retire in a about 5+ years. You see they might remember how the President said social security was in trouble, and they might not like the fact that he is stealing from it and making the eventual shortfall even worse.

If you count social security, this nation is so far in the hole that we may actually go bankrupt. And both political parties have been secretly lying to all of us; they are using Enron accounting techniques.

Here is a great article on this terrible lie:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14756403/site/newsweek/

[Union Thug]

20. thx for the link n/t

[gulfcoastliberal]

24. Yeppers - if not for raiding of the SS account, there'd be money there

for ALL future retires that paid into the system.

That they steal it to hide the deficit is criminal.

And they made fun of Al Gore promising to lock up that money soit's be usedfor only one thng: securing social security by not stealing it. Criminal cowardly idiots, such as the NYT, laughed at this and called him names..

[OneBlueSky]

19. he's l-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-ing!!! . . . (as usual) . . . n/t

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[Mr Rabble]

23. Its true. Of course, he is raiding the SS trust fund to do it.

There was discussion of this last week somewhere on DU. They are using a huge amount of the Social Security trust fund to pay into the general fund.

No one will notice, and next year SSI will be worse off because of it.

[spanone]

27. Why not add this to his list of lies.

[Imagevision]

28. Bush will attempt to change topic of news reporting - (Foley, GO AWAY!!)