just look at the obvious....the deficit was not mentioned during the bu$h* years

[spanone]

now it's the singular issue that will destroy america.


this only happens with a compliant media that is willing to push the lie.



Paul O'Neill, fired in a shakeup of Bush's economic team in December 2002, raised objections to a new round of tax cuts and said the president balked at his more aggressive plan to combat corporate crime after a string of accounting scandals because of opposition from "the corporate crowd," a key constituency.

O'Neill said he tried to warn Vice President Dick Cheney that growing budget deficits-expected to top $500 billion this fiscal year alone-posed a threat to the economy. Cheney cut him off. "You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter," he said, according to excerpts. Cheney continued: "We won the midterms (congressional elections). This is our due." A month later, Cheney told the Treasury secretary he was fired.

The vice president's office had no immediate comment, but John Snow, who replaced O'Neill, insisted that deficits "do matter" to the administration.
Source: Adam Entous, Reuters, on AOL News Jan 11, 2004

http://www.ontheissues.org/2004/Dick_Cheney_Budget_+_Economy.htm

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, spanone.

[spanone]

2. the meme is the gateway to destroy all social (democratic) programs

[SpiralHawk]

3. k

r

[midnight]

4. K&R Double standards.... Only Republicans can create deficits....

[JuniperLea]

5. Bush had the deficit sliced and diced...

There were several running budgets, one being the massive war debt. Obama put them all back on one page in an effort to stop the game playing... so it really does look like Obama's issue to those who didn't pay attention.

[spanone]

6. Obama did that to be honest....that obviously doesn't pay in politics

THEY never stop playing the game.....


i find it unfuckingbelievable that the republicans squandered a surplus they had in 2000 and now democrats are being excoriated for their deficit....

the media....

[upi402]

9. The media, for sure

They never fail to ignor the huge facts. But we know how Justin Beiber feels about abortion...

[JuniperLea]

11. Yep...

They sit with chocolate cake and icing on their faces whilst screaming that someone ate all the cake.

[Johonny]

7. Dems talked about it

but then Dems don't get air time. Most thought the Bush tax cut would lead to deficits, most thought the wars need to be paid for, most saw that the Republicans would eventually blame their deficit on programs designed to help Americans rather than on the Republicans own spending, tax cutting and deregulation clean up. It was mentioned during the Bush years, it's just the people speaking it don't get a national voice on TV and print at near the volume level as the other side.

[spanone]

8. if it doesn't get pushed and extended by the media....it didn't happen to most americans

so no one heard of the deficit when bu$h* was out there landing on the aircraft carrier

[tosh]

10. Kick & highly rec.

[savalez]

12. oops wrong post

[rampart]

13. "deficits do not matter,

reagan taught us that." dick cheney

[BlueCheese]

14. It was so dang obvious at the time...

... that as soon as the Obama-McConnell tax deal was accomplished, the Republicans would use it to claim that we have to cut spending.

That deal dumped $900 billion onto the federal debt. And now we're paying for it by cutting LIHEAP by $2.5 billion.

[spanone]

15. it is so damned amazing that few are pointing this out.

congress just voted to add hundreds of millions to the deficit, then claim 'we're broke'

[BlueCheese]

17. Yes, except I think you mean billions, not millions.

Unfortunately.

[State the Obvious]

16. And let's ask every ranting Republican .....what did YOU do....

....to curtail the Bush administration from running up this deficit? Specifically, what did YOU do to stop their careless (and in some cases, "off the books") spending?

Obviously nothing. :crazy: If you had done something.....we woudn't be in this mess!:mad:

[BobbyBoring]

18. Racism is alive and well in America

I wish i could think of something more clever, but what else can explain this "New Awareness" on not just the deficit, but every problem we have had in this country since the Supreme Court installed Jr. in the White House.

Did we have an immigration problem before Obama was sworn in?

Did we have a massive trade imbalance?

Did we have a massive loss of our freedom??

I could go on and on but you get the point.

I honestly have to wonder if this shit would be going on if Hillary was POTUS?

[saras]

19. So why can't the Dems figure out that letting corporations run the media isn't in their interest?

[Enthusiast]

20. There really is a "Starve the Beast"

strategy.

Deficits do matter, but only when there is a Democratic administration.

[malaise]

21. ReTHUGS use public policy

to further their election agenda and most of M$Greedia do their bidding.
Fuck them - every chart shows which party has run up the deficit.