Dog bites man?
There's an old saying in the news business: dog bites man is not a story, but man bites dog is. One interpretation is that a reporter, not finding news, should find a way to make news.
The budget deficit was totally out of control from 1981 through 1993. Even lifelong Republicans look at the facts of the graph and admit that it's actually the Democratic party that is the party of fiscal responsibility. It was nothing short of an economic miracle that a single presidential administration was not only able to fix the problem, but actually lead this country to make more money than it spent. Of course, that all came crashing down with dubya's appointment to President by the Supreme Court. Government spending has skyrocketed to new heights under his "big government", "big spending" and "welfare for big corporations and the rich" economic policies.
With nothing but bad economic news and an election coming, how can you turn it into good news? Improving the economy, reducing government spending and ending welfare for the rich would be too obvious, dubya needs something sneakier. Once again, this is fact, as screwed up as it sounds.
In February of this year, Bush announced that he would spend so much of our money that he's going to borrow $423 BILLION in our names (yes, we will have to pay back foreign governments for his reckless spending) to fuel his runaway spending. Today he announced that he's merely going to borrow $296 BILLION (again, that we'll have to pay back) this year. The White House is touting this as progress. Really - they just predicted an insanely high number, but in reality still are overspending by massive amounts, and they're declaring victory.
Uh George, saying you're going to screw up to a massive degree, and then actually screwing up to merely an XXXL degree is not a success. Try spending less than you take in. We're tired of mortgaging our children's futures to fuel your runaway, big-government, unchecked, deficit spending.
(political cartoon credit to Tony Auth and Stuart Carlson)
The budget deficit was totally out of control from 1981 through 1993. Even lifelong Republicans look at the facts of the graph and admit that it's actually the Democratic party that is the party of fiscal responsibility. It was nothing short of an economic miracle that a single presidential administration was not only able to fix the problem, but actually lead this country to make more money than it spent. Of course, that all came crashing down with dubya's appointment to President by the Supreme Court. Government spending has skyrocketed to new heights under his "big government", "big spending" and "welfare for big corporations and the rich" economic policies.With nothing but bad economic news and an election coming, how can you turn it into good news? Improving the economy, reducing government spending and ending welfare for the rich would be too obvious, dubya needs something sneakier. Once again, this is fact, as screwed up as it sounds.
In February of this year, Bush announced that he would spend so much of our money that he's going to borrow $423 BILLION in our names (yes, we will have to pay back foreign governments for his reckless spending) to fuel his runaway spending. Today he announced that he's merely going to borrow $296 BILLION (again, that we'll have to pay back) this year. The White House is touting this as progress. Really - they just predicted an insanely high number, but in reality still are overspending by massive amounts, and they're declaring victory.
Uh George, saying you're going to screw up to a massive degree, and then actually screwing up to merely an XXXL degree is not a success. Try spending less than you take in. We're tired of mortgaging our children's futures to fuel your runaway, big-government, unchecked, deficit spending.(political cartoon credit to Tony Auth and Stuart Carlson)
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