Lies, damned lies, and Republican budgets
February 4, 2008
George Bush last week:
Just as we trust Americans with their own money, we need to earn their trust by spending their tax dollars wisely. Next week, I’ll send you a budget that terminates or substantially reduces 151 wasteful or bloated programs, totaling more than $18 billion. The budget that I will submit will keep America on track for a surplus in 2012. American families have to balance their budgets; so should their government.
George Bush this week (”Bush Unveils $3.1 Trillion Spending Plan“):
The Pentagon’s proposed budget, for instance, is $515.4 billion, meaning that military spending would be the highest in inflation-adjusted terms since World War II. And the White House’s plans for trimming Medicare and Medicaid have also been previewed. […]
Mr. Bush’s proposed budget, the first in the nation’s history to exceed $3 trillion, foresees near-record deficits just ahead — $410 billion in the current fiscal year, on spending of $2.9 trillion, and $407 billion for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 […]
As a share of the economy, federal debt held by the public is expected to reach 39 percent of the gross domestic product in 2009, up from 33 percent in 2001.
The party of fiscal responsibility. They say so themselves.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Don’t forget that they are the morally superior party and are proud of their warmongering, they stump on cutting of programs to help the poor and suffering, and support the death penalty.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
President Bush isn’t a true conservative as proof the bloated budget he is putting out there. The Republicans as a whole need to get back to their conservative roots McCain and Huckabee won’t do that the only one running that is left that I think will do that is Romney.