Is it dishonest for the president to exclude war costs in Iraq from his fiscal budget?

Question

He stopped including war costs in his fiscal budget to claim defecits were going down. Not only did they go down when he stopped including the costs of the war in Iraq, but they went down further as he dipped into the social security trust fund to pay for tax cuts.

Here is a press release from 12/21/06 where Republican Senator Judd Gregg (current chairmen of the CBO) and others, ask Bush to be up front about the costs of war in Iraq. And this is off the Republican portion of the official CBO website.

http://www.budget.senate.gov/republican/pressarchive/2006-12-21warcostsconradgreggspratt.pdf

Answer 1

If the actual cost of Georgies war was on-budget the tax cuts would appear even more insane than they already do.

Answer 2

He is being absolutely dishonest in excluding anything at all from the Federal Budget. He is also being very dishonest about including any part of the Social Security Budget into the Federal Budget because SS is NOT funded from general fund taxes. It is funded solely from specific premiums withheld from income for the specific purpose of funding SS & Medicare.

Answer 3

Dishonesty, from Bush? I'm shocked. He has to try to convince us his rosy perception of things is true. How else but to lie?

Answer 4

If you're George W. Bush nothing you say is dishonest!!!

Answer 5

Yep. And we will not notice global warming if we stay in the air conditioning. HA!

Answer 6

The USA is the most dishonest nation on the planet....F..the USA

Answer 7

And the deficit gets bigger and bigger....

Answer 8

no