Why don't people understand the idea of fiscal responsibility?

Question

I am not sure why so many people on here are so mad at GW Bush. Sure he vetoed healthcare for kids and education funding, but we have got to quit spending money on social programs. Well, except for Medicare Part D. The only money that our govt. should spend is on the War on Terror, and China has assured our President that they have plenty of money that we can borrow.

of course I am kidding...this is the most asinine thinking I have ever seen.

Answer 1

You have GOT to be kidding. You are kidding, right??

Answer 2

Well as long as China is there to help, no worries, right? They poison their own people there (antifreeze in toothpaste, lead in toys, poison pet food too) and try to do it to us with their inferior goods...but lets spend trillions of dollars because they say they'll help! I know why you are supporting Bush though as you cannot seem to think past right now, and neither can he!
Fiscal responsibility would be to stop spending huge sums of money that our grandkids and theirs will be paying off forever to fight BS wars (On Terror (HA!), Drugs, Immigration, etc.) we CANNOT WIN against made up enemies. Why should we worry about the kids or anyone else in our country learning or being healthy when we can spend the money on wiping out a country we have no business in in the first place? It's not like Bush has any responsibility to the citizens of the US...oh wait, he's an elected official and supposed to act in our best interests and not those of his rich cronies who he's making richer as we all get poorer and more in debt while quickly eliminating the freedoms he claims to be defending.
Now if you'd said the only thing our government should be spending money on is wiping out TERRORISTS, not Iraq, I'd probably be defending your statement. I'm a Libertarian, and I don't think government should be spending money on social programs either or anything else besides direct protection of the country from attacks or to lock up murderers, rapists, and other real criminals, not drug offenders or moral criminals that hurt no one but themselves and those adults who want their services.
If only you didn't defend Bush, The War in Iraq (it's NOT a War on Terror since we didn't go after the terrorists long enough to do anything before we went after Iraq for oil! They didn't attack us on 9/11! Duh!), or thought we should rely on China, I might have agreed, but that's most of your post.
Oh well, at least you can't vote for Bush again!
P.S. I'm praying this was your idea of a joke, but I hear the same thing from people all the time who are dead serious, so I had to go with what you actually wrote, no matter what you really meant.

Answer 3

I don't think that people have a problem with fiscal responsibility, they have to answer to the government. Who is very good at squeezing the last dime we have, or might have, or could have had, or might get.
I believe that it is that same government, Mostly Congress, who has a problem with fiscal responsibility.
They believe that they are playing with Monopoly money, which never runs out, no matter how much you spend. We have a President, who has spent his share, but he pales by comparison, next to Congress, who thinks it is perfectly reasonable to spend 25 billion on a water resources bill, which the army corps of engineers told them would cost 5 billion. This is the veto which they over rode this last week.

As to China being willing to lend us vast sums of money,
What happens when we cannot pay? Are we willing to let them foreclose on our country?

Answer 4

Somewhere along the way from when this country of free men was founded and today, politicians discovered that if they can steal our money and then provide us treats with part of it we quickly forget the theft and vote to keep increasing the treats.

Has it ever occurred to you, how much of everyones financial decision making is influenced by the tax code? It is obscene how the IRS can manipulate the behavior of every income earner, investor or business with that cumbersome tax code.

So many people do not sell assets, do not make purchases, do not make investments, do not liquidate investments etc. all because of the resulting tax liability.

I long for the liberty that was America before FDR ever started this "temporary" income tax and the automatic withholding of it from our pay.

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Answer 5

Healthy kids are SO overrated. Are we (rather you) as an American, so heartless that you want money in your retirement account than to heal the sick, protect families that can't make ends meet?

If we quit spending $200Million/day on Iraq and actually had a 'plan' for disengagement, we wouldn't need to have this conversation at all.

Mr Bush needs more of fiscal prioritization than 'responsiblity'

Answer 6

GW Bush isn't being fiscally responsible. He only passes big spending bills that will insure profits for his corporate henchmen.

Bush and the blank check GOP have spent the nation into oblivion. I promise you a full blown, US devalued dollar, recession by Feb 2008.

Answer 7

People really don't have a problem with understanding fiscal responsibility they just have a problem with responsibility in the first place. As long as I get "mine" someone else will worry about "yours".

Answer 8

So, you're saying throwing more money at the "war" on terror would be fiscally responsible. How do you figure?

Answer 9

Bush increased government spending by 50%, and only objects to helping the American people. His priorities are way out of line. Bush is the most irresponsible President in history. Your avatar is well named.

Answer 10

WHAT?

who was the last president to spend over $1 trillion on ANYTHING! (war in iraq to surpass one trillion dollars)

fiscal responsibility? talk about patriotism, talk about supporting our troops all you want... but if you want me to believe that this war is a fiscally responsible thing to do.... i'm sorry, that's not happening.

Answer 11

Because Congress wants everything now, and they have shown that no matter what budget the President sends, they will find a way to add money to it.

Voters are unwilling to keep Congress accountable by keeping track of who the big spenders are, voting the big spenders out.