2007-12-02 11:39:35 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Bush has always used other peoples money for his big ideas, from him digging dry holes in Texas, to bankrupted our treasury to pay for a war of choice, to giving all his wealthy contributors tax breaks. To those that say it was a jointed effort with Congress they are right, but for the first 5 years he had a lap dog congress that gave him a rubber stamp, to the last year where you have a Dem Congress that is so cowered by Bush with fear he will label them soft of terrorism, so they too give Bush his way
2007-12-02 11:46:11 · answer #1 · answered by jean 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I believe that the following is how the world should celebrate once this serpent slithers out of office in the very near future:
It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shows, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.
And yes, the facts state that Bush took a record SURPLUS and turned it into a record DEFICIT.
2007-12-02 11:43:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋
What surplus?????
When President Clinton left office, the Natiopnal Debt increased by $900,000,000.00.
If you had more money than you needed in a given period of time, (a surplus), why would you borrow more money?
The National debt still stood at near $6 trillion. Is that near bankruptcy? No one complained about that.
Not to belittle our standing debt at $9 trillion.
It's been growing since George Washington left office, with a debt of $75,000.00.
The most ever paid on our debt was when President Truman was in office.
The treasury now takes in about $3 trillion per year from all sources.
2007-12-02 11:53:18 · answer #3 · answered by ed 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Res Ipsa Loquitur
If not Bush and his rubber stamp congress of 2001-2007, then who else made the surplus vanish, begin record deficits, and stack the debt up to $9,000,000,000,000?
Wasn't me, and the Democrats were the minority party.
2007-12-02 11:52:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
holeeycow is correct. The Republican President, Rep Senate and Rep House spent the trillions in surplus, not just Bush.
Hopefully we can get the Dems incharge as they are the only ones to balance a budget in my lifetime. Eisenhower was the last Rep to do it (I think he balanced one)
BTW Bush didn't veto a single Rep spending bill so he's responsible.
Edit; Sorry, Nixon did balance a budget 40 years ago.
2007-12-02 11:45:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
We knew that it was doing to happen. It was just a matter of time. Don't get me wrong. I'm an ex USMC. I support troops. I just think we need to take care of home first. Bush is in his last year and nothing to lose.
2007-12-02 11:44:39 · answer #6 · answered by brown sugar 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
You're not for one second trying to suggest that the deficit hasn't sky rocketed during the Bush administration, are you?
2007-12-02 11:43:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Yep, he's the tax and spend Republican, so much for democrats wasting money, he's proven Republicans can and do waste US taxpayers money faster, better, and with long lasting results.
2007-12-02 18:54:46 · answer #8 · answered by edith clarke 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
na, losing millions off the back of trucks in Iraq really isn't considered spending it.
But he did allow it to be lost and swindled out of the treasurey by Haliburton.
2007-12-02 11:59:17 · answer #9 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, we're nine trillion dollars in debt and it increases 1.49 billion dollars per day. Yes, we're broke.
2007-12-02 11:46:47 · answer #10 · answered by Zardoz 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋