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- catalysis, on 11/13/2009, -19/+137"He must lower taxes on everyone."
Reagan tried this and it failed. In fact, he increased the deficit more than any president before him. Buried for freeper revisionism. - GraveyBrains, on 11/13/2009, -22/+137Buried for: "He must lower taxes on everyone."
Yeah, that'll help the deficit - Insightful, on 11/13/2009, -32/+112Let's see, Republicans make a huge ***** mess within the country and in the Middle East. People elected Democrats in 2006 and 2008 to clean up the mess. Republicans are now complaining about the bill for cleaning up the mess they either created or ignored.
I know children more mature than today's Republicans. - veganpa, on 11/13/2009, -26/+103A spending binge, like trillions of dollars for wars? Trillions of dollars for tax cuts for millionaires? $700 billion for their pals on Wall Street? Turning a record surplus into record deficits?
Oh, wait. That was Bush. Obama is trying to save us from the Great Depression II. But I guess to the mouth-breathers here, history only started past January. - dalittle, on 11/13/2009, -23/+61If Obama does the exact opposite of what he is doing he will be doing what Bush did. Everyone knows how well that turned out.
- manlyandy, on 11/13/2009, -31/+69_________________________________
Bury above this line. - StaticThunder, on 11/13/2009, -16/+50Spare me the uninformed tagline bloviating.
- Snoogs, on 11/13/2009, -17/+51Hopefully, now that the rest of the world doesn't completely despise America, we won't have to spend $1T on Military "defense". I'm sure we can cut into that to fund things like helping our own citizens state-side.
Half of the entire world's military spending is from USA. - andrewh7, on 11/13/2009, -18/+52Get this neocon horse ***** off digg. The preexisting budget deficit from Bush was 1.2 trillion. Where were these fiscal conservatives during the last eight years?
- Crimeodial, on 11/13/2009, -10/+39Yeah, how the hell would that help pay for anything? Reagan proved trickle down doesn't work.
- Robjayne, on 11/13/2009, -5/+33That horse left 50 years ago.
- nikedude, on 11/13/2009, -22/+49Front page in 29 diggs?
- milkmit, on 11/13/2009, -12/+38That's ***** up and totally unfair. Children are far more mature.
- lantza, on 11/13/2009, -12/+38Do you have any idea how much the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost?
- hascat, on 11/13/2009, -1/+26bush was quite spend-happy, himself.
- StaticThunder, on 11/13/2009, -8/+29The only recession as bad as this one was the Great Depression. I don't think Reagan presided over that one. And taxes during the first two years of Reagan's presidency were HIGHER.
Like the man said, FREEPER REVISIONISM. - InfidelAdam, on 11/13/2009, -13/+34Let's see:
Government gets money from taxes.
Government needs money for its debt.
Solution: Lower taxes.
That's some redneck ***** logic. Maybe politics just isn't the right thing for you guys. Go back to NASCAR. - dalittle, on 11/13/2009, -9/+30it is just a bunch of conservatives that are not happy that all their policies failed under Bush and Obama is now having to clean it up. They would be better severed to just complain they are no longer governing.
- Chunken, on 11/13/2009, -12/+32People keep whining about how much health care will cost but they're ignoring all the savings that it's going to create. Over time it's going to pay for its self. That's right, it's going to cost a little bit at first but it's actually going to save money. Think of it as an investment where you save money over time and a lot less people die. If that doesn't sound good to you then get the hell out of my country. It's supposed to be government of the people, by the people, for the people. Not government of the people, by the people, for the profits of the insurance industry.
- citizenme, on 11/13/2009, -6/+26All legislation now is pay as you go. The deficit inherited is 1.2 trillion plus interest, finally including the wars that Bush neglected to claim towards the deficit. This number will be greatly reduced when we are out of Iraq, and when Bush's tax cuts expire next year.
2009 was the year of fixing the financial crisis. I think a plan for 2010 is not only responsible, but the same thing I would've done. At least you recognize that Bush had a spending problem, now we collectively have to do something to fix it, Bush never even tried. Cheney said that a deficit is a good thing.
Do you think for a second our president wanted to waste any political capitol, and money, to fix these problems. It's been lost on the american people, thanks to the corporate media, that health care, and cap and trade are already part of the pre-approved budget that the government spends every year, but rather than on planes we don't need, or abstinence only education, they are being spend on these things. No one is printing money, like bush did for eight years.
We are all in this together like it or not. - Insightful, on 11/13/2009, -7/+25Bush also proved that trickle down did not work either with his tax cuts. That's 0 for 2, Republicans.
- s73v3r, on 11/13/2009, -7/+25How is it irrelevant? Its money that was spent by a President, and that increased the national debt. If anything, I'd say its even more relevant, cause Bush kept trying to pay for the war out of "Emergency Funding" bills, instead of putting the costs of the war on the actual military budget.
- Ecaf, on 11/13/2009, -14/+31Stop focusing on the previous administration (it sucked, we all know that) and start focusing on how doubling the national debt in the next 8-10 years will screw of the new 4 generations.
Saying "Yeah Im bad, but so was the guy before me" doesn't cut it.... - kenninator, on 11/13/2009, -29/+45What the hell is this? Get off my digg.
- JumboJ3t, on 11/13/2009, -25/+41Wow, they'll let pretty much anyone write a retarded tagline for a political story these days, won't they?
buried for a futtbucking stupid description. - EvilJelloMan, on 11/13/2009, -9/+23What you are seeing is not "digg" criticizing his policies. You are seeing the coordinated efforts of a small group of freeper wingnuts, who submit an article, then simultaneously spam it with their idiotic interpretations of reality, while digging it up.
It's a predictable cycle - one of these articles will go front page with 20 or so anti-obama comments, each of them with 20 or so diggs (shocker there right?), then once it hits front page and the actual majority of users on digg sees it, those comments will get buried so deep republicans a thousand years from now will have to argue that they were put there in a flood.
I don't agree with a whole ***** of what Obama is doing, and I voted for the guy, but these delusional freeper jackasses are so clueless it's disturbing. They completely ignore Bush's trillion dollar war and starting of the bailouts and stimulus ideas, and act like Obama is to blame for the giant ***** their "regular guy" president got us into. - CaughtThinking, on 11/13/2009, -6/+20I know, what a mistake! He should've lowered taxes and we'd be back at 4% unemployment!
You're a moron, get off my internet. - Crimeodial, on 11/13/2009, -4/+17Right, so why do they keep going back to it? Why can't they think of anything new, something that might, you know, WORK?
- uptwolait, on 11/13/2009, -5/+18Reducing any deficit can be done by reducing spending, or by increasing income. Since this administration has been spending like never before, I take it "focusing on the deficit" means increasing federal income.
Which of course comes from increased TAXES. - jj2me, on 11/13/2009, -6/+19According to the OMB, the $9T 10-year deficit breaks down as follows:
$5T: due to
- unfunded Medicare Part D that Cheney pushed through in 2003 as a giveaway to the drug companies, and
- unfunded tax cuts by Bush
$4T: due to
- stimulus
- recession (reduced tax receipts) - joculator, on 11/13/2009, -3/+16Isn't 3pm when grade school lets out?
- oboshoe, on 11/13/2009, -6/+19revenues actually increased dramatically
Problem was, spending also far more dramatically. - antoniuk, on 11/13/2009, -3/+16Thank you for putting it so succinctly perfect
- TMLF, on 11/13/2009, -12/+24Failed presidency? I don't think you realize what it means to fail. See your own comment for examples.
- OafBoaster, on 11/13/2009, -4/+16Reagan and Greenspan wiped all of the regulations out of our equities markets allowing for things like CDO's which caused the current recession. Greenspan's sitting around eating crow and Reagan's a joker with his finger on a big red button in a Genesis music video.
- hasslinthehoff, on 11/13/2009, -19/+31Because Bush spending billions on the war in Iraq, bailing out the banks by bankrupting our country and basically letting China control our debt was acceptable, but Obama trying to fix the absolute mess that Bush created is not acceptable?
I'm sorry, but most of us have not forgotten the tragedy of the Bush Administration and how it has put us in the mess you'd love to blame Obama for... it's not going to happen. - TheOneKen, on 11/13/2009, -4/+16Didn't your mom teach you that two wrongs don't make a right? A politician from one party screwing up does not give a politician from another party free reign to do the same. Lets hold them all accountable.
- ugacrew, on 11/13/2009, -1/+12He's already follow through with that promise. Look at your paycheck. He's reduced our payroll taxes for at least 95% through that. You must have missed the memo.
- Shwaavay, on 11/13/2009, -1/+12They are also responsible for the tax code, so I'm not sure what your point is.
- Landthatilove, on 11/13/2009, -15/+26"he's pretending to be a moderate now"
It fooled a lot of people in '08. - TMLF, on 11/13/2009, -10/+21He is a moderate. If he was as far left as you think, he's be pushing single-payer with the likes of Kucinich.
- dalittle, on 11/13/2009, -5/+16and interestingly all the people complaining here had no problem with Bush's spending.
- KahRahTay, on 11/13/2009, -6/+17so charlotte...i've gotta ask,
was cap and trade such a liberal idea when it was created by conservatives in the 80's as a way to let the free market regulate air pollution? or is this more of the same if the dem's are for it it has to be bad, even if it was our idea in the first place *****? i'm just asking questions here. - diptheria, on 11/13/2009, -3/+14Always amazing how many people now claim that they always hated Bush and his policies, but only turned up after Obama was elected...Not unsurprisingly, their new found revisionism hasn't made them any smarter...
- TheNik, on 11/13/2009, -1/+12Don't digg this man down. He is telling the truth - most (if not all) extremely ignorant neoconservative and "libertarian" rhetoric spouted about on Digg is the result of a blog called DiggsAndBuries and a forum/blog called FreeRepublic.
http://diggsandburies.blogspot.com
http://freerepublic.com
(From the most recent entry on the hilarious DiggsAndBuries) "Several of tonight's news articles acquired a couple hundred diggs or more - putting them squarely on the Digg front page! This is great news! In the six months that D&B has been working to promote fair political representation on Digg, we've noted a marked increase in Conservative representation. Let's keep working until the appearance of Conservative diggs becomes the rule, rather than the exception!"
They are completely ***** stupid. Every single one of them. - StaticThunder, on 11/13/2009, -11/+22Yeah, I have to do unpleasant things to fix a huge fiscal, military and national healthcare mess that was left for me, that I was put into office specifically to fix and still have a mandate for.
God forbid some ignorant digger who voted for a losing candidate 'on principle' (Ron Paul? McCain?) feel disenfranchised. - smemily, on 11/13/2009, -2/+13Buried because what the ***** kind of "summary" is that?
- TheNik, on 11/13/2009, -3/+13It's funny - they love spending trillions to kill people, but they can't even consider spending even less than that to keep our whole nation healthy. Ah, the Grand Ole Party!
- nikedude, on 11/13/2009, -1/+11but to show up that early, wouldn't it require a super high ration of diggs to burys. Seems to have slowed down since getting there. Probably solicited the first diggs
- AManWithNoName, on 11/13/2009, -8/+18For the millionth ***** time, the federal deficit is NOT the same thing as your own pocket change. It seriously blows me away that people think that lowering taxes will solve the federal deficit. No, it won't...It might help your OWN deficit, but the government itself will actually LOSE money if they lower taxes.
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