“Bill Clinton, the last “tax and spend” Democratic president, and the last to spend his entire tenure in office facing allegations of “illegitimacy” by those who can’t seem to play nice with the other children in the sandbox, left office handing his successor, a $230 billion annual budget surplus, a gift George W. Bush turned into a record deficit of $374 billion in only three years, then another record of $413 billion just a year later thanks in large part to tax cuts aimed mostly at the wealthiest Americans, proposed by Bush and ratified by a Republican Congress. This despite the economic downturn the country was facing after the 9/11 attacks and despite warnings from every responsible economist in the country.”

And this year’s deficit is 1.4 trillion dollars and next years is 1.6 trillion, and it gets higher as far as the eye can see. YOURE AN IDIOT!

Gania Tail

Do you know what the Bush deficits would look like had the Iraq and Afghanistan War emergency supplementals were included in the budget deficits? Bush’s Fiscal Year deficits look much smaller than they truely were because the emergency war funding supplementals went straight to the national debt. Obama on the other hand is up front about the cost of the wars and asks for the proper funding in his proposed budget which partially explains the rocketing deficit.

If you are straight up denying that George W. Bush’s reckless spending on tax cuts and wars has nothing to do with our current budget deficits and national debt then you are the idiot.

For all the complaining you filthy Republicans do about the stimulus which rings in at $787 billion you never seem to mention the fact that the George W. Bush tax cuts that only benefited wealthy Americans were scored by CBO at $700 billion. The stimulus on the other hand has saved innumerable civic jobs (teachers, firefighter, cops) and aims to benefits all Americans by improving our transportation infrastructure. Sounds way better than lining the pockets of the wealthy with tax cuts.

YES, GOVERNMENT JOBS! NOW THAT’S ECONOMIC STIMULUS.

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/

DEFICIT NUMBERS INCLUDING WAR TOTALS!

This article seems to be less about Peg Luksik and more about bitter Tammy over the Bush era. If you want to write an article about how much you hate Bush, then do so. Don’t bring Peg Luksik into your rant. Peg Luksik does not equal George Bush.

“And in a civilized society, we look out for each other, we care about our neighbors and our fellow citizens, especially when they are going through difficult times.” Of course! I couldn’t agree more. However, privately. Don’t tax me for it. Google “Not Yours To Give” –Col. Davey Crockett. Enlighten yourself.

And of course Bush was a horrible President. He screwed us with the large deficit: the two wars and the tax cuts, etc, etc. And Obama will follow in his footsteps. Obama screwed us with his MANDATED healthcare plan, his stimulus package: which stimulated the government, not the private sector (which, by the way, is the sector that creates wealth), and his prolonging with the wars.

If you can’t see that the left = the right at this point, then you seriously need “psychological help”, as Tammy would have so eloquently put it. Bush put us into a deep debt, and Obama will put us into a deeper debt. Same sh*t, different a**hole.

So put down the granola bar, Tammy. Take off your Birkenstocks. And step into reality.

Peace & Love,

Wesley Snipes’ trial had nothing at all to do with taxes being constitutional. He tried to renounce his American citizenship and claim he was a citizen of another country and should pay taxes there, not in the US. This “Tammy Alonso” person needs to check her resources before writing such amateurish crap.

Loved your post Tammy. Thank you for this fearless take on the GOP spin machine!

“Let’s start with the fact that, in the real world, you have to pay for the things that you want, they don’t come free.”
Then why are we trying to give away healthcare for free – which will drive up premium costs and result in MORE unemployment?

“And in a civilized society, we look out for each other, we care about our neighbors and our fellow citizens, especially when they are going through difficult times. “Conservatives” seem incapable of wrapping their heads around both of these concepts. ”

Liberals seem to be incapable of wrapping their heads around the concept that charity can occur outside government – and in a much more efficient manner. Think the Red Cross vs. FEMA or World Vision vs. The Peace Corp. If anyone feels passionate about a cause, they should give their money to it, volunteer for it, or start a non-profit of their own. But don’t surrender your freedom and money to the government, who will waste your dollars on highly-paid bureaucrats who channel your money to businesses owned by their friends and family (be they liberals OR conservatives).

This nation has forgotten the roots of charity: first family, then friends, then the church, then other non-profits. At the start of this nation, “public works” (aka charities) were understood to be unconstitutional. Because this understanding was abandoned, the Confederacy’s constitution specifically banned public works (because they saw so much weaseling around the “general welfare” clause).

The problem is that people have abandoned the church and the same people who scream for separation of church and state demand that the state perform all the former charity provided by the church – in effect merging church and state in a new worship of government.

Wake up liberals: charity through the government wastes money. If you want to help people, form and use non-profits.

Alonso’s is a typical Obamaphillic response:
“Spending is OK for Obama because Bush spent a lot.”

It’s amazing that all the sudden Bush is used as a model for the level of spending by libs. They can’t justify the obamanable executive’s insane level of spending on its own grounds, so they revert to saying that it’s ok because Bush spent a lot. And now they say the war in Afghanistan is OK because the Iraq war happened? BORING UNORIGINAL ARTICLE. Every Obamaphile is saying these same things.

PS: If anyone is woefully uninformed, it is Alonso because she doesn’t understand that profligate spending will lead to FUTURE tax hikes either thru bona fide tax rates or thru the inflation tax. The US govt. will have to pay the interest somehow. But taxes aren’t the only issue. The Obaman Komissariat wants to put Lady Liberty to death and to give big govt. and big business dominion over all.

“And as a reminder to the woefully uninformed “Tea Partying” crowd: Not only did American’s taxes NOT rise last year, but shortly after Obama took office, the Democratically-controlled Congress cut individual federal taxes for this year by about $173 billion, meaning Americans are actually paying lower taxes this time around, something Tea Partiers would be aware of if they actually looked at those 1040 forms they sign.”

Hmmm…..
Enlighten us some more and tell us exactly what our federal income taxes pay for. I’d love to see a breakdown of how our federal income tax is appropriated to help our fellow citizens.
Maybe Tim Geithner could help you with that info. He obviously doesn’t look at a 1040 form either, but maybe he could explain where the money is appropriated to.