President: Deficit will be cut in half in five years

[Kablooie]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Monday he will submit a federal budget that will half the deficit in five years and maintain strict spending discipline.

"We will submit a budget that fits the times. It will provide every tool and resource to the military, will protect the homeland, and meet other priorities of the government," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/20/bush.ap/index.html

[Kablooie]

1. He's following his plan like clockwork.

This is just what I predicted. VaginalHair deliberately let the budget get out of control so he can use it as an excuse to eliminate all government social programs. Welcome to the soup line folks!

[davhill]

24. No, There will be no money for soup either NT

[genieroze]

54. No soup for you!

* the soup Nazi has spoken. eom

[MSgt213]

30. Terrorist might use the soup lines so we won't have any that

[ogradda]

40. bye bye social programs.

well at least he got his yacht.

[Starfury]

2. Bet it neglects making his tax cuts permanent... n/t

[salin]

51. Exactly! All of the projections that show halving the deficit,

which by the way is still LARGER than the previous record deficits, are based on the "tax cuts" sunsetting. There are NO projections that show a reduction of deficits if his tax cuts are permanent.

[tavalon]

3. And the money for that

will be pulled out of his a**? Just wondering.

[The Zanti Regent]

35. The PRESIDENTIAL PRAYER TEAM™ will come to the rescue

Watch the mighty PRAYER WARRIORS™ in action as Jesus intervenes to cut the deficit!

[devinsgram]

46. Haven't you got the memo,

He doesn't need God anymore the election is over, the fundies fell for it.

[tavalon]

75. Lol

Too true. Bring in the Christofascists!

[theorist]

4. So does this mean an end to the missile defense shield? Yay!

I kill me! :puke:

[girl gone mad]

7. "will provide every tool and resource to the military."

No Defense Contractor Left Behind.

[tavalon]

9. Oh that's not true!

It's Leave no Halliburton Executive behind. Sarcasm off......

I remember a long time ago before it was common knowledge that Halliburton was a paid subsidiary of this current administration, Letterman made a comment directed to shrubby to the effect that when he wrote out the $87 billion dollar check (see how long ago this was?) to remember that Halliburton is spelled with two L's. I nearly fell off my chair laughing. Not laughing now, though.

Edit: addendum: Maybe I have that backwards. Maybe it's that this administration is a paid subsidiary of Halliburton. Hmmmmmm.

[genieroze]

56. Police State, here we come. eom

[saigon68]

5. There is a bridge for sale in Brooklyn

[Swamp Rat]

10. DAMN! I was just going to post that!

[freedom_to_read]

61. if you don't want the bridge, I've got some great Florida real estate...

... 10 acres, at low tide.

[Kablooie]

6. Elimination of social services ensures the survival of the fattest.

[Megahurtz]

76. LOL!!!

:D

[tinrobot]

8. Keep Defense, Cut Social Programs

Goes without saying...

[anitar1]

11. Maybe the churches will take care of all the need! nt

[0007]

26. That's part of the plan. The church buddies with state!

[El Biggo Doggo]

18. so bad people will get richer and good people will suffer

[mutius]

33. Social Programs

for the disabled and poor will be gone. these bastards will be sitting at the inaugural eating $250,000 a plate dinners for his campaign funding. cut the deficit in half in five years, will he still be in office. or will his brother cheat to get in next. our country is dying.

[talk hard]

12. Keeping in mind he can't count.

Bush is such an epic turd. Really, he is an idiot boy-king.
He is so retarded I doubt he even knows that the Republicans stole the election for him AGAIN.

[JohnnyRingo]

13. A five year plan for a four year term

It won't be hard to blame his successor for the failure.

[mulethree]

79. 5% + 5% + 5% + 5% + 30% = half n/t

[WMliberal]

14. okay

he's really starting to sound like that Iraqi information minister from before the war. I forget his name.

[KT2000]

27. Chemical Ali? n/t

[WMliberal]

66. found him. I stopped being lazy and Googled it

Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf.

[Turbineguy]

42. Comical Ali

[Mokito]

50. Yup...Comical Ali

[SKKY]

15. I'd like to hear just how he plans on doing this...

...it'll probably sound a lot like his "dissertation" on tribal sovereignty in the 21st Century.

[Lostnote03]

16. And How Many New Jobs Were Promised Before?

...Geeeesh...This Guy is will be forcing me to learn a new language shortly....

[FM Arouet666]

17. And the check is in the mail, etc etc....... More lies

[zann725]

83. It won't be...if it's a Social Security or SSDI check.

Elderly and Disabled are going be waiting forever for that now.

So sorry, the Emperor needs new 'clothes.'

[Pachamama]

19. L-I-A-R! L-I-A-R! L-I-A-R! L-I-A-R!

That's all I could think of saying after reading that statement...

Gawd, he is so full of shit.... :freak:

[Skittles]

21. he IS a f***ing liar

sick f*** too

[neweurope]

20. Isn't it unusual that he speaks of five years and not four?

They are beginning to sound as if they really mean to be staying here for good...

[flordehinojos]

23. that is exactly what i thought when I read the bit about "five years".

Plus .... bush's budget is just as delusional as bush himself is.

[salin]

52. That is because that is when some of the tax cuts phase out

every analysis has shown that his "halving the deficit" is based upon the phase out of his tax cuts.

[neweurope]

53. Ah. Thank you for explaining :)

[salin]

55. no problem, there was a lot of discussion about this fact

in the spring and early summer - even picked up in the media (a little)... never could figure out why this wasn't pushed by dems and Kerry - I think the analysis which indicated this little fact was done by the nonpartisan congressional budget office.

The choice of "five" years is VERY intentional. And there bush was on the campaign trail touting this "halving of the deficit" while simultaneously trying to bully to get his tax cuts made permanent... which drove me nuts as one item totally nullifies the other.

[genieroze]

57. There goes the 22nd Amendment. eom

[shanti]

68. and why shouldn't they?

they've got the voting machines in their pockets now, with a mostly silent and compliant population.

we are royally #^*))*(&*^!!!!

[mtnester]

22. In other news, observers across the country report a rash of

flying pigs. So far, this phenomenon is unexplained.

[LynnTheDem]

25. bush is so funny! GREAT JOKE, bush! I laughed my ass off!

"a budget that fits the times" is especially hilarious! YOUR times, bush! YOUR spending of our surplus into a record deficit!

I bet the increased number of starving & homeless Americans are really laughing their asses off at bush's funny joke!

[Paleocon]

28. Fire up the printing presses Alan!

If we print twice as much money the deificit will be half the size! :think:

Yipppeeeee..... No, there's no inflation....

[Demeter]

29. The Saddest Part of All is that Army Parents are Having Bake Sales

to buy armor for their children in uniform...

Remember that bumper sticker about having all the money we needed for social programs, and the Army needing a bake sale to buy a bomber? Well, we're half there....

[zann725]

84. Yeah, remember in Shrub's Thanksgiving speech...

when he told everyone to "think of those less fortunate....to help out that Military family down the street."

That's exactly what he meant. He wants US to PERSONALLY fill-in for not only what the Military is not getting in way of supplies...but ALSO to pick-up the "social programs" who characteristically help out the "less fortunate." By soon cutting SS & SSDI & Medicare/Medical as well, he will either give the "unfortunate" Disabled and Elderly the option of moving in with family, and expecting family to support them for life: OR expects total strangers to give them hand-outs on the street corner; OR if the "less fortunate" can do neither...in the words of Charles Dickens:

"If they're gonna die, do it now...and decrease the World's surplus population."

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

31. Might as well put up the "Mission Accomplished" banner now!

[KingChicken]

32. Systematic and deliberate attempt to destroy secular institutions.

By starving public programs and shifting power to his own base including the religious upper middle class and higher classes, the idiot in effect has attempted to destroy the foundation of secular, public offerings in American society.

No soup line folks, don't submit, fight back by sucking every last dime you can, money is power, fight the machine with the only thing it understands. Don't let these money whores bankrupt you, protect your finances, protect your values, and protect your home.

[gavodotcom]

34. "And to accomplish my goal, I will need to double the deficit next year.."

[Massachusetts]

36. Sad Truth

The sad truth is the number of moronic Americans who are just getting by, that will take this propoganda hook, line and sinker.:wtf:

How the frig are we going to get OUR country back?

[Historic NY]

37. Ah can you say bullsh-t, all he is going to do is dump it on the next ...

guy. I don't believe with his wild eyed spending that any progress will be made unless of course he cuts all programs and wiggles out repaying SS.

[Triana]

38. f*ck the priorities of the gov't...

...the priorities of THE PEOPLE are what they're supposed to be working on.

Typical Repigs. Spend $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ on military and war and NOTHING else.

The poor and unemmployed? LET THEM EAT JESUS.

[GOPBasher]

39. So pathetic... The budget should be BALANCED.

Wow! We're going to keep adding to the debt, but we're going to do it at a slower pace! Woohoo! That's like me telling my wife, "I'm going to keep buying things with credit cards, but just not quite as much." Our debt will continue rising, but it will be at a slower pace! Wonderful. And how is he going to even accomplish that incredibly modest goal? Cut all social programs?

His tax cuts have killed our fiscal situation.

[HeeBGBz]

41. Yah, when monkeys fly outa my butt

No way. Sell that to the fundies. They'll believe anything.

[Solly Mack]

43. Yeah? And he's stealing this money from?

[Tripmann]

45. ..he's stealing it from Iraq

Black gold, texas tea.

[ProfessorGAC]

44. Most Fundamental Problem Is. . .

. . .that this presumes that 5 years of $200 billion plus deficits are ok. The deficit exceed $450 billion, so over five years, if the goal is $225 billion, that leaves an average deficit for 5 years of $337.5 billion. That adds nearly $1.9 TRILLION to the debt!

And this is considered good fiscal policy that would be touted as progress in a press conference?

What a dumbass!
The Professor

[Deja Q]

47. Didn't he say 'five years' something like TWO YEARS ago?

Uh, I'll believe it when I see it. Not the other way around, which is typically the the mindset of a blind fool who needs to be on antipsychotic drugs.

[barb162]

48. Shrub is beyond clueless.

[leesa]

49. And we will get absolutely no services for our taxes at all.

It's the Republican dream world.

[genieroze]

58. Living in NJ, I lose money for every fed tax $ I spend. eom.

[DFWJock]

59. Deficit will be cut in half in five years....

Tax cuts will create 6 million new jobs
Troops will be welcomed with flowers
Hes against nation building
He'll have a humble foreign policy

I could go on and on.....

[lonestarnot]

60. Yeah on our backs...More evidence of class warfare!

He is so ignorant I am waiting to see what unfolds. Medicare and Social Security first to go, but weren't students actually the first to get slammed. Yeah, they were. My property tax has gone up 11% in the past two years! TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION! I AM OUTRAGED AT HIS TACTICS!

[warrens]

62. Yeah, right, Smirking Sociopath

Well, nearly 60 million people voted for the asshole, I hope they choke on their vote.

[PurityOfEssence]

63. Even with half the deficit, the DEBT still grows

Every time deficit reduction is discussed, most people think we're talking about getting rid of the national debt, when in fact, even with this idiot rose-colored glasses scenario, the debt just grows and grows, even if such a mark is met.

And of course, as we all know, social programs, the environment, and all sorts of regulations will be scrapped. I hope he calls for more tax cuts for the wealthy; he needs to be seen as the reckless, stupid greedhead he is.

[truthisfreedom]

64. BWAH-HAH! damn, i just horked orange juice out my nose. bush is

just setting himself up now so his critics can chop him down for the next 4 years. he's a loser, he's always been a loser, and he CAN'T CHEAT HIS WAY TO HALVING THE DEFICIT. it's just another damned lie.

[shawn703]

65. Grow up George, nobody buys your BS anymore

You're going to cut the deficit in half in five years, continue funding the War on Terra, reform Social Security and all this other crap you say you're going to do? Do the math, bonehead.

[texpatriot2004]

67. Is that how long it will take him to draw a picture of the deficit and

cut it in half? You know with his giant crayons and little scissors.

[VegasWolf]

69. Those big plastic scissors they let him use cut really slow! n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

70. This is just crazy talk!

The man is totally out to lunch. When will someone in the press call him on this stupidity. It's outrageous that he can stand up there and say something this far fetched and get away with it. It's one thing if Rush spews out this kind of blatant lie but Bush shouldn't be allowed to get away with it.

[MGKrebs]

71. Well, it's got numbers, so it must be a budget.

And his "budget man" said sumpthin about 'half'. Good enough for me.

[olddad56]

72. If he said he will cut it in half, that means it will double.

[Inland]

73. Plan to halve deficit in five years is now three years old

Remember the funny sign: "free beer tomorrow"? And of course, it isn't tomorrow yet, is it? Bush has been telling us that the budget deficit will halved in five years since 2002: but he didn't say WHICH five years he was speaking of. What a dick.

Like Bush I, Bush II simply lies about balanced budgets happening due to some impossible "discipline" occuring in what is the distant future. When Bush II leaves office, there will still be a plan to half the deficits in five years in place.

[whosinpower]

74. Everything for the military, everything for

The militaristic industrial complex and their corporate cronies....and diddly squat for the average American. Education, social security and medicare....will all be gonzo.

[Kablooie]

77. You got it!

A nation split between the the starving poor and extravagant rich that focusses all it's resources on militarily controlling the rest of the world.

AMERIKA! GOD SHINES HIS LIGHT ON THEE!

[madbelgiancow]

78. as will the planet

[indepat]

80. Pigs are more likely to be flying in five years IMHO

[roguevalley]

81. on the backs of the least of us.

[zann725]

82. And that money will come from where? Social Security/Medicare Trust fund?

No doubt about that. With a war in Iran just down the road.

Does he even know what "strict spending discipline" means? Right...that new Presidential Yacht! And the Guardsmen who will NOT receive full benefits, including meds...and pay (some have been waiting since June?!).