What the hell is "paygo?"

[MallRat]

:shrug:

[bullimiami]

1. i think he meant faygo. you know the diet soda.

he just got confused.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. The new board game by Milton Bradley

any DU artists care to take that one on?

Or how about a Bushopoly board?

[AmerDem]

21. LOL

ya know that is what first came to my mind. shrub's delusional board game.

[alexisfree]

25. lol very good!!

i have send it to my friends at work.. thank you

[liberal N proud]

3. Pay as you GO?

[LuminousX]

4. Pay As You Go

Don't propose spending without giving it funding.

[TwilightZone]

5. The moron (Bush) meant "pay as you go".

Justify your spending programs by explaining how they are going to be paid for.

In other words, the exact opposite of what Bush does.

[soothsayer]

9. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt that paygo was insider speak

for pay as you go. he was trying to show off to kerry that he'd heard of it and was throwing around the slang name for it.

[TwilightZone]

17. I honestly think he just screwed it up.

I don't give him much credit for cleverness.

[soothsayer]

23. It's an official acronym (according to another post on DU)

[Kierkegaard]

6. It's half of a city in American Samoa...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. It's an island in American Samoa

Pago Pago

[cheezus]

8. pay as you go

or Pay As You Go

I seem to remember someone saying that late last night

[leftofthedial]

10. you have to put a quarter in the slot

before the stall door will open

[BUSHOUT]

11. Kerry LOL after Bush said it three times in a row!!!!

Man, that was funny. Paygo...whew!

And then later on in the debate Kerry said "pay as you go" again.

[Supersedeas]

26. lots of phony laughs during the debate - but Kerry was truly tickled then

[omnithrope]

12. This is a term that's used often in politics, though...

It's not just "out of the blue" or "stupidity" - he's just using a term for "pay as you go" that most americans haven't heard.

For example:
http://www.c-span.org/guide/congress/glossary/paygo.htm

[Zero Gravitas]

13. Pay As You GO

http://www.c-span.org/guide/congress/glossary/paygo.htm

P.A.Y.GO
Paygo.

[papau]

14. Any expense item in a bill must be matched to a revenue item to pay for

it, if it is new - meaning not in the original budget bill.

So you want a new program, you must put in the bill the killing of an old program to save the same amount of expense, or a new tax/fee/better enforcement that will pick up new monies to pay the new expense.

[amber dog democrat]

15. its an island in the Pacific

or one of my favorite dormant comic strips.

[PresidentErnestTBass]

16. It tastes good with spaghetti and lasagna

Or is that Prego?

[not systems]

18. Could be Pengo...

[LibDemAlways]

19. Whoever was feeding chimp

his lines shortened "pay as you go" to "paygo" never suspecting the chimp was so dumb he wouldn't reinsert "as you" when he spit it out.
It was clear the chimp had no idea what he was talking about.

[ET Awful]

20. It's a cheap knock-off imitation of Play-Do :)

Kind of like the cheap electronic crap products that say SUNY in the same lettering style as SONY.

[Unstuck In Time]

22. I think he meant....

Play-Doh!

[nostamj]

24. PAYGO... the song!

PAYGO (The Banana Boy Song)