Phillip Swagel on CSPAN.. are you shitting me!!??

[speedoo]

This guy is trying to defend * budget. Is anyone else listening to this guy? He's so pathetic. Gene Sperling from the Clinton administration is on also.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Would this be the budget that is overwhelmingly underfunding a lot

of social programs and our schools? Can't see how it can be defended, really.

[hatrack]

2. This would also be the budget that doesn't include war costs

I believe that Katrina rebuilding money is also off-budget, but am not quite certain. I'm 100% certain that we don't count the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan in the budget - they're all supplementals.

[speedoo]

3. I can't believe all the freep callers.

Everything is Clinton's fault, of course.

Fucking unbelievable.

Sperling is laying into one of them (an obvious racist) here at the end. Good for him.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Oh my goodness. I have to know, what did Clinton do this time?

[speedoo]

8. Why he left poor Georgie Porgie with a ballooning..

deficit. How could you possibly not know that?

:)

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Well, it was George's bad luck to come in as the Enron-type

of book-cooking was getting cleaned up and the dot com boom went bust, but that is still no excuse for the dire financial straits into which he has navigated this country. x( He's always had a bad head for business.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. He actually said, "The president is making cuts in Medicare to take $$$$

away from RICH PEOPLE" :crazy: I-Shit-you-not!!! He had the nerve to say that with a straight face.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I don't understand. Does he mean that "wealthier" people are being dropped

off the medicare rolls? And what does wealthy consists of if that is the case?

[flyarm]

12. he said the top 15% of earners ..that includes people making

$50,000.00 per year..as they are in the top 15%

fly

[marions ghost]

7. this guy Swagel

where is he from?!?

He argued that the government should not longer pay for home oxygen at $200 month because in 6 months you could "buy one of those oxygen machines for $1000". He argued that people who do this are "ripping off the government." He actually said "yes, it's not good for the person on home oxygen, but the good news is we're decreasing government waste."

Did anybody else hear this?

And this in the days when they kick people out of the hospital as fast as possible without completely killing them?

[speedoo]

9. I believe he was in * budget office in the first term.

What a moran, huh?

[zalinda]

11. Yeah, he also lied when he said that $58,000 was in the top

15% of income. I looked it up and according to 2002 census, the top 20% started at $84,000.
I just couldn't believe that 85% of people in this country made less than $58,000.

zalinda