WP: Deficit Worries Threaten Bush Agenda

[kskiska]

GOP Lawmakers, Others Say War and Recession No Longer Justify Mounting Debt

In 1992, Ross Perot likened the federal budget to a patient spurting blood in an emergency room. "Step one is to stop the bleeding, and we are bleeding arterially," the independent presidential candidate declared at one of that year's debates.

It has been a while since Americans routinely heard metaphors like that. But signs are blossoming that deficit politics is finally making a comeback -- with big implications for the expansive second-term agenda promoted by President Bush.

Concern by fellow Republicans about borrowing as much as $2 trillion in transition costs, for instance, is one of the big problems facing his plan to restructure Social Security to allow individual investment accounts.

And as Bush prepares to release his proposed fiscal 2006 budget today, some Republican lawmakers and fiscal experts are warning that the arguments he invoked in his first term for tolerating big deficits -- mainly the twin demands of war and recession -- are no longer sufficient to justify mounting debt. In last week's State of the Union address, the president himself promised a new austerity in domestic programs.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3261-2005Feb6.html

[xray s]

1. Headline should read....

Bush Agenda Threatens America

[leesa]

2. Exactly. The huge deficits are part of the plan. How else would they be

able to shut down all the "socialist" governmental safety nets.

[w4rma]

7. The falacy in their thinking is that they starve their own pet "programs"

along with the safety nets. They are literaly destroying America.

Those tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy will have to be reversed and the taxes will have to be increased over what they where during Clinton's term. Maybe even as high as President Roosevelt made them after President Hoover's Great Depression.

[pdurod1]

3. Starve the beast, the collapse of the dollar, new war by early 2006...

Paving the way for another conservative. Fasten your seatbelts.

[TahitiNut]

4. I haven't heard Perot shooting off his fat mouth lately.

Where's the little militarist asshole been? :eyes:
(Kissing the Offal Orifice, I'll bet.) :puke:

[Wright Patman]

9. He gave an interview to the Dallas News

a couple of weeks ago with the agreement that they not discuss politics.

Very strange. But then he always was. Did the BFEE buy his silence in some way?

His proverbial crazy aunt is running the country in drag.

[pdurod1]

11. Hypocrite Perot started a venture in India

here's where your sucking sound is now:

www.perotsystems.com/India/businessprocesssolutions.htm

[bvar22]

5. The BEAST that we should starve is...

...the MIC (Military Industrial Complex).

Christian Morality DEMANDS it!

"What part of Thou Shalt Not Kill do you NOT understand?"---God

[Javaman]

6. $2 trillion dollars... Wanna know exactly how much that is??

Many years ago, while living on Long Island in NY, Newsday gave a great statistic...

1 trillion 1 dollar bills would cover ever inch of Long Island, 3 deep. $2 Trillion...6 deep.
Give a whole new meaning to the term deep shit.

[NVMojo]

8. borrowing fecking two trillion dollars???? Jeezus H!!!!!

Clue in American numbskulls!!!! Half of us didn't vote for the idiot, the rest of you did!!! Pay the fecking piper and leave us alone!!!

[AuntiBush]

10. As we watch our Country

head straight down the :nopity: