In reality he has two choices. Well, 3 choices. He can always fall back on deficit spending, like the Republicans.
You also forget that it will be really easy to cut spending: Have one of the Dems pet former Generals declare that the terrorism has been defeated in the GWoT and the slash the military back to Clintons targets (shich Clinton never actually reached). |
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Republicans should be combining his spending plans, his promised tax cuts and the condition of the economy and asking "how can he do all of this by taxing only the top 5%?" Agreed. It’s not possible. Make that point over and over.Then they should remind everyone of Bill Clinton’s shell-game concerning the middle-class tax cuts that became middle-class tax increases. I’d stop short here. Don’t connect him to Clinton. Don’t attack Clinton’s economic policy. It’s a bad time to do that, even if it is to say that he lied about raising taxes. Let Obama’s economic plans stand alone and point out how inept they are on their own. |
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Is
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where did these TRILLION DOLLARS OF BAILOUT come from?-
From Republican small government wet dream?
Crock is your post... |
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sashal
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I think you’ll find, sashal, that none of us are happy about the bailout, either. (Although I think you exaggerate, a bit, by calling it a trillion dollars.) The more libertarian of us think that the companies should have been allowed to fail, and that’s that; as the S&L bailout gave companies license to do poorly, so will this bailout do the same, to our detriment years later. Others feel that the bailout was the best of a bad lot of choices. But I don’t know of anyone who thinks it’s a good thing.
And actually, I find your whole "small government" snark darkly amusing, since Bush is explicitly not a small-government Republican, and the reason that voters abandoned the Republican Congress in 2006 was largely because they are not small-government types either.
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Jeff Medcalf
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sashal,
How is the post a crock? What specific point in the post is refuted by saying "The Republicans don’t like small government as much as they say they do?" |
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Terry
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Where is the money for this new spending going to come from? I know, I know! He explained the whole plan in his nomination acceptance speech:Now, many of these plans will cost money, which is why I’ve laid out how I’ll pay for every dime, by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens that don’t help America grow. But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less because we cannot meet 21st century challenges with a 20th century bureaucracy. Line by line, to pay for every dime. It’s easy when you’re The One! |
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Linda Morgan
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"Where is the money for this new spending going to come from?"
I don’t really care where he gets it from as long as he doesn’t take it from my end of the pool.
"eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less because..."
BlahBlahBlah Waste, Fraud, and Abuse blahblahblah Fraud, Waste, and Abuse blahblahblah Abuse, Waste, and Fraud blah.....
I think that literally every politician since at least the 60’s has claimed they were going to save money by cutting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in government. I am surprised there is any left. I am sure there isn’t enough left to cover all big O’s planned spending increases. |
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As a libertarian scanning the comments in the pro-freedom blogs,, I’m glad to see so many apparent Democrats denouncing the bailout. I sort of figured they would. Because you know there’s no one more concerned about fiscal responsibility and the American taxpayer than a liberal Democrat! Glad to see they’re also outraged at deficit spending, too. I’m old enough to remember when Democrats were high on Keynes and touted deficit spending as the high road to prosperity See you at the next meeting of the National Taxpayers Union, Terry!
"I remember when ’liberal’ meant being generous with your own money."
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Bilwick
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Hey McQ, Obama may be able to balance the budget and increase annual domestic spending, in a similar way Clinton did.
Watch this video. keep in mind, its not just a down economy we have to worry about these days. |
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Here’s an even more radical idea, Jimmi: the new president balance the budget, decrease domestic spending, and give the money saved on back to the people it was originally taken from. Then if they wanted to use some of that money to donate to charity, they could do so. Or not. I call my radical plan "liberty." Democrats and RINOs might want to look into it. |
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I’m not an Obama supporter. The point is Obama will balance the budget by slashing military spending, just like clinton did with the "Peace Dividend." The problem is, as evidenced by 9/11, maybe cutting military spending is not quite what we need right now. |
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Jimmy the Dhimmi
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Clinton never really balanced the budget. And, he only got close because of the good economy, he was actully saying he couldn’t balance the budget up until he claimed to balance it. He just lucked out with tax revenue. |
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Don
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I have a question -
Since 40% ( or more) of the people in this country don’t pay a red cent of taxes to FedGov, Inc- Howthefrak is Bambi planning to cut their taxes? |
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The Gonzman
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And how is McCain going to pay for *his* massive increases in spending, while simultaneously cutting taxes on *everyone*, in a time of same exploding budget deficits?
Every nonpartisan economist out there has nocked Obama’s tax plan as being closer to fiscally neutral than McCain’s. |
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Every nonpartisan economist out there has nocked Obama’s tax plan as being closer to fiscally neutral than McCain’s. Links? Citations? Nocked? Or was that a misprint and you meant to write Mocked? |
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