Archive for the ‘Budget’ Category
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
I must and I will continue to hammer this home; the GOP are a bunch of hypocrites when it comes to being "fiscally conservative". Once again, they have shown their true colors, they have shown that the term "fiscal conservative" is not meant to be used in the same ...
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Friday, March 17th, 2006
The party of small government, the party of "he who governs least governs best", the party who called for the Balanced budget amendment, the party of the line-item veto looks very much like a bunch of hypocrites these days. With Federal spending out of control, they have been hunkering ...
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
I am not surprised that the GOP lawmakers and Administration are attempting to cut funding to America's vital environmental satellite systems. After all, it is these same satellites that continue to show global-warming effects of such as shrinking ice sheets (not to mention seven-day weather forecasts, open shipping ...
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
You would think that if Dear Leader was truly interested in making America stronger that he would do the right thing and call for his tax-cuts to be rescinded. But, we all know Dear Leader is not motivated by what is best for the USA, he is motivated by ...
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
If Dear Leader gets his way and the 2001/2003 tax cuts are made permanent, it will cost the Treasury $1.35 Trillion over a decade or for the mathematically challenged, an average of $135 billion a year. The interesting part is, the budget just submitted to Congress already counts this ...
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
In the last five years Military spending up 76%, Medicare up 57%, Social Security up 30%, all other Federal programs up 39%. Meanwhile the consumer debt is up 51% (that's just in 5 years) and the interest payments on National Debt is up from $206.2 billion to $220 billion ...
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