Re: OT:G20 summit a supreme success


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Paul M. Cook was thinking very hard :
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Paul M. Cook was thinking very hard :
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Miss Elaine Eos explained :
In article <DXmBl.16$TD1.3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Methuselah <Methuselah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Democrats eliminated the deficits, republicans eliminated the
surplus.

Does the fact that Obama is magnifying the deficit to absurd levels
make him a Republican?

No. See, if he magnifies the deficit to absurd levels, then later
reduces that magnification by 10%, that's called "eliminating
deficits."

See how it works?

So if he plans to triple the deficit, then only doubles it, it counts
as halving the deficit, right?

I think I'm getting this Democrat math.


You guys hate the truth. Obama is using real numbers and preparing a
real budget which includes hundreds of billions of off budget spending
Buh engaged in. You think Bush was being honest with his budgets? He
used every accounting trick in the books. Part of your angst is
hearing the truth for a change. Which you can't handle.

Then why doesn't Obama cut every penny of off budget spending that Bush
is responible for? Seems like that would be pretty easy for him to do.

He can't all at once as it is military spending for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gates has announced the new budget today. Bush kept 1.6 trillion in
spending off the books while he was pResident.

So all of that hundreds of billions of spending is military spending
**trillions to be exact**
(of which is Constitutional)? There's none of that Medicare Part D stuff,
and other assorted cruft that Obama could cut?

Sure it was legal - it was all "emergency appropriations." Nope, Medicare
part D was on the budget. All of Bush's military expeditions were off
budget as emergency appropriations. Which is why the deficit was never
accurately reported. Obama has put all of that into the budget where it
belongs/ I am sure you'll find some fault with that so don't keep me
waiting, ok?


But then he couldn't blame Bush for his own incompetence.

Right, of course. This is all Barry's fault.

He has the power to fix it. Let him stop concentrating on new ways to
abridge our civil liberties and cut the spending to the bone.

I haven't seen him abridge any civil liberties.

Well, unless he agrees with all of those Bush spending programs.

A good place to start would be to dismantle the Department of Homeland
Security. Since now that Obama is president, and we no longer have a "war
on terrorism", and there are no more "enemy combatants", there's no need
for Homeland Security, right?

I would agree. I hate the name of that agency. Break it up and restore it
to the way it was before. It is hardly an efficiency as it was supposed to
be, in fact it has 20,000 employees of its own.

Paul


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