Bush's Stupidity

[NATHAN LLOYD]

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics/2006-07-20-stem-cell-research-react_x.htm?csp=34

He screws up with everything he gets his hands on (e.g., 9-11, Iraq, Israel, and now stem cell research). He has got to be the worst president in the United States' history. Is he trying to push us back into another dark ages? We can save some aborted fetuses from saving millions of lives through stem cell research. Instead of using them for science, we'll just cremate them. The conservatives that buy this line of crap are so incredibly ignorant!

[BuyOnDips]

It's only about federal funding. Private companies can do all the research they want.

The biggest problem with Bush is he hasn't slowed down Congress from their massive spending. Government spending is out of control. The Republicans are spending like Democrats and the Democrats want to raise taxes so they can spend more.

[madcowdisease]

It's only about federal funding. Private companies can do all the research they want.

The biggest problem with Bush is he hasn't slowed down Congress from their massive spending. Government spending is out of control. The Republicans are spending like Democrats and the Democrats want to raise taxes so they can spend more.

Exactamundo! The way to get elected now, and the Dems have used this tactic for decades, is to grant the populace gifts from the US Treasury. The more free crap you promise ppl, odds are, the more votes you wil get (ppl love presents). The sad thing is this country is so full of idiots that they don't realize the government doesn't create profit. The revenue of the government is generated through taxes it take from you and I. All these damn entitlements are is income redistribution. Take from ppl who've earned it and give to the lazy, and imo, undeserving. But hey, it buys votes! Maybe I'll run for congress and promise the most entitlements in history. That way your taxes finally pay me.

[NATHAN LLOYD]

Actually, I thought democrats cut spending on welfare and defense to average out the budget deficit. I think of myself as a conservative Democrat. I know Clinton did cut back on welfare. If I was president, I'd make it almost impossible to get welfare. You'd have to fill out so many forms, and prove that you went to 3 job interviews a month to get welfare. The defense budget is almost half our spending right now. I don't even know how invasion and occupation of Iraq can be considered defense. I don't like the idea of more taxes. No one does, but taxes do average out the deficit, which takes pressure off of inflation.
Unless you're making around 100k per year, taxes haven't been reduced for you by Republicans. This is another one of their tactics to get more voters. They act like they care about pro life and angainst gay marriage and against taxes. They have a lot of you brain washed.

How many thousand has the dow gone up since Bush has been in office?

[madcowdisease]

Actually, I thought democrats cut spending on welfare and defense to average out the budget deficit. I think of myself as a conservative Democrat. I know Clinton did cut back on welfare. If I was president, I'd make it almost impossible to get welfare. You'd have to fill out so many forms, and prove that you went to 3 job interviews a month to get welfare. The defense budget is almost half our spending right now. I don't even know how invasion and occupation of Iraq can be considered defense. I don't like the idea of more taxes. No one does, but taxes do average out the deficit, which takes pressure off of inflation.
Unless you're making around 100k per year, taxes haven't been reduced for you by Republicans. This is another one of their tactics to get more voters. They act like they care about pro life and angainst gay marriage and against taxes. They have a lot of you brain washed.

How many thousand has the dow gone up since Bush has been in office?

I apologize if I gave you the impression it was only Dems who spend. This administration is one of the most profligate in history. No Child Left Behind, Iraq, and Medicare Part-D are all major factors that contribute to increasing the budget. You can read Steve Slivinskis words here:

"President Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson. Even after excluding spending on defense and homeland security, Bush is still the biggest-spending president in 30 years. His 2006 budget doesn’t cut enough spending to change his place in history, either.

Total government spending grew by 33 percent during Bush’s first term. The federal budget as a share of the economy grew from 18.5 percent of GDP on Clinton’s last day in office to 20.3 percent by the end of Bush’s first term.

The Republican Congress has enthusiastically assisted the budget bloat. Inflation-adjusted spending on the combined budgets of the 101 largest programs they vowed to eliminate in 1995 has grown by 27 percent.

The GOP was once effective at controlling nondefense spending. The final nondefense budgets under Clinton were a combined $57 billion smaller than what he proposed from 1996 to 2001. Under Bush, Congress passed budgets that spent a total of $91 billion more than the president requested for domestic programs. Bush signed every one of those bills during his first term. Even if Congress passes Bush’s new budget exactly as proposed, not a single cabinet-level agency will be smaller than when Bush assumed office.

Republicans could reform the budget rules that stack the deck in favor of more spending. Unfortunately, senior House Republicans are fighting the changes. The GOP establishment in Washington today has become a defender of big government." Full link: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3750

Here's more after a quick Google search of "Bush + profligate": http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1007&full=1

Bush is an absolute disgrace to what it once meant to be Republican. It used to be that a Republican stood for fiscal conservatism. Well those days are long gone as they grant ppl more and more gifts from the Treasury essentially buying their votes. The only spending bill he has ever vetoed was this most recent one regarding stem cell research. The sad thing is when the Dems take back congress this November they won't rein Bush in, they'll simply add riders to the already corpulent spending bills passing their desks everyday.

Neither party really cares about middle America. They only care about securing office and we are their pawns. Nowhere is this more evident than in the immigration policies of both parties. The Republicans are pro-immigration because the businesses that contribute to their coffers enjoy the cheap labor. And the Dems, they see the burgeoning hispanic populace as a new minority to pander to in order to ensure the life of their party and secure office in the future.

If you want to take back America vote Libertarian where we believe in personal responsibility and consenting adults can do whatever they please so long as it does not harm another nonconsenting individual. http://www.lp.org/