Comments on: Why Ross Perot Has the President in His Hip Pocket

By: Dubious Brother

Dubious Brother — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:10:05 +0000

The House and the Senate spend the money that they take from us or create through debt. Every President since Nixon has signed the spending bills. What we need is a President with the Brains and Ba@@s to not sign the spending bills and force a balanced budget. Maybe in 2012.

By: Neither party

Neither party — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:27:00 +0000

You quip about the Heritage foundation getting cbo info. Bush is then blamed by citing wikipedia.
At some point you must let it go and let’s see where this thing is currently going. Can we honestly debate if putting everyone on the federal teet is such a swell idea?

By: kma

kma — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:56:16 +0000

File Bush comments under “non sequitur” and focus on the issue at hand. And enjoy the joke, Debbies Downer.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:53:55 +0000

@Bob The graphic that The Heritage Foundation used came from The Washington Post and the numbers The Washington Post used to form the graph were from the Congressional Budget Office and The Obama White House.

By: VisitDallas!HomeOfAmerica'sWorstPresident

VisitDallas!HomeOfAmerica'sWorstPresident — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:48:35 +0000

It’s in the books that W drove it from 5.6 to 9.9 in his eight years and left us on the edge of a depression. Spending was needed to get us out of that (wingnuts: remember WWII got us out of the depression and not FDR? Well, it was the SPENDING in WWII that did it. It would have has exactly the same effect to build those ships, planes, bombs, and sink them into the ocean)

Heritage Foundation? Their reliability can be summed in two words: Puh. Leez.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt

Year Gross Debt in Billions [7] as % of GDP
2000 5,628.7 58.0
2001 5,769.9 57.4
2002 6,198.4 59.7
2003 6,760.0 62.6
2004 7,354.7 63.9
2005 7,905.3 64.6
2006 8,451.4 65.0
2007 8,950.7 65.6
2008 9,985.8 70.2
2009 (est.) 12,867.5 90.4
2010 (est.) 14,456.3 98.1
2011 (est.) 15,673.9 101.0
2012 (est.) 16,565.7 100.6
2013 (est.) 17,440.2 99.7
2014 (est.) 18,350.0 99.8

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:08:52 +0000

@Doug

Quoting the Heritage Foundation has as much credibility as quoting Sarah Palin.

Try truth next time.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:38:50 +0000

The deficit under Bush and the Deficit under Obama.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:44:29 +0000

2000 – 2008 don’t exist. Just keep saying it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War

By: VisitDallas!HomeOfAmerica'sWorstPresident

VisitDallas!HomeOfAmerica'sWorstPresident — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:02:49 +0000

One with W would have had a 5 Trillion denomination. Obama has a ways to go yet. Maybe there is another country we can attack (that hasn’t attacked us, of course)

By: towski

towski — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:42:19 +0000

Way to stay above the fray.