Bush's Deficit May Doom America »
Posted By populist 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsThe financial catastrophe being left behind by George W. Bush is moving the United States from its old status as one of history’s great republics into a new reality as a “banana republic,” or perhaps a “banana empire.”
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4thchance9 months, 3 weeks ago
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here we go, after Obama becomes president, no matter what when or where anything goes wrong, the dems will be blaming Bush for the next 300 years. This is how they plan to let Obama off the hook for anything that goes wrong during Obama's watch. That's pure BS. The SITTING president takes responsibility for all that goes wrong. Democrats 2000-2008 famous words. "It happened under Bush's watch!"
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So now those words we become
"It happened under Obama's watch!" It's Obama's turn!-
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dougler1019 months, 3 weeks ago
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See that's funny. Republicans have spent the last eight years blaming everything on Clinton. Bush inherited the recession, Clinton didn't go after Bin Laden. Etc. Etc. And now, everything will be Obama's fault.
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George W Bush - the first blame-free presidency. -
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Endoscopy9 months, 3 weeks ago
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ROTFLMAO
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What a bunch of looney tunes. Obama is promising $1 trillion deficits as far as the eye can see and you foolish people have the nerve to rant about the $400 billion deficits of Bush. Obama himself said deficits don't matter. Keep up with the times and what your fearless leader is saying. You people are silly.
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fiftynine9 months, 3 weeks ago
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"That's pure BS. The SITTING president takes responsibility for all that goes wrong. Democrats 2000-2008 famous words. "It happened under Bush's watch!"
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It did happen under bushboys watch...NOT Obamas,in case you haven't noticed Obama hasn't taken over yet and the right is chomping at the bit to start blaming him,in some cases they already have.
No one with half a brain can deny the damage that bush and his buddys have done to this country.Damage that will long outlast Obama and his administration.
I don't believe the right understands,or cares,where this moron has put our country.If you on the right,or the left for that matter,expect Obama to walk into office and magically fix everything that bushboy has destroyed or broken in four years then you will be sadly disappointed.My wish is that at best we can turn around the failed policys that have got uds to this point and start making progress in the right direction.
God i can't wait to see that miserable sob and his gang leave Washington.-
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4thchance9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Millions of us beleive that some of the blame for the 9/11 attacks rested on the shoulders of Bill Clinton. But you lefties said NO WAY, it happened on Bush's watch. So I say, what goes around is coming around. Just to remind you, Clinton was offered OBL by Syria, Clinton said he didn't want OBL. Clinton also made big cutbacks on our Intelligent agencies, and massive cut backs in our military. Perhaps If Clinton would have been more on the ball, 9/11 would not have happened. Plus, keep in mind, the terrorists made all their plans and took flight school all UNDER CLINTONS WATCH. But yet, you Democrats place 100% of the 9/11 blame on Bush. So, we will do the same for Obama. I don't expect you to beleive or admit to any of this, so no need to reply.
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HOUSEMD9 months, 3 weeks ago
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agoodlibertian9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Typical republican, always wrong about every issue every time. While wall street is to be blame for a lot of the mess we are in. It was Bush who caused the higher deficits that led to higher interest rates. It was Bush who printed money and led America''s standing in the world deteriorate causing the dollar to spiral downward. It was Bush who led for more deregulation which let wall street be a part of this mess. There is endless more information-I.e. the wars, no energy policy, no infrastructure rebuilding etc., etc. etc. P.S. stop with that nazi stuff only nazi's are republicans. The republican=brainwashed and stupid ;100% of the time. Intelligent=zero all republicans.
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willottica9 months, 3 weeks ago
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After an inflammatory headline like "Bush's deficit could doom America" I felt compelled to come in here and argue that the deficit is no more Bush's than it is Clinton's than it is Bush I's than it is Reagan's.
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The US has been deficit spending for decades. There has been very little let up, and it Congress and the Senate are complicit in this overspending. Not to mention the fact that every new government has to include in its budget payment for the excess of previous governments.
Obama's deficit could doom America! Is it his fault? Nope. Could he make the deficit smaller? Probably. Would it be the right thing to do? Who knows?
The same can be said of Bush. All we can say about these deficits is based on the wiseness of particular aspects of spending. Losing billions of dollars in Iraq (I don't mean spending it, I mean the PALLETS of COLD HARD CASH that went MISSING) was clearly not a good use for American Dollars (even if they claim it was Iraqi money). Billions have been wasted in the War on Drugs, but that's not Bush's brainchild.
At most, Bush's deficits could be the straw that broke the camel's back. But America's debt load was larger than it should have been long before Bush came into office. -
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Bucotch9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Brainwashed? Wow your gone. Read this.
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Bucotch9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Some people need a reminder or actual lesson in history.
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http://boards.history.com/topic/Current-Events/5-Y...
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uytryugjhg8 months, 2 weeks ago
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The national debt peaked during WWII and had been declining from about 100 per of GDP to about 25 percent of GDP. Reagan reversed the trend.
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The national debt was under 2 trillion. Reagan added 2 trillion
while he was in office. Bush1 and Clinton added another 2 trillion.
Bush2 added 3 trillion to the national debt in his first 6 years
in office. He added a trillion dollars to the national debt faster
than any other president. The countries debt will now end up being
just about where it was after WWII. Most of this Debt was added
during Reagan and Bush2. The country will have probably another
6 trillion dollars of debt thanks to Bush plus major economic problems.
It took 50 years to reduce the debt before.
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