Comments on: U.S. Headed For Record Deficit In 2009

Bush Administration Blames $482B Budget Deficit On Slumping Economy, Stimulus Payments

[hotpaulie]

I love this conservative administration.

[mtracy9]

Bush-boy suckered America''s middle-class into supporting tax cuts by throwing it a couple bones, while the majority of the cuts went to the richest Americans. As a result Bush-boy has doubled the national debt, whereas the national debt had begun to shrink at the end of the Clinton administration.

[incog-nito]

Statement from President Bush: "It''s all the American people''s fault. If I hadn''t given them those stimulus checks the deficit wouldn''t be this bad. Although I''ve been in charge for almost 8 years, anything bad that happens is always someone else''s fault, never mine."

[irliberal]

Republicans: The party that wouldn''t even exist at all anymore except for their platform of hating gay people and anyone who doesn''t subscribe to their particular brand of religion. These days, being a "conservative" has nothing to do with being conservative fiscally, it just means you hate minorities, love war, fetuses (until they are born) and have no sense of fiscal responsibility whatsoever. The last eight years have proven that beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Over SIX years of war. Civil rights breached by our commander in chief. Internationally recognized torture sanctioned by the White House. Two invaded and currently occupied countries. Hundreds of thousands dead, including OVER 4500 American soldiers. Billions of our tax dollars spent, and yes, are still being spent to this very moment.

Iraq, which had NOTHING to do with 9/11, is now an occupied country which will implode when we get out of it, whether that happens one, two, ten or five hundred years from now. A society that CHOOSES to be ruled by religion cannot become a democracy; it can only be a theocracy with voting cards.

Bin Laden still lives. The mastermind of 9/11 still walks free.

The one, simple word for this is: failure. No amount of deception, indignation or wailing by republicons can change these facts.

Failure of Bush. Failure of Cheney. Failure of the republicans.

Time for a change.

[godseyesore-2009]

Bush can''t put this other than on his idiotic administration and his own stupidity.
Dinosaurs all, hopefully to be extinct.

[micma-2009]

Bush''s tax cuts for the rich weren''t tax cuts at all. In just 7 years he''s doubled the deficit. All that money will have to be paid back with interest by raising taxes. It''s called a deferred tax increase.

Thanks Bushies!


lol!

[pfanerk]

Helluva job, Georgie. You da man!

[pensacola88]

Even Mexican Pesos have gained 25% in the past three months against the US dollar.

[pensacola88]

Playing funny money games and devaluing the dollar and selling bonds to China and the rest of the world inflated these numbers. We have only ourselves to blame for this. The USA needs friends in the world and needs to be friendly to other countries in the world. Loud mouth politics won''t help the US Treasury or our personal bank accounts appear healthy.

US tourism is down by 1 billion dollars a day because we restricted visits by requiring passports, and now we have 10 million less tourists every day. Each tourist spent $100 a day. We lost 365 billion dollars each year. Those billions went to Europe and Canada. That is why our deficit appears high and our dollar appears weak...because, it actually is.

[kdgrames]

Does anyone else notice how the deficit corresponds with the "war" budget??? The same with the price of foreign products (oil).