Comments on: Bush Signs $555 Billion Spending Bill

Measure Keeps Government Running Through September, Includes $70B For Iraq, Afghanistan Wars

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by mbburch06

The policies of pursuing a Reaganesque "trickle down" approach to education has indeed redirected the funding to private schools, (vouchers) instead of ensuring that the decrepit public schools were modernized, and had relevant, up to date equipment and information access, and that teachers met standards that qualified them to teach the subjects they were assigned to teach. While the U.S. ranked 22nd among 27 industrialized countries in the 2000 PISA math study, it ranks 24th of 29 countries in the 2003 study.

Despite the decline in educational performance, federal educational research and development (R&D) expenditures are very low. Over time, these educational R&D expenditures have become a smaller and smaller fraction of total R&D expenditures. Educational R&D comprises only 0.01 percent of total R&D expenditures.

That is what I mean by "gutted"...

[mbburch06]

"gutted beneficial social infrastructure programs"

hahahahahaha. You seriously think that any of these wasteful programs get cut? Do a little research buddy. Maybe they didn''t grow at a rate you would like but that isn''t "gutting." I only wish you were right and that we actually started to cut government spending, but that day will probably never come.

[brianbwb-2009]

So he looked at a bill that further gutted beneficial social infrastructure programs like education, interstate transportation, law enforcement, border control, but increased funding for an illegal war benefiting only his corrupt fraternity, and he signed it.

Then he left the lying about "on the road to a balanced budget" to his "spokesman", and quickly left town.

Hey president Texan, I hear you types take being called a liar and a coward rather seriously, then take this one, you are a liar, a traitor, a thief, and a "yellow" coward, and I challenge you personally to a public televised debate on why you and your co conspirators should be facing a firing squad.

I''m calling you out, coward.

[jetranger7]

Don''t Worry about a thing everybody - by April or May, BUSH & CHENEY will be asking for another "$500-Million" or more to fund their supposed war, because all the rest of the money went un-accounted for, and mis-spent, so they''ll keep throwing Billions of your Tax Dollars to waste as long as you the American people from both parties do nothing about it !! They will come up with tons of Excuses and rhetoric to decieve you, till they break the United States and throw us into a Deep Depression, and States have to just about shut down, causing many problems thru out this country ! Just wait till the troops start coming home and find out what they were really doing while they were over there risking their lives, no wonder they don''t want them to come home, their scared they''ll find out the TRUTH !!!!! IMPEACH THESE 2 IDIOTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE - NOW !!!!

[dutchman57-2009]

What a fake conservative!!! This guy is for big and bigger government, as long as he is in charge. Ron Paul is the only candidate who desires a constitutional government, which is very small and very little cost. Vote Ron Paul for president.

[j-whitman]

USBrit,,,, Good point

[usbrit-2009]

How can somebody who likes cats be anything but a liberal? On that note - farewell and good night.

[j-whitman]

veteran71,,,, I think ilikecats1 is a he, but I wouldn''t bet on it ---- He''s been yelling at liberals all day. It''s an obssevive compulsive disorder.

[j-whitman]

ilikecats1..... LOL dude
--- The "ridicule, slander, call names, demean, shame, blame, scapegoat and other demonizing and dehumanizing tactics" has been the GOP tactics since Bush first started running for office & it hasn''t stopped

[usayesterday]

I must go for now, but I will wrap up by saying this:


THERE WILL ALWAYS BE WAR IN OUR TIME,

as long as there are companies able to profit from it...

...regardless of the reason, regardless of the outcome, regardless of the will of the people.

[usayesterday]

We will be paying for Bush''''s stu.pidity for several generations!

Posted by MyIDonCBS at 09:07 PM : Dec 26, 2007
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We will be paying... but just as the Neo-Cons planned, when the time comes to raise taxes to pay for this massive Bush deficit, the Democrats will be blamed once again. And the economic and historically illiterate people like "BaghdadsHere", "jowand", "poopusbuttus", "notblue", "ilikecats" and so on... will buy into the mindless drivel hook, line, and sinker.

Just part of the Karl Rove plan for a "permanent Republican majority".

It wouldn''t be so much of a problem if the aforementioned people were unable to vote, by the requirement of passing a small civics test to ensure one''s knowledge of government and how it works...

...the fools mentioned above wouldn''t even get past the first question on the civics test. They would be complaining that they were only prepared to take a test about the cars that Honda makes!

[usayesterday]

Posted by slim1h2o at 08:45 PM : Dec 26, 2007
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LOL!

Yep, Donnie tends to have a couple of calling signs...

..the amount of vulgarities is an obvious sign, but also ending each vulgarity with three of the same sounding letter to get past the censors:

- "******"
- "*******"
- "turDDD"

and so on.

[myidoncbs]

"President Bush on Wednesday signed a ... massive spending bill."

Borrow and Spend! That''s what''s become of the "fiscally conservative" party. They borrow and borrow and spend and spend, and then they keep on doing it... on and on and on.

We will be paying for Bush''s stu.pidity for several generations!

[slim1h2o]

"So what is a neocon"

A piece''''''''a turddd wit de corn in it.

Posted by uzzisanta at 07:42 PM : Dec 26, 2007
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Now that will be considered as Donnie''''s best comment for 2007!

(I am sure there are others, but this one is the most profound).

Posted by USAyesterday at 07:48 PM : Dec 26, 2007

I reconized that was donnie too,,and yup agree with it too.

[b-easy63]

"They knew Democrats would not let money lapse for troops overseas. That allowed a Bush veto in May and GOP stalling tactics to determine the outcome. "

Translation: they knew that the Democrats and Pelosi guaranteed a grade A juggling act using NO HANDS. Or even better translation: they knew that the Democrats would do and will do whatever they want so the war stays.

Failing to stop funds is about as futile to ending the war as failing to ask for benchmarks is to improve it. Fire them all. Especially no impeachment on the table Pelosi. (The Republicans voted to let impeachment of *** Cheney go forth and REid squashed it.

[j-whitman]

Dinner time -- have fun dealing with these 2 Bush Lovers

[j-whitman]

RowdyTexan2,,,, That''s the usual 2 faced Bush we''ve gotten used to laughing at ---- He threatened the bill''s veto & conservatives were against it

[the74blaster]

The Israeli strike on Lebanon was the greatest goal of this administration. It simply destroyed Hesbollah and helped Lebanon to get rid of a lot of extremists. We dont even hear that fat guy called Hassan Nasrallah talking on TV anymore.

Posted by BaghdadsHere

I would hope that is not the case! What happened to OBL?

I recall Bush using the slogun Dead or Alive many times during the build up prior to invasions of Afganistan and Iraq.

I would hope that this presidency would be remembered for winning the war on terror, capturing OBL rather than a bunch of meaningless sloguns.

[rowdytexan2]

Posted by j-whitman at 08:03 PM : Dec 26, 2007

I agree.

You should read the cover on the budget bill Bush signed today, glorifying himself. There is more fantasy there than in the Revelations!

Baghdad''s hasn''t a clue what really goes on, except in his mind. I suspect if he ever learns to read, and learns the truth, he''ll be suicidal.

[j-whitman]

BaghdadsHere,,,, What I''ve been hoping for was some kind of victorious & honorable exit from Iraq, but I''m a realist, that opertunity was blown following the invasion