Comments on: About That Budget Deficit, Mr President http://radioviceonline.com/about-that-budget-deficit-mr-president/ The blog home of the Sound Off Connecticut radio show. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:17:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve McGough http://radioviceonline.com/about-that-budget-deficit-mr-president/comment-page-1/#comment-3440 Steve McGough Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:08:11 +0000 http://radioviceonline.com/?p=9609#comment-3440 yes. yes.

]]> By: davis http://radioviceonline.com/about-that-budget-deficit-mr-president/comment-page-1/#comment-3439 davis Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:46:50 +0000 http://radioviceonline.com/?p=9609#comment-3439 Just out of curiosity: do the numbers from 2003 to 2008 include the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? Just out of curiosity: do the numbers from 2003 to 2008 include the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?

]]> By: PatRiot http://radioviceonline.com/about-that-budget-deficit-mr-president/comment-page-1/#comment-3425 PatRiot Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:38:32 +0000 http://radioviceonline.com/?p=9609#comment-3425 "Uhh ! I have had enough."  Tell me how much $$ is coming in this year and I will tell you how much is available to spend, save, paydown debt and invest.  Not a dime more.  How hard is this?  THEN - don't squeeze the taxpayer, create more of them.  Why are they making this more complicated than it needs to be?  “Uhh ! I have had enough.”  Tell me how much $$ is coming in this year and I will tell you how much is available to spend, save, paydown debt and invest.  Not a dime more.  How hard is this?  THEN – don’t squeeze the taxpayer, create more of them.  Why are they making this more complicated than it needs to be? 

]]> By: Dimsdale http://radioviceonline.com/about-that-budget-deficit-mr-president/comment-page-1/#comment-3423 Dimsdale Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:21:09 +0000 http://radioviceonline.com/?p=9609#comment-3423 "It buys him time."  Nice.  While the "one" is buying time, maybe he could buy a little economic common sense.  Truth isn't that expensive either. Inherited or not, how does multiplying his "inherited" deficit by what is fast approaching an order of magnitude make things better?  And didn't Bush, out of a sense of courtesy, leave $350 billion of the first TARP money to Obama to spend as he saw fit?  So all of that "inherited" deficit isn't exactly inherited, is it? “It buys him time.”  Nice.  While the “one” is buying time, maybe he could buy a little economic common sense.  Truth isn’t that expensive either.

Inherited or not, how does multiplying his “inherited” deficit by what is fast approaching an order of magnitude make things better?  And didn’t Bush, out of a sense of courtesy, leave $350 billion of the first TARP money to Obama to spend as he saw fit?  So all of that “inherited” deficit isn’t exactly inherited, is it?

]]> By: SoundOffSister http://radioviceonline.com/about-that-budget-deficit-mr-president/comment-page-1/#comment-3420 SoundOffSister Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:54:35 +0000 http://radioviceonline.com/?p=9609#comment-3420 Gotta love those "out years".  Will any of us live long enough to figure out not only what they are, but when they are? Gotta love those “out years”.  Will any of us live long enough to figure out not only what they are, but when they are?

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