highly laughable

[acealive1]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080131/...wh/bush_budget he cuts virtually all domestic programs in favor of what? NOTHING so basically we're paying for his mistakes in order to get out of a 400 billion dollar deficit. "i envision a surplus" of what? dumb ass people like yourself? In his State of the Union address Monday, Bush said his budget envisioned a surplus in 2012. "American families have to balance their budgets, and so should their government," he said. no idea how in god's name that'll happen with the hole he's digging. i got a better way to make the deficit shrink by 500 million by the time the election is over..........bring all the troops home. maybe lower pirces on things we buy? just a thought Savings also would come by charging wealthier people higher monthly premiums for Medicare's drug program. wont happen because then he'd be paying more

[Mike70]

bush is just such a huge joke and not a particularly good one either. thankfully we have less than a year to put with his stupidity.

[Khardis]

Yes lets fix everything by abandoning Iraq and then "lowering the prices on things we buy" I don't recall the president having that particular power, you would think that they (Presidents) would do that all the time since it would be the best way to get re-elected.

[acealive1]

Yes lets fix everything by abandoning Iraq and then "lowering the prices on things we buy" I don't recall the president having that particular power, you would think that they (Presidents) would do that all the time since it would be the best way to get re-elected. lower prices means people will buy more and in turn the defecit will shrink because we're not digging that much further. they should try lowering gas prices to $1.25 for a solid 14 days and see how much the economy shoots up and also how much more things get purchased. they'd take a hit but its not unlike anything else that'd go on sale,u take a hit to maximize profit in order to sell more bush is just such a huge joke and not a particularly good one either. thankfully we have less than a year to put with his stupidity. agreed

[Khardis]

lower prices means people will buy more and in turn the defecit will shrink because we're not digging that much further. they should try lowering gas prices to $1.25 for a solid 14 days and see how much the economy shoots up and also how much more things get purchased. they'd take a hit but its not unlike anything else that'd go on sale,u take a hit to maximize profit in order to sell more Oh I agree lower prices = more purchase power of the public... but... I dunno. I must have missed it in Civics class, where did the President get the power to lower prices in a free market economy?

[acealive1]

Oh I agree lower prices = more purchase power of the public... but... I dunno. I must have missed it in Civics class, where did the President get the power to lower prices in a free market economy? they regulated prices on snacks...so why not gas?

[Khardis]

they regulated prices on snacks...so why not gas? Where do they regulate prices on snacks? Which snakes, who regulates them? Gas is a commodity which is sold by many multinational companies. The president tells companies from South America, OPEC, China, Russia, and such that they cant sell their gas unless its for a 1.25 when they spend more than a 1.25 to get it to our market, will create what we call an economic melt down. Since they would rather not sell it to us and sell it to China say then to be brutalized economically by people who don't understand $$$ or economics.

[clanglee]

[url]Savings also would come by charging wealthier people higher monthly premiums for Medicare's drug program. wont happen because then he'd be paying more Not to mention the fact that Wealthier people don't need or use Medicare. They can afford better health plans usually.

[Khardis]

Not to mention the fact that Wealthier people don't need or use Medicare. They can afford better health plans usually. They should just let them opt out of it, as in cant use it, don't have to pay for it.

[Minerva_Zombi]

They should just let them opt out of it, as in cant use it, don't have to pay for it. This guy is really...really stupid. I think that pretty much sums that up for me. Go hug Ann Coulter's nuts some more and shut the **** up.

[clanglee]

They should just let them opt out of it, as in cant use it, don't have to pay for it. They can, and do, opt out of it. But that brings no more money in of course.

[Khardis]

This guy is really...really stupid. I think that pretty much sums that up for me. Go hug Ann Coulter's nuts some more and shut the **** up. I am confused, which part of letting the rich opt out of using medicare etc is hugging ann coulters nuts? The logic or the fairness? They can, and do, opt out of it. But that brings no more money in of course. Yeah but they don't use it either. So that takes no money out.

[kortick]

There is no way the budget is going to be balanced not with this war going on and we cant just pull out of iraq, it will leave it too unstable and if say iran or saudi gets control of the oil fields it will be even worse. Technically the president could lower gas prices but it would only be thru using our reserves instead of importing or cutting all state and federal tax on gas it would lower the price and people would buy more stuff but the loss of tax dollars would be disastrous. we have to get out of iraq by getting them to take control of their own country. nothing will change after the election anyways people blame congress for not doing anything but the truth is everytime they try to pass a bill bush just vetos it and they dont have a 66% majority to override his veto, so bush is still doing what he wants and congress is unable to change things. Khardis may be strongly opinionated but he is not stupid there are things he says i agree with and some i dont but that is the case with most people. besides when he gets a good rant going its showtime....

[acealive1]

There is no way the budget is going to be balanced not with this war going on and we cant just pull out of iraq, it will leave it too unstable and if say iran or saudi gets control of the oil fields it will be even worse. do u even know what you just said? if thats true,then gas should be $50 a gallon after we left iraq the first time in the early 90's they arent babies,they can take care of themselves without help from us

[kortick]

Ace Gulf war I we removed Iraq from kuwiat so saddam didnt control thier oil fields once kuwait was liberated we left the area this war we totally destroyed the country and killed its leaders and the whole government. Plus we didnt occupy their country for 5 years last time either. it is a complete 100% difference there is no way to compare dessert storm with this disaster of a war we didnt destroy them last time we put embargos on them that nobody really enforced that is why oil didnt go up this is a whole new ball game. I can't even begin to imagine how you can compare the two situations. You really don't see them as being the same do you? (btw- Hard Times from Dynasty playing)