Posted on 05/08/2009 9:12:19 PM PDT by lonestar67
Earlier This Month, The President Announced He Will Propose A Balanced Budget. On February 5, the Administration will present its five-year budget proposal. The President's budget will reduce the deficit over the next five years and produce a balanced budget by 2012. The Budget will achieve balance while addressing the Nation's most critical needs, including support for the Global War on Terror and sustaining the strength of our economy through permanent tax relief.
The President's Tax Relief Has Spurred Robust Economic Growth, Millions Of Jobs, And Rising Wages.
A Strong U.S. Economy Is Fueling Higher Tax Revenues. Tax revenues rose 11.8 percent in 2006 following a 14.6 percent increase in 2005. Receipts have increased nearly 35 percent since the tax relief was fully implemented in 2003, and 70 percent of the reduction in the deficit last year was attributable to increased tax revenues.
The Deficit Has Been Cut In Half Three Years Ahead Of The President's 2009 Goal. Historic revenue growth and a continued commitment to spending restraint contributed to this reduction.
Better Spending Restraint Is Necessary To Help Achieve A Balanced Budget. While funding the Nation's priorities, we must keep spending under control. That means restraining spending growth, doing more with less, and eliminating programs that are not getting the job done.
(Excerpt) Read more at georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov ...
1. Its anti constitutional and refuses to hold Congress accountable as the proper primary agent.
2. Bush reduced the deficit in several of his years in office-- particularly those after the tax cuts were in full effect and prior to the current recession of 2008.
3. Bush held the growth of non discretionary non security related spending to less than 1 percent. That is parsing a lot, but those are conservative parsings that emphasize security.
4. Bush pushed for earmark transparency that began the process of accountability for stopping this process. Without it it would remain anonymous.
5. Bush Tarp plan had a 5% payback for taxpayers.
6. Bush spent only half of his tarp plan
7. Bush tax cuts did increase revenue to the government by 35%
8. The economy and the budget worsened profoundly after the Democrats won control of Congress in 2006. This is consistently ignored.
9. Bush spent a lot of money defending US citizens at HOME and abroad. That was money well spent and intrinsic to a conservative zeal for government. Conservatives are not anarchists who want an end to government. They want government to fulfill consitutional roles. Security is central to that conservative concept.
Deflecting responsibility to the Congress...yet neglecting the responsibility of the executive to use the veto pen as a check on Congressional power.
5. Bush Tarp plan had a 5% payback for taxpayers.
TARP was--and still is--unconstitutional.
6. Bush spent only half of his tarp plan
So?
Security is central to that conservative concept.
I just want to point out that, in general, there is a very fine line between "security" and a police or nanny state.
I told you lone-bushbot was working for Bush. Would you like a job like his? To convince us of what his post says? Talk about swimming upstream!
I object to you defining me as BDS because I disagree with every one of the phony Bush points you list. Get real. All smoke and mirrors.
Most of the nine points listed are facts.
You may draw different inferences from the facts but they remain facts.
If you deny facts then I think it is BDS.
News, maybe you should have also listed it as breaking!!!!
What f’ing crap. Every single point. Do you work for Jeb Bush or somethin’. You lay out thesis’s. All incorrect. None of em facts. Been through this with you before. Got better things to do. Adios amigo!
They are slightly milder than the ones taken to exalt Reagan as a conservative standard bearer.
Reagan did veto more. He did not reduce spending more than Bush.
The refusal of Conservatives to celebrate the conservative elements of Bush’s two terms is part of the anti-conservative mindset that dominates are country.
The irrational nostalgia for Reagan [whom I do actually admire greatly], must provoke us to do the hard work of justifying the conservative elements of Bush’s legacy— whatever they may be.
Bush’s final budget proposal would balance the budget by 2012— something he was ahead of schedule to do by 2009 except for the recession. The current Obama budget is radically beyond any of the budgets designed by Bush. pretending that it is all the same is again part of an intrinsic anti conservative mindset which has infected all of us— sadly including too many conservatives.
Bush is in the top 10 greatest Presidents ever.
Did I mention that President Bush also liked Mexicans Amigo?
:)
Welcome to the Outer Limits.
You speak the truth.
Reagan was a great president. One of the top five, at least.
Bush, was nothing more and nothing less than a closet liberal. I don't go for the old who are you going to believe me are your lying eyes, BS.
This is hardly ever discussed.
I believe that a lot of the damage happened AFTER the Dems took Congress in '06 is no coincidence. They WANTED to smash the economy and blame Bush for a reason. To get what they have today. The WH and Congress.
One veto? That's the best you can come up with?
By spending just half of TARP 1, Bush showed fiscal restraint.
Excuse me?
Wasteful and unconstitutional spending is flat out wrong, whether it's just one dollar or one trillion dollars.
Bush had to do something.
No, he had to do the right thing: defend and protect the Constitution.
Unfortunately for young'uns like me, he did the wrong thing.
He made a deal with the globalist bankers.
In regard to security, terrorists really did hit US soil on 911. It was the first such attack on US soil since the Civil War. Thousands of lives were lost. Those radical still seek to annihilate our way of life.
As opposed to the hundreds of thousands murdered by illegal aliens because Bush failed to enforce immigration law and protect our borders?
The incursions on our liberty were actually lower than any other war we have fought.
Tell that to this boy.
Oh, and while you're at it, tell us exactly why "fusion centers" are necessary to fight terrorism. You know, justify the Government's need to build and maintain profiles of law-abiding United States citizens using private and public record-gathering and retention capabilities.
The fact that we have not had another attack since then has mislead you to your present mental condition.
Mental condition? What the foo are you smoking?
I simply refuted your points, and you responded with a personal attack...typical of a classless brainwashed Bushbot, eh?
You could very well be right.
Sure. More than $50 Billion sent to Africa to fight Aids.
That’s really fiscally conservative.
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