Especially when the deficit spending is not on traditional methods of economic development (infrastructure, small business loans, education), but rather on military spending?\nIs this Republican fiscal responsibility?
199375
short answer= repulicans sold our childerns future to make sure they stay in power, all legal all crap!
220301
First, let's agree on two indisputable facts:\n1. The US Government has a constitutional duty of the defense of the country.\n2. It has no constitutional authority to take public monies for charitable spending.\n\nHow much is too much? That's a good question. What is our role in the world, and what should our role be? \n\nShould we have a military that can offer protection to threatened and invaded people around the world, or to hell with all of them, as the rest of the world feels?\n\nBut, if you're not spending it on the military, why should it be pissed away on useless, unconstitutional programs that never work?
48659
It just won't happen as long as republicans are in charge. They are afraid that you might get something for nothing. What a shame it is that billions can be spent on a dumb war and we can't take care of our own. I know that you paid taxes for those 25 years and deserve the help.
511255
If war was ever a worthwhile venture it would be different. But this is not war, it's a battle ground for control of a region and it's resources.  Unfortunately it's still out of control with no real solution in sight.  The Bush wealth wagon loaded with oil realizes that the loss of control means loss of wealth and the demise of an industry full of greedy corporate fat cats sucking blood from hard working commoners dependent on fuel to eke out a living.  Democrats somehow always seem to botch something and lose their governmental footage leaving the people without a prayer and under the feet of the Corporate based mentality of the Republicans. Hopefully this will change and maybe the Democrats can keep their zippers up. Unfortunately the surplus was squandered by Bush and replaced with a national debt that will trickle down to your great grandchildren.
632296
NO,NO, AND DOUBLE NO!!!!All this Republican led house and senate care about is making the fat cats even fatter!They have no concern for the poor and middle class,they call the Democrats tax and spend liberals, then why is it that this country almost always does better with the Democrats in power?!Bush came in with Clintons surplus of 400 Billion dollars, now we owe 8 Trillion and rising,Go Figure!
365604
well... the economy can be defined many different ways... this is one trick... which ever party is in office has a funny way of only noticing the things that are good, and ignoring the bad... \n\nso, people that say the economy is great, are ignoring things like dropping construction, housing and house re-sale costs... and things like the trade deficit, which is a real problem... \n\nthey do throw around things like the stock market, which the vast majority of the market only benifits the top 20 percent of America... and unemployment, which is low, but still higher than when Bush went into office (4 percent vs. 4.4 percent)... \n\nthe national debt is also a problem... as it is growing... Republicans have cut back spending some recently, yet they are still spending more than they take in... by quite a bit...
490124
I read "Today our annual interest payment of more than $200 billion eats up every dollar of income tax paid by everyone living west of the Missisippi River."\n\nI've also read that it's not a problem, that a debt for a nation is different from an individual debt. I don't get why it's not a problem. Sure seems like a problem to me. I've also read that it's a small percentage of the GNP so not to worry. But I worry.
507539
Of course its a Republican war.  Republicans just don't want to be accountable to their own disastorous policies.  \n\nIt was Bush's decision to go against the UN and "go it alone".  And while Democrats supported the resolution to go into Iraq....and had to in order to support Afghanistan which was tied into the war bill by Republicans....and find the WMDs and get Suddam, they never supported this long, drawn out occupation strategy that Bush inserted after-the-fact.
98510
One thing to keep in mind is that anytime money is spent on war it is usually in the form of debt.  Wars are paid for by borrowing money, or by raising taxes.  Neither one of these is desirable.  Eventually someone has to pay for the war.  Just because we spend the money on war does not necessarily mean that that same money would have gone to the poor or other social programs.\n\nGeneral MacArthur summed it up by saying:  "The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear, keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.”\n\nActually, the US gives more than just financial donations.  It provides military presence.  It provides the ability to trade through free trade agreements.  It provides benchmarks for other countries to follow the lead.\n\nThe US does give the highest dollar amount than any other country in the world.\n\nSee the supporting source for an in depth report on how the US aids other countries relative to the rest of the world.
511073
Nope...the real issues isn't R or D in the Congress..it is the checks and balances between the branches of government. The GOP has had the advantage and used it to force policy into law without restraint. Now the restraint is there...The Dems will and ave had the same problem when they led the Predsidents office PLUS the Congress. A blend is best. .
138868
And your not, just another mentally deficient, me, type repuglican. Do not worry about tomorrow, never mind that the kids and grand kids will have to pay this debt, and more importantly the interest. Do you realize that the interest on a 3 trillion dollar debt is enough to fund health care for each individual in the country, oh that's right you have health care and it don't matter to you. I bet I am closer to "right" then you are.
373235
It still looks like we're going to take the House, and at the very least get a closer deficit in the Senate.\n\nIts about to get a lot harder for you Republicans to **** up the country like you have been doing.
474106
Don't you love this, Republicans got us into this war, saddled us with all the debt etc and now you think they shouldn't be in power because they'll ruin thing.\n\nPlease give us all a break.
616095
at least you want to argue the record not spin .as a republican i have a problem with him giving in to the democrats on most of their spending habits
447943
At least you recognize the Republican congress is pretty crappy, in spite of your sarcasm, dishonest and uneducated assertions, and bias.\n\nBush hasn't overspent?  How about that record deficit?  How about record national debt, the worst in history, including both world wars?\n\nIs taking back the exhorbitant tax cuts Bush gave to his wealthy contributors, and thus reducing the deficit, "raising" taxes?  That's like saying a store raises prices every week after a sale.\n\nCitizenship for illegal aliens? Isn't that EXACTLY what Bush is trying to do?  YES, it IS!  How else can he get all that cheap labor for his corporate buddies?\n\nRuin our efforts in Iraq?  Can they be any more bungled??  Besides, our illustrious President has already Proclaimed "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, so it's all over, isn't it?  (Tell that to the brave Americans who are dying every day because of his "efforts" in Iraq.)\n\nAll they've done for six years is to criticize??!!  That's all that Bush's rubber-stamp Republican controlled congress has let them do!  They do follow the law and the rules, after all (not change them for their own convenience as this Republican congress has done repeatedly).\n\nRepublicans talking about Democrats not having a plan is just ridiculous.  Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!  Like the Republican plan has worked so well in Iraq and after Katrina?  I'd rather start over without a plan and create a new one than to "stay the course" on the road to disaster.  Seems the only thing the Republicans can plan well by themselves is a coordinated mudslinging attack on anyone who opposes them.\n\nThis nation desperately needs Democrats to gain office, not because Republicans are bad, or because they are better politicians the Republicans, they certainly aren't.  We need a Democratic congress to restore balance of power and reign in this megalomaniac President.  Without that there is no telling how much further damage he can do to our nation.\n\nGod save America!
184038
America is currently facing many problems, however a drastic decline in it's power is doubtful.  According to most rankings that take into account all aspects of a nation, The usa is by far the most powerful, and is more powerful than the second and third most powerful countries combined.  However, if our country continues on its current trend yes there will be problems.  Our currency is depreciating, and the gap between rich and poor is growing under the current administration, and there is also talk of starting our third war in this regime.  The only reason why i think that America won't decline though is because the Republicans will have nobody else to blame after this term, and once they are voted out these problems will be addressed.  The republicans control everything now and have lost their scapegoat.  The only people they have to blame our themselves.
187852
Yes, but THAT'S THE REASON THEY'RE REPUBLICANS!  A republican's answer to the hunger problem is "They should phone out for pizza." The answer to bad schools?  "Move to a better neighborhood."  The answer to the homeless problem? "Take a cab to the Marriott."\nIt's all very Marie Antoinette...ooh wait, there's the answer!\nWe need some BEHEADINGS!!!\n\nOn second thought, maybe the Right is right... after all, are there no prisons, no workhouses?  \n\nCrap, nothing has changed since DICKENS!  I might as well go join the NRA and the Christian Coalition, and throw all my newspapers, aluminum and glass in the trash.\n\nExcuse, I have to go put my head in the oven now...