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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (98676)	5/22/2007 9:41:56 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Apparently Tonto likes paying the high cost of GOPwinger gas--lol! If one truly wishes for an economic indicator then one should compare the costs of materials at Lowes or Home Depot since Bush took office. Of course, the folks shopping at these stores don't arrive to pick up their materials in limos, do they?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (98676)	5/22/2007 9:45:14 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Looks like Bush will have a more difficult time making sneak appointments for graduates of Pat Robertson's Regent Law School: Reid's Plan to Stop Recess Appointments Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "has a little trick up his sleeve that could spell an end to President Bush's devilish recess appointments of controversial figures," according to Washington Whispers. "We hear that over the long August vacation, when those types of summer hires are made, Reid will call the Senate into session just long enough to force the prez to send his nominees who need confirmation to the chamber. The talk is he will hold a quickie 'pro forma' session every 10 days, tapping a local senator to run the hall. Senate workers and Republicans are miffed, but Reid is proving that he's the new sheriff in town." politicalwire.com

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (98676)	5/22/2007 9:46:21 AM
From: JeffA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Bush is such a loser the smart thing to do would have been to take every cent you had in US assets and transfer it to Euros the MOMENT the chimp was elected. Not many did that but it would have been a great play. I am LMAO! You are just like your candidates! Excellent 20/20 hindsight vision and a professional Monday Morning Quarterback. Do you people take courses on how to analyze what could have been, then how to state it like it was your idea from the beginning? Gawd you crack me up. Hey you shoulda bought MSFT ahile back too and held on to it! LMAO

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (98676)	5/22/2007 12:25:14 PM
From: tonto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Wrong. I switched to real estate and purchased several farms a few years ago while the market underperformed. That was a fortuitous move, as values leaped as we all know. The past two years have provided exceptional returns in the market. It does not matter to me who is in office, the opportunities are the same. Our corporate expansions were timely and we are benefiting from those investments... I may not agree with his politics, nor did I with Clinton's, but I refuse to buy into your perceptions. Sorry. The country has not fallen apart. That is your illusion.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (98676)	5/22/2007 12:32:06 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Shrinking deficit "The Treasury Department's tax-collection data for April puts the federal deficit over the 12-month period ending April 30 at $144.7 billion. This leaves the deficit at about 1 percent of GDP, and declining, which is not a significant economic problem," Peter Ferrara writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com). "The decline is due to surging tax revenues from a booming economy. The deficit is down about $120 billion, or 45 percent, since last April. It has declined by $309 billion, or 68 percent, over the last three years from the peak of $455 billion in April 2004. This experience shows that combining pro-growth tax cuts with just moderate spending restraint can sharply reduce, and, indeed, eliminate the deficit," said Mr. Ferrara, a senior fellow at the Free Enterprise Fund, director of entitlement and budget policy at the Institute for Policy Innovation, and general counsel for the American Civil Rights Union. "The deficit has declined now for 26 consecutive months and will continue to do so over the next 5 months until the end of the fiscal year. The deficit will consequently soon be well below 1 percent of GDP. Even with some modest slowdown in economic growth, this deficit could be eliminated over the next two years with reasonable restraint in the growth of federal spending. "But any such reasonable restraint in spending is not going to happen with the new Democrat Congress. Their emerging budget plan calls for even more rapid increases in federal spending, sopping up all projected increases in revenues, which will leave no scope for continued deficit reduction in the next fiscal year. They tout a plan to eliminate the remaining rapidly shrinking deficit over a ridiculous five years, and that only with tax increases."