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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (765887)	10/11/2007 11:51:08 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

get a grip, idiot. it is lap lickers like yourself that will insure that the hildabeast will be elected.

To: pompsander who wrote (765887)	10/12/2007 1:14:18 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

Forgetting for now (if we can...) the hundreds of billions in 'off-budget' war costs that don't appear in these official government deficit numbers.... (just remember to mentally add those hundreds of billions back into Bush II's already historic deficit count....) Let's also forget for now the smoke-and-mirrors budget flim-flam caused by using the temporary social Security account surpluses to DISGUISE from the public the true extent of the government's ongoing massive structural deficits... (A flim-flam that has been materially significant ever since the Reagan years....) Let's just look at the 'OFFICIAL' government deficit numbers. (I've bolded the reported surpluses): FACTBOX-U.S. budget balance history 1987-2007 Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:03 PM ET BUDGET YEAR SURPLUS OR DEFICIT (-) AS PCT OF GDP 2007 -$162.8 bln 1.2 2006 -$247.7 bln 1.9 2005 -$318.7 bln 2.6 2004 -$412.7 bln 3.6 2003 -$377.6 bln 3.5 2002 -$157.8 bln 1.5 2001 $128.2 bln 1.3 2000 $236.2 bln 2.4 1999 $125.6 bln 1.4 1998 $69.3 bln 0.8 1997 -$21.9 bln 0.3 1996 -$107.4 bln 1.4 1995 -$164.0 bln 2.2 1994 -$203.2 bln 2.9 1993 -$255.1 bln 3.9 1992 -$290.3 bln 4.7 1991 -$269.2 bln 4.5 1990 -$221.0 bln 3.9 1989 -$152.6 bln 2.8 1988 -$155.2 bln 3.1 1987 -$149.7 bln 3.2 © Reuters 2007. All rights reserved.

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