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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (13682)	6/15/2009 1:03:39 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Obama and his fellow Dems, ALL OF THEM, voted for every fiscally irresponsible project Bush proposed. The wars are national security. There was a reason to keep them separate. But yes, they were expensive in many ways.

To: pompsander who wrote (13682)	6/15/2009 1:05:17 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

I am coming to the conclusion that I am going to vote for the person that isn't the incumbent regardless of party. I'm sick of all of those assholes in DC and they all need to go.

To: pompsander who wrote (13682)	6/15/2009 1:55:02 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Just because someone is against any and all taxes doesn't mean they are "for" Balanced Budgets and Fiscal Prudence. If you don't support enough revenue to cover outlays, (and you don't cut that spending, those outlays...), then the difference is made up by BORROWING. So the exact same amount of debt is laid on the back of the citizens, except that NOW it comes with INTEREST CHARGES that year-by-year raise the debt load even higher. That is NOT "fiscally conservative" what that is is FISCALLY LIBERAL. So... simply because someone claims they are 'fiscally conservative' because they 'oppose taxes' it's is not necessarily so. To be Fiscally Conservative you must support BALANCING BUDGETS. (Because --- from the point-of-view of budgets, borrowing can be even worse then taxes....) But PAYING FOR WHAT YOU SPEND is the hallmark of fiscal conservatism. (Then, when faced with the stark choices that would be required to be made between spending and taxing --- when balanced budgets are the LEGAL REQUIREMENT --- societies can make their own policy decisions about what they actually want and can afford to buy, and what they can't... but it is only the Fiscally Liberal who try to pass all those hard choices off onto the future by borrowing long-term to cover their short-term fiscal imprudence.)