John Thune's Plan to Cut Spending Is a Good Start

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I love these arguments about which party is causing us the most grief. The answer is - both. George W. Bush was second only to LBJ in the amount of total deficit increase. Now we have a new contender in the White House. The real question is what we are going to do about it. I fear that we, as a people, are not up to the task ahead of us. It is going to take a lot more that reducing budgets to a 2008 level.

Jim of MI 8:22PM November 18, 2010

John F. Kennedy believed cutting taxes to rich caused them to pay more taxes and it did. Instead of hiding their money from tax collected they invested and created jobs. Rich pay more tax with reduced taxes:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2003/08/the-historical-lessons-of-lower-tax-rates
Bush tax cuts increased tax revenue from rich by 4.6 %:
"the Bush tax cuts actually shifted the total tax burden farther toward the rich so that in 2000-2004, total income tax paid by the top 40% of income-earners grew by 4.6% to 99.1% of the total."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/lying_about_bushs_tax_cuts.html
All expenses are on the books. Yes war too. Not budget, you said it WRONG. Democrats was for war to. They just forgot it. Ha-ha. Internet remembers their quotes:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp
Bush debt is NOTHING compared to debtobama. ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD worth...

Bill Hedges of MO 11:32AM November 18, 2010

How is the Obama tax cuts working for you. You know the one from the Stimulus package that the Republicans wanted, but voted against. Big spending, like for the two wars that Bush and the Republican Congress refused to put on the books; so, the deficit didn't look so bad. Yes, and let's keep giving tax cuts to the very wealth because we can keep borrowing from China, India and Japan to pay for them.
The Republicans love the Gilded Age and are pushing the US into second/third world status. Way to Go!

Tree Hugger of CO 10:24AM November 18, 2010

And so,very clearly,let me be clear here,as the era of Democrat Pork is here,at
last and thus House Minoirty Leader Nancy Pelosi will not be able to spend our
tax money to protect the California Marsh Mouse among other things... So der leader Barack Hussein Obama also will not be able to throw away tens of billions
of your tax dollars on his 10 day luxury vacation and Asian apology tour and his
wife Michelle Obama will now longer be able to spend one half billion dollars of
your tax money on her endless luxury vacations on the Spanish Riveria as well.
So,see what a good job the new Republican House Majority is doing now?

Ralph of AZ 10:05AM November 18, 2010

No House, nothing passes. True we can not defeat onamacare alone. Court just might do that. We must do what we can and tell the people repeatily why we are doing what we are doing. So obama says party of no won't pass anything. So...

Bill Hedges of MO 5:47PM November 17, 2010