At the beginning of the Bush administration? In the Bush administration hot little hands.
So they were like..surplus what to do..what to do...
Pay off debt?
Naw.
TAX CUTS!
I have no idea how this answers my question.
Oh.
I will go slower.
WE-COULD-HAVE-STARTED-PAYING-DOWN-THE-DEBT-IN-2001. INSTEAD-BUSH-CUT-TAXES.
WE-CAN-FINANCE-THE-DEBT-NOW. AND-MAYBE-PAY-IT-DOWN-BY-SUNSETTING-THE-TAX-CUTS-CUTTING/CLOSING-LOOPHOLES-AND-RECAPTURING-TAXES-FROM-TAX-CHEATS.
Or we can kill the poor like Jan Brewer by cutting medicare and welfare.
But eventually..as the french found out the hard way..enough misery leads to revolution.
Ah, there it is again, the liberal's solution to every problem - BIGGER GOVERNMENT, HIGHER TAXES. Poverty? No problem, Bigger Government, raise taxes! Recession? No problem-Bigger Government, raise taxes! War? No problem-Bigger government, raise taxes! The deficit? No problem, bigger government, raise taxes! Whatever the problem, TAX and SPEND, SPEND, SPEND! Hell if you democrats had your way, the government would own everything, your party would control everything, your party would decide how much we work, how much of what we produce you'd let us keep, when we sleep, how much we eat, and what we eat, because according to you the almighty federal government (so long as YOU control it, naturally) knows better that we do what's good for us. That Ivy League, arrogant, egomaniacal, statist prick you put in the White House is a perfect example of everything I detest about your party. You hate individual freedom, you want total government control of it all (again, all run by elitists like you, who are arrogant enough, and stupid enough, to believe you know it all). Government for the elite, by the elite, and the people be damned!
Well, this time, you are NOT going to get your way. This time, the rest of us have had enough, and I do not care, if we bring the whole house of cards down, or if that leads to revolution. Maybe we need a revolution, to clean out that cesspool on the Potomac. What you and your elitist, statist attitude have created is a sham, a lie, and a fraud! Just as Lincoln and the Radical Republican Jacobins of the nineteenth century destroyed the Republic, you have finally run the dissolute Empire that replaced it into the ground! The corporatist republican politicians who have helped you do it are little better; they want a corporate, militarized state, you want a socialist, command economy, nanny state, but BOTH want an all-powerful state, to divide among themselves. I hope it doesn't come to a choice, but I'd prefer absolute anarchy to either!
You want the truth? The truth is, that BOTH major political parties have flim-flammed the people, narcotized them with easy credit and phony prosperity, bought off the poor, instead of helping them, created a culture of dependency to buy votes, encouraged illegal immigration for votes and profit, and continued a giant Ponzi scheme called Social Security and Medicare (knowing it would become insolvent), and spent beyond the Nation's means, in a complete exercise in social and fiscal irresponsibility. Those aren't chickens coming home to roost, those are vultures, coming to feed on the rotten, decaying carcass. The party's over (BOTH of them!), and the American people are going to have to become self reliant again, instead of looking for a free lunch that is not free at all. The difference between me and you, is that I believe the people are capable of doing that, despite the pain of recovering from a well-conditioned addiction to the largesse of political thieves and hucksters.
