Conservatives do not support increased spending. Don't tell me what I believe and don't believe.

You elected the Congress and President that spent the money!

America had that opportunity in '04 with John Kerry.  He proposed raising taxes on the same people you do, and America didn't care for it.  You keep speaking of the "majority of peopel" without backing that statement up. 

The election of 06 made what I am saying Clear. Wait until 08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Take a look at Luke 16: 19-25 Lazarus and the Rich Man.

You say you have spent 30 years with the US Army. Yet you say we live in a democracy. Please allow me to instruct you in the basics of civics. We, that is Americans, live in a republic. A representative democracy where we elect our representatives and entrust them with the power to make decisions for us. They are supposed to listen to us and obey our wishes if they don’t we don’t re-elect them. The 06 election was a perfect example of that. The republicans failed to do as the conservatives wanted so they were removed from office. This allowed the democrats to take power as punishment for their failure to reduce spending, and failure to support the president. Almost all the republicans that were fired were liberal republicans, it was a foolish belief of the democrats to think that gaining the majority was the same as winning the majority. Had they not played such dirty rotten tricks on the Republicans the last two times the republicans took power the democrats would have had an easier time. But this time they have a numerical majority but not a true majority. Their plan was to win a majority and then end the war. Once some of the clear headed democrats learned the plan they backed off and now there is not enough people to end the war. less than five of the first fifty things Speaker Pelosi promised has been delivered.

Paladin 77

If you believe the voters would keep people in Congress and the White House that would opt to cut Social Security or Medicare to protect the tax cuts for the wealthy, you are a total IDIOT!

Never, not once have the republicans even suggested cutting social security or medicare. On a personal note. I don't call you names but you seem to enjoy calling people names instead of answering questions asked. I noticed that on almost every reply you made today you called someone an idiot. It is sad to see you run to name calling because you can't answer the qurestion or you lose an aargument.

paladin77

There are only two things that can happen with Social Security benefits-- CUT benefits or increases taxes. Since the GOP has said they will not support any tax increases, Social Security will at some point be unable to make the promised payments. Then Bush proposed the shift of Trillions of dollars currently pledged to pay benefits to create private accounts which makes the funding problem of Social Security worse. There were suggestions to lower the COLA which is cutting benefits. I was directly responding to the comments of Dragional who posted:

And no, I don't need seniors being "protected" by social security

Eliminate social security, Medicare, and Medicaid and then come talk to me about fiscal needs

The above is the position of many wealthy conservatives who realize that to keep the promised payments under Social Security and Medicare as the Boomers retire, will require MORE money that can only come from higher taxes. At the same time, the deficit is increasing the interest payments which make it even more difficult to provide help to fund Social Security and Medicare. We are heading for a very serious financial problem and if the economy begins to cool, tax revenue will drop further which just makes our financial problems worse!

I see you are still campaigning for democrats.

IdlandDog

No just for what the MAJORITY of Americans want!

57% of people polled want to win the war before pulling out of the area. A majority voted in GWB making him incharge until 08 so why don't you respect the will of the majority? The minority tried to end the war by cutting off funding but the majority stopped it from happening. Where is your respect for the majority when you are in the minority?

Here is another lie that Bush told us about the annual budget deficit that he claims is being cut in half:

National Debt increase under GWB


02/22/2007 $8.769 $ 262 5 Months Increase
09/30/2006 8.507 574 *
09/30/2005 7.933 554
09/30/2004 7.379 596
09/30/2003 6.783 555
09/30/2002 6.228 421
09/30/2001 5.807 133
09/30/2000 5.674 18

* The Bush administration reported the budget deficit for 2006 as $248 Billion. However the truth is that the National debt increased in FY 2006 by $574 Billion. That is because Bush subtracted $226 Billion from the Surplus produced by Social Security and Medicare in FY 2006 from the actual annual deficit to make it appear lower.

paladin77

I want us too win but that is not likely. We will not end a Civil War with 160,000 troops in a country of 26 Million. Only 34% say the Iraq War was worth the COST! Did you miss that poll?

papadin77 et al

You claim that Bush does not lie. How do you explain the fact he told us the deficit in 2006 was $248 Billion when it was $574 Billion?

For the first 5 months in FY 2007 we have a $262 Billion loss. If the loss continues at that rate we will have the biggest one year loss EVER!

Acturally I said I have not caught him in a lie that had to do with the war on Terror. The disparity I believe is because you wish it to be so. Remember You have lied so much that it will take a long time before I believe what you say. Sorry but you need proof while others I take at face value.

Or you can do what Mr. Reagan proposed which the democrats misrepresented. Reduce the increase in benefits while cutting spending in other areas that are nonproductive to society. Eliminating welfare would take billions off the table. It was told by the democrats that doing so would put people out on the streets well we finally got welfare cut by three quarters after 20 years of trying and the people are not homeless they are working, productive members of society instead of being a drain on society that pay taxes which fill the treasury that reduce the debt. When Mr. Reagan proposed the tax cuts the democrats were still fully in control of congress. He had to make deals to get the taxes cut. Costly deals to get the democrats to vote with him. You see, democrats are not against tax cuts if you bribe them. In this case big oil which was supporting the democrats at the time because big business always supports the people in power. The democrats got concessions for big oil, big sugar a major polluter in Florida, pretty much all the people you seem to hate col were protected by democrats during Mr. Reagan’s first term. Anyway Mr. Reagan gave in to get the tax cuts and when it was all tolled the democrats with their bribes busted the budget. We were looking at 10 trillion dollars that our grandchildren’s great-grandchildren would not be able to pay off. The secret was that if you let business grow even a little bit you can get a lot accomplished. So sure it looked like we were going deep into debt but the added revenue from newly created jobs and business expansion made it all back. Had the democrats not been so greedy and demanded being paid to vote for what was best for the nation we could have paid down the debt in 8 years instead of 15. You talk about 9 trillion dollars in debt as if this was new. When Mr. Reagan got his tax cuts it was because the Majority of the people wanted it but the majority of the legislators were committed to making Mr. Reagan a one term president. To do this they had to do what was bad for the nation in order to make the President look bad. It did not work. Commercials ran nation wide talking about how bad it would be for our children. When that did not have any traction ads talked about how bad it would be for our grandchildren. By the time it was voted on they were running ads saying our grandchildren’s grandchildren would still be paying off the 10 trillion dollar debt with monstrous taxes just to keep the nation afloat. Well my children were born while Mr. Reagan was president and my daughter just gave me my first grandchild and even with more tax cuts from our current President and spending for the war it looks like my granddaughter won’t have massive taxes to pay to support the nation. As long as we allow people to earn a living wage without taxing them to death the treasury will come out all right. We took 20 years to get welfare under control give us some time and we will get rid of the rest of the pork.