Bush Budget, Bigger or Smaller? It's that time of year again, when libertarians and folks who think logically will argue about which number is larger.
The 2006 federal budget (started Oct. 1, 2005) looks like it was $2.58 trillion. Bush in his State of the Union speech is now proposing a $2.77 trillion budget, an increase of about 7.3% For fair comparison, inflation last year was only about 3.4% Democrats, as partisan panders, are insincerely complaining now that Bush has finally cut some funding increases for programs. So, the trillion dollar question is this: does Bush's budget increase or decrease the size of the US Federal Budget? One of the most sarcastic successes of government schools has been to dumb down most Americans’ basic skills in math so that Americans can be robbed of intelligence, as well as more efficiently robbed by their federal, state and local governments’ policies of increasing taxing and spending (other peoples’ money). When you talk to your guv-mint skooled associates slowly, patiently and as lovingly as possible, Try to explain to them that 2.77 is bigger than 2.58. And as these figures are trillions of dollars, it is very much bigger. This week in 1933, Adolph Hitler, the National Socialist (Nazi) was named Chancellor of Germany, thus creating the History Channel. It was on this week in 1690 that the first paper money in America was issued. Which eventually lead to the creation of the Republican Party. It was also on this week in 1913 that Congress passed the 13th Amendment, to levy taxes on individual’s incomes. Which, of course, lead to the creation of the Democrat Party. "Washington is the only place where people break the law and then call for changing the law." — Senator Norm Coleman "Worse than denial is denying you have been in denial." — Cal Thomas, FOX NEWS commentator "There comes a point, sometimes, when logic is denied, reason is abandoned, and that vital connection to reality is severed. Once upon a time, we called this a nervous breakdown and prescribed a rest cure. Now, we call it a press conference and take notes." — Diana West DisINFORMation The Incredible Shrinking Government Growth: "There are no tax increases. Instead, there are a host of spending reductions. On top of the list: Slowing spending on Medicare by $36 billion through 2011... [T]he budget calls for doing away with or making substantial cuts in 141 programs for a saving of $15 billion." — ABC's ‘reporter,’ Martha Raddatz, fatuously proclaiming smaller growth in government spending increases, as “cuts” and thereby nightmarishly personifying George Orwell’s 1984 “Newspeak” in deadpan. "It was the first State of the Union Mr. Bush has given in which Congress seemed utterly pre-9/11 in terms of battle lines drawn... It seemed a metaphor for the Democrat Party: We don't know where to stand or what to stand for, and in fact we're not good at standing for anything anyway, but at least we know we can't stand Republicans." — Peggy Noonan, Pres. Ronald Reagan’s leading legendary speechwriter "Government cannot achieve the efficiencies of a business. Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow." — Walter Williams, 2004’s Chairman of George Mason University’s Economics Dept. (Washington, D.C.) and sometimes substitute-talk-show host for Rush Limbaugh "Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can." — university dean, Jonathan Swift and author of one literature’ s all-time greatest, political satires, Gulliver’s Travels. >From the Global Village Idiot: "The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush." —Venezuela's Pres. Hugo Chavez When in doubt, blurt out: "I did meet with some of the same Hamas members in Ramallah and I think they told me they want to have a peaceful administration." — X-Pres. Jimmy Carter celebrating the recent election of terrorists to Palestinian political power. "Christians, Jews, Buddhists, [and] Mormons...don't lash out in violence when their religious sensibilities are offended. They certainly don't expect their beliefs to be immune from criticism, mockery, or dissent. But radical Muslims do." — Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe, when thousands of religious zealots rioted internationally after seeing a few, two-dimensional Danish political cartoons "Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not." — Elias Root Beadle "You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along." — Aristophanes, ancient Greek wise man "The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded." —Charles-Louis De Secondat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
