In the chart on page 16, I wonder why 2007 is a blue, Republican budget and 2008 is a red, Democratic budget. Was there a change in government between 2007 and 2008 that no one told me about?
It is also sort of amusing how they started their plot in 2004, after Bush had already dug us into the deficit hole so that they conveniently miss the build-up of the deficits under the first few years of the Bush Administration.
And, even coloring the 2009 budget red is sort of questionable. I think it includes several commitments, such as the $700 billion bailout, that were made under the Republican Administration. And, of course, the big jump from FY2008 to FY2009 has more to do with the complete economic meltdown and bailouts than anything else.
I've tried reading through the document, and trying to make sense of the various charts and figures, and I really can't make heads or tails of the diagram on page 8. How should that be interpreted? Is "The Republican Road to Recovery" standing as a block between "Limits Federal Spending" and "Universal Access to Affordable Coverage"? It just seems to be a bunch of terms thrown into Visio and arranged prettily, but utterly devoid of meaningful content.
It's fairly revealing that the only specific policy proposal in the entire budget with numbers is a massive tax cut for the rich. The "plan" proposes establishing two marginal tax rates - 25% for those who make more than $100,000; 10% for everyone else. As I'm sure you know, that's a huge benefit for those who are doing pretty well. Clearly, this is not a party whose sole mission in life is to redistribute income up the ladder.
It's also worth noting that, hilarity aside, it's full of misleading and downright false assertions. A few of the biggies that I saw was the continuing attempt to pin the market meltdown on the Community Reinvestment Act (of 1977), and Fannie and Freddie. Don't know if it's the first, but it certainly won't be the last to liken the budget to the famous Underpants Gnome financial plan.
I Can't determine anything from that pdf. Those nineteen pages should have been an introduction to a larger, wider budget that pairs their own numbers with President Obama's and CBO projections. Instead, it boils down to a bunch of shoulda-coulda-woulda that's gratitiously ornate in pictures and diagrams but lacking in substance.
They've done it again! With a huge buildup, a fanfare, and a flourish of strumpets, they've brought forth an utter nullity, a vacuum with skin! They even had the good grace to time their rollout to detract from a Presidential speech, so that they could gain maximum impact for their empty bromide a-go-go!
General Jubilation T. Cornpone! Commander of Cornpone's Defeat, Cornpone's Rout, and Cornpone's Utter Humiliation! Thank you, Jesus!
It is also sort of amusing how they started their plot in 2004, after Bush had already dug us into the deficit hole so that they conveniently miss the build-up of the deficits under the first few years of the Bush Administration.
And, even coloring the 2009 budget red is sort of questionable. I think it includes several commitments, such as the $700 billion bailout, that were made under the Republican Administration. And, of course, the big jump from FY2008 to FY2009 has more to do with the complete economic meltdown and bailouts than anything else.
I've tried reading through the document, and trying to make sense of the various charts and figures, and I really can't make heads or tails of the diagram on page 8. How should that be interpreted? Is "The Republican Road to Recovery" standing as a block between "Limits Federal Spending" and "Universal Access to Affordable Coverage"? It just seems to be a bunch of terms thrown into Visio and arranged prettily, but utterly devoid of meaningful content.
It's fairly revealing that the only specific policy proposal in the entire budget with numbers is a massive tax cut for the rich. The "plan" proposes establishing two marginal tax rates - 25% for those who make more than $100,000; 10% for everyone else. As I'm sure you know, that's a huge benefit for those who are doing pretty well. Clearly, this is not a party whose sole mission in life is to redistribute income up the ladder.
It's also worth noting that, hilarity aside, it's full of misleading and downright false assertions. A few of the biggies that I saw was the continuing attempt to pin the market meltdown on the Community Reinvestment Act (of 1977), and Fannie and Freddie. Don't know if it's the first, but it certainly won't be the last to liken the budget to the famous Underpants Gnome financial plan.
I Can't determine anything from that pdf. Those nineteen pages should have been an introduction to a larger, wider budget that pairs their own numbers with President Obama's and CBO projections. Instead, it boils down to a bunch of shoulda-coulda-woulda that's gratitiously ornate in pictures and diagrams but lacking in substance.
They've done it again! With a huge buildup, a fanfare, and a flourish of strumpets, they've brought forth an utter nullity, a vacuum with skin! They even had the good grace to time their rollout to detract from a Presidential speech, so that they could gain maximum impact for their empty bromide a-go-go!
General Jubilation T. Cornpone! Commander of Cornpone's Defeat, Cornpone's Rout, and Cornpone's Utter Humiliation! Thank you, Jesus!
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