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Are you insane?
why are you a liar? why can't you just admit you're wrong and that i am right and have cited evidence to back up claim....even SF, who rarely agrees with me, says i'm right
sucks to be you
Are you insane?
lol...to most people...are you blind as well as dumb? more people on this thread believe you're wrong than believe you're right....but go ahead and delude yourself that a 25% increase in federal spending and an over 200% increase in deficit is not big deal and not any different than any other budget year under bush....
2008 and 2009 equal spprox 33% of bush's total budget spending....2 out of 8 years equal 33% of his total spending...but somehow dear ol' yurt is wrong...
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No word on your lying about me saying "smooth progression"?
Really?
Can't link that up, eh?
Yep; you are. And you just admitted it...thanks for that. 'Bout time.
As for "more people on this thread believe I'm wrong" - LOL on that one. I'll have to remember that.
You might want to do some searches on "spending" under Superfreak and Damo, your brave supporters. They were talking about Bush's insane spending throughout his term.
and the majority occurred in the last two years 2008/2009... or are you seeing something else in the chart that I am missing?
Not sure what you are seeing on the chart, but you are incorrect. Take a look at it again... deficits were decreasing from 2004-2007 as the economy grew stronger. Then as the economy started to implode the deficit jumped drastically in 2008 and then exploded upwards in 2009. (do note who took over Congress in 2007 and thus had a large hand in the budget and spending of 2008/2009).
The Tea Party formed due in large part to people being pissed at the $800 BILLION TARP being passed, along with the auto bailouts, and then on top of it another $900 Billion stimulus bill. The tea party then started ramping up further with the talks of the health care debacle coming down the pipe with a price tag of another TRILLION.
While I agree part of this movement is due to which party is in office, I also think it is naive to point and pretend that it is the main reason. If it was just the Republicans, you might have a point.... but independents and even some moderate Dems are also pissed at the insanity coming from DC.
Yes, so far it has been. You ask him to post "figure 3" as if it was going to prove him wrong. It didn't. What exactly are you asserting anymore?
Fig. 3 shows that Bush increased spending while in office (duh), and that Clinton didn't all that much, but that spending increased while Rs were in control of Congress.
It shows that Reagan increased more than Clinton, but then talks about his increase being almost all military (cold war strategy) and that all other spending decreased by 10%...
It does nothing however to prove Yurt's assertion wrong. Bush did increase spending in his last term more than his first, and the fact is the majority of that increase was due to TARP, and most of the increase in spending throughout both terms was due to the "wars" in the ME.
His first year increase was due to that stupid pill bill he and Kennedy came up with, and that unconstitutional foray into education from the Feds.
i guess we have to keep repeating for the board idiot
you essentially did in fact say that....hence, why you can't characterize what you said in any other manner than how i correctly portrayed your words
you're a dishonest hack by sticking to your sorry story that i claimed you said those exact words, go look up paraphrase you dumbass
poor onceler, you're obviously a glutton for punishment today
Even as a paraphrase, it's a complete lie (because you're desperate). I did not "essentially" say that, at all. It's not "the majority was spent at the end" or "there was a smooth progression throughout." That's ridiculous.
But, you tend to do that when you're cornered. You can never admit you're wrong.
Oh, well. Stick w/ TEA party apologism....
LOL - relying on Damo & Freak as crutches now...really?
You might want to do some searches on "spending" under Superfreak and Damo, your brave supporters. They were talking about Bush's insane spending throughout his term.
Freak, you know the #'s. You're one of the few on the board who spoke up about Bush's spending throughout his tenure (and no - not just his last year or 2).
The guy outspent everyone to that point. Do you agree with a characterization that the TEA party didn't really say anything about his spending, simply because he wasn't really a spender until the end?
C'mon...
ok...if it wasn't a smooth progression, then how would YOU characterize it? you've been given the chance to explain your statements, yet you can't do so...all you can do is whine about yurt
what kind of progression was bush's spending?
Choppy - but there was rarely a time throughout his admin that any objective observer wouldn't have characterized him as a huge spender. It was ridiculous of you to try to hit up Nigel with the "pssssst" comment, and the follow up about the "bulk" of spending being at the very end (which you came around to admit was wrong).
Bush was a big spender throughout, starting with the pill bill, w/ energy & transportation sandwiched in between, the Iraq War, et al. You tried to dishonestly protect the TEA folks by implying that his spending from 2001-2008 wasn't really a big deal. In point of fact, we were seeing huge increases every year, and a VP proclaiming that deficit spending didn't matter.
You built a house of cards again, and it collapsed on you. Now, you're trying to have SF & Damo fight your battle for you, which is hilarious, since both were outspoken about Bush's crazy spending throughout his tenure.
Regardless, I never said, implied or "essentially said" that it was a smooth progression, Just admit you were wrong.
Pretty big egg on the face. Bush spent like a madman for 8 years, and signed off enthusiastically on pretty much every major spending bill. The idea that the TEA folks were pretty quiet because spending "really" didn't come until the end is pure apologism.
I am not in any way suggesting that his spending was good prior to the last couple years. It was not, he was fiscally irresponsible right out of the gate. But unless you are attributing 2009 to Obama, then the bulk of the spending increase DID occur in the last two years. That is the only point I was making with regards to the chart Yurt posted and according to that chart, he is correct in stating that the bulk occurred in the last two years. Had 2009 not been so friggin huge, the statement would have been false. The increase in spending in 2009 matched the TOTAL spending increases from 2002-2008.
As for the tea party, I think the tea party got pissed when it escalated to a point where it was blatantly irresponsible (in their eyes). I agree that there is some partisanship at stake with the Tea Party protests, but I believe it was TARP's size and the fact we were allowing the bailouts to occur that started the tea party up in earnest. The stimulus bill and health care bill simply compounded the animosity.
I am not in any way suggesting that his spending was good prior to the last couple years. It was not, he was fiscally irresponsible right out of the gate. But unless you are attributing 2009 to Obama, then the bulk of the spending increase DID occur in the last two years. That is the only point I was making with regards to the chart Yurt posted and according to that chart, he is correct in stating that the bulk occurred in the last two years. Had 2009 not been so friggin huge, the statement would have been false. The increase in spending in 2009 matched the TOTAL spending increases from 2002-2008.
As for the tea party, I think the tea party got pissed when it escalated to a point where it was blatantly irresponsible (in their eyes). I agree that there is some partisanship at stake with the Tea Party protests, but I believe it was TARP's size and the fact we were allowing the bailouts to occur that started the tea party up in earnest. The stimulus bill and health care bill simply compounded the animosity.
SF - I expect the idiocy from Yurt and Damo, but you pretend at times to understand basic things like what "discretionary spending" is. Let's get real.
and as chart 3 showed, that also spiked at the end, thus further substantiating my claim...so we have discretionary spending spiking, the deficit spiking (as i first linked to which you and your idiot parnter onceler jumped all over on, which still puzzles me) at the end of bush's term....just like i claimed yet you and your partner onceler claimed i was wrong, unfortunate for you, the reality supports my claim, not yours
its hilarious how you try and use anything from that report to prove i am wrong, i am honestly boggled at your stupidity in this thread, though i suspect it stems more from you inability to be honest and admit you're wrong than general stupidity....at least i hope that is the case
A mere 18% of the increase in discretionary spending under Bush occurred in FY09. If you want to pretend that 18% is "the bulk" of something, feel free. But you should realize that you are using a different definition of the word "bulk" than the rest of us.
"the opposite of that is a smooth progression"
No - it really isn't.
This is amazing.