Discussion

• waltc :

  You folks realize Bush is just smearing the Democrats face in dog poo with this move. He's showing despite being a lame duck he's stronger and smarter than the Dumbocrats who oppose him.

  Posted on September 25, 2007 12:05 PM

• jon :

  $22 billion may be more than $200 billion, but the $200 billion is off-budget so it doesn't count, see? And Bush will easily succeed in putting off payment of the debt he's incurred (i.e. taxes yet to be paid) until well after he's left office. At some point in our future, grownups will need to finally raise taxes in order to reduce the skyrocketing debt, at which point those same grownups will be pilloried for raising taxes. Interest rates will likely have risen by then, which will increase the debt load even more. Like variable rate mortgages; borrow when rates are low and pay the piper when rates go up.
  Since when, I wonder, is living on borrowed money a smart way to run a family, or a business, or a country?

  Posted on September 25, 2007 1:02 PM