I'm rich! Republican Math solves my personal budget problems!

[shereads]

Interviewer on NPR: "Is it deceptive? The president's budget leaves out his top three spending priorities: making permanent the tax cuts from the first term, social security reform and military spending for the war in Iraq."

Heritage Foundation spokesman: "I disagree that there's anything duplicituous about the president's budget. Like all budgets, it leaves some things in and leaves certain things out."

He later points out: "...and as the budget demonstrates, the president is keeping his promise to cut the deficit in half..."

~ ~ ~

Shereads to mortgage company phone rep: "...So I've decided to consider my mortgage as a supplementary off-budget item. You'll be getting my next payment as soon as Japan comes through with a loan to cover the remaining balance. The good news is, my new budget shows expendable income out the wazoo! Fly down to Miami and I'll take you to lunch."

 

[rgraham666]

As I found out many years ago, honest accounting freaks people out.

And the higher up the ladder, the more freaked they get.

Not surprising that the Shrubbies would use, uhm, creative accounting. There are more former CEOs in this administration than ever before in history.

 

[shereads]

As I found out many years ago, honest accounting freaks people out.

And the higher up the ladder, the more freaked they get.

Not surprising that the Shrubbies would use, uhm, creative accounting. There are more former CEOs in this administration than ever before in history.

What's bad for stockholders is good for taxpayers. It keeps us calm.

 

[shereads]

The good news is, if Congress ignores the president's social security plan, revokes his tax cuts from the first term, and refuses "supplemental off-budget" funding for Iraq and Afganistan, the budget deficit will be cut in half! Just as he promised.

 

[rgraham666]

What's bad for stockholders is good for taxpayers. It keeps us calm.

Until, like Enron, the whole imaginary structure collapses taking much of reality with it.

Oh vella! Time to get out your knitting needles.

 

[shereads]

Until, like Enron, the whole imaginary structure collapses taking much of reality with it.

Oh vella! Time to get out your knitting needles.

Don't be such a pessimist. It only mattered with Enron because it shook people's faith in the stock market, where people have a choice. Income tax doesn't work that way.

The only way for the bottom to drop out of the budget scam is if the economies of Japan and Saudi Arabia, our primary lenders, became shaky for some reason and they had to call in our loans. What's the likelihood of that happening? Saudi Arabia is rock-solid, right? And the Japanese have invented a water-conserving toilet that actually flushes. We'll be fine.

 

[rgraham666]

Pessimists are most often right, but optimists have the most fun.

Wanna go somewhere private and get optimistic?

Oops. this isn't the 'flirting with logophile' thread is it?

 

[Guest]

Pessimists are most often right, but optimists have the most fun.

Wanna go somewhere private and get optimistic?

Oops. this isn't the 'flirting with logophile' thread is it?

No, it is not.

 

[NoJo]

No, it is not.

Blud, Svet, Tears.

 

[shereads]

Pessimists are most often right, but optimists have the most fun.

Wanna go somewhere private and get optimistic?

Oops. this isn't the 'flirting with logophile' thread is it?

Like all budget threads, this one leaves some things in and leaves certain things out. It's all good.

~ Heritage Foundation

 

[Guest]

Like all budget threads, this one leaves some things in and leaves certain things out. It's all good.

Am I being trolled by a man-hating lesbian, I wonder. . .

 

[Guest]

Until, like Enron, the whole imaginary structure collapses taking much of reality with it.

Oh vella! Time to get out your knitting needles.

OUI!
they are poised and at the ready, as am i.


im ready to have my medicaid taken away...please, don't let me see a doctor for any reason while im looking for a job. please, don't let my children learn to read music or appreciate art, it might make them gay.

 

[Guest]

Wanna go somewhere private and get optimistic?

Sounds like totally pointless English Lady, does it not?

Who is missing the point?

 

[shereads]

Sounds like totally pointless English Lady, does it not?

Who is missing the point?

You're ChilledVodka #27. That was too easy.

 

[minsue]

Interviewer on NPR: "Is it deceptive? The president's budget leaves out his top three spending priorities: making permanent the tax cuts from the first term, social security reform and military spending for the war in Iraq."

Heritage Foundation spokesman: "I disagree that there's anything duplicituous about the president's budget. Like all budgets, it leaves some things in and leaves certain things out."

He later points out: "...and as the budget demonstrates, the president is keeping his promise to cut the deficit in half..."

I heard that piece. Couldn't figure out for the life of me how the interviewer managed to keep from bursting out in incredulous laughter. Or how the interviewee kept his own laughter in check, for that matter.

 

[rgraham666]

Re: Re: I'm rich! Republican Math solves my personal budget problems!

I heard that piece. Couldn't figure out for the life of me how the interviewer managed to keep from bursting out in incredulous laughter. Or how the interviewee kept his own laughter in check, for that matter.

They surgically remove your senses of irony and humour when you go into news media and public relations.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Huckleman's Verity:

Irony is lost on Conservatives.

 

[Guest]

You're ChilledVodka #27. That was too easy.

"Time", aye, aye!

 

[shereads]

Huckleman's Verity:

Irony is lost on Conservatives.

Not if you tap their heads with it.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Re: I'm rich! Republican Math solves my personal budget problems!

They surgically remove your senses of irony and humour when you go into news media and public relations.

Blud, Svet, Peers.

 

[rgraham666]

Not if you tap their heads with it.

Tap? I intend a decent line drive, at the very least.

 

[Guest]

line

What happened to the curve?


SubJoe next?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

For a long time now, the biggest expenditures have been off budget items. The interest on the debt we curently have would eat up the budget if it were an on budget item. The reason these big expenditures are moved off budget, is beacuse so much of building voting blocks in congress is tied to "you wash my back & I'll wash yours". For that system to keep working, you have to have enough "free" money out there to fund the pork barrel pet projects that get the votes.

 

[Guest]

SubJoe
Colleen Thomas

I don't see the difference. Do you?

 

[rgraham666]

A line going around military circles outside of the U.S. goes, "In America, there's enough graft for everyone."

Not that anyone else is graft free, far from it. It just doesn't get spread around quite as easily elsewhere.