[rextorres]

Well there is no getting around the fact that the budget has $550B deficit and growing and there is no denying that Bush's OWN forecasts call for a deficit even when the economy turns around.

I am still unclear how a $550B deficit is a good thing - and no it has nothing to do with the war in Iraq (which is the latest falacy presented by Bush and his supporters) there was a $400B deficit before the money requested by the administration for the war.

Conservatives can attack Krugman all they want to discredit him, but he's right on one point in his book: either Bush is ignorant and doesn't care what will happen after he is President or there is some hidden agenda going on to bankrupt the country so that social programs need to be eliminated. I still haven't figured out which is worse.

[ September 30, 2003, 21:52: Message edited by: rextorres ]