I thought it would be a good idea to kick this thread off before he opens his mouth to communicate his first of several attmepts to mislead us or lie to us:
National Debt on 01/28/2008= <a href="http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np">$9,202,516,936,166</a>
He will tell us that the federal deficit has been reduced. He won't mention the <a href="http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/fyOps.html">$186 billion surplus</a> Social Security payroll tax receipts that were spent on federal, government operations in 2007, and are owed to the SSA trust fund, a major portiion of the actual increase in the "national debt" in the past year, part of the total borrowing in the past year of more than $550 billion, including the defict amount he "lowballs" in his speech.
Four months before he was sworn in, in 2001, the federal fiscal year ended with just $18 billion in additional federal borrowing, in the preceding 12 month period.
Here is what he told us in his first and fifth SOTU addresses:
National Debt on 02/27/2001= <a href="http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np">$5,726,968,823,821</a>
Quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea.../20010228.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 27, 2001
Address of the President to the Joint Session of Congress
..t is reasonable, and it is responsible. It meets our obligations, and funds our growing needs. We increase spending next year for Social Security and Medicare, and other entitlement programs, by $81 billion. We've increased spending for discretionary programs by a very responsible 4 percent, above the rate of inflation. My plan pays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt. And then, when money is still left over, my plan returns it to the people who earned it in the first place. (Applause.)...
....Many of you have talked about the need to pay down our national debt. I listened, and I agree. (Applause.) We owe it to our children and grandchildren to act now, and I hope you will join me to pay down $2 trillion in debt during the next 10 years. (Applause.) At the end of those 10 years, we will have paid down all the debt that is available to retire. (Applause.) <h3>That is more debt, repaid more quickly than has ever been repaid by any nation at any time in history.</h3> (Applause.)....
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National Debt on 01/31/2005= <a href="http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np">$7,627,742,597,775</a>
Quote:
http://www.gop.com/News/NewsRead.asp...c-9532ba33cf3d
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Fact Check: Democrat State Of The Union Response
The Democrat Duo Of Obstruction Responds To
State Of The Union Address With Misstatements And Inaccuracies
4. Reid Implied President Bush Is Not Concerned With National Debt. “[A]fter we worked so hard to eliminate the deficit, his policies have added trillions to the debt – in effect, a ‘birth tax’ of $36,000 on every child that is born.” (Sen. Reid and Rep. Pelosi, “Democratic Response To State Of The Union Address,” Press Release, 2/2/05)
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But In State Of The Union, President Bush Promised To Cut Deficit In Half By 2009, Cut Wasteful Programs, And Keep Spending Increases Under Rate Of Inflation. “[N]ext week I will send you a budget that holds the growth of discretionary spending below inflation, makes tax relief permanent, and stays on track to cut the deficit in half by 2009. My budget substantially reduces or eliminates more than 150 government programs that are not getting results, or duplicate current efforts, or do not fulfill essential priorities. The principle here is clear: a taxpayer dollar must be spent wisely, or not at all.” (President George W. Bush, State Of The Union Address, As Prepared For Delivery, Washington, DC, 2/2/05)
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He will tell us that the "surge" in Iraq is "working", even thought the reason for sacraficing the lives and limbs of addtional US soldiers in the past year, to "buy" the Iraqi government "the time to make progress" in the "benchmarks" laid out for them, the ones they agreed to in exchange for American military and financial aid. Those benchmarks have not been met, despite ratcheting them down to make it seem as if progress is being made.
He will tell us that the FISA laws, need to be modernized, because they were drafted "thirty years ago", even thought they have actually been revised to take technological advances into account, more than fifty times, including a number of times during his own presidency. He will tell us that there is a need and a justification for "telecom immunity" in that bill. None of what he says on the subject is true and accurate.
Is this the most dishonest and unaccomplished US presidency in your lifetime, or?