Financial record!!! (a bad one)
Well, wonderful. This is going to have to be dealt with some way or another... because Bush is content on flexing our military might (helping out the defense donators) and handing out tax cuts we can't afford (helping out the rich donators), we're on our way to the biggest deficit ever. Right now it's only the biggest deficit in pure absolute terms. but it is supposed to be the largest deficit in real terms...
This is somewhat insightful:
"While Democrats and Republicans traded charges over the deficit in predictable ways (Democrats calling President George Bush's policies irresponsible; Republicans saying it's all quite manageable), more unusual is the IMF sticking its nose in. The international bank is set to reproach the U.S. for being too optimistic in its assumptions on government spending and revenue, and lacking a coherent budget plan, according to Reuters. The IMF draft report also says that the U.S. lacks "a medium-term concept to consolidate budgets and reform the social insurance system." "