Primary Election Poll Paints Grim Picture For Republican Field

These days Americans get constant lectures about the need to reduce the budget deficit. That focus in itself represents distorted priorities­, since our immediate concern should be job creation. But suppose we restrict ourselves to talking about the deficit, and ask: What happened to the budget surplus the federal government had in 2000?

The answer is three main things.

• First, there were the Bush tax cuts, which added roughly $2 trillion to the national debt over the last decade.

• Second, there were the wars in Iraq and Afghanista­n, which added an additional $1.1 trillion or so.

• And third was the Great Recession, which led both to a collapse in revenue and to a sharp rise in spending on unemployme­nt insurance and other safety-net programs.

While the stimulus under Obama DID add to the deficit, it was necessary because of the prior failures; AND it has created 1.4 - 3 million jobs [more than 8-years under Bush].



I ask all the readers of this blog, to take a stand with me, and vote out & recall as many Republican­s as possible during the 2012 elections.



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