Victor Davis Hanson Fantasy World - Democrats Flummoxed By Bush
Victor Davis Hanson lives in a fantasy world where George Bush is a cunning “conservative” not a radical who is outwitting those stupid Democrats. How you might ask?
“Take the economy. In Bush's first term, the president ballooned the federal deficit. But that red ink wasn't because of too little money coming in. In fact, the ensuing growth of the economy produced more annual adjusted revenue for the Treasury than had been produced before the Bush tax cuts. This year there has been a whopping 14.6 percent increase in federal income over last.”
Then there is this beauty.
“Democrats have tried the ``tax cuts for the wealthy'' approach. But, then, how is it that almost every American got some tax relief -- and that most in the upper brackets still pay over 50 percent of their salaries when federal, state, local and payroll taxes are considered altogether? Furthermore, unemployment and interest rates remain low, while consumer spending and the gross domestic product soar.”
Golly Victor maybe it is because the biggest chunk of the tax cut went to the top 1 percent.
Anyone with a functional memory knew that Bush was reenacting the voodoo economics or trickle down economics of Reagan. So what was to be expected? The biggest defecits in history, just as Reagan had done in the 80’s, although Bush had a surplus when he got in office which makes his feat all the more amazing. This isn’t rocket science this is simply what the radicals like Grover Norquist want ““My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”
He is not joking he is very, very serious. Creating a huge deficit is part of it, by lowering the amount of money that the government collects you will eventually have to start cutting back. Where do you think that will be? Social Security, Medicare and any kind of social safety net of course.
So we know Mr. Hanson is not a conservative as everyone thinks the term means, he is a neo-con which is quite different. A classic conservative would be appalled by the deficits that have been created by the Bush administration as well as his foreign adventure in the middle east and I am sure many of them are. The GOP has been taken over by radicals or a cult as the journalist Seymour Hersh has called it.
Seymour is correct and we haven't even gotten into the delusional statements on Iraq. That would take too much time and in the reality based world I live in I have to go to work.
Wake up U.S.!
“Take the economy. In Bush's first term, the president ballooned the federal deficit. But that red ink wasn't because of too little money coming in. In fact, the ensuing growth of the economy produced more annual adjusted revenue for the Treasury than had been produced before the Bush tax cuts. This year there has been a whopping 14.6 percent increase in federal income over last.”
Then there is this beauty.
“Democrats have tried the ``tax cuts for the wealthy'' approach. But, then, how is it that almost every American got some tax relief -- and that most in the upper brackets still pay over 50 percent of their salaries when federal, state, local and payroll taxes are considered altogether? Furthermore, unemployment and interest rates remain low, while consumer spending and the gross domestic product soar.”
Golly Victor maybe it is because the biggest chunk of the tax cut went to the top 1 percent.
Anyone with a functional memory knew that Bush was reenacting the voodoo economics or trickle down economics of Reagan. So what was to be expected? The biggest defecits in history, just as Reagan had done in the 80’s, although Bush had a surplus when he got in office which makes his feat all the more amazing. This isn’t rocket science this is simply what the radicals like Grover Norquist want ““My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”
He is not joking he is very, very serious. Creating a huge deficit is part of it, by lowering the amount of money that the government collects you will eventually have to start cutting back. Where do you think that will be? Social Security, Medicare and any kind of social safety net of course.
So we know Mr. Hanson is not a conservative as everyone thinks the term means, he is a neo-con which is quite different. A classic conservative would be appalled by the deficits that have been created by the Bush administration as well as his foreign adventure in the middle east and I am sure many of them are. The GOP has been taken over by radicals or a cult as the journalist Seymour Hersh has called it.
Seymour is correct and we haven't even gotten into the delusional statements on Iraq. That would take too much time and in the reality based world I live in I have to go to work.
Wake up U.S.!
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