Another Account of Fiscal Hypocrisy!

President “enlarge the deficit, debt and fail to veto any spending proposal” Bush is trying to satisfy his base! Faced with a war that is fast approach 300 billion dollars President Taxcut has decided to appear financially prudent and state that the emergency funding for
Iraq,
Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina would be vetoed for any dollar figure above 92 billion dollars.

I think CNN said it nicely, “Bush has yet to veto any bill in his five-plus years in office. But he said Wednesday that if Congress spent more than $92 billion, plus another $2.6 billion for preparations for a possible avian flu pandemic, he would veto this measure.”

Sorry le
t me correc
t myself… h
e hasn’t vetoed a single piece of legislation. Here is my question to “our President” if you cannot reconcile with the 109 billion dollars from the Senate bill what will you cut first: funding for the troops on harm’s way, funding to help displaced hurricane victims that you’ve already mistreated or funding to prepare a horrible disease that you’ve been warning us against.

Sounds like a no-win situation. I applaud you for your fiscal responsibility, but tha
t makes me wonder either you’re going to shirk your responsibilities as president to either provide those four crucial budget items, you’ll fail as being fiscally responsible or you’ll have to find the money elsewhere.

I have a solution… repeal your tax cuts and than you’ll appeal to those fiscal conservatives while properly funding these four budget items. Ok tha
t might anger other types of conservatives; I’ll compromise… instead just abandon making them permanent.

THAT ladies and gentleman would be true leadership and real fiscal conservatism. But as Stephen Colbert reminded us that this president does not chang
e his mind on Wednesday about what he said on
Monday no matter what happened on Tuesday. Whether or not that on this metaphorical Wednesday people from both parties has continually been outraged, experts have continually said these tax cuts are wrong and the debt has continually been growing.

If you want to be true fiscal conservative, don’t half-ass joke the American public. Being firm on 17 billion dollars might wow a few people momentarily, but we’re not idiots. 17 billion dollars in one time move does no
t make up for 5 year of poorly designed tax cuts, costly wars and incompetent governance.

Give us a break… not a tax break though.

P.S. If people are skeptical abou
t my damnation of tax cuts I can pos
t my 10 page paper about why progressive income taxes are great and tax cuts that do not promote the progressive tax system ar
e horrible ideas.