If I were a Republican, I would be scratching my head and saying I had just voted for a bill that would ultimately cost far more than the war. |
It's hard to sort of have a new commitment for research on alternative fuels when the resources devoted to these projects shrink year after year. |
People who are poor enough to receive LIHEAP benefits, such as elderly widows living below the poverty line, are not in a position to absorb a big increase in home heating costs. If these households don't receive more help paying their utility bills, many of them will face excruciating choices between heating their homes, paying the rent, having enough food to last through the month, and meeting other basic needs. Serious hardship is virtually certain to ensue. |
The administration's forthcoming budget is expected to have approximately $200 billion in missing costs in the fifth year, ... Once these missing costs are taken into account, the deficit is seen as being in the range of $500 billion in 2009, or around 3.5 percent of GDP. That is not close to cutting the deficit in half. |
The path of large and permanent deficits on which the government has embarked is unsound public policy and should be reversed as soon as the economy permits. |
The tax cut is bigger than anything, by a fairly long shot. |
There was a consensus for more spending for the military; it was just a question of how much. You could say the President got more [extra spending] in part because of the political climate after Sept. 11, but [that's] speculative... |
What they've done is thoughtful, analytically sound and numerically cautious ... but they haven't put in the huge caveat about the range of uncertainty, ... It's so large that we can't know if the problem is twice as great or a quarter as great as what they're saying. |
What they've done is thoughtful, analytically sound and numerically cautious ... but they haven't put in the huge caveat about the range of uncertainty. It's so large that we can't know if the problem is twice as great or a quarter as great as what they're saying. |
While some people are talking about $200 billion, a number like $100 [billion] to perhaps $150 billion might be a better guess as to what's really needed. |