The deficit in 2006 is almost certain to increase, because the bulk of spending for Katrina and Rita will occur in 2006, ... What's worse is that when the Congressional Budget Office factors the Bush agenda into the budget, CBO sees the deficit doubling to $640 billion in 2015. |
The disturbing thing about the Bush forecast is that we are not just looking at the cyclical downturn -- a return to budget deficits because the economy is down, ... Fox News Sunday. |
The president blames the disappearance of the surplus on excessive spending, but all of the extra spending since he came to office is spending that he either initiated or approved, |
There were no hearings, there was no testimony, |
These additional tax cuts can only have one affect; they will add dollar to dollar to the deficit which (is) already enormous, $521 billion this year, |
This budget is not going to put us on a path to balancing the budget. Not in five years, not in 10 years, not in 20 years. It would put us on a path to endless deficits and a Mount Everest of mountainous debt. |
This hurricane is one more argument, and a strong one, for higher conservation requirements. |
This is a watershed budget. It will set a course for us for years to come. |
totally out of sync with reality. |
We are pushing the envelope. We are using our troops pretty much to their maximum utility. |
We can set aside a surplus to save Social Security or Medicare, or we can pass the burden of the baby boomers retirement off on to our children, |
We're ready to work with the Bush administration, ... But we're also ready to work against any budget that returns us to never-ending deficits and a mountain of debt. |
What we've done is design a package that is front-loaded and fast-acting deliberately. |
What we've got now is a situation where none of this is easily possible, |
Your tax cut gets bigger and bigger as time goes on and it takes huge cuts out of all of these accounts, including defense. |