[quote name='ZeroSupporT']Sadly I am starting to worry[/QUOTE]
My, aren't you fashionably late to this party!
In all seriousness, it was nothing on Bush's platform that got him elected (it was the Supreme Court!). But, to be sure, Bush's platform, the one that got him elected when Gore should have stomped him, consisted fully of $300 tax rebate checks as a result of "redistributing the wealth" (and how Marxist of him to do so!). "We the people" don't give a shit about trillions in debt, at an individual level - let somebody else worry about it (this is, of course, where someone like bmug's failure to see the trees for the forest shows itself to be a shortsighted, foolhardy, and inevitably self destructive way of life, at the "aggregate," a word he so clearly despises).
Dick Cheney is 100% correct - deficits don't matter. It isn't going to be the debt that gets Democrats back into power, and as a matter of fact, the mere suggestion that government surplus be used to pay off some of that debt?
ing PREPOSTEROUS!
(It will be, on the other hand, cronyism, mismanagement of funds - a different issue from deficitis and debt entirely, Katrina, Iraq and its cornucopia of related problems, and Duke Cunningham's hookers that, in toto, help give some seats back to the Democrats, though I won't yet predict a new majority).
They are unabashedly bribing the American public, which was a successful approach in 2000. Yes, yes, "it's already MY money," some of you want to say. Well, so are the billions in corporate welfare that go to the oil industries, whose net profits are easily doubled over 2 years ago (though I want to look and compare, just to find out how egregious it really is). Both of them are "YOUR money," for you whiners out there. The $100 is wool over your eyes, bebe. It's like being offered a $5 starbucks card by the guy who just stole your wallet.
Though, this marks a moment where I am very grateful for all the sick
ing wastrel mongoloid SUV driving assholes out there. That $100 will keep me driving for 6-8 weeks (high MPG plus low distance). That same $100 won't last an SUV driving the same distance for 2 weeks, so I'm glad that, if only for a moment, for those excessively luxurious dipshits who down fossil fuels like they're going out of style (but they are!) may be able to realize how paltry $100 is realtive to what it takes to fill their monstrous
ing asshole gas tanks, and call the government bluff for what it is: Hush money.