Tell me if I have this right…..spending unlimited amounts for wae is good. Spending any amount to benefit Amercan citizens is bad……right?

Question for President Bush
What are our goals or objectives in Iraq?
How can we achieve thesegoals in 3 months when we couldn't in 4 years???

Bush is a hypocritical, illiterate, deceptive, manipulator. Who has no ground to stand on when he complains about spending. What was the prediction for his oil war one trillion dollars and that doesn’t count the loss of invaluable american lives. After we impeach him and chenney I say charge them with crimes against humanity, we could make it stick.

We will be paying for President Bush's "borrow and spend" policy well into the next decade. What a great legacy that is! He wreaks havoc for eight years, spends $500 billion in Iraq and leaves us with the bill on his way out of office.

We will still be paying for President Bush's "borrow and spend" policy well into the next decade. What a great legacy that is! He wrecks havoc for eight years, spends $500 billion on the war in Iraq and leaves us the bill on his way out of office.

I would submit that both parties are guilty of pork barrel spending and are not good stewards of US tax dollars. Again, this is not a partisan issue. It is a national disgrace and Dems and Republicans are both to blame. So everybody get off your partisan high horses.

At least in Iraq, we have a chance at a decent return.

Posted By RightyTighty : August 3, 2007 9:44 am
We do?? Please elaborate on what "decent return" you expect to see from Iraq.

Hey ReadBtwthlins,

Do you take your own partisan tomfoolery seriously? What happened to the DEMS balancing the budget? Are you serious?

Perhaps you slept through the first 6 years of over $1,000,000,000,000 in deficits Bush and the Republicans ran up? What are your thoughts on that, you transparent hack?

What happen to the balancing the budget promise? The dems could cut a few more billion and achieve that without raising taxes…, hmmm.

Is it ethical to waste taxpayers money? Why isn't that in those pitiful ethics reforms that supposedly fulfilled a campaign promise??

And please stop crying about the money being spent in Iraq. Is there any doubt that the demorats would have spend every single dollar of that too if Bush had let them? At least in Iraq, we have a chance at a decent return.

Demorats like to talk about changes but never seem to get past blaming Republicans for the realities of the world. Their a do nothing lot as is evident by this current, worst ever ranked, Congress.

What George Bush, in all his idiocy fails to understand is that much of that spending is for important domestic issues that he would much rather save to fight his failed and unjust war in Iraq. I am not necessarily happy with our Democratic Congress, but when you put them on a scale with Bush they are the lesser of two evils.

At 150 BILLION per year, Iraq costs $4,800 PER SECOND!!!!

Sit down and Shut up Bush. You war is expected to cost over 1 trillion American dollars. So please shut up…At least the money is spent on Americans.

The will of President Bush is to do away with the middle class. I have seen first hand what his rich economic policies have done to the working poor and middle class. I run a small low income rental housing property and I have tenants who do not have heating gas in the winter because they cannot afford gas for their vehicle, their medicine, their monthly expenses, AND utilities. It is unfortunate, but the way it looks if the Repubs get their way, there will be 2 classes of people in our country, the rich and the poor, with no middle class. What is really sad is that the middle class supports the country, while the rich get breaks. We will have many more homeless people in our country if this trend continues. Our social programs in this Country are going to the dogs while we send all of our money and our young to die in a war without reason.

Has anyone told him what his war costs per second? And who is that helping? Oh, right, his cronies who are "rebuilding" the country.
Another example of bait and switch. Is Karl Rove lurking in the speech writer's office?
I'm pretty "disappointed" myself-in the administration.

who said that our president isn't smart? I'm sure he did the calculations himself. you go George show em how sharp you are in adding things up. how many innocent iraqi died since you started with those remarks?

He has no problem spending 2.5 billion dollars a week in Iraq, yet gets upset when the house wants to spend our tax money on America?

Oh, I get it, we have oversight at home!

“WE THE PEOPLE”

And how much per second are we spending on YOUR war in Iraq, Mr. President?

Funny how Bush never used this "fiscal restraint" when it was his Republican congress doing all the pork-barrel spending. Where was Bush's veto threats when Sen. Ted Stevens' "Bridge to Nowhere" was on the table.

The Republicans wasted more taxpayer dollars on their pork-barreling than Democrats ever would. These Republicans are such laugable hypocrites.

So the clown who is responsible for the greatest increases in governmental spending since the 60's and the greatest budget deficits in history is now a fiscal conservative?

You have to be totally drunk from the Kool-Aid to believe a word that comes out of this guys mouth.

Black is white, up is down, big is small, it all makes sense in the magical Alice in Wonderland world of the decider.

What I find funny is that when King George and the Republicans controlled Congress spending was up to record highs and the national debt is exponentially increasing. Maybe Bush needs to relook his idea of tax cuts from a few years ago and for the richest 1% or whatever it was. It would be nice for politics to put ALL parties aside and simply do what is RIGHT rather than what the party "moral" says to do.

“Bush is now objecting to an additional $22 billion in spending Democrats want to add to his proposed $2.9 trillion budget. The president told reporters after a Thursday morning Cabinet meeting that the Democratic proposals would add up to an additional $205 billion over five years. ‘That $205 billion averages out to about $112 million per day, $4.7 million per hour, $78,000 per minute. Put another way, that’s about $1,300 in higher spending, every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every year for the next five years,’ he said. ‘In fact, at that pace, Democrats in Congress would have spent an extra $300,000 since I began these remarks’.”

Wait, I get it: It is OK to kill people with money. But not to help people” Another example of compassionate conservatism. Idiot.

What about the billions of dollars spent in Iraq when I'm paying an arm and a leg for an education, people here don't have healthcare, the public schools are horribly behind and under funded, and some people here are homeless and starving?
Does he really want a dollars per minute figure on his spending?

Thanks for your fiscal responsibility, Mr. President. Now, with your amazing mathematical skills, can you please tell us how many dollars we've spent per second in Iraq?

It's laughable that a president who has run up the biggest spending deficit in US history would complain about a Democratic congress that is thinking of overspending by an amount that comes to .44% of his.

Mr. President,

Our great grandchildren will still be paying off your ludicrous war on terror. How many dollars – and lives – are ticking away every hour, minute, and second on that right now?

Oh silly me. Your keeper, Mr. Rove, wouldn't bother coaching you on those inconsequential numbers.

Everyone blames the Democrats that they are not making porgress. Hello America…WAKE-UP! This is clear as mud! If you look at the bills passed many of them easily make it through the House because of the Democrats majority. It seems like the problem is in the Senate because of the Republicans staling and the President Vetoing every bill. Take minimum wage for example…look at the votes!!! Repulicans shot it down. Vote the rest of the Bums OUT!!! 22 Seats in the Senate are up for grabs with the Republicans. Do the right thing and vote them out! Let's see if the Dems can really change us in the right direction; we should give them a fair chance. Let's not even touch upon immigration!

If they fail, maybe independent would be the way to go!

Wow Bush is really trying to save the taxpayers money complaining about an “excess” spending of 0.75% of his budget.
Wow why invest in America when we can go broke in Iraq?
On the other hand, if every American got wounded in Iraq we wouldn’t need national health care, we could all just go to the VA.

Mr. Bush, where was your oversight during the last few Congressional sessions?

You are the President and can probably find my phone number. Give me a call and I will blow your mind with how much money we have already wasted since you came into office. You may be so shocked you won't be able to continue.

If you don't have time, start out by checking our national debt since you came into office. Or better yet our debt to foreign investors. Even more amazing would be to reminisce about the projected ten year $5.6 trillion dollar surplus we were headed towards when you took office. Gosh, that could have paid off a large portion of our national debt.

I've changed my mind, you might just want to continue to finish out your presidency with your eyes closed. If you open them, you might not be able to live with what has happened under your watch.

Here's some math back at Mr. Bush: At 12 billion per MONTH in Iraq, our tax dollars are being spent at a rate of $40,000,000/day/mo, $1,666,667/hr/day/mo, and $27,778/min/hr/day/mo. I'll let you multiply it out for the remaining 15 months he'll still be in office.

This is horribly and pathetically dishonest on Bush's part, considering the massive amounts of pork that made it into spending bills from 2000-2006.

So it's ok to yell at Bush non stop, but it's not ok if he does it back to them..

I'm sorry, but explain it to me…

This is the first genuinely intelligent thing I've heard this man say in six years and counting. Its about time.

See what happens George when you lose the conservative vote, you have to deal with moonbats! You should have destroyed these socialists instead of trying to deal with them years ago, unfortunately, your kindness was your weak point. Hope you have learned your lesson.

isn't this the guy who bellows about "big government" yet by singing his name in ink to the 6 largest annual governmental budgets presented by his own party is actually the all time "big government" king in the world's recorded history? nice.

Seven years later –

– the US massively in debt (much of it to Communist China),

– needlessly mired in a nearly $4000-per-second civil war in a foreign country

– a budget surplus GONE and a debt that will cripple our future generations

– millions of Americans un- or under-insured

– year after year of pork-suffused Republican budgets passed without a peep of protest

– thousands of well-paying jobs lost overseas and replaced by low-paying ones

– a collapsing housing market

– an astonishing increase in the difference between a middle-class income and those at the upper-end of the spectrum

– a failing public education system

– the environment and the American middle-class lifestyle under dire threat from corporate greed….

and NOW the president decides to consider the financial aspects?!?!

One thing this administration knows very well, is how to terrify the populace. I guess the, "We'll be attacked by terrorists if you don't do as I say without question!" tactic is one the back burner for this week. Instead, we'll get the dire predictions of financial ruin if Bush isn't given sole governing power.

The latest estimate for the Iraq war is that it could cost as much as one trillion dollars!!!

If he wants to save money… end the war.

Just when I think I could not possibly be any more disgusted by the man we call our president, he says something as incredibly obnoxious as this.

I was watching this press conference this morning because it was supposed to be about the tragedy in my beloved state of Minnesota. Well, our rube of a president spews out his patheitc soundbites for about 30 seconds before he gets to the real reason for the press conference….more political bashing of the Congress. Well Mr. Bush, you have reached a new low….you took the tragedy of the collapse of I35 and used it to your political advantage. I don't know how you sleep at night. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Seriously, The republican congress was guilty of the same crimes, and now Bush decides to get all holy.
This is just political jabs,

The audacity of our President kills me. He cuts the taxes on the richest one percent of the nation, turns a blind eye to hundreds of billions of dollars of corporate profits moving offshore where they are shielded from taxation, spends money like a drunken sailor on shore leave on a war we have no business fighting, and prohibits medicare from negotiating prices with the drug companies causing us to needlessly spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, and he calls the DEMOCRATS fiscally irresponsible?!? The only thing more pathetic than his double-talk are the people who are buying it.

Are you kidding me?

President Bush is a fraud and is in no position to be complaining about spending more money.

He doesn't even account for the massive amount of spending in the war in Iraq in the budget.

Nor does he reveal how he personally is to blame for wasteful government spending creating another federal government agency….DHS, to oversee a labrynth of redundant agencies already doing the same thing.

Not to mention how he personally authorized the domestic spying prorgram and data mining records of average Americans that aren't even remotely connected to any form of a threat to security.

Or how about No Child Left Behind which forced state to spend billions to comply to ambigious regulations with no real way to fund the actual costs.

The Shrub didn't actually do the math, and he doesn't understand it.

Still a bargain compared to what Iraq costs per second in money and lives.

Are you kidding me?!

This from a lame duck, who inherited a surplus and has run hundreds of billion dollar deficits ever since he took office!

With a party who only passed one appropriations bill before it recessed for the year last year, and the Democrats had to clean up there mess when they took over Congress!

Did I read this blatant hypocrisy wrong?

Why isn't this blatant hypocrisy the lead story here???

Has this man no memory, and no shame?

Democrats want transparency in their spending, WRONG. DEMOCRATS ARE THEIVES STEALING FROM YOUR POCKET BOOK.

And yet he had zero problem and zero vetos during 6 years of republican pork bills when the cost every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every year for the next fifty years was many times higher than the bills coming out of congress today.

He needs to save his energy for executive privilege excitement, not seven-tenths of 1 percent of a budget.

The Democrats are more fiscally responsible. How can conservatives think that any Republican candidate besides Ron Paul is fiscally conservative? RG, MR, and JM have all blow through money like a fish breathing water. How can anyone believe that they would suddenly learn to be fiscally conservative once in office?

I heard President Bush's 30 second remarks about the Minneapolis bridge tragedy, followed by the diatribe about the Democrats and spending. I was saddened by his turning a tragedy into a political hatchet speech. America deserves better.

Good step in the right direction to eliminate pork, don't cave in Bush!

Also as the article points out why didn’t he do this before? It may be a late start but as long as he's trying to cut down on unnecessary spending he's got my support.

How cute, GWB just discovered the wonders of math. Soon comes history, followed by psychology and maybe even grammar.

Right-on G.W. Bush, we already know you have overly spent in your term, and it is not over with yet! But; where in the hell do these damn democrats think the will come up with all this additional cash? I sure hope they will start digging it out of their own pockets. The American tax paying citizens pockets are empty. Just like our political parties and all of there empty promises.

Any person who has been as irresponsible as Bush has been with spending money, has no authority to decide what is "unnecessary."

You have got to be kidding me! As if Bush is in any position to criticize anyone on spending habits. Haha.