Reagan Budget Director: GOP Can’t Get The Job Done

David Stockman, the heralded Reagan Director of the Office and Management and Budget, says Republicans “can’t get the job done” with their effort to replicate the 1994 Contract with America.

“[If] you’re exempting two-thirds of the budget and you’re focusing only on non-defense discretionary, which actually is only about 500 billion or 15 percent of the budget, it’s pretty obvious you can’t get the job done,” said David Stockman, a former adviser to President Reagan, in a recent interview with National Public Radio.

“Some economic analysts have said that if you do that, that by the year 2020, the government wouldn’t have enough money to spend on anything except for Medicare, Social Security and defense if it’s lucky,” summarized interviewer Guy Raz. “Do you think that sounds about right?”

“Yes, I do,” Stockman replied. “We couldn’t afford the Bush tax cuts when they were put in in 2001, 2003. Now, we’re – eight years later, we’re trillions in additional debt later, we’re two unfinanced wars later, we’re a trillion dollars of stimulus spending later, 800 billion of TARP, so it’s pretty obvious if we couldn’t afford them back then, in no way, shape or form can we even dream about affording them now.”

http://www.alan.com/2010/09/26/reag...id-stockman-to-gop-you-cant-get-the-job-done/

 

Yeah yeah, we get it kermit.

 

How come you don't post a similar message on bugscoe/Hello/Yannis/phenomena's threads? Double standard much?

 

Simple, they are no where near as biased and intellectually dishonest as you are.

 

Oh really.

Fake calculations
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=207281

Selectively edited videos.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=205175

Labelling payment advisory board as death panel
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=197314

Didn't see you getting outraged and calling them out on their intellectual dishonesty.

 

I'm not outraged, I'm just calling out YOUR intellectual dishonesty.

 

But you do have a double standard calling it out, never saw you urging for intellectual honesty in any of the pro-republican threads.

 

Is it any worse than your double standard of poo pooing on all things republican or conservative while ignoring or defending anything negative concerning democrat or liberal?

 

David Stockman for president. not going to happen though. the republicans will probably run a moron like sarah palin

 

She gives the impression of being far smarter than you FreeThinker.