I get tomatoes, but I do my duty.
Fiscal discipline from the three jerks running for Executive.
Nader - Remove ourselves from Iraq and thereby start to relieve deficits. Of course, he might take that money and ensure four years of public college for all qualified students instead. One or the other.
On the whole, he would redirect federal spending to infrastructure, transit, public works, schools, clinics, libraries, forests, parks, sustainable energy and pollution controls. He would drastically cut the Pentagon budget, especially for weapons systems and contractors.
Nader would also cut corporate welfare and tax cuts for the wealthy that expand the divide between the luxuries of the rich and the necessities of the poor and middle class. How wealthy and how much? We don't know.
It is difficult to tell without numbers whether Nader's budgets are disciplined, but neither balance nor discipline appear anywhere on his issues page.
Bush - His tax cuts will spur growth and we'll grow our way out of the deficit as soon as Congress cuts more programs. Which ones? Who knows? The inefficient ones, apparently. Next to the UFO.
Jesus, someone get Mulder in here to run for President. This is the treble and bass of the Big Rock Candy Mountain song so far.
I also want to point out that Kerry has a feature called D Bunker, for Democratic Debunker. Bush has something called D Bunker Buster ... ha ha ha ... aren't nuclear weapons funny! This man is psychotic. Nader is neurotic, but this guy is a loon.
Kerry - And now Mr. Boring but Sane. Reduce government services. Which ones? We want to cut some of the Cold War weapons programs, but then we want to spend that money on the soldiers and their families and their health care. Not the debt. Some tax increases, but are they enough? Well, they were under Clinton, but we want to spend some money on healthcare and higher ed too.
John Kerry will reduce the size of the Federal government by: bringing spending down to the level of GDP it was under Clinton, requiring federal agencies to submit annual plans to reduce energy costs by 20 percent by 2020; cut the Federal government's administrative costs by five percent; cut the number of political appointees and ban providing bonuses for political appointees; cut fraud and abuse in government programs - fraud and abuse is estimated to cost $12 billion in Medicare alone and end rules that prevent the Federal government from having the same purchasing authority as the private sector.
The Kerry goal is to cut the deficit in half in four years, which is something. To restore fiscal discipline and strengthen our economy, Kerry will repeal Bush's special tax breaks for Americans who make more than $200,000. And he will implement the McCain-Kerry commission on corporate welfare to undermine the special interest groups that make it hard to cut tax loopholes and pork barrel spending projects.
Hmmm ... that's a lot more specific than Nader. An actual bill. This is something we can trust McCain on.
Kerry will convene a Balanced Budget Summit of Congress, and ask the Dems and GOP to give up an equal number of priorities in the name of fiscal discipline.
John Kerry believes we need to reverse the new budget rules Republicans in Congress have established that make it easier to spend into deficits with fewer votes. He will also review and reassess all discretionary spending programs to determine their effectiveness and whether they should continue to be funded. Under Kerry's plan, the President would identify wasteful spending items in the budget and submit the list to Congress to vote on in an up-or-down fashion - saving billions of dollars.
Y'know, the guy is also a jerk, but he's got good ideas.
Vote for the good ideas. Vote Kerry.