Perhaps "some" here were the Presidents supplier 7 years ago? Whatever you do don't read the link to Meet The Press. Dean made himself into an idiot. And that has nothing to do with Bush. (So don't read it)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/912159.asp
The way to get elected in this country is not to be like the Republicans. It’s to stand up against them and fight. -Dean
Support terrorists and enemies of America. Love Your Enemies hate America
Let’s turn to the campaign. This is what you said last month about the Bush tax cut and I’ll show you and our viewers. “It has become clear what this president is attempting to do and why we must repeal the entire package of tax cuts.” The Department of Treasury, we consulted and asked them: What effect would that have across America? And this is what they said. A married couple with two children making $40,000 a year, under the Bush plan, would pay $45 in taxes. Repealing them, under the Dean plan, if you will, would pay $1,978, a tax increase of over 4,000 percent. A married couple over 65 making $40,000 and claiming their Social Security, under Bush would pay $675 in taxes. You’re suggesting close to $1,400, a 107 percent tax increase. Can you honestly go across the country and say, “I’m going to raise your taxes 4,000 percent or 107 percent,” and be elected? Dean: Well, first of all, were those figures from the Treasury Department, did you say, or CBO?
Russert: Treasury Department.
Dean: I don’t believe them.
I don't believe them? That's the answer of a want to be President? He will royally fuck the American people. Yeah go Dean
Russert: But in the middle of an economic downturn, Howard Dean wants to raise taxes on the average of $1,200 per family.
Dean: So says the Republican Treasury Department which I think has very little credibility in this matter. Let’s look at the record.
Russert: But you would raise taxes?
Dean: I would go back to the Clinton era of taxes because I think most Americans would gladly pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president if they could only have the same economy that they had when Bill Clinton was president.
Clintononmics is not coming back!!! That was a time of cooking books and Corporate false earnings. It was not all bad but it lead to where we are now.
Are you still in favor of a constitutional amendment to balance the budget?
Dean: You know, I go back and forth on that. It’s not very good public policy but I’d love to see the Republicans hem and haw about what they would do about a constitutional amendment to balance the budget.
In other words I Dean don't have a booney clue but lets bash the Republicans instead of me answering.
But through your entire career you have been for a constitutional amendment to balance the budget.
Dean: Yes, because I just—I have, and it’s because I.....
I, I, I, I, stop picking on me
Russert: But, Governor, if you don’t go to near Social Security or Medicare or Defense and you have a $500 billion deficit, if you’re not going to raise taxes $500 billion to balance the budget, where are you going to find the money? Which programs are you going to cut? What do you cut? Education? Health care? Where?
And what do you do???
consider increasing the payroll tax? Absofreakinglutly Says Dean!
Oh I Dean will raise taxes that lower the number of jobs avalible...Smart liberal policy this puts more people out of work and using benifits thus more likely to support more givaway programs. Compounding the problem Brilliant!!!
When the Republicans tried to limit the growth, the Democrats said that was an actual cut.
Dean: Well, they’re going to say what they’re going to say. All I...
Russert: You would be willing to limit the growth...
Dean: Absolutely.
Russert: ...in Defense, in Medicare and Social Security?
Dean: You have to do that. If you don’t go where the money is—Social Security, we’re going to fix differently. We’re not talking about Social Security. We’re talking about Medicare. We’re talking about Defense and we’re talking about all the other things the federal government does. But I want to put the tax cut back into that budget. They need it to balance the budget.
Russert: That’s raising taxes, though. Let’s be honest.
Dean: Here’s what I say to people. You have a choice. Do you want to have the president’s tax cut or would you like a health-care program that nobody can ever take away?
I Jayson want the tax cuts.
Do you want to have the president’s tax cut or would you like to fully fund special education, which is an obligation to the states, which is raising your property taxes?
I Jayson want the FEDERAL tax cuts. Although public special education is a massive pork barrel I think it minor in my property tax issues. In fact I know it.
Do you want the president’s tax cut or would you like to go back towards a balanced budget so we can actually create jobs and have a healthy economy again?
You do not raise taxes out of a recession. Trying to fill the gap with a balanced budget is a joke. We are occupying a country we are recovering from a recession all things considered it's not that bad.
I would much rather pay the taxes that I was paying when Bill Clinton was president if I could have health care and my property taxes would go down and we could have jobs again.” Because they never got the president’s tax cut. The vast majority of people in this country either got no tax cut or got a small few hundred dollars.
(((Those people do not pay FEDERAL TAXES so they should not get a cut of something they do not pay)))
But we will always have the strongest military under President Dean.
Dean: Oh, under President Dean, we certainly will always have the strongest military
and it’s a historical phenomenon. A single, very great power with no obvious rivals in the world who exercises that power unilaterally and in contempt of other countries will result in the formation of an alliance of other second-tier powers to contain the power of that great military power.
If we continue following George Bush’s military policy and defense policy, will become a secondary military power.
What a loonThe heavens will open up and Dean will asend if he becomes President. Saving us from the evil GW BushThis advertisment paid by the Elect Dean for President because I am against the Republican campaign.Russert: Let’s talk about the military budget. How many men and women would you have on active duty?
Dean: I can’t answer that question. And I don’t know what the answer is. I can tell you one thing, though. We need more troops in Afghanistan. We need more troops in Iraq now.
But how many troops—how many men and women do we now have on active duty?
Dean: I can’t tell you the answer to that either.
And the band plays on
