Deficit – Page 2 – Delaware Liberal

Fiscal Conservatives Don’t Want To Cut Spending

By Unstable Isotope February 25, 2010

Conservatives do a lot of posturing about the deficit, which they only discovered the existence of on January 20, 2009. I remember the good ol' days of the early Bush…

More Troops For Afghanistan

By Unstable Isotope November 24, 200952 Comments

Some early reports are saying that Obama will announce that he's sending 34,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Barack Obama is expected to send 34,000 more US troops to Afghanistan when…

Fiscal Scolds

By Unstable Isotope November 23, 20096 Comments

I'm really sick of all the fiscal scolds who say that the U.S. can't pay for health care for its citizens. We can't afford not to, but almost all the…

Would Obama Get Rewarded For Deficit Reduction?

By Unstable Isotope November 2, 200921 Comments

Paul Krugman posts this depressing but rather sobering observation: But the political argument against focusing on the deficit is even stronger than he realizes — because there are very good…

The Most Fiscally Irresponsible President In The History Of The Republic

By Unstable Isotope October 18, 200981 Comments