Running a budget deficit when the economy is growing = bad

Running a budget deficit (and looking to increase it) when the economy is suffering a recession = standard economic policy.

Bush spent more than he received when the economy was growing. Instead he should have been saving up money for a rainy day. That rainy day is now here. So it's not necessarily hypocritical to oppose budget deficits under bush and support them with Obama. It'd only be hypocritical if you were to still support Obama if in the future the economy recovers and he still was running up budget deficits and not decreasing them as the economy grows.

So spending money when the economy is bad is better than spending money when the ecoomy is good? That doesn't make sense, at least in a good economy, the deficit can be paid, how the F_ck hell do you pay down a deficit during a bad economy?

Kinda funny, cosidering we are where we are today because people were spending too much money, during a good economy (buying house, cars, TV's, gaming systems, computers, iPhones, etc.) and now that we in a bad economy, they are saving rather than spending. So why are you people not telling people to spend more even though they may and will raise their own personal deficits?

We used to think that Bush's outspending of Clinton was bad, but that seems like the good old days now that we have a President who has outspent every single U.S. President combined. And thats just in his first month on the job.

the one thing i hoped obama would do, is follow the trend of democrats balancing the budget, instead we get the worst overspending in us history.

He managed to outspend every other president ever, in just one month.

so aeo...your going to pay for this/ or are you going to pass this on to my kids?

why is it so hard for people to want a gov that does not get into every aspect of our lives and spend OUR money that WE earn? I am just sick of this. tax this tax that. Who does it hurt? people earning money and working. this never hurts those that suck off the governments tits . screw it. Im finding an island and making my own country!

I have been against all of the bailouts and stimulus bills from the get-go.  The problem is that none of them are actually aimed at doing anything but making people (and now companies) dependent on the government to survive and that never leads to good things.  Hell just today I was watching an interview with Barney Frank related to the recent bonuses paid to AIG employees where he was actually suggesting that the US Government start firing execs at AIG since the government owns 80% of the company.  Now while I think AIG paying out bonuses was a dumb move on AIGs part the thought of the Government being able to step in and fire people from a "private" company scares the hell out of me.

say what?

Can you tell me the last Democrat trend of balancing the budget?

It's not if they make it illegal (in public places).

The moment it was bailed out by the government it stopped being a true private company. A true private company would have been left to fail, and all the staff would have lost their jobs (and only some of them would presumably have been able to find new ones in the immediate aftermath).

No they didn't.  In most cases the government only provided a loan or bought shares int he company neither of which stops the company from being a private company.  While shareholders do have some say in how a company functions there are limits on shareholders power and the same limits should apply to the shares owned by the government. 

The government had their oppotunity to set up restrictions on any money that they gave out to companies and they dropped the ball, they have no right to retroactively apply restrictions on what that money can be applied to.  That'd be like you loaning me $100 that you thought I was going to use to help pay my mortgage one month and I turn around and spend it on some playstation game.  Sure you can be as pissed as you want but if you didn't tell me ahead of time what that money was for and had me sign some legally binding agreement to that end then the money simply became mine to do with as I see fit.  But I bet you would then think twice about ever loaning me any money in the future, and the same should go for AIG.

We're hearing that a lot of people think the stimulus package is needed but it's too much money and too much waste.  And there is no confidence in the government's ability to manage it.  A recent survey on MinionMonitor.com, a site dedicated to people who don't make six figures, showed that 80% of Minions categorize Congress as either "failing miserably" or "dumb and dumber", and the daily news headlines aren't doing much to change that.