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I forgot to post a site of the week yesterday. Then in my in box last night, I got this from the Iowa Democratic Party. Please visit James and the Giant Deficit site and then stop in at the No Nussle blog.
Iowa Democratic Party Launches
“James and the Giant Deficit” WebsiteToday, the Iowa Democratic Party launched the “James and the Giant Deficit” website that features Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Nussle’s disastrous record on federal deficits. The website address is www.nussledeficit.org.
Just like the peach in Roald Dahl’s “James and the Giant Peach”, Nussle’s deficit just keeps growing and growing. In his four years as budget chair, Nussle has turned a $236 billion surplus into a $412 billion deficit, the largest deficits in America’s history.
This is unacceptable. In Iowa, the law requires governors and legislators to balance budgets and make tough decisions, and Nussle has failed every year as budget chair to successfully balance a budget.
If Nussle's so-called family values don't bring him down then this his poor handling of money should. As Thunderhawk says over at Iowa Underground, "my goal for 2006 is to have every voting Iowan associate 'Nussle' with 'Slimeball' by election day."
2 comments:
To be fair, I don't think you can really say Nussle has turned the surplus into the deficit. Yes it happened while he was buget chair in the house but it's not as if he was in control of tax revenues during that time period. The fact is our tax revenues when down the toilet and then we had to fund Pres. Bush's idiotic war. Neither of those things are really Nussle's fault.
When there are so many other legitimate reasons to call Nussle a moron why highlight an issue which he had very limit control over? Sure it's an easy way to score political points...but it seems "dishonest" to me.
I think the issue with Nussle and the deficit is that he has supported tax cuts for millionaires and cuts to social programs that help the poor and cutting things like Pell grants.
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