Clinton started putting all sorts of spending in this category, even though the spending went on year after year. The difference is that Clinton never asked for these items to be included in the budget. He just asked for and recieved year-to-year financing from congress. Since the financing expired within one budget cycle, it was held off-budget.

Bush put the tool on steroids. The entire trillion dollar war in Iraq and Afganistan is off budget, along with numerous other expendetures. We are running record deficits even with the liberal use of this tool. The trick is to hold any expense off budget that you are sure your opposition will not dare withdraw funding for year after year, such as “no child left behind”. Medicare part-D is another unfunded liability that will recieve annual requests for suppliments, off-budget infusions that no politician in his right mind would vote against.

So there we have it. The big “cram-down”. The 800 pound gorilla that will eventually ravage us all.

All we heard from Democrats at that time was “the deficit, the Deficit, the DEFICIT! We’re mortgaging our children’s future!”

You would have thought that the sky was falling.

Where are those “chicken little” cries today from liberal Democrats (and 3 RINO Republicans)? The “chicken little” cries today from liberal Democrats is “spend, Spend, SPEND or else the sky will fall”!

This monstrous deficit increase pales in comparison to what President Reagan did. Expanding the military and implementing huge tax cuts resulted in the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War, the end of a major threat to America, massive increases to the treasury, and huge economic prosperity for Americans.

I can’t imagine what the result of this spending spree will be.

KMH, I agree – we ain’t seen nothing yet.

For further inspiration on whom to blame, see speeches by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and company. For 20 years Obama found spiritual comfort and sactuary in the bossom of Jeremiah Wright’s den of haters.

I get so ticked at my pay stub every time I look at SS and medicare. I have my own darn insurance and I’ll never be able to collect on SS. I’m only twenty-two so I have to stare at the hole in my paycheck longer and harder than you older folks.