W had no idea what "deficit" means - Unfiltered plays interview clip

[robbedvoter]

With all O'really's prompting and helping, he blew it anyway - mixing deficit with debt. He wouldn't answer O'really's question about paying it down in our lifetimes, and asked for a definition....
Glad to have an MBA in office!

[skooooo]

1. Your kidding...

This in his recent interview with O'Lielly??

[robbedvoter]

2. yes. He fumbles and asks - deficit? You mean revenue larger than

expenses? Then he goes on a tangent.
They have a Clinton budget person tearing him apart on the show.

[skooooo]

4. omg!

I wish I had watched this. Hopefully someone caught it on TIVO?

[livetohike]

3. That fancy MBA from the prestigious Harvard Business School

isn't worth much. It proves one can buy anything if they have enough money.

[MallRat]

5. O'Reilly messed it up, and then Bush failed to correct him.

BILL O'REILLY: HOST: How will the federal government ever pay off the federal deficit, in your opinion?

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: By being fiscally wise and growing our economy.

O’REILLY: Do you think it can be paid off in our lifetime, though?

BUSH:: The deficit, yeah. You mean, for... have the revenues exceed the expenses in the budget?

O’REILLY: See, we have a big deficit here…

BUSH: You're talking about the debt or the deficit?

O’REILLY: The deficit.

BUSH: Yeah.

O’REILLY: Well people are saying that because we have to fight this war on terror, because of the tax cuts, oh and you know how the propaganda, it’s all over the place…

BUSH: No, I think we can — of course I think we can balance the budget — as a matter of fact, I put out a hand, a budget that says we’ll cut it in half in five years, now, that's going to mean that the Congress has got to be fiscally wise, with our money.

Unreal. It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic. :eyes:

-MR

[Bill McBlueState]

6. yeah, they're both pretty clueless

O'Really asked a pretty stupid question about paying off the deficit. Bush knew O'Really had it wrong, but lacked the simple verbal skills required to clear up the issue. So we end up with meaningless, muddled crap like

"No, I think we can — of course I think we can balance the budget — as a matter of fact, I put out a hand, a budget that says we’ll cut it in half in five years, now, that's going to mean that the Congress has got to be fiscally wise, with our money."

Put out a hand?

[SOS]

9. "Congress has got to be fiscally wise with our money"

Massive tax cuts for the wealthy, a quarter trillion dollar military misadventure, a 600 billion dollar subsidy to drug companies, 200 billion dollar handout to agribusiness, a 440 billion dollar War Department budget and a 500 billion dollar annual deficit.
But remember, the financial disaster of the last four years has nothing to do with Bush. It's the fault of Congress!

[Bandit]

13. You left off the five hundred billion interest on debt

That is an even bigger expense than the Defense Dept budget and is unnecessary. If Bush* would use clintonomics we could pay off our debt and have money for everything the nations truly needs. Bush* knows that and that is why there is a deliberate atytempt to run up the debt so all Social programs can be eliminated. Only Defense will be allowed to have resources and of course all the Money interests. Those who receive the interest payments on debt that is. They in turn kick back a portion to the GOP to keep the system going.

[Fla Dem]

7. I think O'Leilly was asking about the National Debt

the amount of money this administration has has piled up in red ink in the last 3.5 years. I think the last amount I saw was $7 trillion. The deficit is the difference in the current budget spending over revenue. So Bush got off easy just saying they will be able to balance the current budget....not saying anything about how the National Debt will effect generations to come.

[snowFLAKE]

12. Don't know why Mr. O'Reilly did Properly Prepare

For this interview by brushing up on economic terms by simply consulting his favorite source of business information, the Paris Business Review:

http://www.parisbusinessreview.net/

[KlatooBNikto]

8. Wouldn't it be more of a surprise if he did understand it?

[Tsiyu]

10. Can You Say, "Bush is a Brain Dead Turd?"

I knew you could. And how kewl that he now puts the onus on Congress to be fiscally responsible. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

DID GOD TELL YOU TO BE A CLUELESS BASTARD, BUSH? Or are you just a clueless bastard with no divine assistance?

[DemonFighterLives]

11. I vote that they're both stupid

The fact that dubby puts his balancing act 5 years off to cut the deficit in half leaves him safely home in Crawford. This dumbbell couldn't balance his checkbook if he had one.