Talking without experience

SF Gate:

"If Congress doesn't act, your taxes are going to go up, and you're not going to like it," Bush told a New Hampshire business group last week. "You will hear the argument during the budget debates -- you know, all the noise coming out of Washington -- that you need to raise taxes in order to balance the budget. I've been there long enough to tell you that's not the way Washington works. They're going to raise your taxes, and they're going to find new ways to spend your money."

Can some one tell me the last time Bush was in office during either a tax increase or a balanced budget? Didn't think so.

Bush must have blacked out for that time in the 90's when President Clinton managed to balance the budget by raising taxes. It was that surplus, in fact, that had now President Bush clamoring for a tax cut in the first place.

And from the same article:

Reversing the Bush tax cuts alone cannot restore fiscal balance, analysts agree. This will require the very spending restraint that Democrats daily condemn.

Democrats don't condemn spending restraint, as evidenced by the last time they were in charge and created the surplus. They oppose the President's idea of spending restraint, which is cutting benefits to widows, college students, the elderly, and the infirm.