McCain promises to balance budget

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A-Rod's Case of Foul Balls
Published 7/7/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... . Unbalanced : Further suggesting senility, John McCain is expected to promise today that he'll balance the federal budget by the end of his first term in office. His campaign says, "The McCain administration would reserve all savings from victory in the Iraq and Afghanistan operations in the fight against Islamic extremists for reducing the deficit. Since all their costs were financed with deficit spending, all their savings must go to deficit reduction." ...

Max Bergmann: McCain's Deficit Reduction Proposal -- Adopt Obama's Iraq Plan
Published 7/7/2008 by Max Bergmann at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... This declaration leads to the obvious question -- How? The CBO projects a $443 billion deficit in 2013 if Bush's tax cuts are extended as McCain calls for -- and on top of this McCain calls for additional tax cuts. ...

John McQuaid: Incoherence from McCain
Published 7/9/2008 by John McQuaid at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... Just in the past few days, there's been a drumbeat of contradictory messages. McCain pledged to balance the budget by the end of his first term, but provided no details for what is a politically impossible task right now -- made more so by his proposed tax cuts and increases in defense spending. ...

: Incoherence from McCain
Published 7/9/2008 at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... Just in the past few days, there's been a drumbeat of contradictory messages. McCain pledged to balance the budget by the end of his first term, but provided no details for what is a politically impossible task right now -- made more so by his proposed tax cuts and increases in defense spending. ...