George W. Bush: Lots of Numbers
on Sunday, November 11, 2012George W. Bush Money Quotation saying many digits means a really big national budget – hopefully there were no more important decisions made based on “lots of numbers”. George W. Bush said:
“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it” — George W. Bush
This quote seems to suggest that George W. Bush had a rather simplistic view of what a budget entails. A budget is certainly a document that contains financial numbers, but it is much more than that – it involves difficult decisions about priorities, tradeoffs between programs, and how to allocate limited resources.
The quote may indicate that Bush did not fully appreciate the complexity of crafting a responsible national budget. It presents the budget as merely a collection of numbers rather than a policy document requiring knowledge and judgment.