Barack Obama says he’s going to cut America’s budget deficit in half between now and 2013 – despite his $787 billion “stimulus,” $3.55 trillion budget and the $1.75 trillion deficit they’re conspired to create.
Whatever.
We’d like to look at a printout of those numbers – particularly on some Charmin Ultra paper.
Speaking of which, we smelled B.S. when Obama first claimed that he was going to perform the “fiscally conservative” task of returning deficit spending to George Dubya-levels within four years, and sure enough we were right …
From Bloomberg:
The $3.55 trillion budget proposal for 2010 the president unveiled yesterday projects 3.2 percent economic growth next year, thanks to a $787 billion fiscal-stimulus measure he signed into law earlier this month that is aimed at creating jobs and consumer demand.
That is twice the 1.5 percent growth projected by the Congressional Budget Office before the stimulus bill was enacted and higher than the 2.1 percent consensus growth estimate by analysts in the Blue Chip Economic Indicators survey. Even those projections may be too optimistic: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said this week the U.S. is suffering a “severe” contraction, and a government report today showed the economy shrank at a 6.2 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, more than forecast.
“One glaring, central risk to the budget’s projections is the economic outlook,” said Joseph Minarik, a senior vice president at the Committee for Economic Development, a Washington-based public policy institution. The budget assumes “the economy is going to turn around more rapidly,” said Minarik, a former associate director at the Office of Management and Budget under President Bill Clinton.
First of all, the only “consumer demand” Obama has created is among government workers, because the only thing he’s stimulating is more government.
Second, how can so many smart people be so stupid about what’s happening to America’s economy?
Seriously – Obama advisors, the Congressional Budget Office and the Blue Chip Whatever Whatever are smoking some serious fiscal crack if they think the economy is going to grow at all next year, let alone 2.1 or 3.2 percent.
And assuming “The One” could pull it off, does returning America to the Bush status quo on deficit spending really count as “change?”
Isn’t that just putting us back in the same crappy condition we were in before?
Amazing … Obama’s goal on fiscal policy has become getting government back to an unsustainable point where it was already spending like drunken sailors.
By Red Bank Bar March 1, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Obama can count. Y’all can’t. 53% says it all.
Repugnants get to get over it; they’re a regional party of angry bubbas.
CDV Folks is morally and intellectually bankrupt which makes him and Oxycontin Limbaugh the perfect faces for the Repugnants.
By roofus March 1, 2009 at 10:15 pm
fitsnews,
Buddy, we’re living in the Age of Obama. How dare you have the audacity to question! Dissent is sooo uncoool, man!
Don’t dare ask the One why he has declared war on the free market and private businesses, yet plans to shut down Gitmo and send terrorists to American prisons where they will spread their satanic hate.
Don’t dare ask the One why he exploits the poor children stuck the nitemarish D.C. public schools for a photo-op, yet denies them the school choice he provides his own children who attend elite, private schools.
Don’t ask him when life begins (it’s above his paygrade, you know), but it’s okay for him to require doctors who have dedicated their lives to heal and bring forth life, to murder innocents.
Don’t ask him about Global Warming, of course it exists! Look outside you fool!
Don’t ask him why he intends to force homosexuals on the military, despite a plethoria of studies and warnings by top Pentagon experts who argue that such a policy shift would cripple morale and diminish unit cohesiveness and warfare capability.
Don’t dare ask him why he attended a virulently racist church for ten years.
Don’t dare ask him if he ever dealt the coke and pot he snorted and smoked.
Don’t dare ask him to provide definitive proof of citizenship, you boorish Philistine!
Don’t dare ask him how he got such a sweetheart, below-market value real-estate deal on his house from a convicted criminal.
And lastly, don’t you dare, ever, consider asking him if he is a socialist, for if you do, his fascist, brown-shirt brigade will reflexively attempt to harrass and intimidate you to submission.
Just ask Joe.
By reprobate March 1, 2009 at 10:33 pm
yeh, yo rite. 57 states and counting.
By Pat Hendrix March 2, 2009 at 8:06 am
Ah, yep, the people who dug the hole have the solution: Bring me a bigger shovel.
And roofus, you’re said some silly things on this blog, but the citizenship is beneath anyone not sporting a tin foil hat.
Here’s something to read:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
Second, and I can only address a few idiotic comments at time, you shouldn’t put facist and communist in the same category. You should simply stick to socialist, marxist and communist. When you start mixing political systems, it makes you looks, ugh, not smart.
Third, nobody is required to perform abortions.
Fourth, Obama favors school choice.
By malcolm March 2, 2009 at 9:51 am
Yer, right. No required abortions, yet. Just lose yer job and yer livlihood and maybe even yer hospital privileges if you refuse the One’s command to kill babies.
By Red Bank Bar March 2, 2009 at 10:12 am
Malcolm, malcolm, you’re even dumber than root-boy. Pharmacists who work for government agencies aren’t going to be allowed to impose their value systems on prescription holders and deny them birth control pills. That’s it, dumb-arse. Nothing more.
Your comment has no basis in fact. Keep posting, though, you’re a perfect representative of the Repugnant Party.
By gloria March 2, 2009 at 10:23 am
Obama is a liar! He said that he would not sign any bill that included ear marks! Liar! Liar!
His bill is loaded with ear marks!
How can you trust a man who surrounds himself with tax cheats?
Even Obama’s treasury secretary and chief- of -staff are tax cheats!
Why should I pay taxes?
Liberal democrats don’t.
By Red Bank Bar March 2, 2009 at 11:20 am
Yeah, Gloria, you get ‘em. Your airhead princess, Ms. Sarah, is a tax cheat. Suck on that one, g-spot.
By malcolm March 2, 2009 at 1:50 pm
“Pharmacists who work for government agencies aren’t going to be allowed to impose their value systems..” Red Bank Bar
Red Bank Bar,
Soon ALL of health care will be run by “government agencies.” You know that! My understanding is that Team Obama, goaded by the radical Pro-Death Lobby, intends to prosecute any pharmacist and physician who refuses to administer abortive remedies despite their moral objections.
Conceivably, Catholic and Christian hopitals may be shut down by zealous, Obama “regulators.”
Evan Hippocrates recognized the inhumanity of abortion and prohibited the practice of abortion in his ancient Hippocratic Oath.
There is no shortage of abortion providers as it is very lucrative.
I personally know two who make $15,000 in a morning.
Extorting and coercing phyicians and their staffs to murder is extremely fascist.
Welcome to the new Democratic Party!
By yerbrojoe March 2, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Hawaii did not confirm Obama’s citizenship, only that they have an official birth certificate in a vault. they did not say what country it is from.
factcheck does not say he is Natural Born. More on that below.
All they want to see is a $10 birth certificate! At least 5 congressmen have now signed onto a lawsuit requiring Obama to produce, birth records, college applications and passport records. Although the Senate had hearings during the primaries regarding John McCain’s eligibility, they refused to verify Obama. Currently the president has only provided a short form certificate to a website, and not to any government verification agency. He has spent $1000000 hiding his past. An example of a short form certificate is the Hawaiian birth certificate of Sun Yat-Sen, the first president of the Republic of China, who’s long form birth certificate shows him to be born in Guangdong, China He obtained the same kind of short form Hawaiian birth certificate as Obama which also states his place of birth as Honolulu, even though he didn’t come to the US until he was 14. (Obama Family and Kenyan officials have given affidavits that he was born in Kenya, his mother wasn’t old enough to confer any kind of US citizenship to him if this is true). We know Obama was adopted by his Indonesian stepfather, and records from his school list him as an Indonesian citizen. Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship. This required him to drop any other citizenship. As far as we know, unless he applied to become a naturalized US citizen when he became an adult, he is an Indonesian citizen still. As an Occidental college student, age 20, he traveled to Pakistan, which had closed it’s borders to US citizens. The current court case requires Obama to open records he has meticulously sealed from public scrutiny, school admission records, passport records, and a long form birth certificate. Why spend a million dollars to hide something if you are ‘transparent’ and have nothing to hide?
This was brought up a year ago by Clinton Democrats, and has been ignored by the press and DNC. As Americans, it should be important to us that our representatives are not deceiving us.
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