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The Obama Watch
Good Morning, Suckers
A guide to the most reckless budget in U.S. history.
President Obama’s budget released on Monday proposes to spend $3.73 trillion for 2012. He can’t say Bush made him do that. That proposed spending is an undeniable fact that reveals who he is, which he successfully hid from 53% of voters in 2008.
Campaigning in 2008 he promised voters that his plan involved a “net spending cut.” That net spending cut translated into $836 billion in increased spending this year from 2008, according to President Obama’s own budget documents. That is a federal spending increase of nearly 30% since 2008. Either President Obama does not know what “net spending cut” means in English, or he bamboozled a lot of people in 2008.
Almost makes you want to take to the streets to demand resignations and honest elections. But that couldn’t happen here. For one thing, you need a free and independent press to have true democratic elections.
Fool Me Once, Shame on You…
But President Obama keeps on trickin’. In his budget message and in his State of the Union, Obama celebrated what he calls a domestic spending freeze. Actually, the freeze applies only to non-security, domestic discretionary spending, which is 12% of the budget. He wants to freeze these programs now after he increased them by over 80% in his first two years. As Investor’s Business Daily said yesterday, “Freezing spending at this elevated level is little more than numbers legerdemain, a kind of three-card Monte played on sucker taxpayers.”
That freeze involves a total spending cut in 2012 of $6 billion in 2012 from where spending would have been, out of a total proposed federal budget for the year of $3,729 billion. That is a cut of 0.16%, which is actually not worth even talking about. Put it in the context of your family budget. Suppose you had take home pay of $3,000 per month, and you were regularly falling short of enough to pay the mortgage. So you decide to get serious about controlling your spending. Your proportional equivalent of Obama’s discretionary spending cut out of your own family budget would be $4.83.
In contrast to Obama’s $6 billion cut for 2012, the House Republicans Monday committed to $100 billion in cuts from Obama’s budget for 2011. The Republican cuts for 2012 and beyond will come in Paul Ryan’s House Republican budget due in April. Moreover, House Republicans already voted to approve trillions in future spending cuts, as scored by CBO, in approving the repeal of Obamacare. This is a fair comparison between the parties today on the budget and spending.
Indeed, as the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, the total spending cuts in Obama’s budget for the next three years come in at $20 billion, out of total spending for those years of over $11 trillion ($11,000 billion). As the Journal observed, “Hosni Mubarak was more in touch with reality last Thursday night.”
The budget deficit for this year, President Obama’s third year in office, is now $1.645 trillion ($1,645 billion), as projected in Obama’s own budget documents. This is the highest in world history, let alone U.S. history. That is due to federal spending this year equal to 25.3% of GDP, a quarter of our entire economy. That compares to federal spending of 20.7% of GDP in 2008, and 19.6% in 2007, the last budget year of the former Republican majority Congress.
President Obama’s budget projects that this deficit will be cut in half by 2013. But in last year’s budget, Obama projected that this year’s deficit would be $1.227 trillion, more than $400 billion less than Obama says it will be today. On the basis of his impossible 2013 projection, President Obama is already running around the country expecting applause for his claim that he has made good on his campaign promise to reduce the deficit in half by the end of his first term, while his actual deficit for this year of $1.645 trillion is again the highest in world history! The deficit for 2008, by the way, was $458 billion.
Apart from defense spending cuts, President Obama’s budget claims $1.1 trillion in deficit reductions over 10 years. But $700 billion of that is due to tax increases, discussed further below. Another $1.26 trillion is phantom savings supposedly resulting from reductions in costs from “Overseas Contingency Operations.” But were we really planning before this budget to spend $136 billion in 2021 in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or $882 billion from 2015 to 2021, over a trillion counting supposed debt service savings? Actually no, so these phantom “budget savings” are actually just another phony budget trick.
Even with these tax increases and phantom budget savings, the national debt held by the public will soar to $19 trillion by 2021, more than triple that national debt total of $5.8 trillion in 2008, again according to President Obama’s own budget documents. Indeed, the national debt held by the public will have more than doubled from 2008 by next year, under President Obama’s budget. This means President Obama will have accumulated in just one term more national debt than all previous Presidents combined, from George Washington to President Bush.
But that is not the whole picture. Gross federal debt includes the debt held by the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, real debt that will have to be paid to continue to pay promised Social Security and Medicare benefits. That Gross Federal Debt is projected to total $26.346 trillion by 2021, which would be 106% of GDP that year, more than our entire economy that year.
This is why Andrew Sullivan wrote in the Atlantic yesterday, in a piece entitled, “Obama to the Next Generation: Screw You, Suckers”:
To all those under 30 who worked so hard to get this man elected, know this: He just screwed you over. He thinks you are fools. Either the U.S. will go into default because of Obama’s cowardice, or you will be paying far far more for far far less because this President has no courage when it counts. He let you down. On the critical issue of America’s fiscal crisis, he represents no hope and no change. Just the same old Washington politics he promised to end.
About the Author
Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Heartland Institute, General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Senior Policy Advisor on Entitlements and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 2.16.11 @ 6:13AM
The disingenuous of Obama was on display for all the world to see, but for Obama not all the world's a stage. In a White House press corp where each softball question was followed by another, what we observed was a White House press corp not only out of a league of their own, but mentally genuflecting before their chosen messiah. On another note, it's amazing how easily and with such glibness Obama can lie.
As Obama fielded softball questions about the budget the true Obama still came out and his leftist beliefs were fairly easy to observe. For instance, when he talked of cutting corporate taxes he stated that other taxes had to be raised to compensate (the government) for the loss of corporate taxes. That's Obama in a nutshell. To him the world is a zero sum game where there's only so much pie and the pie has to be cut over and over to feed the same group of people. It also shows that his innate belief that the public is there to feed the government and not the other way around. In that sense, he's of rather limited intelligence because the American pie is actually unlimited.
If only the government would get out of the way.
From the American with Disabilities Act to never ending regulations spun out of the EPA, the business sector in America not only has to pay some of the highest corporate taxes in the world, they have to dance to the whim and whimsy of an army of federal bureaucrats, many of whom have never started a business or created a job. That would include Obama who looks like nothing but a weak ideologue. And Washington is full of them.
The ideologues who gravitate to federal positions have the business world by the throat and the elitism foaming out of these federal agencies kills millions of jobs a year.
Yet, all you get from Washington, D.C, Inc. is that we will have to compromise on cuts which means basically Obama only wants to look like he's for doing something about the budget when he knows the Democrats in the Senate will stop gap any cuts coming from the House.
In essence Obama is the ultimate con man, playing a game he hopes no one detects, engaging in falsehoods that he knows won't solve anything, and posturing himself as the kingmaker on any deal which may materialize, all the while hoping nothing changes.
In the meantime chalk his budget up to a budget full of sound and fury, told by an idiot and amounting to nothing
Alan Brooks| 2.16.11 @ 8:00AM
McCain would have done as Obama is doing, had McCain been elected.
SonOfSam| 2.16.11 @ 8:53AM
which is why we need a real conservative candidate this time, not a pink-as-a-pigs-butt RINO from the Arlen Specter school of "big tent" blathercrap. We also don't need any fraudalent "I've seen the light, I promise to be a real conservative" Romneys either
Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman, Bobby Jindal, Paul Ryan -- take your pick, they all sound a thousand times better than the TelePrompter in Chief we've got now
Tomas| 2.16.11 @ 12:46PM
Alan's right, but not for political reasons.
The Federal Debt now equals the size of the U.S. economy. At this point, it can only surpass it. If interest is not counted as part of this debt figure, and is added to it, then the debt is greater than the U.S. economy.
And since tax revenue can never equal the value of our economy, our payments will never bring it down. Never. It's like trying to fill a sink hole with a sand box.
Ask any economist. Once your expenses exceed your income, you have no choice but to file for Bankruptcy.
It's out of our hands now - there is nothing we - or any president - can do to reverse the outcome. Just hang on for the ride.
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TommyS| 2.16.11 @ 9:14AM
I assume you are stating your opinion since you have not stated any facts and are not entitled to your own.
TommyS| 2.16.11 @ 9:16AM
PS: I am referring to Alan Brooks off the wall comment.
SonOfSam| 2.16.11 @ 9:24AM
Thanks for the FYI TommyS. btw, do you have a favorite among the GOP contenders?
Alan Brooks| 2.16.11 @ 11:31AM
Okay, Tommy, keep on electing Nixons, Fords, Bushes. Keep it up.
Alan Brooks| 2.16.11 @ 11:34AM
...PS,
question: does Tommy actually think McCain would have done better than Obama??
W| 2.16.11 @ 1:05PM
Brooks, you could do better than Obama
Grzmlyk| 2.16.11 @ 2:12PM
Alan Brooks: A vapid, preening non-entity, utterly devoid of a single thought and completely without substance.
In other words, the ideal liberal!
Gotta give him credit for crystallizing liberalism's unbearable lightness of being for us here at this site, lest we lose sight of what is destroying this country: A false consciousness hellbent on rending reality to feed its insatiable vanity.
skip| 2.16.11 @ 2:08PM
Brooks,
Humphrey
McGovern
Carter
Mondale
Dukakis
Clinton
Gore
Kerry
Obama
Nice list. And Ford wasn't elected dipshit.
beebop| 2.16.11 @ 6:49PM
I hope obama knows some jazz riffs because he is going to need them.
JP| 2.16.11 @ 9:20AM
Perhaps, perhaps not. Obviously McCain is not the issue at hand. The President is playing the House GOP for suckers. He is betting on a 1995 redux, in which then House Majority Leader Gingrich over played his hand and got burned - Ginrich never recovered.
But this is not 1995; we can no longer kick this can down the road. Rep Boehner has a two pronged battle to fight. The most important being to drastically reduce domestic spending (both discretionary and non-discretionary). His second battle is survive the upcoming battle politcally. Obama and the WH can set traps at thier choosing. The Dems usually thrive in this kind of scenario.
However, the time for political games is quickly coming to a close. The voters will know when the game is up when they visit thier ATM machine one day and discover that thier bank is closed and thier money is gone. Then the real games shall begin.
SpiralArchitect | 2.17.11 @ 7:35PM
The accounts will have been long emptied as their jobs will have been long lost.
The Banks will keep marching on - down to the last tax payer.
Doctor Right| 2.16.11 @ 9:24AM
Even when we acknowledge that McCain is a RINO, that is an idiotic statement, backed-up by exactly nothing.
Alan...You're just going to have to face the fact that your boy Obama is a dangerously reckless spender, with NO grasp of basic economics.
Kind of like you...The last part, at least.
SpiralArchitect | 2.17.11 @ 7:39PM
I enjoy Brooks continual avoidance of what is 'really' ( no 'reported' ) happening.
The diversionary tactics are fun to bear witness against.
"McCain would do..." has as much to do with B.O. as if whether I prefer pulp free orange juice or not.
Thanks Brooks, you provide a little humor to a very grave situation.
W| 2.16.11 @ 9:33AM
Brooks, the isssue is Obama's budget. He is the president, not McCain. Can you focus on reality? It is President Obama, not President McCain.
Alan Brooks| 2.16.11 @ 7:06PM
I can't focus on anything except my need for attention.
beebop| 2.16.11 @ 8:45PM
I believe that that goes without saying. It's really all about you, isn't it? We are just so many dogs at the human show of Alan Brooks!
Steve A| 2.16.11 @ 10:05AM
Alan, You may very well be correct. This is precisely why conservatives do not need to nominate a "Progressive Moderate" again. This is also why the country, as a whole, is going down the drain. All of these peolpe need to go.
Sarah| 2.16.11 @ 10:27AM
Here's the problem with your flip comment. McCain ISN'T THE PRESIDENT! It makes no difference what you think he would or would not have done. The fact of the matter is that OBAMA is the President and it is OBAMA who is putting this forth.
When oh when are we actually going to hold people culpable for their OWN ACTIONS rather than saying "oh, well the other guy would have done it too." It doesn't matter if that could have been the case. What matters is what IS the case. Quit obfuscating and get down to brass tacks. We are in the sh*t. We know it. President Hope and Change isn't helping at all. That's on him and ONLY him. Deal with it.
idalily| 2.16.11 @ 11:26PM
Amen.
Albert| 2.16.11 @ 10:44AM
McCain was largely nominated by Democrat crossover primary voters in many early primary states. He sure wasn't my choice. And frankly, I doubt seriously McCain would have proposed a budget anywhere near President Bozo's. I really do not understand why you post these things over and over again. They are meaningless drivel. They prove nothing. And they make you look stupid.
Redstateboy| 2.16.11 @ 11:33AM
what's this Alan Brooks?? Someone who Still believes in this fool Oblahblah?
Alan Brooks| 2.16.11 @ 11:38AM
Funny, the GOP talks Reagan, but votes Dole!
Curiouser & curiouser.
Spike| 2.16.11 @ 12:05PM
Not this time around. The American people are awake. Most of them, anyway.
I see that you're still asleep.
Doctor Right| 2.16.11 @ 1:52PM
Funny how Democrats have to act like they love their country during the election season!
beebop| 2.16.11 @ 6:52PM
touche!
Oldefarte| 2.16.11 @ 12:52PM
BS, and if you truly believe that [or concerning any other presidential issue that has occurred in the last two years], then you are STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dustoff| 2.16.11 @ 1:01PM
Hmmmm. Can we see your Chrystal Ball.
HSmith| 2.16.11 @ 1:59PM
Isn't that a moot point? McCain wasn't elected, Obama was. You can go on all day about what McCain "would have done," but you can never know for sure. Besides, we have to live with the world as it is, not as it might have been. Obama is a disaster. We know that. McCain might have been a disaster. We don't know that and never will.
C.K. Amos| 2.16.11 @ 1:59PM
Preposterous statement. You'd like to think McCain would. Suggesting it serves to take away the focus from the feckless Marxist Obama's trainwreck.
Grzmlyk| 2.16.11 @ 2:29PM
Excellent comment, Alan. The perspicacious among us might also point out that, had the Bears beaten the Packers in the NFC Division Championship, they, too, would have beaten the Steelers and won the Super Bowl.
Warrior | 2.16.11 @ 3:08PM
You are an unmitigated dumbass. What we have is what Obama is actually doing which is a far more relevant discussion than any conjecture you might want to bring up. Why don't you defend you're Marxist hero and discuss facts based on his accomplishments instead of deflecting to the inane?
Tom in Michigan| 2.16.11 @ 6:12PM
Thanks. Well. That makes it all OK. I know I feel much better. I've always felt that two wrongs, no matter how hypothetical one or the other may be do indeed, make a right.
ENOUGH ROPE| 2.17.11 @ 7:49PM
Recognize that Obama is a saboteur who wants America to become a third world country. Obama regards America and its upper and middle classes as oppressors of the world and the poor in the same way that European colonial powers exploited their colonies.
Obama is an habitual liar in order to bankrupt and destroy America. He is a smiling cobra.
saleboter| 2.16.11 @ 6:20AM
Obami is playing politics (he doesn't know anything else) He will let the pubbies make the hard choices and will then blame them for cutting aid to the poor, the old the average Joe, etc. Of course he would never do that. Probably will work given the ignorance of the average voter and an in-the-tank press.
We are so screwed
SonOfSam| 2.16.11 @ 9:00AM
saleboter, man up and be of good cheer. The TelePrompter in Chief has revealed his true colors and we the people can see right through him. As for the average voter, well, we're not so average anymore. Its not like the old days when the big three networks churned out a steady diet of prolefeed propaganda, and we had no choices or alternatives. We have our own networks now, our own sources, our own leaders. Thats why these so called journalists worship at the altar of Obama: they want so desperately to turn their backs on the cold hard reality that WE DONT NEED THEM
get ready for 2012 my friend. Find good people and work with them. That's how we turn this around
VBMax| 2.16.11 @ 6:53AM
We are all aware that the road to hell can be paved with good intentions....it can be paved with evil ones as well.
Longplay| 2.16.11 @ 7:34AM
I keep hearing pundits say that this budget proposal shows that he is "unserious". Nothingncould be further from the truth. He's deadly serious. Serious about following the Cloward Piven model in order to "fundamentally transform" the country.
beebop| 2.16.11 @ 6:53PM
He's so serious he's on his way to Cleveland State University to talk up SMALL BUSINESS rather than, say, talk to SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS ....
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.16.11 @ 7:38AM
If you wanted to DESTROY this Country, without firing a shot, what would be the best way to do it? If you wanted to fulfill the "Dreams From My Father", a Marxist Muslim who abandoned his family (Typical Black Man) and died DRUNK, in a Kenyan gutter? How would you go about doing it?
You would pile on unsustainable, crushing DEBT, that would cripple it's Economy, and destroy it as a Major world Power.
Who would do that? WHY would anyone want to do that?
"And I saw the BEAST rise from the Sea. And he was given a MOUTH, to speak Haughty and Blasphemous words. And he was allowed to exercise authority for forty two months." Revelation 13-5.
WHO would INTENTIONALLY - (And that's what this is.) - run the only place for GOOD in the world, in to the GROUND?
There is no other explanation of how the Son of a Marxist Muslim and an Atheist Communist, who grew up in Foreign Lands, practicing a Religion of DEATH, and surrounding himself, his entire adult life, with people who HATE this country, could rise from the Streets of Chicago, to the Presidency of the world's most powerful CHRISTIAN NATION.
"There are none so blind, as those who WILL NOT SEE."
Wake Up!
Stephanie| 2.16.11 @ 8:30AM
God, how did we get here?
A. C. Santore| 2.16.11 @ 8:35AM
I'd ask how do we get OUTTA here.
SonOfSam| 2.16.11 @ 9:05AM
we get out of here the same way Washington did after the Americans got their asses whipped at New York and Long Island: we find a way of hitting back, like we did at Trenton and Princeton. Then we soldier on to Saratoga, and then to Yorktown.
In other words, stop whining and retreating. ATTACK, and don't stop until every ObamaNazi stooge is in the ground, in prison or in exile. Rip apart their sick and evil engines of enslavement like ObamaCare, cap and tax, and declaring CO2 a "poison" instead of plant food. Tear their filthy claws out of our wallets, and shut off the tax dollar spigot that feeds the trough where these Kool Aid drinking pigs have got their snouts
Ken in Tyler| 2.16.11 @ 9:32AM
The promise of II Chronicles 7:14 comes to mind. With human efforts alone,we won't get outta here. It would be possible though, if we would actually live by our national motto.
Stephanie| 2.16.11 @ 11:02AM
Touche' A.C.
Joe Oliva| 2.16.11 @ 2:32PM
Just came across this quote from Patrick Henry:
"It's when people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains". That is how we got here Stephanie.
I have to agree with many of you that Obama knows exactly what he is doing. We are already 50-60% transformed into another Euro-Socialist Utopian Hellhole. The Europeans regularly live with 15% unemployment which is what we really have, and the high taxed nanny state they are stuck in is what Obama envisions for the U.S. Timothy Pennell's description is right on the money.
Here is one way we get out of this mess A.C. Visit the GOOOH.COM organization, which is "Get Out Of Our House". It is a plan for us to run as true citizen legislators to replace the corrupt elites of both parties. It is the last chance we have short of a violent revolution to restore Constitutional Self Government and reclaim the inheritance we were given by the founders.
Time is short and all the joking and arguing back and forth with the liberal trolls will not get the job done. Especially, if you happen to be someone out of work, you can run for office. The rest of us can support you as the GOOOH people include a plan for funding candidates. I urge all of you to check it out.
Thanks, Joe
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.16.11 @ 9:14AM
How did we get here? I just told ya how we got here.
Stephanie| 2.16.11 @ 11:04AM
I know Tim. I was just commenting because your comment made me feel so helpless and doomed!
Anthony| 2.16.11 @ 11:15AM
Well Steph, Once upon a time there was an America that thought presidential elections were the same as voting for American Idol, (not my origional thought) and so, 53% of brain dead Americans voted for a Muslim Marxist. Peachy keen, "we're no longer racists"!!!!! Yea, us!!!
The rest, as they say, is history. And now Obozo is a full length horror movie version of Groundhog Day. Or maybe Halloween X.
Oldefarte| 2.16.11 @ 12:55PM
We GOT HERE by STUPIDS' INABILITY TO SEE THE BS ON THE NATION'S WALL PRIOR TO 11/2/08, that's how we GOT HERE!!!!!
MikeD| 2.16.11 @ 8:22PM
We got here because millions of really stupid people voted for barry for the following reasons:
1. They are intrinsically STUPID.
2. We were all told that voting against barry meant we were racists. Those of us who voted for McCain did so because we saw how horrible barry was, and didn't really care what the libs called us.
3. The media all lied in lockstep and should be whipped and gagged. Not just for what they said and printed, but for what they HID.
4. White guilt. White guilt! White guilt! What a stupid reason.
5. "It was a Black man's turn." Another INCREDIBLY stupid reason to vote for anything!
6. Too many Americans were lazy and ignorant.
7. Too many foolish Americans believed the crap coming from their teachers and other subhuman academics. "Bush Lied, People Died!" WHAT A CROCK!
8. The average obama voter was delusional. Ask how many would do it again?
9. Every so often the more intellectually deficient among us need to see first hand why democrats cannot be trusted with anything. This time the lesson may well be fatal.
I hope you wise and informed people out there can come up with more, and better articulated, reasons.
vtwin| 2.16.11 @ 11:06AM
Definition: Typical Black Man “a Marxist Muslim who abandoned his family” -- Timothy L. Pennell
Keep moving folks no racism here.
Stephanie| 2.16.11 @ 12:08PM
But it's true, vtwin. If that man truely WAS his father. Some say the Marshall fellow who he wrote that disgusting poem about may be his baby daddy.
vtwin| 2.16.11 @ 1:13PM
Do I have this right?
If Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. is President Obama father than Timothy is correct in defining the “Typical Black Man [as] a Marxist Muslim who abandoned his family”
But if Frank Marshall Davis is President Obama father than Timothy is incorrect in defining the “Typical Black Man [as] a Marxist Muslim who abandoned his family”
I bet you really enjoy watching Glen Beck.
missbosslady| 2.16.11 @ 8:05PM
Ha-ha vtwin,
Racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, racist, ..... ad infinitum.
The funny part about you (does 'v' stand for vapid?) is that you consistently (like a good little liberal) yell racist in this crowded room, but yet you have no idea who anybody here is, which can only mean that you assume all AT posters to be white.
Of course, that actually makes you the racist.
Look up the word as I believe that you don't really know its meaning.
Now, the question is; why do you assume that everyone here is white?
Hmmmm?
C'mon you little racist loser, tell us what we already know, tell us why you think we're all white.
SpiralArchitect | 2.17.11 @ 7:58PM
Sit back down and shut your hole, or your risk further gross display of your ignorance, v/t.
Dustoff| 2.16.11 @ 1:04PM
You mean YOUR definition.
Sorry if we don't play.
beebop| 2.16.11 @ 6:56PM
I can honestly say that you and yours have made me immune to racism on any level. I hope that is not what you intended when you screamed that anyone who preferred HRC was a damn racist. Good job!
Johnny H| 2.16.11 @ 12:17PM
Timothy, you had something to say but you destroyed your cred by referring to "Typical Black Man". Dude, wise up! What's at stake is far too important to allow the message to get lost in racist rhetoric. Our country, our future and that of our children depend on the adults doing the right thing, regardless of race or ethnicity. You fell into the very trap the progressives use to paint all conservatives as racists. That makes you a useful idiot for their cause... now you grow up and do the right thing, the country needs you!
vtwin| 2.16.11 @ 1:19PM
Johnny H a.k.a Frank Luntz
beebop| 2.16.11 @ 6:57PM
Do you ever actually CONTRIBUTE anything here other than your lightening fast KNEE JERK ???
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.17.11 @ 9:56AM
It's borderline painful to have to EXPLAIN this to IDIOTS.
It's SATIRE. It's a play on Little Barry's own description of his WHITE GRANDMOTHER, because she feared one particular black man.
Black Jesus - ABU HUSSAIN - called his Grandmother a (PAY ATTENTION. Cause here it comes) "TYPICAL WHITE PERSON". It's in his book.
So, I use HIS WORDS to describe his Father. And with some 85% of Black Children being born to single MOTHERS, I'd say that I had the FACTS on my side.
Wouldn't you? Johnny H?
IDIOT!
SpiralArchitect | 2.17.11 @ 8:00PM
1 in 3 abortions is said to now involve what... One guess.
Grzmlyk| 2.16.11 @ 2:37PM
So Obama is destroying the country. Big deal. It's a small price to pay, dude.
My man Barack happens to be a totally hip black guy with an awesome pants crease.
Do you have any idea how cool that makes the white people who voted for him?
Let's get our priorities straight, ok?
notyomoma| 2.17.11 @ 8:32PM
Hmmm who? How about an unfunded, illegal war that cost a billion dollars a week for several years that wasn't even counted as debt until Obama took office. Who would do that? Where would we be right now if we didn't spend a Trillion dollars occupying Iraq?
MikeD| 2.16.11 @ 7:49AM
A few observations...
1. Obama REALLY thinks we're the stupidest bunch of people in history; and he might be right; especially when we look at the core of his "constitutency"; ie., the fools that believed him and voted for him.
2. Obama's "constitutency" consists of those who never worked and paid taxes; of those who were too young to have ever paid taxes; and of those who were just plain ignorant.
3. Obama lies. He lies now, he lied then, and he'll continue to lie. Why is this so hard to get?
4. He is not stupid or ignorant; he is evil; and is engaged on a crusade to destroy what used to be the greatest Country in the history of the world. Remember, if it had not been for the terrible sacrifices of Americans (But NOT any one of the idiots still stumbling around believing, and defending this criminal!) half the world would be German and the other half Japanese.
5. The Democratic Party is evil because they are continuing to shove barry's agenda down our throats. They know exactly what they're doing. But they don't care.
It reminds me of a routine by Louie Anderson, a comic, who was very large. He always said (About being 'fat') that, when the 'bomb' came, the shock wave wasn't gonna jump over him because he was in 'good shape'! That's this crop of ignorant democrats. they have no idea of what the destruction of our economy; and our Country, will do. They must really think that THEY will be immune to the disaster. Think again, fools.
Another note to Mr. Boehner and the GOP: 'WE ARE BROKE! WE ARE OUT OF MONEY! WE ARE IN SERIOUS DANGER! GET IT? GOOD.
NOW DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
How about a 10% cut in EVERY area of the federal government. EVERYTHING! Except for the departments that need to be eliminated immediately, like (Yet again...) Energy, Education, Housing, EPA, and on, and on, and on... Guys and gals; this isn't really THAT hard to get. Now do it!
LMajito| 2.16.11 @ 8:59AM
MikeD:'2. Obama's "constitutency" consists of those who never worked and paid taxes; of those who were too young to have ever paid taxes; and of those who were just plain ignorant.'
You're wrong here. I know first hand many business owners with gross sales in excess of 50 million/yr (btw they're non-black) who voted for President Obama.
One could say that over 50% of the US voters never work nor pay taxes but it won't make it true. Usually the folks who don't work/pay taxes don't bother to vote either for whatever reason such as being asked for a picture id...
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.16.11 @ 9:10AM
Majito===Sucker, spoken of above.
SonOfSam| 2.16.11 @ 9:10AM
Maybe some people don't work, but they all pay taxes. Every time they buy something, they're paying a tax. Every time we gas up our cars, we're all paying a tax. Every time we turn on the lights, we 're paying a tax. And when gas goes to $6 a gallon and home heating oil goes to $5 because the TelePrompter in Chief pushed Egypt into the Muslim Brotherhood, that's also a tax. THAT is the message we have to send to every working class person in this country. As far the deadbeats and layabouts: SCREW THEM. No more endless welfare and no more bailouts. They don't like it? Tough! They want to start something? Bring it!
Appleby| 2.16.11 @ 11:51AM
(1) Eliminate the Withholding provision from Income Tax Law.
(2) Make people pay their entire tax bill on April 15.
(3) Change Election Day to April 16.
There. I solved the problem for yez.
Old Guy| 2.16.11 @ 12:23PM
No. Make people pay their tax bill on the Monday before election!
vtwin| 2.16.11 @ 5:18PM
Yeah, and the next time the Pentagon wants a new weapons system let them hold a damn bake sale!
missbosslady| 2.16.11 @ 8:07PM
ha,ha,ha...
Yeah, you're for defense spending!
ha,ha,ha,ha,ha....
skip| 2.16.11 @ 2:18PM
(4) Remove tax withholding and health insurance from the responsibility of employers.
Is home, life, or auto insurance mandated through employers? Why should health insurance? It just adds to the regulation and cost.
Make employees pay be in gross earnings, and make employees responsible for paying their own tax burden. Every tax payer would have a good idea how much tax they pay, and politicians would have a difficult time hiding the true tax burden, among a multitude of other obvious benefits.
Joe Oliva| 2.16.11 @ 2:43PM
You can also increase the number of dependents on your witholding statement. This will mean the feds take less every paycheck. The best part comes when you file on the the last possible day, April 15.
At that time you will have to file with the correct legal number of dependents, so the chances are good you will owe Uncle. However, if you don't have the cash, you can work out a repayment plan to spread the thing out.
If we all did this for the 2011 tax year, by April 2012, the feds would be broke because we were keeping back for ourselves so much during 2011, and, they would have no way to get more cash because we would all be on the repayment plan.
I think this could work out well. Any other ideas to begin to break the back of the beast?
Oldefarte| 2.16.11 @ 12:58PM
Well said, Mike D, as usual [and CORRECT]; but your implication in #5 does not go far enough since he and Democrats WANT TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY AND THAT IS THEIR POLITICAL MISSION!!!!!!!!
Tom in Michigan| 2.16.11 @ 6:17PM
Obama and indeed, the entire American left have plenty of reasons to believe we're stupid. We've inhaled and absorbed all their incredible lies, stupid tropes and broken promises since FDR and - we've come back for MORE. In fact, more than 50% of us were stupid enough to vote for a man of dubious achievements and even more dubious background at a crucial juncture in history. They have very good reasons to believe we're stupid. Can you blame them?
Mimi| 2.16.11 @ 7:51AM
Peter.... I nearly fell over this morning, reading " GOOD MORNING, SUCKERS " by Peter Ferrara ! Boy did capture the feelings of the whole country. More debt from this President ...than from George Washington to George Bush combined....Outrageous! ! !
What do we do ? as Donald Trump says "Keep it simple"...ASK HIM TO RESIGN...NOW! He is HARMING the NATION. Total irresponsibility. and with a GRIN on his face.
skip| 2.16.11 @ 3:31PM
How can conservatives and businesses understand all the deficit and debt reductions in his proposed budget when the great orator, during the impromptu speech given Tuesday morning, did not one single time stick out his chin, did not even once state "let me be perfectly clear", did not make any reference to a ditch or a slurpee. You couldn't even see those teleprompters on screen. That stinking rotten W. is such an evil fascist he even screwed up the anointed commmunicator's messianic message.
missbosslady| 2.16.11 @ 8:09PM
You must of missed the stupid boat metaphor.
This guy talks to the American public like we're a bunch of grade schoolers.
Nauseating!
skip| 2.16.11 @ 8:36PM
I missed the boat metaphor. I predict your characterization the metaphor is stupid is a gross understatement.
Melvin| 2.16.11 @ 7:55AM
Like it or not the producing people of this Country are going to have to go Egyptian on our government. They still either don't realize were dead serious, or they just don't give a damn.
We have a political elite that is akin to the strong armed tactics of the former government of Hosni Mubuarak. Because once we really think about it, government is government anywhere in the world. Just different faces but same tactics to suppress the people or produce government regulations that basically achieves the same thing.
We have begged with our government, we have pleaded with our government, we have voted out in mass quantities of those that are bent on suppressing the people and....does the government respond? Oh yes, it responds alright with even more choking regulations by Executive fiat, and by non elected bureaucrats known as Czars.
This regulation, is the epitome of bureaucrat stupidity.
I live in Onslow County, Jacksonville NC. We have a water & sewer authority that many did not want, but it did not matter. This authority is called Onwasa. Well Onwasa figured it was going to squeeze more money out of the tax payers by declaring that even though a property owner is using well water on his property for his consumption, the property owner still had to pay for a water hook-up connection fee regardless in whether or not they were hooked up to country water or not.
Well, many residents of Onslow County raised enough hell, that this bright idea was dropped and many members of Onwasa are being replaced or jumping ship from the ensuing investigation.
These Onslow County residents went Egyptian light on these bureaucrats and they prevailed and won the day.
Bottom line is, We don't want to overthrow our government because then what are we supposed to replace it with. more of the same or something worse.
No. as Bill Hussein O'Stalin noted, we just want all forms of repressive government regulation and taxation off our backs. Because it seems every time we turn around their is some government drone with their hand out, or waving a piece of paper that states, "No, No, No you can't do that," without paying a fee and even after you pay your fee you still can't do it.
We have to go Egyptian enough on our government to clean out all the impacted government waste that has collected itself inside our colons and flush the parasites out. Because it is going to get worse and not better.
Beer (f.m.h.)| 2.16.11 @ 7:05PM
Going Egyptian, huh. I like the phrase, Melvin. Is that original with you?
I like the concept even more in the abstract, but I somehow doubt that even two million teapartyiers protesting in the streets outside the White House or the Congress would have a happy ending.
No, a safer course is simply for the Amercian people Go Constitutional and elect a fully backboned fiscal conservative next cycle, and hope the Republican House can hold the line until then.
missbosslady| 2.16.11 @ 8:12PM
How about we starve the beast?
Step #1 Everyone changes their W4 and claim 99 dependents.
Step #2 April 15th nobody pays.
They can't waste our money if we don't give it to them.
martin j smith| 2.16.11 @ 8:03AM
Is Obama a comedian or does he think we are the fools or both ?
To what extent if at all is Obama onto himself or is he delusional ?
How does the Republican ( Rea Tea Party,Conservative and others who oppose Obama's agenda ) respond to this crap ?
My own views: He is delusional,he thinks the voters are stupid and even if they are onto him he does not care.
I think there should be a serious confronation with Obama and for Political Reasons ( that means not to turn off people who are overly sensitive ) call Obama a liar without using the word. Instead use facts such as the amount of money spent under his watch. Such as the Unemployment situation under his watch. etc.
The usual response by the Socialists will be: ( and by the way this is actually what you will get )
Bush did it. Why should the "rich" get a tax break ? The " middle class" ( read Big unions ) need the money.
Obama should be confronted on his jobs failure,class warfare for disuniting America, his spending more than ALL PRESIDENTS FROM WASHINGTON TO GWB etc.
I think IMPEACHMENT IS MUCH IN ORDER IF OBAMA PERSISTS IN STRANGLING THIS COUNTRY.
Oldefarte| 2.16.11 @ 1:02PM
Martin, as usual you are correct, but he's no comedian and we ARE FOOLS [since a majority of us taxpayer-voters ALLOWED HIM TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON 11/2/08]!!!!!!!!!!
C.K. Amos| 2.16.11 @ 1:54PM
Hey, OF, respectfully, no, we who voted for McCain or against Obama, you pick, are not fools, even by association societally with those who did.
But if we continue to sit on our blessed assurances without taking some action, we may well be fools or worse.
Tom Osterman| 2.16.11 @ 8:05AM
It's not just the President, it's the whole Democratic Party! If the Democrats in Congress weren't in on this, the Obama budget would have all the authority of a letter to Santa.
We have, God help us, an entire party heading for a cliff and stomping on the gas pedal, and fully intending to take the rest of us with them.
buckyeman| 2.16.11 @ 10:26AM
"It's not just the President, it's the whole Democratic Party!"
And most of the Republican Party.
Oldefarte| 2.16.11 @ 1:09PM
As you say, the Republicans are bad enough, but in no way, shape of form are the even remotely close to or comparable to Democrats and this president. This administrations' spending is TRIPLE [in just two years] that of the former administration's [over eight years]. The Democrats are simply all about SOCIALISM and WEALTH TRANSFERENCE [at the expense of taxpayers]!!!!!
missbosslady| 2.16.11 @ 8:13PM
They're America's version of suicide bombers.
Louis Jenkins| 2.16.11 @ 8:17AM
Democrats, Republicans, it doesn't matter. This nation is on the verge of going down the tubes. We will default on our national debt as I live and breathe. When everyone individually owes over $12,000.00 of the national debt what recourse is there? Maybe a few of the uberrich have that kind of money laying around, I do not. For those who elected the cross eyed president- yes, shame on you, for all of us are going down with you. The next president, if we have one, will have a he-- of a mess to clean up. Let's be honest America, have you had enough yet? Start preping now.
A. C. Santore| 2.16.11 @ 8:41AM
I know the answer. The Obama Progressives taught me.
Everybody in the U.S. each borrow $12,000 and give it to the government to pay off the debt.
Done and dusted!
You thick-witted non-Progressives just don't get it!
SonOfSam| 2.16.11 @ 9:15AM
Hows about we all take our share from George Soros?
Old Soldier| 2.16.11 @ 10:32AM
I would agree to that right now if they never came back and asked for more.
Pay it off and abolish all thosee entitlement programs. Fix my income tax at a flat 10% without deductions.
Or we can do it the hard way after the collapse.
vtwin| 2.16.11 @ 12:17PM
News Flash: That’s what we're doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sarah| 2.16.11 @ 10:34AM
Let's not forget that your number includes each and every one of our children. Sickening.
skip| 2.16.11 @ 10:38PM
Louis,
As of this minute each U.S. citizen owes over forty five thousand five hundred forty six dollars.
skip| 2.16.11 @ 10:40PM
This does not include debt owed on items corruptly kept off the budget like covering for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and a host of other hidden costs that would make you ill.
skip| 2.16.11 @ 10:57PM
This does not include debt owed at the state level. For instance citizens of New York owe more than an additional fifteen thousand one hundred five dollars.
Curly Smith| 2.16.11 @ 8:27AM
Who are the suckers that you're talking about? It's not the overwhelming number of average citizens who rose up against both the Republican and Democratic Parties. It's sure not the overwhelming number of voters who tossed Nancy Pelosi and her criminal cabal out of power. Or, maybe it is, because they installed the GOP in power with the expectation that the GOP would do something non-GOP-like and confront the Democrats to right the Ship of State.
Sorry, it's not the Tea Party versus the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party is just continuing its "Death to America" agenda. No, it's the Tea Party versus the Republican Party. The GOP can either do what they were given the power to do, what they stated they would do, or the GOP will cease to exist.
The problem isn't Obama, the problem is the faux Conservative GOP that actually wants Obama's agenda implemented. And the GOP rank-and-file are the suckers if they follow their "leadership" off the cliff - because we'll make John Boehner cry.
Clint| 2.16.11 @ 8:40AM
"The giddy overconfident Democrat attitude was reflected by Barney Frank yesterday comparing the Tea Party to a meeting between the white rabbit and the Mad Hatter. "
Barney Fag, The Banking Queen wants War with We,Tea Party Patriots.
Bring It Alice !
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
SonOfSam| 2.16.11 @ 9:18AM
Come on now Clint, that's being awfully rough on Barney "of course Fannie Mae is solvent" Frank. His view of reality has been warped by a lifetime of being on his face or on his knees. What we the people need to do is to send him packing to a permanent vacation on Fire Island. Heck, I'll throw in the money for his ferry ride
skip| 2.16.11 @ 2:21PM
Frank is such a despicable liar he makes Carter, Clinton, and Obama seem incompetent by comparison. No small task.
missbosslady| 2.16.11 @ 8:16PM
Yes, but what punishment should we mete out to the people that elected Barney?
Let us not forget that without the votes they don't get the office.
skip| 2.16.11 @ 8:30PM
Citizens get the government they deserve.
beebop| 2.17.11 @ 6:10AM
.... in the same manner as Dorothy clicked her heels together and chanted "theirs no place like home." Except the farm's subsidies coupled with over regulation are in danger of putting food prices through the roof.
Americans are spoiled and self indulgent. And our government encourages it by handing out stuff. 0bama is the oprah of DC ...
Stephanie| 2.16.11 @ 8:41AM
What are the reasons that this president can be impeached? I mean, what do you have to have against him to begin impeachment proceedings. Geeze, Ken Starr went after Billy for getting h*#d from Monica. I know, it was because he lied. But isn't there something that can be levied against this horrible disgusting man to get him out of our White House? And I don't mean an election. After last weekend's CPAC, I don't hold out much hope to beat the muslim lover in 2012.
Not unless Sarah runs.
SonOfSam| 2.16.11 @ 9:21AM
Sarah IS running, and she is the one who gets under his skin and drives him over the edge. Hence the screeching of the dinosaur media against her: they fear her the way vampires fear sunlight and Obama voters fear soap, logic and common sense. It also accounts for the call for smelling salts from the matching tie and handkerchief RINOs, who pine for that human Ken doll, Romney. All plastic and no real gonads: no wonder he's so jealous of her.
vtwin| 2.16.11 @ 10:56AM
I have to agree with you Stephanie when Sarah the best the Republicans have to offer the prospects for removing Obama don’t look promising.
skip| 2.16.11 @ 3:37PM
But a national debt exceeding 25 trillion dollars will look more than promising.
As you damn well know.
Either you are slipping big time or Obama is so utterly incompetent he negates your abiltiy to really piss people off.
Anthony| 2.16.11 @ 11:25AM
Article of Impeachment I: Send Obozo and the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee a copy of Jerome Corsi's new book "Where's the Birth Certificate", with a demand of a reply within 30 days.
If Congress fails to act, throw the whole G.D. bunch out in 2012!! The People's Impeachment!!!
Anthony| 2.16.11 @ 12:11PM
Upon reflection, why don't we conservative Americans have a Tea Party moment. I'm not trying to hawk Corsi's book, I don't know much about it, save for the fact Corsi has credibility with his "Unfit for Command" expose of John (Lurch) Kerry, that exposed this elitist fraud.
If thousands of us send copies of the book to our favorite congressman/woman with a demand of proof from the Fraud-In-Chief, with the warning that failure to act will result in their unemployment in 2012, maybe we Americans will get the answer we deserve as citizens.
It will also make a media splash that will continue to put the heat on Obozo. I for one, am damned sick and tired of asking a reasonable question, for which in return, I am impuned, ridiculed, and dissed. We are the citizens of America and we deserve answers, damn the politicians!!!
Oldefarte| 2.16.11 @ 1:14PM
Whether she or anyone else is able to defeat him in 2012 is immaterial to your accurate point of IMPEACHMENT. IMO, there are and should be numerous issues upon which to bring impeachment charges. The only question is DOES ANYONE IN CONGRESS HAVE THE POLITICAL COURAGE TO BRING FORTH SUCH CHARGES????????????????
davelnaf| 2.16.11 @ 8:58AM
What would Obama do without a bloated, ponderous, economy damaging Federal Government? Probably chaff at not being able to play out the next big role he has assigned for himself, which is to force the creation of a VAT, the Holy Grail of Liberalism. The Democratic Party would no longer have to masquerade as the “party of government;” it could come out of the closet as THE government.
Having gotten himself elected to one political office after another, and always with the aim of getting into the next highest one, Obama is now going for what he thinks is political gold: he wants to be remembered as the guy who delivered the Democrats and their ballot stuffing public sector union pals of bothersome election campaigns.
Merely being a good, traditional president was
never Obama’s intention. And the flipside of pushing for more spending as justification for a VAT works for the Bamster because he thinks he can also demagogue this issue into a second term. What a mind!
One wonders what Congressional Democrats are thinking right now. Do they believe the Bamster’s Reign of Error is going to have a happy ending? He won’t succeed in getting a VAT. The prospect of Washington getting its hands on even more money already has many voters primed for 2012.
At some point Democrats will have to understand that most people are now weary of Obamism. If they don’t get 2010’s message they are in for a world of political hurt next year, and this could mean Party’s over.
missbosslady| 2.16.11 @ 8:24PM
I think you're right dave.
Obama is the ultimate suicide bomber willing to sacrifice himself for the higher cause, enslavement of the American people.
He is a devotee, a pious practioner of the evil of evils; control of men.
He does not feel any self-pity, no, he is proving his supreme devotion to the cause.
The chin goes up in a show of pride, he is not bothered by the hate, he revels in it.
Intelligent Design| 2.16.11 @ 9:04AM
Obama lied when he took the oath of office, "to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States..." He is a treacherous impostor.
ExCdn4FT| 2.16.11 @ 9:06AM
Another outstanding article from Peter. I look forward to his contributions at The American Spectator. Keep up the great work!
amor | 2.16.11 @ 9:09AM
Tt's no time to save, it's time to invest in the future of the country, China will lead the world if this country don't make good economical inversions in itself
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.16.11 @ 9:19AM
I bought the book, "Deconstructing Obama" on line from amazon.com yeterday. Whoah!
Peter, thank you again for walking us through it.
skip| 2.16.11 @ 3:40PM
I've been thinking, what this nation needs even more than a WEB Griffin character like Ken McCoy, Craig Lowell, Dick Canidy, or Clete Frade, is a Vince Flynn character like Mitch Rapp.
JP| 2.16.11 @ 9:48AM
There is also one thing that conservative should realize. The Federal Government now consumes about 23% of our GDP. It is the biggest player in town, and as a result almost 1 out of every 4 dollars of our GDP is tied to it. Add in state coffers, and the numbers go up to almost 25%.
Whether we like it or not, our economy now depends upon the federal government. If one adds in Bernecke's QE, Geithner's oversight of our financial institutions (with an assit from the Fed), and the Fed's easy money policies it is quite apparent that it will be very difficult to untangle the web of umbellical cords keep the private sector going. The spending equation is a great start, but it's only a start. The political landmines, not to mention the hit our economy will take once positive actions are implemented should not be discounted.
In just a few short years, the President and his party successfully transformed our economy into a Euroesque state. From Fortune 500 firms like GE and BP to small mom and pop hardware stores, there is not one area of our economy that hasn't been transformed in some way. And for Progressives, it is just a start. The President successfully laid the foundation. And now he is daring Republicans to dismantle it. The GOP looks at the debt; Obama looks at the power. This difference in perspective is paramount to understanding what is we face.
missbosslady| 2.16.11 @ 8:27PM
The only issue we now face is; do we rip the bandage off the wound in one fell swoop, or do we slowly remove it and needlessly elongate the pain?
To think that there is a painless solution, at this time, is pure folly.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 2.16.11 @ 10:06AM
Your comment is good but the underlying assumption is that we can't get along without big government and that's bull crap.
Petronius| 2.16.11 @ 10:17AM
Durocher always said, "nice guys finish last."
Liberals finish nice guys off. If the Republicans don't get some backbone and abolish entitlements, this country is finished.
This is for you Mr. Boehner. We can no longer subsidize the character deficiencies of all who refuse to compete. SPANK THESE INFANTILE PARASITIC DEMONCRATS AND TELL THEM NO!!
apnep| 2.16.11 @ 10:23AM
So far, I feel like the people we elected into office are doing NOTHING. When are they going to get off their butts and take some action against the evil that is Obama? WHEN? Why are they just sitting back and taking it???! It's infuriating.
John| 2.16.11 @ 10:32AM
Tough to say they are doing nothing nothing. But as an IT company we've felt the pinch and can understand why it may seem as if they are doing nothing.
martin j smith| 2.16.11 @ 10:35AM
There is going to be a "sprting out" of two kinds of people in Washinton: Those who care about this country and the people and those who do not. Most of those who don not care are on the Democrat( ic ? ) side but there are enough RINOs to fill out the rest. I would say its about 70% Democrat and 30% RINOS who are in callusion. There are some on the R side who are just cowards and then there are those who will come out to fight. The time for choosing is here--lets
see who is on our side.
vtwin| 2.16.11 @ 10:38AM
“He can't say Bush made him do that.” Oh yes he can!
Bush inherited a surplus from Clinton and passed on to Obama the “worst economy since the Great Depression” and an $11+ trillion national debt.
The “worst economy since the Great Depression” means reduced tax revenues, income taxes, social Security taxes, Medicare taxes...
The “worst economy since the Great Depression” means higher government spending, unemployment, government healthcare costs, food stamps…
Add to this the “stupidous wars in the history of the United States.” The war costs added over $2 trillion dollars to the national and these costs are still ongoing
Note: Bush funded HIS wars through “emergency supplemental appropriations” to hide their effect on the deficit in the same way Reagan combined the Social Security and Medicare budget surpluses with the general budget to hide the true cost of his tax cuts on the deficit.
And let’s not forget the Bush tax cuts which added another $5 trillion dollars over the last ten years to the national debt and because the new Republican House majority refused to end these deficit increasing tax costs these costs are still ongoing.
The annual interest alone on all of this Republican borrowing since the Reagan years to fund tax cuts is $474 billion If you exclude defense, we are paying more for interest annually than we’re spending on all other “discretionary spending.”
Good morning suckers, indeed!
JP| 2.16.11 @ 11:02AM
"Bush inherited a surplus from Clinton and passed on to Obama the “worst economy since the Great Depression” and an $11+ trillion national debt."
The Clinton Surplus was gone by the time Bush signed his first budget in late 2001. The actual Clinton Surplus was unintended, and short lived (1997-2000); it was the result of the Dot Com Bubble, which exploded in 2000.
When Bush left office, the unemployment rate was 7%, and he ran a $400 billion defecit (of which $180 billion was from is own stimulus package of June 2008).
By July of 2009, Obama was already running over $1 trillion defecits and under his watch unemployment went from 7% to over 10%.
In 24 months, Obama has run over $5 trillion of defecits (Bush ran $3 trillion of defecits over 8 years). And by 2014, Obama will have borrowed as much as all the Presidents combined over a 200 year period.
Nope. This is the Obama Recession. It is his economy which is the worst in 70 years.
George S| 2.16.11 @ 11:45AM
The "Clinton" surplus was not unintended nor was it gone by 2001. Do your homework -- the reason for the surplus was the Republican congress reducing the capital gains tax rate to 20 percent, down from 28 percent. The reason the surplus was frittered away was because of Washington not being able to curb its spending appetite -- whether they are Democrats or Republicans. In 2007 the Treasury received a trillion more in revenue than in 1997, yet spent 1.2 trillion more than 1997. The more they take in (regardless how) the more they spend. Enter Tea Party as the last hope to stop the trend.
vtwin| 2.16.11 @ 12:14PM
“The reason for the surplus was the … reducing the capital gains tax rate.”
Yes, reducing taxes has been the siren call of the Republican Party since Reagan and this has lead to reducing the nation debt for $900 Billion in 1980 to $13 trillion today.
Arithmetic, learn arithmetic!
Dustoff| 2.16.11 @ 1:13PM
YET... it still worked.
Albert| 2.16.11 @ 3:11PM
Your continued display of stupidity is lacking in even entertainment value. Look at 1980's revenues, which went up greatly. Then look at DOMESTIC spending, a la Tip O'Neill. It skyrocketed way beyond any revenue increases. That is DOMESTIC spending, as in Democrats buying votes with other people's money.
Warrior | 2.16.11 @ 3:15PM
Jackass, there was a surplus in the same budgetary math that Obama can raise the national debt by 12 trillion dollars in the next ten years yet announce that he is cutting the deficit by 1.1 trillion for the same period. Economics, learn it!
missbosslady| 2.16.11 @ 8:30PM
Economics, learn economics!
JP| 2.16.11 @ 4:36PM
"The "Clinton" surplus was not unintended nor was it gone by 2001. Do your homework -- the reason for the surplus was the Republican congress reducing the capital gains tax rate to 20 percent, down from 28 percent."
George,
As late as 1996, the CBO projected defecits through 2010. No one, least of all Clinton, expected a surge in revenues. The Dot Com Bubble supplied the fuel, and it predated the passage of the 1997 Capital Gains tax cuts. To realize extra tax revenues there must be positive GDP growth, especially in equities. If you followed the DJI from 1997 through 2000, you can easily track federal revenue surpluses. Much of those surpluses also came in the form of Social Security revenues increases due to more people working and earning more money.
It all began to fall apart however in late 1999 when Greenspan began to deflate the bubble. By November of 2000, the markets were in free fall. When capital gains disappear, so do the tax revenues. The last quater of surpluses was Q4 in 2000. By the time Bush arrived in the WH, we were in defecit mode again.
Perhaps it is you who need to do your homework.
MikeD| 2.16.11 @ 2:51PM
VTWIN,
I'll apologize right at the start because I can't take morons like you and your stupidity any longer. First, there NEVER WAS A SURPLUS!!! There was a "Projected" surplus, that was never really created. It was just a forecast by the CBO.
The bubble was real, but it was a short lived phenomena caused by the infusion of capital gains brought about by the dot.com 'boom'. And, the Bush tax cuts resulted in massive increases in revenues because the truth is that lower tax rates actually result in higher economic activity, which results in higher tax revenues. Federal government tax receipts during the middle four years of Bush's administration were the highest in history; but that began to fall after the dems lied their way to control in 2006; when tax receipts started declining due to congress's general democratic party caused stupidity and Bush's cowardice in using his veto pen.
Finally, can you imagine what the lying criminals in the media wing of the democratic party would have done if unemployment EVER approached 9% during the Bush administration? They'd have been spitting and screaming for impeachment. They were already supporting a movie that portrayed Bush's assassination. Can you imagine what theyd be doing if anybody made a movie about doing barry in?
In conclusion, look in the mirror; YOU are the problem. And remember, when the shi* hits the fan, chaos will NOT discriminate between democrats and normal people. We'll all suffer; except that the academics and media will try to re-write history to blame anybody but barry and his gang of thugs; that is; if anybody is left to write it.
vtwin| 2.16.11 @ 5:11PM
So you think that when the American people after losing their jobs, homes, savings, healthcare, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, food stamps, welfare…are going to riot in the streets demanding from their government another round of capital gains tax cuts for the wealthy ?
idalily| 2.16.11 @ 11:44PM
If it will get them a job, YES.
skip| 2.16.11 @ 5:14PM
The surplus, whether actual or projected, would have been a feather in the cap of the republicans anyway as they held both houses of congress for the first time in over fifty years.
Clinton, liberals, and the media all steal that particular thunder away from the republicans who did in fact accomplish it.
Another example being welfare reform. It is practical a given by liberals and media this was an accomplishment by Clinton. Conveniently lost is the fact Clinton vetoed welfare reform TWICE before eventually realizing he had no choice and could despicably steal the credit anyway.
vtwin| 2.16.11 @ 5:23PM
“Held both houses of congress.” Yes, and as soon as they took control of the White House to they promptly doubled the national debt.
skip| 2.16.11 @ 8:27PM
vtwin vtwin vtwin,
True or false:
George W. Bush, in eight full years, accumulated just over two trillion dollars in total deficits.
Barack Hussein Obama, in approximately his first sixteen months, accumulated approximately two trillion dollars in deficits.
Obama accumulated two trillion in deficits in one sixth the time Bush did, or put another way, Bush's average yearly deficit was accumulated by Obama on average every two months in his first year and a third.
Obama proposes a one trillion six hundred forty five billion deficit in his budget proposal revealed just this week for next year, or put another way, this budget proposal released this very week by Obama for just one year exceeds eighty percent of Bush's entire eight full year deficits.
vtwin has the intelligence and honesty to state whether these five statements are true or false.
missbosslady| 2.16.11 @ 8:31PM
"vtwin has the intelligence and honesty to state whether these five statements are true or false."
No, he doesn't and no, he won't.
vtwin| 2.17.11 @ 12:14AM
Skip, try doing a little research:http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt.htm
vtwin| 2.17.11 @ 12:15AM
Skip, try doing a little research:
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/.....stdebt.htm
skip| 2.17.11 @ 2:35PM
vtwin vtwin vtwin
Try understanding the difference between deficits and debt.
I use OMB historical table 1.1 as the source at whitehouse.gov/omb/.
Obama's proposed budget released this week is already estimated to add between 9 and 13 trillion dollars in debt in 1 single year, while your data shows Bush's total debt over 8 years comes in at less than 7.4 trillion dollars.
Obama's proposal is certain to be revised upward, as it is out less than a week and deceptions will be revealed, and is already estimated at as much as 13 trillion for 1 year.
Obama's proposed budget is widely acknowledged to fudge revenues by over 25%, which makes it more likely to exceed 13 trillion, when it's all said and done.
Your data supports my true / false statements on a larger, far more dramatic scale. Thanks for pointing out I could have stated my case better with your research.
Apples are apples. Oranges are oranges.
Silly liberals. If all your thoughts and actions weren't literally destroying our nation, all your ridiculous hypocrisies could be an amusing and entertaining diversion for the rest of us.
W| 2.16.11 @ 9:27PM
What nothing about Israel today, vtwin, as the cause of our problems?
martin j smith| 2.16.11 @ 10:39AM
Oh yeah one other thing: I have heard on some news source -forgot which one--that certain states are getting ready for civil unrest. Is this going to be our Egypt ?
WRTolkas| 2.16.11 @ 10:53AM
I read the commentary and I first feel sick that the fiscal mess to be passed on to my children and grandchildren cannot be fixed. Then I read these comments from Patriots. We will prevail when all the Bawny Franks in governments will be weeping. We have the guts and tenacity to turn the Ship of State. And woe be it to them (dimocrat or Republican) that gets in our way. So let be written, so let it be done.
Take 10% from every department - a good start.
vtwin| 2.16.11 @ 11:59AM
“Obama’s 2012 Budget Proposal $3.7 Trillion”—New your Times
http://www.nytimes.com/package.....19-budget/
“The White House projected Monday that the federal deficit would spike to $1.65 trillion in the current fiscal year.” –Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....41850.html
10% of $3.7 Trillion equals $370 Billion
$1.65 Trillion minus $370 Billion STILLS equals a $1.3 Trillion annual deficit.
You haven’t a clue!
martin j smith| 2.16.11 @ 11:01AM
vtwin: No one I know here says soospy do for GWB. My object is BHO spending more money than all prior Presidents among other things. And, just because GWB is NO EXCUSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND DOUBLING DOWN. Whoever you are your just like Obama, you thik us fools- WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!. In my opinion recall the November 2010 election--well I think between our National Non security policy and Obama's
disastrous economic policies people will remembered and vote the same way but even more so.
Jobe| 2.16.11 @ 11:04AM
Arnold Ahlert, for whose intelligence I have the utmost respect, has written that either cuts, and I mean drastic ones, will be made in the next year and a half, or it will not matter a fig who gets elected in 2012. We will be history by then if something is not done NOW.
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.16.11 @ 11:15AM
Naw, Jobe
We will still be here. Maybe a lot poorer...but A LOT wiser.
leathersmith| 2.16.11 @ 11:30AM
"That proposed spending is an undeniable fact that reveals who he is, which he successfully hid from 53% of voters in 2008."
I give him credit for this much, Candidate Obama hid absolutely nothing about his true nature during the campaign. (eg: "Joe The Plumber".) For anyone to whine, "But I didn't know he was a Marxist when I voted for him!" is an admission that either 1) They weren't paying attention, or 2) They never bothered to educate themselves as to what a Marxist is.
Now they know.
martin j smith| 2.16.11 @ 11:44AM
leathersmith, you got that right--but in my case I knew who Obama was. I believed the info about his background and his associates etc. I now see especially after the 2010 election more people have cleared their brains.
I hear btw that Obama is threatening a veto of a stop gap budget bill. I say let him go for it. But, Republicans need to talk to the American People directly about the BS and fraud that Obams is trying to perpetrate on the American People.
Republican Leaders must put it out exactly as it is: The American People must choose what kind of future they want. 2012 is here right now.
Jeff Perren | 2.16.11 @ 11:59AM
A minor correction to an otherwise flawless article.
"which he successfully hid from 53% of voters in 2008."
That number is only about 30%. The other 23% (Progressives) knew what they were getting and wanted it.
Mistral| 2.16.11 @ 12:07PM
Americans had better be sure who they are voting for next time. Political illiteracy cost the USA its future security by its lack of political intelligence. Many voters in one poll thought Obama was against abortion and that his running mate was a woman. It stood out a mile that he was not going to use his alleged charisma sensibly for the nation but for his own self-aggrandisement. Americans had better be really clued up by the time of the next election otherwise the economy is going to melt down with the nation behind it. This character in Washington is a total narcissistic idiot who loves himself so much that he incapable of producing an intelligent budget. He is all about control - he would have made an ideal Soviet dictator. If he gets 4 more years in 2012 the USA has got no future.
Yosemeti Sam| 2.16.11 @ 12:08PM
" ... is an undeniable fact that reveals who he is, which he successfully hid from 53% of voters in 2008 ...."
" ... which he successfully hid ...." ?
Um, give credit where credit is due - the Leftoid media aka PEN1!
They polished this charlatan, now resident in the Peoples' White House, until he shined for all the useful idiots for which plumbing character BEYOND HEARSAY from PEN1 is as adverse as getting out of bed in the morning - on the right side.
Mistral| 2.16.11 @ 12:11PM
Leathersmith you are correct - as a neutral observer it was possible to predict what was about to transpire. It was American political illiteracy & naivete that gave them this dysfunctional narcissist as their leader - they deserved him because they allowed him in
Mistral| 2.16.11 @ 12:20PM
This closet mahomaten has cheated on his nationality; lied about his religion; put significant details about his past legally beyond public scrutiny; he has propagandised his alleged achievements as senator which are all trumped up; he has broken almost every promise he ever made as a presidential candidate; he has connexions with electoral organisations that use illegal methods to harvest electoral votes; all his legislative acts are about state control and he is incapable of making a coherent public statement without a teleprompter. How can Americans put up with this imbecile?They should have been out in the streets agitating for his removal from office as the people of Egypt have done, for better or for worse, with the Mubarak dynasty. Hussein Obama is a complete charlattan.
wodiej| 2.16.11 @ 12:57PM
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Obama is impeached before his term is up.
Dustoff| 2.16.11 @ 1:17PM
Naaaaa. NO-one wants to go down that road. Even though the dem's talked about it over and over about Bush they knew it would go no-where.
Intelligent Design| 2.16.11 @ 1:08PM
Since the Democrats gained control of Congress in January 2007, up until January 2011, the national debt increased from about $8.6 trillion to $14 trillion, up 63% in just 4 years. Obama's absurd "budget" puts the national debt on a trajectory to double in 10 years.
"Dollars in the hands of the people do more to increase prosperity than dollars in the hands of the government." - Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
Sam Levi| 2.16.11 @ 1:18PM
I would like to see an article and some discussion on Arizona's new "secession" bill.
Oldefarte| 2.16.11 @ 1:20PM
As Haley Bourbor rightfully indicated in his CPAC speech, the one and only solution to all of this is for everyone here [along with their friends, relatives, church memberships, co-workers, etc] to VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE IN NOVEMBER 2012 [whoever that might eventually become], as same will be a hellofalot better than what we're faced with at present[and who can combine with a Republican congress to defeat his/their WELFARECARE etc]!!!!!!!!!
C.K. Amos| 2.16.11 @ 1:49PM
Clearly, but not surprisingly, Barack Obama's Marxist, anti-capitalist, anti-American, anti-Constitutionalist, prevaricating, megalomaniacal, empty-suited stripes cannot change--or will not change, because he has no intention of doing so.
Nor does he intend to lower his ongoing one-finger salute to everyone outside of his body, but particularly America.
The question now, I think, for Americans who love their country and are beyond frustration with how Obama and his thugs are trying to destroy America, is this: Is it time now to go Egyptian with respect to this wannabe dictator?
For what it's worth: I know some people wonder if Obama will be impeached before this first term is over. Not a chance, with this Congress.
What worries me is that there are still so many people who give their support to this usurper and destroyer.
I loathe saying this, but it's possible this man could be reelected in 2012.
Who Knows?| 2.16.11 @ 1:58PM
Americans are woefully, and probably suicidally, illiterate about economics--- and ESPECIALLY when it comes to mathematics, or big numbers, concerning dollars.
So, I applaud you, Mr. Ferrara, for taking a baby step by “translating” $1 trillion into $1,000 billion in various places.
I think the best way to PERSONALIZE what Obama and his enablers on the socialistic left are doing is to further translate the whole dollar Robber Baron actions they are engaging in, in BROAD DAYLIGHT, as follows---
There are around 100 million workers, 100,000,000 people, who are producing real DAILY wealth, encapsulated in our GNP.
So, when we can clearly agree that in 2011, say, the federal dollar deficit is, say, $1 trillion, for each worker, on average, that means that Obama is STEALING $1,000,000,000,000 from 100,000,000 workers.
That’s TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS per worker, per year!
Why, as a retiree, on social security, these days one can live on such an amount!
Also, half of the Egyptians live on $2 per day!
How much more out of whack can the Obama maniacs get?
Picture a Ferris wheel, spinning around and around, as being analogous to our economy.
The socialists have loaded up, more and more, the DEAD WEIGHT side of it, and spun it faster and faster, and it’s about reached the point where it will break up into myriad pieces, and fly away into chaos.
And, the destroyers, Obama and his ilk, actually want RESPECT!!!
“Re-spect” essentially means to look at again.
Hell, once one SEES Obama, or the black hole sucking America into nothingness, who except a nihilist could look at him again?
He is breath taking!
C.K. Amos| 2.16.11 @ 2:38PM
You know Obama's in trouble when he gets press like this from the puppet media:
From the Washington Post:
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
12:00 AM
THE PRESIDENT PUNTED.
Having been given the chance, the cover and the push by the fiscal commission he created to take bold steps to raise revenue and curb entitlement spending, President Obama, in his fiscal 2012 budget proposal, chose instead to duck.
To duck, and to mask some of the ducking with the sort of budgetary gimmicks he once derided.
"The fiscal realities we face require hard choices," the president said in his budget message.
"A decade of deficits, compounded by the effects of the recession and the steps we had to take to break it, as well as the chronic failure to confront difficult decisions, has put us on an unsustainable course."
His budget would keep the country on that course. . .
. . . is it too much to ask for more from Mr. Obama than an airy set of "principles for reform"?
Sadly, the answer appears to be yes.
Uli Kunkel| 2.16.11 @ 3:16PM
How long are American's going to accept a toothy grin for competent leadership? YES, the voters were jived in the 2008 election by an unmitigated charlatan/fraud. Barack Hussein Omugabe is out in his metaphorical stratosphere, flying along at Mach 3+ and he's going to meet that demon, the American voter, that's ticked-off and will provide him a catastrophic "unstart."
C.K. Amos| 2.16.11 @ 3:54PM
I hope you're right. But I think his electoral defeat will still be closer than many of us would like. But that doesn't matter, if he's defeated.
A Republican-majority Senate and Republican-majority House will help.
That is, if the current Republican-conservative-Tea Party House does what those people said during their 2010 campaigns.
John Carnal| 2.16.11 @ 3:43PM
Gov. Christie please become our anti-Obama. We need a spokesman that can be crystal clear about the destruction we are facing. Step up, please.
somnolence| 2.16.11 @ 4:43PM
If the American people are truly awake this time, then they won't tolerate further funding of Obamacare in the House. They will get on the phone in multitudes within the next 24-48 hours and demand of their GOP congressman that budget negotiations are a non-starter unless funding for Obamacare is totally revoked. Then, my friends, that will be a statement the MSNM can try to spin in exasperation.
daboss| 2.16.11 @ 4:45PM
The government will never stop spending. The only recourse we have now is, to quote Walter E. Williams, “peaceful succession” - or at least the threat of it.
Otherwise, both the Dems and Repubs will not take us seriously and spend us into bankruptcy.
Remember – the rights of the states and the people are INFINATE – the limits of the Fed are LIMITED and enumerated.
The question now is which state will stand up and say enough is enough? All it takes is one.
somnolence| 2.16.11 @ 5:02PM
The silence is deafening.
somnolence| 2.16.11 @ 5:35PM
I hate to agree with a liberal on the budget proceedings, but vtwin is right unless people in our party articulate a viable alternative to Obamacare now, not later, by defunding it. GOP conservative brethren, the silence remains deafening.
Rick| 2.16.11 @ 6:50PM
Your a rasist!
Clint| 2.16.11 @ 7:00PM
We Tea Party Patriots Agree With Limbaugh. It's Time To Go Egypt On Obama.
Obama Is Compromising America's Future.
Radioman777| 2.16.11 @ 7:12PM
Obama is the likely the most dishonest character to ever inhabit the White House (Sorry, Bill!). But, lying is part of the Marxist lexicon, so we shouldn't be too surprised at anything he has to say.
Beer (f.m.h.)| 2.16.11 @ 7:15PM
"Miss me yet?" - G. W. Bush
somnolence| 2.16.11 @ 8:44PM
Rehberg of Montana and Rodgers of Washington have introduced amendments to defund Obamacare, and to also withhold funds from the IRS to implement it . We all need to do what we can to see these two amendments succeed while the respective states attorney generals hammer the remaining nails in the coffin aside from the already determined unconstitutionality of the thing.
Timely Renewed | 2.17.11 @ 10:52AM
While I agree with Mr. Ferrara's article, I would suggest that the solution must go deeper even than budget cuts. That solution is retail when the problem is wholesale. We need to redress the underlying distortions of the Constitution which have allowed the federal government to expand far beyond its original constitutional powers, not nitpick at separate individual usurpations. We need to amend the Constitution to restore the original constitutional structure which limited the federal government's ability to expand to such a ridiculous size and power.
However, this is difficult to achieve when Congress holds a monopoly on initiating constitutional amendments. The first step is an "amendment amendment" which gives the States the ability to initiate constitutional amendments without a convention. This will allow grassroots constitutionalists to press a program of amendments carefully drafted to achieve the restoration of the original constitutional structure. Only this will permanently constrain federal overreach of the sort rejected by the people last November. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com
Bob From District 9| 2.17.11 @ 2:53PM
Well, more fraud from American Spectator. How surprising.
You love to talk about 2008, but that was Bush's second to last budget. His last budget was fiscal year 2009. That budget projected a deficit of $407B. It came in at $1.4T.
You love to talk about the debt held by the public, but even you admit the entire debt has to be paid. That is, unless you intend to wipe out Social Security and Medicare completely.
Obama inherited a debt under Bush's last fiscal year pushing $12T.
Yes, we are spending more than we ever did before. We have been doing that since Bush took office. Yes, Obama made promises he couldn't keep. Remember, he was given a Bush estimate of $407B in deficit. The recession wasn't declared until after the election, and it actually started a year before it was declared. I am firmly convinced that declaration was withheld to avoid harming republican electoral prospects.
Yes, Bush made Obama do it. I am outraged at Obama's budget priorities also. He's focusing on cutting the deficit, when he should be focusing on jobs, and sustaining the system until it can recover.
Your budget cuts are exactly the same mistake FDR made in 1936, that led to the double dip in 1937. You will bring a double dip on us if you have your way. But you have enough suckers convinced to, perhaps, achieve that very end.
Ralph Novy| 2.18.11 @ 2:13AM
"I am firmly convinced that declaration was withheld to avoid harming republican electoral prospects."
Duh.
Do you think?
Ralph Novy| 2.18.11 @ 2:14AM
Bob:
Lest you get the wrong idea, I agree with the gist of your argument here.
Cheers.
Ralph
Michael Johnston| 2.17.11 @ 8:02PM
Great article but unless you target an audience away from conservative sites like this, how are you going to get the message to the fools who voted for President Obama in 2008. The Lame stream media isn't going to help in any way to get the truth to American voters, and those of us reading American Spectator don't need to be convinced about what kind of lying, cheating, criminal our president is.
John Bailo | 2.17.11 @ 9:38PM
We need to cut $1 trillion. No ifs, ands or buts.
Joseph Furtenbacher | 2.17.11 @ 10:22PM
Gee... You complain about incompetent and corrupt bigwig politicians and bankers, while defending to the death their monopoly in the creation of new currency. Any of you rugged individualists ready to take back your God-given right to print your own money?
Ralph Novy| 2.18.11 @ 2:09AM
Ferrara:
Lots of words and numbers do not equal truth.
You've wasted words and twisted numbers.
Truth is nowhere in your scheme of things.
Think of your integrity and legacy, I would implore you.
Then, please, revise what you've said.
MattZ| 2.18.11 @ 12:17PM
"A guide to the most reckless budget in U.S. history."
Yeah, maybe we should vote in a Rebulican, since the deficit did so well the last time the Rs were in charge. Maybe if Obama made the needless tax cuts permanent and started some ridiculous wars, then the US could finally get its fiscal house in order.
The deficit will *not* be solved without a combination of tax increases, less military spending, and moderate entitlement reform. No point in gutting infrastructure, science and things that help kids, since these don't cost all that much and will be costly down the road.
Reebok | 8.11.11 @ 3:31AM
is good
العاب بنات | 4.11.12 @ 5:05PM
Maybe some people don't work, but they all pay taxes. Every time they buy something, they're paying a tax. Every time we gas up our cars, we're all paying a tax. Every time we turn on the lights, we 're paying a tax. And when gas goes to $6 a gallon and home heating oil goes to $5 because the TelePrompter in Chief pushed Egypt into the Muslim Brotherhood, that's also a tax. THAT is the message we have to send to every working class person in this country. As far the deadbeats and layabouts: SCREW THEM. No more endless welfare and no more bailouts. They don't like it? Tough! They want to start something? Bring it!