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The Obama Watch
Dishonorable Budget Dishonesty
In 2008 Barack Obama said he’d cut the budget deficit in half. Instead he’s more than doubled it every year since. And he’s just getting started.
You have probably heard by now the disastrous performance by new White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew on the Sunday morning talk shows last weekend. When it was noted on CNN’s State of the Union that the Democrat-controlled Senate has not passed a budget for 1,019 days now, almost three years, in violation of federal law, Lew said, “You can’t pass a budget in the Senate of the United States without 60 votes, and you can’t get 60 votes without bipartisan support. So unless Republicans are willing to work with Democrats in the Senate, [Majority Leader] Harry Reid is not going to be able to get a budget passed.”
Later that day, on NBC’s Meet the Press, Lew repeated in response to the same question, “One of the things about the United States Senate that I think the American people have realized is that it takes 60, not 50, votes to pass something.”
The problem is not only that it takes no more than 51 votes to pass a budget resolution under Senate rules. Indeed, it only takes a simple majority of the Senators present. The problem is that Jack Lew has served twice before as Director of OMB, so there is no doubt that he knows this.
I have discussed many times before in this column President Obama’s Marxist Saul Alinsky tactic of Calculated Deception. That is President Obama’s practice of taking advantage of what he is sure the average person doesn’t know, and won’t be told by the Democrat Party-controlled media, to mislead the people about the truth.
Jack Lew’s dishonesty on last Sunday’s talk shows is a perfect example of this. In fact, it is dishonest and misleading to the point of being dishonorable. That is why Jack Lew must now resign for lying to the American people, the same way the Democrats insisted that President Nixon must resign for lying to the American people.
I bring this up here because it is a perfect illustration of the dishonorable dishonesty throughout President Obama’s 2013 budget released on Monday, and what the President says and has said to the American people about his budget policies.
President Obama’s Grecian Formula
President Obama promised when he was running for office in 2008 that he would cut the budget deficit in half by the end of his first term. But the budget deficit projected for 2012 in the budget he just released is $1.327 trillion. The deficit in 2008 was $458.6 billion, less than half one trillion, the former all time record. As the Wall Street Journal explained yesterday, Obama’s new budget includes: “Another deficit of $1.327 trillion in 2012, also an increase from 2011, and making four years in a row above $1.29 trillion. The last time that happened? Never.”
Those four consecutive years of trillion dollar deficits under President Obama, the only trillion dollar deficits in world history, added a total of $5.33 trillion to the national debt held by the public in President Obama’s one term in office alone. Obama’s own budget projects the national debt held by the public to total $11.6 trillion for 2012, double the national debt of $5.8 trillion in 2008! Consequently, by Election Day 2012, Obama will have doubled the national debt, in just one term of office. In that one term, he added as much to the national debt as all prior Presidents, from George Washington to George Bush, combined!
But that is just the warm up if the voters are stupid enough to extend the lease on the White House for the Marxist infiltrator on Election Day. By 2022, Obama’s own budget projects that national debt held by the public to total nearly $20 trillion! That would be the highest national debt in world history. The gross federal debt, which includes the money the taxpayers owe in the Social Security trust fund and similar federal debts, is projected in Obama’s own budget to total nearly $26 trillion by 2022! That is projected to be just over 100 percent of GDP that year.
When President Obama was asking for our votes in 2008, he told us his budget policy would involve a “net spending cut.” In fact, he said precisely that during a nationally televised presidential debate with John McCain. In 2008, federal spending totaled $2.983 trillion. But federal spending for 2012 in the budget the President just released on Monday is projected to total $3.795 trillion, an increase of over 27 percent during his first term alone, up another $193 billion from the last year. In the budget the President released on Monday, spending was projected to soar by 2022 to $5.820 trillion, the highest spending in world history. Over the next 10 years, federal spending, with all of President Obama’s blather about spending cuts, will total $47 trillion… under the President’s own budget!
Does President Obama understand the meaning of the words “net spending cut?” Or was he deceiving the American people in 2008 when he used those words?
Jack Sparrow for Treasury Secretary
Even this Pacific Ocean of red ink is based on the assumption of exploding tax increases over the next 10 years. The budget assumes that federal income tax revenues will double by 2020, federal corporate tax revenues will double by 2017, and federal payroll taxes will double by 2022.
That is because already enacted under current law for 2013 are increases in the top tax rates for virtually every major federal tax. In that year, the tax increases of Obamacare go into effect, and the Bush tax cuts expire, which Obama refuses to renew for the nation’s small businesses, job creators, and investors. That is the English translation of individuals making over $200,000 a year, and couples making over $250,000 per year.
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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John K.| 2.15.12 @ 6:37AM
The reason why the Senate won't pass a budget is because they know they can pressure the House into passing Continuing Resolutions every year. These CRs are continuing the Nancy Pelosi budget of 2010.
The House will go along, as they always do.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.15.12 @ 9:26AM
Absolutely Fantastic Comment, John K.
I have been on the Phone with Paul Ryan's' Office, and Eric Cantors' Office, and I read your Comment to both of them, and then I read the RIOT ACT.
We gave them everything they ever dreamed of, and more, and they shoved it all back up all of our asses. And we won't forget.
Paul Ryan - 1-202-225-3031
Eric Cantor - 1-202-225-2815
John MFer Boehner - 1-202-225-6205
You tell them that We're sick and tired, and we're not gonna take it anymore!
Maybe it's time WE started loading up Buses, and going to their HOMES, like the Unions do?
p.s. - Type in: Boehner, and then hit the Spell Check Key. Look at the word at the top of the list.
The SHOE, definately fits.
fckewe| 2.15.12 @ 11:19AM
Call these #'s and get revolving answering machines. The RED menace in inaction!
Dave | 2.15.12 @ 1:16PM
Perhaps it's simply because I'm tired, worn-out or ... burned-out, but gathering the daily energy to (a) call my representative, (b) contact someone in the House leadership, or (c) post another opinion comment on the web is nearing the well's bottom. Days like this make me understand how Crockett, Bowie and the others must have felt during the last hours of the Alamo. As they sat squatting in that dusty old mission, realizing that help wouldn't be coming, anger,mixed with reservation, surely must have been running through their thoughts. Some days, this ongoing battle against all things we once knew to be uniquely American are slowly, gradually collapsing around us. And what makes it worse -- it's all being done by design, with little or no political opposition. The phrase "work with the president" should now be listed with George Carlin's seven dirty words you can't say. Or in this case ... tired of hearing.
Barack Obama is a Marxist. And his life's agenda is to not only fundamentally change the way this nation has functioned for over 200 hundred years, but more -- to completely dismantle each and every non-useful apparatus that gets in his way (U.S. Constitution) and replace it with another Grand Utopian Schematic designed to make all things fair, equitable and (simply) easier for the statist to control. It's not a unique idea, and certainly has been tried, and failed, before.
Written about within the few remaining history books allowed by our government, there may still be a reference or two about a little corporal who swayed, convinced and ultimately destroyed a once functioning nation. This nation of ours is on a similar path. And no nominal amount of calling these current, timid representatives, or begging for "something to be done" will lead them away from their lemming march. They're like most: Primarily looking out for Number One. But further, beware of the false prophet(s) who promises to undo all the previous evil, and return what has already been lost. The image of the toothpaste and the tube come to mind.
The enemy is attacking us from within. And like Crockett and Bowie must have realized: No help would be arriving. At least ... in time.
Too many of our current representatives are simply sniveling and gutless. And all they seem to fear is what the mainstream media at large will say or print about them each day. By now it's not much of a secret, but, on the whole, America's mainstream media is completely invested in a continuing Obama presidency, and the socialist agenda he's leading this nation to. An agenda, by the way, the mainstream will not be forced to live under. After all, these people are among ... the elites. And elites play by privileged rules.
For those who may disagree with the above media observations, try imagining Barack Obama on a morning jog with his national press corp in tow. It's only an opinion, but if Obama should come to a quick and sudden STOP, I've little doubt the arriving E.M.T.'s would find the collective noses of Brian Williams, David Gregory and hundreds of others, embedded six inches up President Barack's a-s. But we'll have to wait until the bandages come off.
Meanwhile, my hope for the future is that there will be someone around in the next few hundred years to explain to a class of five year olds the meaning of the cry "Remember America."
We'll see.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.16.12 @ 6:17AM
You couldn't have written a better piece, if you tried.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS!
Rmm| 2.18.12 @ 8:27AM
How many lies do you have to hear to realize that you are being played for a fool ?
From the beginning Obama has led us down the primrose path, eventually heading to the insolvency that will define America.
It has been said that WE would never fall to a foreign threat.
The way to take US down would come from the inside, which is being played out as WE speak.
It is time that WE take OUR nation back.
Lawrence Boccardi| 2.15.12 @ 7:14AM
All correct Mr. Ferrara. A lot of it already known by the rank-anf file. If you can articulate it, why is it the Repub leadership cannot? Why do they allow themselves to get painted in the corner, and have to go along with the policies of this affirmative action President, i.e., payroll tax break extension, time after time? I worked to send a tea party guy to Congress two years ago. He may as well have fallen off the edge of the earth, for all the good he's accomplished, or even just noise that he's made. The conclusion that the status quo is desireable, to ALL of them, is inescapeable.
old white guy| 2.15.12 @ 8:54AM
if they ran for or are running for office they are socialists. how else can you explain the disconnect?
anne f| 2.15.12 @ 12:59PM
The reason the repubs can't articulate it is because it is not the truth and they will get pilloried if they try. President Bush did not account for the cost of his two wars in his budget deficits. That is Enron-esque and is the very first lesson learned in university classes on financial management -- you don't get to do that. Obama put them back in. I'm sure he'll explain this to the author during the forthcoming debates. While Obama has been a spendthrift, this is primarily GWBUSH DEBT! please be more careful. thank you
John Daniel| 2.15.12 @ 7:22AM
Hyperinflation - probably precipitated by skyrocketing gas prices - coming this Summer, followed by collapse of the currency. We are doomed.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.15.12 @ 10:10AM
His previous "Budget" was REJECTED: 98 to 0. The Democrat Senate hasn't even PROPOSED a Budget, for over 1,000 Days, in VIOLATION of the Constitution.
What he is doing, he is doing for his Media Whores. And, besides....Who doesn't like a good Dog and Pony Show?
Can anyone imagine, where we'd be today, if the Press, actually did their job?
Did you know that Gasoline is UP 83% since the Black Perons came to power? Did you read it in the Paper? Was it the lead story on the Television "News"? Or, were they DUTIFULY still making the case for covering over the 1st Amendment with Electrical Tape, so they could get on with forcing the CHURCH to pay for the MURDERS of Innocent Babies, in their WHORE Mother's Wombs?
Did you know that our Pharaoh plans on getting rid of 80% of our Nuclear Force? Did you know that? It's the LEAD STORY on Drudge. Was it the Lead Story on CBS? ABC? What about NBC? Did Was it in the SCRIPTS that Media Matters wrote for them?
Somebody tell me how this is any different than Hugo Chavez' Venezuela. How is this different from Jordan or Zimbabwe or Nicaragua?
Once the Media becomes the Official Mouth Piece for any Regime, Freedom is over.
A little girl in North Carolina had her Lunch INSPECTED by a Government Agent. The Government Agent determined that the Little Girl's Lunch, packed for her by her LOVING MOTHER, did not meet Czarina Michelle's standards for a State Certified Lunch.
She had a Turkey and Cheese Sandwich. She had a Carton of Milk. She had a Banana.
The Government Agent said: "NEIN! Das lunch ist VERBOTEN!" The child's Lunch, made by her Loving Mother, was CONFISCATED by the Government Authorities, and she was given a Government Approved Lunch, and her Mother was given a BILL for said Lunch.
SIEG HEIL!
That's what they do. It's in their DNA. They made her Family PAY for the Lunch.
Mao Tse Dung used to do that. The Greatest Mass Murderer of his own people, of the 20th Century, used to put a Single Bullet in to the HEADS of his Victims, and then Charge that Man's FAMILY, for the Cost of the Bullet.
Pol Pot, the Monster of Cambodia, responsible for the Million Skeletons in his Killing Fields, used to charge the FAMILIES for the Bullet in their Loved Ones' Head.
Today, it's Chicken Nuggets.....................
We have a SOCIOPATH, with a GOD Complex, in the Oval Office. He is Shielded by a Sycophantic Press, who, through outright Lies, and Lies of Omission, give him Cover, while attacking his Foes with Slander and Innuendo, whenever they attempt to shine a light on his CRIMES.
Does anyone believe that a Republican President could GET AWAY with Running Guns to Mexican Drug Cartels, without the Mexican Governments' knowledge, leading to the Murders of Hundreds of Mexican Men, Women, and CHILDREN, with no Permission from the Mexican Government? Guns that were also used to KILL American Agents?
Do you think that there would be the TOTAL NEWS BLACKOUT, if this were President Republican, that it is for President Black Democrat?
Does anyone believe that a Republican President could get the Media Invisibility Cloak, that's been draped over all of President Black Democrats' DONORS' Companies, such as: Solyndra, and Global Crossing, and Fister, and the NO BID Anthrax Vaccine with the Zero Shelf Life?
Imagine if the White Republican got 98% of the White Vote. Imagine if, under President Republican, Black Unemployment was 17%, and Black Youth Unemployment was over 50%. Imagine if the Price of EVERYTHING WE NEED - Food - Fuel - Clothing - was going up, and there was no end in sight.
These would be all over the News every single Day and Night, and everybody knows it!
"ARBEIT MACHT FREI"
It's right around the corner. It's 4 Years away.
Remember where you read it.
Cause you'll never see it anywhere else.
SIEG HEIL!
The Bruce| 2.15.12 @ 10:47AM
"The Democrat Senate hasn't even PROPOSED a Budget, for over 1,000 Days, in VIOLATION of the Constitution."
To be fair, the Constitution only states that they must fund the government. It's the Budget Act of 1974 that requires them to produce an annual budget.
Mimi| 2.15.12 @ 2:19PM
Tim L.P. at his best!....Are you really Timothy DOLIN, The soon to be bishop made cardinal?
Sounds like something he might be saying ...er...or...THINKING!
fckewe| 2.15.12 @ 11:20AM
Pre emptive DOOM!!
betwyan| 2.15.12 @ 7:29AM
Chances are, Obama will be re-elected. Once again, the GOP has failed to find a good candidate to lead the nation out of this nanny state, race-baiting, almost zero economic growth socialism of Barry & Moochelle.
The GOP has no good candidate to take him on.
old white guy| 2.15.12 @ 8:56AM
santorum could defeat obama all he has to do is recite everything that obama has done to destroy freedom and the economy. the list is long and all he has to do is repeat it over and over.
Von Mises Jr.| 2.15.12 @ 7:36AM
The dirty little secret is that the redistribution of wealth is from the middle class to the ruling class. If you doubt me, have your home appraised. If auto prices, food, energy are all rising at 5-10% per year, your 401K should be increasing the same just to maintain your purchasing power. Is it going up 5-10% per year, or are you losing ground to inflation? Social Security has not gotten an increase in a few years, middle class salaried workers are putting in more hours, while most hourly wage earners are working less.
At the same time, Clintons and Gore made $100M each, Pelosi doubled her net worth, Bufffet gets sweet-heart deals at GS, BOA and Solyndra investors get bailed out along with other green energy boondoggles by $500M+ each.
For you Social Security recipients: the trust fund is going broke in 2022, best case. Obama doubled the explicit debt (bonds, loans from the Chinese) with an implicit debt of over $100 trillion that includes promises for Social security and Medicare. So perhaps the death panels are a blessing, since taking a pill is better than slowly starving to death.
By that time, Barry and Mochelle will have joined the $100M club.
W| 2.15.12 @ 8:09AM
You are correct. Don't forget LBJ who went to DC a poor Texas boy, and went home owning many radio stations, a ranch, and lots of money. How did that happen on his salary?
Al Adab| 2.15.12 @ 10:30AM
Jr. W:
Apparently this budget proposal includes a couple rather unseemly items. I haven't seen it so don't have this all firsthand but am informed that included is a 40% tax rate for stack earningsw and a federal or national property tax seperate from the other proposed real estate sales tax.
Of true these are exactly the kinds of regressive actions which will keep us in the economic wasteland for many years to come. I hesitate to think that it is by design, but so much fits the pattern it becomes difficult to just charge it up to ideological ignorance.
Von Mises Jr.| 2.15.12 @ 10:35AM
Al, the land tax is the new quitrents of serfdom. I assume you mean stock earnings as in capital gains and dividends. If so, that is to make capitalism unprofitable unless you are Buffet or GE. I wouldn't waste time being hesitant about his intentions, or most of the congress. It is clear for anyone with eyes to see.
Al Adab| 2.15.12 @ 11:13AM
Yes JR. stock earnings. My fat fingers betray all too often. I shall endeavor to be more careful.
fckewe| 2.15.12 @ 11:25AM
Do YOU have a list of Obama's portfolio handy?
O.F. A.N. A.S.S.| 2.15.12 @ 12:50PM
A picture album consisting of pictures of lambs - all rams - is not the type of 'portfolio' these gentlemen are discussing.
Ovines For
A Nation
Absent Species Sodomization
Von Mises Jr.| 2.15.12 @ 12:55PM
Yes, sckgoo.
-Solyndra
-LightSquared
-Ener1
-Sun Power
-Evergreen Solar
Any more questions?
Al Adab| 2.15.12 @ 1:40PM
Don't forget GE and a few others all receiving taxpayer money.
O.F. A.N. A.S.S.| 2.15.12 @ 1:45PM
Remember, we are just sheep, using an acronym for the first time.
Does A.C.O.R.N. count?
S.E.I.U.?
N.E.A.?
Ovines For
A Nation
Absent Species Sodomization
Von Mises Jr.| 2.15.12 @ 1:52PM
No, fckewe's signifcant other is a sheep!
O.F. A.N. A.S.S.| 2.15.12 @ 1:53PM
Remember, we are just sheep.
One definition we found states a portfolio is "a set of...[baa baa baa]...collected to be shown to potential...[baa baa baa]..."
Does Planned Parenthood count?
Ovines For
A Nation
Absent Species Sodomization
W| 2.15.12 @ 1:54PM
An increase in the capital gains tax will hurt the economy. Obama has to be defeated.
Indy| 2.15.12 @ 7:40AM
The media is as guilty as our elected officials in the coming fiscal collapse. The 10 year budget is a farce, the President speaks to the poorly educated that he is cutting 4 trillion and they believe him, the majority of the media never mention the debt and spending goes up every year, there are never any cuts, just reduced increases and lots of budget gimmicks. Anyone who is serious about addressing our fiscal problems would do away with baseline budgeting as a starting point and reform entitlements.
Why don't I see AARP ads on my TV to save social security? The payroll tax cuts take money directly from the "SS Trust Fund" Oh, there's a D in the White House, nevermind.
martin j smith| 2.15.12 @ 7:46AM
Here is a question for all: I agree with the article in general that Obama's budget so called and the consequences of his economic policies wioll spell a disaster for this country. That said here is my question: In today's version of American Thinker there is an article by Rick Moran ( who is Rick Moran BTW ? ) which says essentially that in a "Snap Shop CBS Poll Obama is gaining the support of Independents. As I said I do not know Mr Moran but these issues occur to me. First CBS and honest Pollster-I think not. Second who are these so called "Independents anyway ?" Are they real or just made up ? And given the dire nature of our nations situation and choices why would any one take credence to a CBS POLL and why would Independence be willing to let the nation go down the tubes unless-they will be immune from these effects and do not care about the nation as a whole. So in essence are these Wall Street and Big Business types who really do not care or are they made up ? I am curious to hear from people out these.
Lawrence Boccardi| 2.15.12 @ 9:14AM
I'll tell you who they are, Mr. Smith. They are a cabel of indecisive, unprincipled, folks, who can change their spots from a Marxist to a Tea Partier, and back, in the blink of an eye. Should have to pass an IQ test to vote, in the good ol' USA!
Wxcynic| 2.15.12 @ 11:22AM
The numbers are going up among women independents is my guess. Probably related to women's rights. The issue over contraception is not going to benefit conservatives. (Independent women voters put him into office.)
Randy| 2.15.12 @ 8:14AM
This is nothing more than reparations. He just had to include the entire middle class so as not to be detected.
numbatdog| 2.15.12 @ 8:32AM
Jack Lew will no more apologize or resign for his in-your-face lie than Obama will resign for his stream of woppers. This big lie technique was perfected by Goebbels who stated "if you tell a big lie and keep repeating it often enough, the people will believe it".
I hear big lies repeated every day such as Warren Buffett's secretary paying a higher tax rate than her boss. And that the jobless rate is down! Despite obvious tampering with the statistics. And if the government spends another 4 trillion of money we don't have and squeezes the wealthy, all will be right and fair in America.
I see Obama's popularity is rising so I guess Goebbels was correct. Just keep repeating the big lies and the people will believe it.
Peppermint Tea| 2.15.12 @ 9:15AM
Peter, thanks for reminding us of the main issue of our day--spending and debt. Goebbels indeed! In high school history we used to wonder how a fine nation like Germany could descend into Nazism and the holocaust. Well, take a look at Obama and the Media...now we know.
Russel| 2.15.12 @ 9:39AM
I'd bet every conservative in the nation would agree that our reps in DC should stand together in the capital and swear they are going home , back to their states until this jerk resigns . Enough is enough . Problem is that so many of our own have no cajones' in the least .
Bob Mugabe| 2.15.12 @ 9:40AM
Barry is a fine president, just like the one we have in Zimbabwe. Come visit our beautiful country.(bring your own food). Zimbabwe has the best president ever! He has been reelected by huge majorities every election because of the good job he does, just as Oboma will be reelected this year. Soon every American will be millionaires, just as in my country, everyone carries millions of Zimbabwe dollars in their pockets, heck I have about one hundred trillion dollar notes at any given time. Of course things are a little higher here like a burger (w/o meat) is $100,000,000. But we now have a high standard of living, especially on odd weekdays, when the water is turned on. On even weekdays the electric is turned on sometimes. I see Barry is following my economic policies, and bypassing the constitution. Soon America will be prosperous like Zimbabwe. Thank You, Robert Mugabe
Bob Grant| 2.15.12 @ 2:22PM
Mr. Mugabe,
I once owned a farm in Zimbabwe but was forced to flee after you enacted your land distribution policy. What was once a fully operational farm is now a wasteland. Hundreds of other farms met the same fate.
Several months ago I received a letter from your Land Bureau questioning me about my successful farming practices and inquiring about my interest in returning back to the country to act as a consultant in your Farm Bureau.
I respectfully declined the offer because I am happily living in New Zealand doing what I do best, farming. Plus, I get to keep what I earn, I don't have to carry around a million of dollars of currency, and let's face it, which city would YOU rather visit, Harare or Auckland?
Have a nice life Bobby. Good bye and good luck!
Todd S| 2.15.12 @ 4:08PM
Glad you were able to get out of that hellhole Bob and relocate to New Zealand, it is terrifying what happened to Zimbabwe under the devil Mugabe. Fine satire btw for the previous poster. I read a couple of books by Peter Godwin recently about what happened there, a fine writer and a very brave man. They must be getting very desperate and have nothing left to loot if they are asking the white farmers whose land they stole to return though I doubt they are getting much of a response as demonstrated by you. I do notice that left-wing NGO's have very little to say about Mugabe's murderous reign, I wonder why that might be?
KyMouse| 2.15.12 @ 11:24AM
Thank you, O great Leader Mugabe! We in America aspire to your level of plutocratic superiority. When the electic is turned on, you enjoy the bright, quiet glow from Mr. Edison's incandescent bulbs. We, however, squint as we try to make out words on pages, and put our hands over our ears to keep out the buzzing noise, because our Dear Leader has taught us that it is better for us to use Dairy Queen bulbs.
Perhaps we could import some incandescent bulbs from your country? We would pay you handsomely -- not that you need the money, of course.
jim olson| 2.15.12 @ 12:54PM
I guess Peter was hiding in a cave during Watergate, since it was republicans who wanted Nixon to resign to avoid being prosecuted for multiple crimes, and the Democrats who wanted him prosecuted. Even then the immutable rule IOKIYAR was in affect.
anne f| 2.15.12 @ 12:54PM
President Bush did not account of the cost of his two wars in his budget deficits. That is enron-esque. Obama put them back in. I'm sure he'll explain this to the author during the forthcoming debates. While Obama has been a spendthrift, this is primarily BUSH DEBT! please be more careful. thank youl
Controse| 2.15.12 @ 1:20PM
Maybe Mr. Peter Ferrara could give us an example of honorable dishonesty. The real egregious behavior on the two morning shows last Sunday was that of the moderators. Of course it is impolite to correct a guest who has made an embarrassing misstatement of fact but the whole perception of who is standing in the way of obeying the budget law is politically pivotal. The Republicans are not standing, indeed cannot stand, in the way of the Senate proposing a budget. Mr. Lew should have been corrected on air when he told this very important lie.
Who Knows?| 2.15.12 @ 2:25PM
It’s “hurricane” season.
Imagine if every parcel of land was simultaneously blasted by a major hurricane. Well, how can any aware American NOT know that the financial system is certain to be “swept away”, sooner or later, by some kind of “bad weather”?
There WILL BE adjustments made!
So, “buy gold”---code, for CYA.
You know---go on a fiscal diet. Pay down debt as fast as possible, put as much savings into REAL assets: in short, ONLY render up to Obama-Caesar the bare minimum. Change frivolous habits, by for example, learning how to cook and eschewing eating out.
Ah, I’m reminded of an always relevant saying---
Experienced people don’t make mistakes.
How do you get experience?
By making mistakes.
Folks---Obama, et al, are busy gaining EXPERIENCE, at YOUR expense!
Get off their wagon.
stan redmond| 2.15.12 @ 2:26PM
I am so glad I can "go gault". I've already sent production of one of my products to a VERY friendly country full of skilled people that don't whine and snivle in occupy tents. And now I'm in a position I can move myself to another country and avoid all these taxes. Why the hell anyone would invest their sweat and dollars with the tsunami of destruction set in motion by only 2 years of unrestrained democrat control is beyond me. Everything I do for my business is slowed or prevented by some bureaucrat. When I first investigated moving my production I found bureaucrats and local politicians who were thrilled to help me as much as possible. Rather then wrap the process in red tape they made sure there was none there. Here however, anytime I need money or spend money another bureaucrat has their hand out taking their "fair share." Obama's the worst of them all. All these fools talking about "greedy" 1% corporations better take a good look in the mirror and ask themselves why they have no jobs, why companies move overseas, and why our economy is crumbling. It will be a hard thing to admit because IT'S OBAMA and you selfish petulant liberal brats who drove companies out of the country where they can actually make a profit. I know this will be hard to admit because you'll be forced to take responsibility for yourself and your voting habits but maybe you can wisen up a bit. Detroit calling anybody? The world's economic envy RUINED in a few short decades by liberals. And not happy with keeping it local Obama and his merry band of statists are taking Detroit national.
Pat Leath| 2.15.12 @ 3:59PM
People are exhausted from listening to the Obama twisted, lying propaganda machine! Here is a relevant quote from an expert!
"Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty".
Raisa M Gorbachev quotes
Oldefarte| 2.15.12 @ 5:28PM
This ['....Yet, in his ideologically extremist budget message on Monday, the President tries to tell us that higher federal spending financed by higher taxes is what will produce economic recovery, growth, and prosperity. If you believe that, you are part of the problem rather than part of the solution. If you don't believe that, then your top priority this year needs to be to remove the President from office....'] says it all. The problem is defined by those who voted for him on 11/3/08!!!!!
obadiah| 2.15.12 @ 8:40PM
Gee Whilikers, Barack Obama is outrageously dishonest about the budget.
Gee Whilikers, G. W. Bush was outrageously dishonest about the budget.
Gee Whilikers, Bill Clinton was outrageously dishonest about the budget.
Gee Whilikers, George. H . W. Bush was outrageously dishonest about the budget.
Gee Whilikers, Ronald Reagan was outrageously dishonest about the budget.
Gee Whilikers.
POST American| 2.15.12 @ 11:10PM
AS we still wait for that --first-- piece
taking hold of that 1.5 quadrillion in
FAKE derivatives debt --and debt serf
generating banksterdom generally---
A REALITY CHECK:
"USURY --is-- DEVIANT economy.
It is upheld by, and aggressively promotes
deviance in all its forms. Unaccountable,
inter-generational, PSYCHOPATHIC
USURY itself destroys the REAL culture
and the REAL economy. Its sole concern
is, at best, preserving actuarial psychopathy.
Its sole expression, humanly speaking, is
------------------EUGENICS--------------------.
The always FINAL bloom of EUGENICS is
------------------GENOCIDE---------------------."
---Exterminartion of the UNBORN
-------Youth--anizing of the OLD
-----------Kindly snuffing of the UNFIT
--------------OPEN and/or pre-emptive elimination
of ---ALLLLLLLLLLL---- 'challenged life'
IS HERE
Further, BE AWARE! --REALIZE!
"ALLLL science is nothing
more than an imaginative technique
attempting to recreate a mythological
system. ---ALLLLL of it. Scientists might
present themselves as being 'above all that'
----THEY AREN'T. They're just like
everyone else."
-Joseph P. Ferrell
(researcher online)
----BLOW YOUR MIND -----FOR REAL
---------------------------------------FOR TRUTH
Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel | 2.16.12 @ 2:30AM
No one should be surprised anymore about Obama. No one should be surprised that he is such a stranger to the truth.
Al| 2.16.12 @ 4:27PM
A flat tax is an awful suggestion. It would kill seniors. What we need is a simplified tax. No deductions but lower rates than today. The 25% tax rate could be cut to 10 or 11 percent. Why should those making more pay a higher rate? Because we are a nation of laws and those with the most money can best take advantage of the law, eg OJ Simpson. With no deductions people would have a stable tax code and would know how to plan for the future. The IRS would need far fewer people to process taxes and adjudicate disputes caused by the tax code complications They could send more agents out to find unreported income which if we capture 80% would allow us to quickly reduce the deficit. I am a Republican and I say NO FLAT TAX!
Gretchen| 2.18.12 @ 8:05PM
Obama wasn't just trying to deceive the American people about his "net spending cuts," he was LYING LIKE A RUG!!!!!