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The Spectacle Blog
Acting OMB head Jeff Zients has a weak defense of the president’s budget in USA Today.
We put the country on a sustainable fiscal path, with deficits declining as a share of the economy, and we stabilize debt as a share of the economy, which is critical for business confidence and investment.
With spending cut so deeply, we invest scarce federal resources in areas critical for economic growth and middle-class security.
We’re talking here about a budget that increases spending from $3.8 trillion to $5.8 trillion by 2022, where the deficits and debt are all higher than the Congressional Budget Office projections, that counts money for Iraq and Afghanistan that wasn’t ever requested as savings, and also relies on the already concluded debt ceiling deal for savings. If this puts the country on a sustainable fiscal path, then Gisele Bundchen is my Valentine’s Day date.
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stan redmond| 2.14.12 @ 2:41PM
HAZAA!!! Good times are hear again. Obama the magnificent is going to cut spending by raising the budget. And all he had to do was command the growth of the economy to increase simply by magic. I'm going to use this magic trick next time I talk to my banker.
fckewe| 2.14.12 @ 4:43PM
Compared to a WAR IGNORANT budget, and a tax rebate rescue intended to bulk the GDP in 2008...
Better learn what APPLEs and ORANGES are all about.
Surplus to negative, THEN war ,minus Corporateslick lobby whore policy...
KissMyAss Palin VP tag?
And you dumbasses put Boehner in charge of the HOUSE?
Your Inner Voice| 2.14.12 @ 5:23PM
The Marxist illegal alien revolutionary reigning over the country doesn't have ANY "tough choices", he long ago chose to what he could to overthrow market capitalism and humble America before the countries like he grew up in (madrassa school learning the Koran in Indonesia) and every day brings him new successes in his aims. Obama may be one of the most successful presidents EVER to #Occupy the Oval throne room, and with every law he brazenly breaks, the limp-wristed pansies we sent to Congress to leash his excesses get weaker and quieter.
When the Nov elections roll around, he has only to manufacture an "international crisis" and the elections will have to be "temporarily suspended" for sake of domestic tranquility and safety first.
While people howl in indignation he and Axeltool and Jaret and Michelle will sit around in the Oval throne room and laugh it up, while the NYT and other state propaganda organs laud his bravery and benevolence.
PattyMor| 2.14.12 @ 6:18PM
Let's see Obama's tough choices: (1) spend more, (2) tax more, and (3) lie about the whole mess he's created. Everybody enjoying the Obama economy? The high gas prices, the high food prices and higher prices of anything delivered by truck and anything imported. What a magician, he's making us all poor.
fckewe| 2.15.12 @ 1:02AM
AS IF?????????? you have ANY answer other than "Tank growth to get the nigger out?"
Harry K| 2.15.12 @ 8:43AM
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PattyMor| 2.14.12 @ 6:18PM
Let's see Obama's tough choices: (1) spend more, (2) tax more, and (3) lie about the whole mess he's created. Everybody enjoying the Obama economy? The high gas prices, the high food prices and higher prices of anything delivered by truck and anything imported. What a magician, he's making us all poor.