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Does Obama want to increase or cut his budget deficit?

The audacity of obfuscation

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  March 21st, 2009 at 07:39 AM  | 

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There he goes again — saying one thing while doing the opposite.

President Obama proposes a budget that includes a $1.75 trillion deficit so he can spend nearly $4 trillion in fiscal year 2010. Then Obama says that while the details may change, any budget passed by Congress must cut the deficit.

Is he serious? Obama proposes a spend too much, tax too much, borrow too much budget. A budget the Congressional Budget Office predicts will result in deficits of $9.3 trillion over ten years — $2.3 trillion more than the deficit estimated by the White House. And then, in this week’s Obama propaganda video, he has the audacity to insist any budget passed by Congress must cut the deficit:

“Finally, this budget must reduce that deficit even further.”

Obama is shameless, simply shameless.

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  • papalee

    Why not consider the idea that he is either mad, i.e., insane, or completely dishonest? One or the other is much more likely to be the truth.

  • Jack_Savage

    Of COURSE Obama wants to cut the deficit. Of COURSE the budget proposed must set about doing so. In an admirable demonstration of political jujitsu, Obama is giving the green light to Congress to raise taxes in every conceivable way in order to get the obstructionist Repuublicans to quit howling about deficits. Remember, the problem isn’t spending – it’s revenue.

    Democrat mantra for 2010:
    “You want lower deficits? Then we must, out of fiscal responsibility, raise taxes. You don’t want to raise taxes? Then you continue to be the party of fiscal irresponsibility, thank goodness Democrats are in charge. We must all contribute so that future generations do not suffer. We do not want to steal from them by giving ourselves tax cuts.”

    What Republicans forget is that the long-fuse time bombs Democrats are responsible for (Vietnam, cultural vulgarity, 9/11, The Great Recession) go off when mostly Republicans are in the room. They continue to break windows, insist they are the only ones capable of fixing them, and the golden chains get tighter.

    This pronouncement by Obama sets the stage perfectly.

    • robmikpet

      and the most insidiious thing is that the MSM repeats what the Dems say as the truth and what Republicans say as lies.

      A “dumbed down” look at the electorate is 40% Rep, 40% Dem, 20% Independent. All you need to do is convince 10.1% of the “I’s” and you win!

      When you combine this with a growing percentage of people “living on the dole” whether getting direct assistance from the government or paying no taxes the ability to end this “Road to Serfdom” is becoming more and more difficult.

  • bk

    that promises to pay off later, while the only spending that they call “spending” are defense spending and tax cuts.

    That’s the way we get things like Head Start, which was going to reduce crime, fix all the problems in the black community, win the war on poverty, etc. It’s now a $7B/year boondoggle where we spend over $7K/kid/year and as far as I know hasn’t paid off the “investment” with the promised results. It’s gone from a $200M “investment” that served 733K kids in its first full year under LBJ that after the drastic “cuts” under Bush (translation: it only went up a quarter billion or so while he was in office) “serves” just over 900K kids at an “investment” of just under $6.9B.

  • rbdwiggins

    Almost overnight, his approval ratings would likely sink below those held by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

  • reaganiterepublicanresistance

    Obama has zero business experience or sense (unless you count pay-to-play arrangements or public-housing scandals with felon Tony Rezko). He put-together a cabinet with no CEOs or anybody else that could upstage him..

    He unviels wild spending plans embedded with pork-n-welfare totalling trillions of dollars… when we are already running record deficits. After this, he holds some fake summit and with no sense of irony portrays himself as a deficit-hawk.

    Although most of the MSM has so much invested in his success that they can no-longer afford anything resembling a balanced perspective, SOME journalists and talk-show hosts come out publicly against his plans… so he launches attacks, including paid TV ads against them. (can you imagine the uproar if W had done this?)

    When the GOP members of Congress that Obama promised for over a year to work with in a new, post-partisan manner voice their concerns, he tells them “I’ll trump you on that” and “I won”. Obama then employed shameless and reckless fear-mongering to frighten legislators and the public into backing his porkulus spending binge… effective politically, but often inaccurate historically… and betraying very poor leadership qualities and scruples.

    This arrogant charlatan is ramming-through a far-left agenda few want, and that he knows we can’t afford, so later will “have to” crank-up taxes to eye-watering Swedish levels … thereby running through the back-door the soaking of the job-creating “rich” that he dreamed of back when he was “burning one” with is Marxist professors.

    Expect a stale economy, higher taxes, high inflation, a weak dollar, international embarrassments, endless ethics issues… followed by a Democratic bloodbath in the 2010 mid-terms.

    As for 2012, the GOP could win 40+ states running Gilbert Gottfreid.

    http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

  • ObamaNo

    It would appear from all reports that Barack and Michelle Obama lived paycheck to paycheck for many, many years and it’s only been in the last four or five years that they have accumulated some money. Any wealth they have accumulated has not come from plain old hard work and moving up in anything other than governmental positions. It has come in the form of government grants and lump sum distributions through his book sales and who knows what else.

    It appears they bought their home in Chicago under dubious circumstances and it appears that Michelle received a huge promotion and raise through yet another dirty deal. Their charitable giving (until it was politically advantageous) was abhorrent and hypocritical.

    President Obama is very skilled at spending other people’s money and he’s now planning to do it on a mucho grande scale with hardly a thought about those of us out here working hard every day and trying to maintain some semblance of financial security.

    When he made the comment during his campaign that rich people don’t “need all that money,” that was all I needed to hear from that one.

  • rick554

    Calling BS on a BS President. Barry couldnt care less about the deficit and ANYTHING he says has at least 2 different meanings. In the old days we used to call it lying. Actually we still do.

  • DONTREADONME

    mark my words the military will again resort to using sticks and stones to train once every six months. Here is what they will gut F-22, JSF XF-33, missile defense systems, EFV, JLTV, FCS, NLW-FP JNLWD, future soldier all new aircraft carriers, SMAW II, etc. The military will cut all funding that includes big ticket high tech and will resort to only supporting military operations that is only O&M. Hello, 500 Billion dollar savings. Thanks, O!

  • SteveLA

    Dontreadonme

    After every major conflict there has been defense spending cuts, they are to be expected as part of the “Peace Dividend IV” rightly or wrongly, this happens.

    I’m not smart enough to know what all the programs you site above are doing and how they fit into the what’s really needed in the future by DOD, but I tend to trust Secretary Gates for now to keep Obama honest…at least for now. I’d also note that there are still a small few Hawks on the Donks side of the aisle in the Senate, so stopping cuts to DOD programs and jobs associated with these projects will be problematic for Hope and Change Central.

    I read somewhere that the DOD think tanks and the War Colleges are chewing over the “Two Major Conflict” doctrine that has been in place for many years. Probably would be wise to keep an eye on how that work turns out and what development efforts serve to support that new doctrine once it comes out.

    • SteveLA

      I did not hit Reply To….bad…sorry.

      • DONTREADONME

        I agree with the Peace Divedend IV statement is what they use to produce more money for Social programs; however, we will have to ramp up efforts in military spending the next time conflict comes to light, which leaves us vulnerable. There are way too many improvements needed in the military weaponry that has come to light as a result of the Iraq War and the GWOMMD (fomerly called GWOT). I am just guessing on how the budget is to be corrected by Obama. We will have to wait and see if my prediction comes to fruitition, my opinion in the DoD business is those programs will be cut. F-22 is a shame, it is one hell of a fighter that is a significant force multiplier. See the History Channels “Future Dogfights” F-22 versus the MIG-29 and the Su (?) include the new B-1(E?) update of the B-1B.

        • SteveLA

          Dontread

          I think the problem with the F22 is the same one that confronted the AF with the B2. Brilliant aircraft that has great potential but high unit costs and high maintenance cost and high maintenance hours.

          If the fleet is not big enough, the F22 would be very hard to deploy in any numbers and would not have as big as effect on the battle space as desired. I don’t know what the answer is, but you can look at the history of the B2 to see what happens with a superior aircraft that has other side issues.

          I tend to think that the “jobs” issue where LockMart was very smart in spreading out the jobs that produce the Raptor across many congressional districts will actually decide the matter, not the military necessity or utility of the F22. The major defense companies have gotten way smart on how to work the system.

          • DONTREADONME

            the point I was makiing was a fleet of 500 Raptors, could take out an airforce consisting of 2000+ MIG-29′s, Su 30s (now Venezuala has a fleet of these) or the Mirage. Yes the price tag is high to build and maintain these aircraft, but the Raptor considerably reduces the maintenance costs over the F117 and the B2 by using an airframe that is made of more robust material that does not need to be replaced every time it gets wet. The Raptor uses an airframe that significantly redirects the incoming radar signal and uses the best features of the F117. The F22 is an impressive piece of hardware that provides the ability to take out convential military fighters at such long distances prior to engagement or even visual contact, if the JSF or XF-33 can out perform the Raptor at a considerable less logistic footprint then by all means maintain the Raptor airfleet at 189 but do not shelf the design. Anyway, this is just my opinion, I would rather have 500 F22 than 2000 F15 or F18Es, then again that is to say the F15 is no push over, nor is the versatility of hte F/A18E/F super hornet anything to sneeze at. Again IMO.

          • DONTREADONME

            I agree with you that the B2 and the F117 demonstrated that issues with maintenance of the aircraft that is built the way the F117 and B2 are; however, on the bright side, w/o the B2 and the F117 the path towards future Stealth technology would not have been paved. Therefore, the F22 is the next best step towards invisible aircraft and their potential, plus the F22 provides and overwhelming fear factor to our enemy especially if you are the enemy flying in formation and all of a sudden your comrades are blowing up around you without any idea where the missiles came from. Quite the fear factor, and the disorientation that can be created within the enemy with a stacked missile carrier like the B-1B (future variant) no airforce on earth will be able to compete. Oh, the F22 will most likely be the protection of the B-1′s as well. As you can tell I love military aircraft, one of my favorite of all time is the F-111 Aardvark.