The gall of this man:
After he signed the short-term bill yesterday, President Obama said in a statement, “I’m calling on Democratic and Republican leaders of Congress to begin meeting immediately with the Vice President, my Chief of Staff, and Budget Director so we can find common ground on a budget that makes sure we are living within our means.”
Saying that this country must live within its means is an audacious statement coming from a president who championed an $814 billion failed stimulus bill, all of which was paid for with deficit spending. It’s audacious coming from an administration that is leading the country into another consecutive year with a deficit over a trillion dollars. And it’s audacious coming from a White House that proposed a budget for the following fiscal year that grows the debt to $20 trillion in five years and never once in a decade spends less than it’s taking in.
And he’s not done there….he wants a 62% increase in spending for Transportation.
62%!
Let’s see, that’s about $93 BILLION/year in new spending over that time. Yet when Republicans proposed cutting a bit more than that across the whole federal government it’s draconian. But spending another half billion dollars we don’t have? Why that’s how things are done, it’s for the
unionsafter all.
Oh, that’s right….its not spending it’s “investing”
And to cap it all off I give you Nancy Pelosi saying….pretty much nothing:
Reporters ask if Democrats have a number in mind that’s “half way” for cuts. Pelosi can’t answer the question. She also claims that Democrats have already cut $41 billion, but when pressed what they passed was $41 billion in cuts from Obama’s proposed spending in a budget that never actually passed.
Puhlease….cut 41 billion.
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