Under the control of Democrats the budget of the United States has grown by a trillion dollars in the last few years.
Year/Spending total/Deficit
2007 / $2.7 trillion/ $161 billion / Bush
2008 / $2.9 trillion / $239 billion / Bush*
2009 / $3.1 trillion / $407 billion / Obama*
2010 / $3.55 trillion / $1.17 trillion / Obama*
2011 / $3.7 trillion / $1.6 trillion / Obama*
*- Democrat-controlled Congress
Obama and the Democrats have exploded federal spending. They have a two pronged effort to ruin this country underway- one is to irretrievably bury us in debt and the second is simple denial.
There was a time when debt and deficits mattered to Democrats. That would be when a Republican is President.
Democrats will use deficits to attack Bush, GOP credibility
Democrats are honing an election-year strategy of using record federal deficits to try and undermine the credibility of President Bush and Congress’ majority Republicans.
Democrats assail Bush’s budget, deficit
Democrats are attacking President Bush’s budget for worsening the already bleak deficit picture, even as a new congressional analysis of his fiscal plans shows no end in sight for huge amounts of red ink.
But all that concern magically ended the day Democrats took control of Congress and it hasn’t been seen since.
Few of us were happy with the way George Bush spent but it is inarguable that Obama and the Democrats have made W look like Ebenezer Scrooge.
What has just been agreed to was the Fiscal 2011 budget. The Fiscal 2011 budget was proposed by Barack Obama in February 2010. The 2011 Fiscal Year runs from October to September. That means that Democrats have been entirely derelict in their duties and it was left to Republicans to fix their mess. Democrats had from February 2010 (When the budget was handed to them) to the end of December to pass a 2011 budget and they controlled all of Congress during that time.
And they failed.
Not only did Democrats fail, they spewed all sorts of garbage during the negotiations.
Biden said Democrats agreed to $73 billion in cuts.
Vice President Joe Biden announced late Wednesday that House and Senate bipartisan negotiators had agreed to a spending-cut target of $73 billion in 2011 budget talks aimed at heading off a government shutdown before next week, when a temporary bill keeping the government operating runs out.
Obama also claimed Democrats agreed to $73 billion in spending cuts:
President Obama says Democrats have agreed to $73 billion in spending cuts for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year, and that this is the same target Republicans have set.
Except that they didn’t:
Republican House Speaker John Boehner says the Democrats are calling for $33 billion in cuts, and that his party hasn’t agreed to that or any other number.
The actual figure turns out to be $39 billion.
And the national debt increased by $54 billion while they were dickering over $39 billion.
Barack Obama finally decided to “come off the sidelines.”
Once criticized as too aloof, President Obama has forcefully stepped up his involvement in budget negotiations by repeatedly calling Capitol Hill’s top Republican and top Democrat to the Oval Office, underscoring the new power balance in Washington with the House GOP having earned a seat at the table.
Before you caught up in thinking that that’s impressive, remember that this budget should been a done deal by October 1 of last year. Obama again voted present, jumping in once the dust had largely settled.
Still, the most ridiculous aspect of this episode was Obama’s taking credit for any spending reductions.
“Today, Americans of different beliefs came together again,” Obama said.
The president said that negotiators have reached “a budget that invests in our future while making the largest annual spending cut in our history,” adding that he compromised on cuts that he would “not have made in better circumstances.”
Assinine. Obama never had the slightest intention of cutting anything. And make no mistake- nothing was actually cut. The agreement was only a reduction in proposed spending increases. These morons have increased federal spending by 33% in four years. It’s confounding trying to understand why it was so easy to add so much and so difficult to remove.
The Obaminated Press predictably awarded Obama a victory:
Obama, Boehner each earn wins in budget pact
Rivals in a divided government, President Barack Obama and the most powerful Republican in Congress split their differences to stave off a federal shutdown that neither combatant was willing to risk.
After calling $32 billion in cuts “draconian” and “unworkable” the terminally hypocritical Hairy Reid said
“We must get our fiscal house in order. We’ve agreed to an historic level of cuts for this fiscal year.”
Historic?
Nonsense. This wasn’t a “cut.” It was a reduction in proposed spending. That’s all. A real cut in spending will see the US federal budget being lower for Fiscal Year 2012 than for 2011.
Good luck with that.
And a reminder:
Obama vows to cut huge deficit in half
President Obama will announce Monday that he plans to cut the nation’s projected annual deficit in half by the end of his first term, a senior administration official said Saturday.
Look for Obama to claim this as a success. As always, the devil is in the details.
Obama pledges to cut nation’s deficit in half
President Barack Obama pledged Monday to cut the nation’s $1.3 trillion deficit in half by the end of his first term.
If, by some miracle, Republicans whittle away at the next budget to the tune of $600 billion in proposed spending increases Obama will claim success as that would represent half of the $1.3 trillion deficit from 2009. Then again, he could even claim that a $300 billion reduction in proposed spending would be a success as well.
How?
Because in that $1.3 trillion was included the $700 billion TARP money, which has largely been paid back.
Which also means Obama did not inherit a $1.3 trillion deficit, but rather a $600 billion deficit (not that that’s small potatoes).
And one last blast from the past:
“I refuse to leave our children with a debt they cannot repay,” he said in remarks opening the one-day summit at the White House. “We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end. … We cannot simply spend as we please.”
You are an idiot to believe anything Barack Obama says.
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