This graph tells us what most rational people already knew about the Stimulus. IT WASN’T NECESSARY. Billions of dollars, OUR dollars, were thrown down an obvious drain.
For those of you (like me) that learn better through visual representations. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt8hTayupE]
President Obama, cut the crap with the inheritance comments. You won the election, as you are fond of telling your opponents. Stop lying to America and deal with reality please. Did Bush spend like a football pro at a topless bar? Yes he did. But Barack-O is making Bush look frugal by comparison. Some perspective:
The Federal Budget
Notice anything? For starters, President Bush decreased the budget every year starting in 2004,with the exception of 2008. Why the exception? A $300B tax credit has a way of skewing your averages. The budget in 2008 was $450B, not the $1.3T that Obama keeps referring to. The 2009 budget is the same as the 2008 budget because Bush never signed the budget as Wicked Witch Pelosi wasn’t worth the signature. Bush was pushing to have the budget balanced by 2010. And, given the trend starting in 2004 you can see that we were heading in that direction.
Enter Barack-O.
The majority of the 2009 budget shown above is the $700B TARP crap signed by President Obama, not President Bush. But wait, there’s more. The president does not allocate funds to the federal government (thanks Ed); Congress does. And who controlled Congress in 2007-2008? Last year Democrats pushed resolutions through that ended up in the omnibus spending bill that Barack-O signed earlier this month.
As to the positive sounding claim from the president and vice president of “cutting the budget in half in five years.” maybe they can. But look at the pretty picture above. When you cut the $1.85T you start with in2009 your goal is $900B by 2013. That’s twice the amount of the last Bush budget. It’s easy to cut something when you start by quadrupling it first and then claim savings later on.
I don’t remember any president in my adult life that has whined and complained so often about the problems of his predecessor. Obama is so focused on campaigning for higher office that he apparently doesn’t realize that he’s reached the pinnacle of higher offices in America. Barack-O, please stop campaigning. Try appointing some people to your damned Treasury Department (you’ve filled one of the 18 seats…)
The press is silent, as usual, worshipping at the altar of Barack-O. The lemmings will continue to believe that he inhereted everything bad in the world from the evil Bush Monster. And unless conservatives do something about this we will all be screwed again in four years. Spread the truth. Get loud.
Of all of the things the Left whines about, the current discussion of the $150k used to clothe Palin and her family for election appearances is an absurd choice. Is $150k a lot for clothes? Perhaps. Does Michelle Obama show up on the view wearing a $150 outfit? Sure. But for crying out loud, this is an allowance for public appearances. Palin is a middle class woman, not a millionaire like Obama. If she didn’t dress ‘properly’ she would be ripped by the press over it.
And now for some perspective.
Sure, we’d all like $150k to spend on clothes for our family. But I wonder how much Barack Obama’s trip to Hawaii costs. It is completely valid and reasonable for him to visit his sick grandmother, I’m not debating that. But he’s not flying commercial business class. How much does it cost to fuel a private jet, staff it with security and then house everyone for this personal trip? I bet it’s 10X the cost of Palin’s wardrobe budget.
And given the fact that we still don’t know the origin of tens of millions of dollars (if not hundreds of millions) in Obama contributions, and we do know how much the greek columns in Denver cost ($140k), does Team Obama really want people interested in a line item by line item comparison of the two candidates? I dont think so.
