Posted on 03/29/2009 12:09:21 AM PDT by FocusNexus
Well, it's about time. The Beltway is waking up to the realities of President Obama's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see. The president's vast new commitments in the areas of health care, energy, and education have already spooked small-government Republicans and the foreign investors who help finance America's public debt. Now even some Democrats are beginning to realize that the president's fiscal policies are unsustainable in the long--and maybe medium--run. What took them so long?
The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people. Americans aren't going to dismantle the welfare state. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are--like the Pentagon--here to stay. The task, then, is to ensure that those programs are sensibly structured and financed, and compatible with robust economic growth. And on this score, Obama's budget is a big, fat failure.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
It was pretty much inevitable that government would pick up the pieces of the financial crisis and its aftermath. A stimulus bill and some form of bank bailout were going to be facts of life. And tax revenues are plunging thanks to the recession. So the federal government’s balance sheet
was always going to deteriorate in 2009. The problem is that Obama’s policies would move us from deterioration to disaster. The national debt Obama gripes about? His budget will double it to 80 percent of GDP in 2019. Whatever that is, it’s not “a new era of responsibility.”
Saw a tv campaign commercial for this budget tonight.
Yep...you got that right.
Do you suppose that's what he's aiming for? lol
Thank you for posting the article.
It's a good 'un.
I glanced at the headline, only picked up the first part, and for a moment thought this was an article about either Michael Moore or Rosie O'Donnell.
Sorry.
The author loses credibility as a conservative with this baloney. Instead, he should have said that the logical eventual endpoint of the mommy state is bankruptcy, regardless of how responsible the originators were. The temptation to overpay the constituency always happens, because, in any election, the one promising the most eventually beats the other guy. Since when has the prudent guy gotten a fair shake from the media in a welfare state?
Exactly right. There’s no reasonable, moderate position on Government entitlements. It becomes a race among the politicians to see who can garner more votes by promising more gifts from the treasury. And in the background, cynical despots like Cloward & Piven propose that the entitlement programs be used as vehicles for destroying the capitalist system. It’s the camel’s nose under the tent.
Daddy, what’s a “small-government Republican?”
Come on Charlie, borrow billions, Yay Charlie.....
And it will take us to the land of sweets and joy and joyness
Obama’s budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see,same plan as every democrat president has used only on a higher scale it’s the democrat way.
New Ice Cream flavor
In honor of the 44th President of the United States,
B-R Ice Cream has introduced a new flavor;”Barocky Road”.
Barocky Road is a blend of half Vanilla, half Chocolate, and surrounded by Nuts and Flakes. The Vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and usually denied as an ingredient. The Nuts and Flakes are all very bitter and hard to swallow. The cost is $100.00 per scoop.
When purchased it will be presented to you in a large beautiful cone, but then the Ice Cream is taken away and given to the person in line behind you.
Thus you are left with an empty Wallet, no change, holding an empty cone, with no hope of getting any Ice Cream.
Are you feeling stimulated?
...since it was caused by the government in the first place. Historically, the unintended consequenses of incompetent government actions have been 'fixed' by more incompetent government actions!
Don’t forget the rainbows and gumdrop forests that are now part of the Obama era.
We warned about this during the campaign. Last summer. But liberals swooned over the fake messiah , getting a thrill up their legs. It’s stupid and a disaster but the dumbed-down American society voted it in. You can thank the NEA for Obama’s math.
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