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Obama's Deceit
American Thinker ^ | Frank Gutting

Posted on 04/16/2011 6:14:56 AM PDT by fabrizio

Okay, I have had it with this President's blatant dishonesty. His speech today was appallingly deceitful and misleading. This President, has spent more money and added more debt than any other President in history. This is not political rhetoric, this is simply fact! Barack Obama's budget deficit in March of 2011 was larger than the deficit for all of 2007!

According to Obama's 2012 Budget Proposal, under Historical Tables, the budget deficit under George Bush first peaked in 2004 at $412 billion dollars. Between 2005 and 2007 the budget deficit declined by $252 billion to reach its low, under Bush, at $160 billion. If the tax cuts and wars, both occurring in 2001 and 2003, caused our current financial situation, how did the deficit fall between 2004 to 2007? Because Tax Cuts increase revenue to the government by allowing people and business to invest more of their own money. As people invest they conduct taxable transactions which bring in revenue to the government.

So where did Obama come up with the claim that he inherited a trillion dollar deficit? In 2008, the deficit under Bush climbed to a new high of $458 billion. The reason for the climb was the fiscal stimulus and emergency spending as a result of the financial crises. However, this number is somewhat misleading. The fiscal year for 2008 ended in October of that year, pushing much of the onetime emergency spending on the 2009 budget. When you add that spending onto the budget baseline, you come up with a deficit for 2009 of $1.4 trillion. While Obama is correct that he is not solely responsible for the 2009 budget, he is lying by not informing the American people most of the deficit was "one time emergency spending." He, Barack H. Obama, chose to put that spending in the baseline budget for the next decade. Thus, we have $1 trillion dollar deficits for as far as the eye can see.

The President claimed that we didn't "pay for" the tax cuts. Excuse me Mr. President, when someone takes a pay cut, do they have to "pay for it?" A tax cut means the government simply takes less of YOUR money, what is there to pay for? This, seemingly innocuous, difference comes from the President's view that government has a right to your money. To Obama, it is not your income, but governments', and government not taking all of your money is an act of compassion. Obama believes that by leaving more of your money in your pocket, it is the equivalent of government sending you a check! If government sends you a check, that means government must "pay for" the tax cut. Unbelievable!

(Here is a link to his budget proposal: select table 1.1 http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals)


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; deficit; dubya; socialism
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1 posted on 04/16/2011 6:15:02 AM PDT by fabrizio
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To: fabrizio

Time to turn this incompetent, inexperienced, lier OUT. and continue to investigate his fitness and ELIGIBILTY to hold the office he unfortunately was elected to, no thanks to a media that failed to honestly vet and bring to light his history or lack of one thereof.

His so called father was a “British Subject”, thus he is was born a “British Subject”, if Obama’s fictions are to be believed.


2 posted on 04/16/2011 6:26:53 AM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: fabrizio

Christine Romer’s paper states that for every 1 percent rise in taxes, the GDP initially falls 3.05% then settles to a decrease of around 2%.
There IS a cause and effect many are preparing for.
The ‘progressives’ cannot fathom that their policies cause failure. There was a reason there was massive layoffs late in ‘08/early ‘09. We saw obama coming and so far we were right about that bastard.


3 posted on 04/16/2011 6:46:52 AM PDT by griswold3 (Character is destiny)
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To: curiosity

But he’s no worse a liar than anybody else, right curiosity?

And he’s just a benign, European style socialist, right?

Wrong. He is sickest, most pathological and compulsive liar I have ever seen—and I’ve seen plenty.

And he is a full-on marxist. Not a nice marxist, either, if such exist, but a man bent on spreading the wealth [wealth he’s already destroyed, no less] not mainly to Americans but to those we have ‘wronged’. He is destroying the US in part as payback for all the ‘need’ our ‘white man’s greed’ has produced in the world.

Wake up, curiosity. This is not just a regular political liar of the socialist stripe. This is a sick, driven man, intent on implementing the Dreams he got from his equally sick marxist ‘father’. Stop running interference for him on FR, and call a spade a spade. If Obama speaks it—if his lips are moving, and words come out of his mouth—it is a lie. It’s that simple.


4 posted on 04/16/2011 6:53:13 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: fabrizio

Zero claims on Drudge that the American people think he deserves a second term. He is correct, they think he deserves a second term in jail for lying, after a first term for financial incompetence.


5 posted on 04/16/2011 6:56:27 AM PDT by immadashell
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To: fabrizio

No, most didn’t see Obama coming. His agenda was obvious even prior to his election...but on 11/4/08, the American electorate turned their nation over to him. And from that time forward, most Freepers have been putting their hope in tactics that never had a chance of stopping him. I’m not sure I’ll be able to stomach the “stunned reactions” here to his re-election on 12/6/12.


6 posted on 04/16/2011 6:57:32 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks fabrizio.
...has spent more money and added more debt than any other President in history.
In before the "blame Boehner" crowd.


7 posted on 04/16/2011 7:09:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: anniegetyourgun
His Reelection on 12/6/12. We pray he doesn't but America as a whole is just stupid enough to do so.

That is why I say even though Trump is no Conservative he is the only one with the Marbles to tear BHO a new one.

Let him do the dirty work and destroy BHO. Then we elect a true conservative. Not sure who that will be at this point.

8 posted on 04/16/2011 7:15:50 AM PDT by Bailee
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To: fabrizio
Article II, Sec. 3, of the U.S. Constitution requires that, "The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."

"From time to time" does not mean once a year. It can and should be interpreted to mean "whenever the President speaks he is addressing Congress. If/when he lies to Congress he is committing perjury. He should be impeached for that, as should any other office holder who commits the same crime.

9 posted on 04/16/2011 7:22:34 AM PDT by Thom Pain (November 2, 2010, Step ONE. Repeal 17th, Step TWO. 11/6/2012, Step THREE)
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To: anniegetyourgun
What are the "tactics that never had a chance of stopping him" -?- The NBC thing? What?

Most Americans of the democrat and independent persuasion weren't aware of his simple ineligibility for the office until the new media made such a big deal of it that inertia took over and pounded it into the public consciousness.

I don't get what you're saying - please elaborate.

10 posted on 04/16/2011 7:23:20 AM PDT by atc23
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To: fabrizio

“As people invest they conduct taxable transactions which bring in revenue to the government.”

Investment also gives rise to innovation and jobs, not to mention a higher standard of living resulting from new products and services. It is the life blood of the economy.


11 posted on 04/16/2011 8:06:08 AM PDT by Starboard (bor)
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To: wetgundog

Obama is a modern day trojan horse.


12 posted on 04/16/2011 8:09:10 AM PDT by Starboard (bor)
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To: wetgundog
Time to turn this incompetent, inexperienced, lier OUT. and continue to investigate his fitness and ELIGIBILTY...

That may be the only battle the current group of Republicans can win. If so, they need to begin immediately so as to bring it to a head prior to the elections.

Otherwise, we may be in an uncontrolled, overspeed dive:
47% of the nation does not pay income taxes, add to that the number of dedicated anti-Americans of all stripes and you have far in excess of that needed to win the popular vote.

Add further, the continuing effort to abolish the electoral college, which effort is currently supported by 6 states and D.C. and is fueled in part by polls indicating support by 60% of Republicans and 70%++ of other voters.

13 posted on 04/16/2011 8:58:06 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Islamic and Communist totalitarians share the same goal - global domination via jihad.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

“No, most didn’t see Obama coming.”

What I don’t understand is WHY do his original voters/backers/supporters continue to play the myth of 0. He is everything you say and more. I can’t use the language I would prefer to describe him for fear of being bounced.

He is just plain EVIL. I have been suspicious since I first heard of his programs and listened to him speak. He is EVIL and his goal is the destruction of capitalism and the US way of living.


14 posted on 04/16/2011 9:52:26 AM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (I have a liberal arts degree, do you want fries with that?)
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To: fabrizio

Voters were scammed in 2008. We all know it. All Pubs, of every stripe, Libertarians, Reagan Dems and Indies must unite. Must have a come to Jesus moment for the 2012 election. No slips. None of the ,’oh isn’t he an articulate man of his race bit.’ He is a socialist con man and his radical Party are un-American: period. Time to stop giving into this Annointed One. Flood the Pubs with mail and calls with encouragement to unite all the above type voters to drive this alien out of govt. It is not his birth that is alien: it is his views on our heritage, history, culture, economy and values.


15 posted on 04/16/2011 10:26:58 AM PDT by phillyfanatic
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To: chooseascreennamepat
What I don’t understand is WHY do his original voters/backers/supporters continue to play the myth of 0. He is everything you say and more. I can’t use the language I would prefer to describe him for fear of being bounced.

I think his favorable numbers remain about 42 percent because as many as a third of those are so indoctrinated with political correctness that they are unwilling to tell a pollster that they have an unfavorable opinion of him. They will vote against him, perhaps, put they are not willing to say that they have an unfavorable opinion of him, because they think that would label them as "racist".

16 posted on 04/16/2011 10:38:36 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain
“as many as a third of those are so indoctrinated with political correctness that they are unwilling to tell a pollster that they have an unfavorable opinion of him. They will vote against him, perhaps, put they are not willing to say that they have an unfavorable opinion of him, because they think that would label them as “racist”.”

Dead on. I was polled by Gallup on Thursday. A whole bunch of feel-up (you know what I mean) questions. They finally got to vote related stuff and the guy seemed surprised when I said it would be a cold day in hell when I would ever vote for any dem for anything as long as they hold their socialistic views (forever, I suspect)!

17 posted on 04/16/2011 1:01:54 PM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (I have a liberal arts degree, do you want fries with that?)
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To: Bailee

If Trump is the GOP candidate, there will likely rise a 3rd party with a real conservative. That equates to Obama’s 2nd term.

It’s really your last sentence that says it all, Bailee.


18 posted on 04/16/2011 5:38:04 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: atc23

There are 2 reasons his origins are mysterious. The first reason is that it’s working for him. The second isn’t something most would understand.

As for the tactics...just consider how successful Obama has been in implementing his agenda, while we faxed, called, emailed, marched, blah, blah, blah. The Left loves it when conservatives continue to employ the same old tactics - as if the world hadn’t changed at all on 11/4/08. As I said here on FR that morning: All things have changed, nothing will again be the same.


19 posted on 04/16/2011 5:42:45 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Bailee

>>>Let him do the dirty work and destroy BHO. Then we elect a true conservative. Not sure who that will be at this point.<<<

Assuming that Trump won’t just enforce aspects of Obama to his liking, build coalitions between business and government in the model of Giovanni Angelli at Fiat and the Italian left, and then he can claim (falsely) that the number of late flights at the nation’s airports are at an all-time low.

Trump isn’t doing dirty work, in my opinion. He’s positioning himself to be one of the elite in the new corporate-state structure. He had plenty of practice in New York. Why not nationally?

By the time Trump is through, there won’t be any room left for conservatives. Sure, we’ll still be elected on school boards and city councils, but our ability to shape the national agenda will be over.

Trump has the opportunity to be the Ross Perot for the 2012 election. In other words, he’s a slimy bastard who will split and destroy the conservatives, perhaps by accident, perhaps on purpose.

True conservatives? Bachmann. Palin. Ryan. Mario Rubio. I’d love to see any of those four become president. There are others waiting in the wings, too. IMHO.


20 posted on 04/17/2011 1:04:17 PM PDT by redpoll
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