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4/27/2009
Obama urges strict budgeting. What?
Anyone listening to the president’s Saturday radio address could be forgiven gapes of disbelief. I simply couldn’t believe it when I read about it.
President Obama, saying the government must act “the same way any responsible family does in setting its budget,” called Saturday for Congress to pass legislation that would require lawmakers to offset any new tax cuts or spending increases with equivalent tax increases or spending cuts.
“We need to adhere to the basic principle that new tax or entitlement policies should be paid for,” he said. “This principle, known as Paygo, helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s.
“Now, we must restore that sense of fiscal discipline.” Is this the same president that made a huge press event out of department heads being asked to cut $100M out of their budgets – the equivalent, analysts said, of cutting $1 from a $40,000/year family budget? Give me a break.
The same president sending Congress his ‘hard choices’ $3.55T budget on top of spending projected to total almost $4 trillion in the current year? All that resulting in a record $1.75 trillion projected deficit. Strict budgeting and fiscal discipline. Geeez.
Note in particular the “equivalent tax increases or spending cuts.” What do you guess is the preferred path? What do you guess, fabricated or not, will get all the press?
Jo Egelhoff, FoxPolitics.net
COMMENTS
Jo,
You seem to make you case clearly. Is it possible you are wrong and that everything is fine?
Can we survive four more years?
David (Mon Apr 27 07:58:07 2009)
Jo: Right on! I doubt that many saw it, and certainly the main stream press never mentioned it, but during the campaign and shortly before the election, a gentleman being interviewed on C-span mentioned he had worked with Obama in Illinois. He said, "I'm sorry to say, but Obama is really stupid"! It kind of floored me at the time and I din't think too much of it because many kooks can be heard on C-span including myself. But, when you listen and examine all his comments, especially when he doesn't have his video aids, and put them all together, it's beginning to make some sense. Hummm!
John Hyland (Mon Apr 27 08:21:52 2009)
Back again: After reading your blog and then leaving mine above, I continued reading and in the "Opinion" section I was amazed to find the New York Post article about Obama's 100 days and 100 mistakes! The Repbulican Party or some Conservative group or financier should create a full page ad out of that article and put it in every paper in the country and abroad. It all fits together. No doubt!
John Hyland (Mon Apr 27 09:24:43 2009)
Jo "Fiscal Discipline"?? This Guy is a "Fiscal Joke"! If my math is right, the $100M spending reduction works out to 1/300th of 1% of new budget. Just goes to show how financially ignorant most Folks are on Budgets, spending, deficits, etc.
Glenn Schilling (Mon Apr 27 12:12:51 2009)
When you have "idol" worship as seen with our latest Presidential electee, you also have blindness on the part of the electorate.
It doesn't matter what he says, the words that the followers charish are the ones they believe in and any other words are of no importance.
What I am saying is that he could say "Yes" today, and "No" tomorrow and the results would never be evaluated on that basis, only that he tried to explain his position.
Lawyers are masters of using the right words to influence juries.
They hone the skill to mesmorize the panel, and a jurior will belive the comment when he hears it and discards the contradiction unconsiousely .
I am not calling our President a Hitler, but his oratory skills can match him in leading the sheep to slaughter.
Least you disagree with this view, explain these total commitments made to followers.
1.Guantonamo closed in 90 days after election ? ( 100 days and counting )
2.Out of Iraq in 6 months ? (committed to a year )
3.Bi-partisan law? (name a "joint" reg.?)
4. Open public posting of all Legislation for five days before signing ( This is a joke..right?)
5. No Taxes for those under 250K ?( Cap and Trade is a charade for this)
The followers see none of the above.
It is memorable to recall that famous Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale for a comparison:
"The Emperor walked beneath the beautiful canopy in the procession, and all the people in the street ...said, "Goodness, the emperor's new clothes are incomparable! What a beautiful train on his jacket. What a perfect fit!" No one wanted it to be noticed that he could see nothing, for then it would be said that he was unfit for his position or that he was stupid. None of the Emperor's clothes had ever before received such praise."
Alas, words of truth from a fairy tale.
Thank you Hans ! for your insight into American politics, circa 2009 AD
Rich Carlstedt (Mon Apr 27 17:23:11 2009)
He indeed is an idol...artist Michael D'Antono's painting "The Truth" which depicts Obama, arms outstretched, with a crown of thorns on his head (!), will be unveiled tomorrow. If that isn't blasphemy, I don't know what is.
emily matthews (Tue Apr 28 10:08:38 2009)
Let's not forget that this spending is a follow-up and follow-through on the Bush administration program. So what everyone is saying is that neither party knows what they are doing. Let's not start slaying the new administration and quickly and conveniently forget who got us in this mess. Republicans have outspent democratic administrations over the last twenty years and the most complaining I see is now Obamma attempting to keep our economy (Bushes mess)from falling to pieces. People shoould be applauding him for quick action, not if it was perfect action. Who among us could claim perfect action over matters like these.
Mike (Tue Apr 28 10:40:43 2009)
Obama's referring over and over to the Bush administration is, I understand, unprecedented. He and his administration must take responsibility for a huge increase in spending and debt, for a "stimulus bill" that was a Christmas tree of ornaments and a proposed budget that usurps individual liberties in more and more areas of Americans' lives.
I disagree 100% with your assessment Mike. 100%.
Jo (Tue Apr 28 11:27:16 2009)
Mike, how wrong can one man be. The democrats have been in power in Congress since 2006. They had and have the purse stings to any spending.
The deficit went down in 2004-05-06 under Bush. Since 2006, unemployment went out of site. The DOW collapsed every time Obama opened his mouth about a policy. And people decided not to spend because the media had them scared stiff---and if it wasn't the media it was the liberals politicians. Under Bush, record unemployment, 10 million new jobs, The Dow broke all records and the deficit went down. All this after inheriting a recession from Clinton, being hit with 9-11, Katrina, 2 wars (both ok'd by Congress). These are the facts.
John Hyland (Tue Apr 28 17:31:36 2009)
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