President Obama says GOP budget "wrong for America". Let's see where Obama has taken us for the past two and a half years.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Send In The (Tax and Spend) Clown
When President Obama addresses the nation today on his "vision" for deficit reduction he'll no doubt be more than a day late and a dollar short. The White Houses' own fiscal commission, chaired by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, released their plan last November, 154 days ago. It was quickly ignored by the Democrats and Obama himself. Next, the President released his own budget for 2012 back on Valentines Day, some 58 days ago. It was broadly panned as a joke. Accordingly, the GOP weighed in just 8 days ago with the release of the House Budget Chair Paul Ryan's suggestions for 2012. Ryan's plan, while viewed by both parties as a serious document, gives the left conniptions and the right a place to start.
So what will Barry's new vision provide? HIGHER TAXES!
Apparently the agreement for this year's budget, which staved off (temporarily) a government shutdown last week, provided all the cuts that Obama and the Democrats will be willing to stomach any time soon. All $15 billion, or just .03 percent of the 2011 budget, that is. Yes, that's right folks. The $39 billion in spending cuts that were supposedly agreed to last week, which was an increase of $6 billion from the $33 billion they thought was agreed to earlier, which was half of the $61 billion that the Republicans voted to cut last February, which was $40 billion less than the $100 billion the Republican members of the House had campaigned on, is now, in reality, just $15 billion. How's that, you say? Well, according to story in the AP , “[T]he cuts that actually will make it into law are far tamer, including cuts to earmarks, unspent census money, leftover federal construction funding, and $2.5 billion from the most recent renewal of highway programs that can’t be spent because of restrictions set by other legislation.” Swell.
If we're ever going to get anything accomplished in Washington, we may have to start another Tea Party to go after our incumbent Tea Party. Just to show we really mean business.
So what will Barry's new vision provide? HIGHER TAXES!
Apparently the agreement for this year's budget, which staved off (temporarily) a government shutdown last week, provided all the cuts that Obama and the Democrats will be willing to stomach any time soon. All $15 billion, or just .03 percent of the 2011 budget, that is. Yes, that's right folks. The $39 billion in spending cuts that were supposedly agreed to last week, which was an increase of $6 billion from the $33 billion they thought was agreed to earlier, which was half of the $61 billion that the Republicans voted to cut last February, which was $40 billion less than the $100 billion the Republican members of the House had campaigned on, is now, in reality, just $15 billion. How's that, you say? Well, according to story in the AP , “[T]he cuts that actually will make it into law are far tamer, including cuts to earmarks, unspent census money, leftover federal construction funding, and $2.5 billion from the most recent renewal of highway programs that can’t be spent because of restrictions set by other legislation.” Swell.
If we're ever going to get anything accomplished in Washington, we may have to start another Tea Party to go after our incumbent Tea Party. Just to show we really mean business.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Squatter
President Obama opened his campaign for reelection yesterday and my question is this, "What's he running to do?" How about, "What's his platform?" Or, "What are his accomplishments?" Any, and all of these, are valid inquires. Honestly, besides Obamacare and DADT (Don't Ask, Don't Tell) which neither are even close to being implemented, much less operational, what has he done? His campaign promises from just two years ago have largely proven to be empty threats. Guantanamo? Still there. Out of Iraq and Afghanistan? We've added Libya. End tax cuts for the rich? What?, and lose ninety-nine weeks of unemployment insurance? As a matter of fact, a site called Politifact.com lists 510 campaign promises made by candidate Barack Obama.
To be generous, even some of the promises he kept would have been better left at the alter. His promise to create a $10 billion fund to help homeowners refinance their homes ended with an independent audit which deemed the whole enterprise "a colossal failure." For those of us lucky enough to live in and around the Great Lakes, he promised a full environmental restoration of the Great Lakes. Not only has this action died in Congress, his Army Corps of Engineers won't even stop the infiltration of Asian Carp from gaining access to Lake Michigan through the Chicago locks. Although I would disagree anyway, his promise to enact a windfall profits tax on oil companies has never been proposed in any budget the White House has put forth. He let Pelosi and Reid run roughshod over the American electorate in passing Obamacare. He's letting the Republican leadership in the House, namely Rep. Paul Ryan, lead on deficit reduction, in spite of his own commissions' recommendations.
Again, and I think it's a fair question to ask, "What are we paying him to do?" Shouldn't the person who lives in the White House have a plan? Wouldn't someone who wishes to be seen as a leader actually be expected to lead something? Sometime? It's clear to me that this president is not ready for prime time, much less a second term. He's no leader, he's a loiterer. A squatter. On a website called Howstuffworks.com, I found this paragraph:
To be generous, even some of the promises he kept would have been better left at the alter. His promise to create a $10 billion fund to help homeowners refinance their homes ended with an independent audit which deemed the whole enterprise "a colossal failure." For those of us lucky enough to live in and around the Great Lakes, he promised a full environmental restoration of the Great Lakes. Not only has this action died in Congress, his Army Corps of Engineers won't even stop the infiltration of Asian Carp from gaining access to Lake Michigan through the Chicago locks. Although I would disagree anyway, his promise to enact a windfall profits tax on oil companies has never been proposed in any budget the White House has put forth. He let Pelosi and Reid run roughshod over the American electorate in passing Obamacare. He's letting the Republican leadership in the House, namely Rep. Paul Ryan, lead on deficit reduction, in spite of his own commissions' recommendations.
Again, and I think it's a fair question to ask, "What are we paying him to do?" Shouldn't the person who lives in the White House have a plan? Wouldn't someone who wishes to be seen as a leader actually be expected to lead something? Sometime? It's clear to me that this president is not ready for prime time, much less a second term. He's no leader, he's a loiterer. A squatter. On a website called Howstuffworks.com, I found this paragraph:
The life of a squatter is fraught with pitfalls and confrontations at each turn -- and so is the life of the landlord who has to deal with the unwanted resident. There are concurrent laws that give rights to squatters as well as provide a process for landowners to get rid of them.In November of 2012, let's answer President Obama's call for his reelection.
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