Obama to cut wasteful spending?
According to the Wall Street Journal, Obama is pledging to cut dozens of wasteful government programs. At this time, there are no details. Will he cut spending by 1%, 5%, 25%, or more? With the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projecting a nearly $2 trillion federal budget deficit this year and ten more years of annual $1 trillion budget deficits, it would appear that cutting “dozens” of programs is an empty gesture. In addition, the CBO also projects that the Obama administration will double the national debt in five years, faster even than the Bush administration who achieved this ignominious feat in eight years. So, while the current administration tinkers at the edges with assurances of a few token cuts, budget deficits continue to explode and national debt skyrockets.
Who are these guys kidding? The American people are wise to this act. To get the federal budget under control, massive cuts are needed. Painful cuts are required. But, you know what? We Americans are willing to suffer some short term pain in exchange for lasting prosperity. Apparently, our government possesses neither the vision nor the intestinal fortitude to do the same.
Read the article here.
Cali said:
What he says and what he does are two different things…
Pure Jekyll and Hyde.
April 19th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Michael H said:
Just a smokescreen to shore up his waning popularity among those in our society that act on emotion rather than thinking.
We need to seriously expose Obama for what he is to the American public. People in this country have traditionally not acted until there is a major crisis that threatens us all, ie. Pearl Harbor, 9-11, etc. What is needed is a major Obama generated crisis that is a direct, un-mistakable result of the dangerous path Obama has charted for all of us.
If Obama is allowed to continue, guaranteed that will happen. Our enemys (Islamic radicals, etc) aren’t buying his riendship overtures. For them, it’s conversion to Islam or kill the infidel. The fact that Obama has now labeled the US as
ot a Christian based nation, but one of many beleifs, won’t appease the Islamic fundamentalist. Nevil Chamberlin tried that with Hitler before WWII, and one can witness the result. When will we learn from History??
Michael
April 19th, 2009 at 3:53 pm