The federal budget deficit has already risen by $880 billion to an unprecedented $1.3 trillion. Most of the increase is attributable to recent increases in federal spending, including Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package, which the Congressional Budget Office says will actually shrink the economy in “the long run,” and which ended welfare reform, destroyed thousands of jobs in the export sector, and substituted welfare for productive investments.
Ironically, Obama had campaigned on a promise, since broken, to make a “net spending cut” in federal spending.
The increase in the deficit is driven largely by reckless federal spending, even though federal tax revenue fell at the fastest rate since 1932 thanks to the recession.
The Obama Administration wants to pile on even more federal spending, including a health-care “reform” proposal predicted to cost at least $1,000,000,000,000 ($1 trillion). In reality, Obamacare will likely cost far more than predicted, the way past health-care expansions always have.
One of Obama’s own advisers says the Obama Administration’s health-care plan will harm people with insurance while raising their taxes. CNN says Obamacare will take away 5 freedoms. It will also destroy many affordable health-care plans while breaking Obama’s campaign promises.
ObamaCare also contains affirmative action and subsidies for left-wing community organizers, and preferences for illegal aliens, who are exempt from its taxes and penalties, but may be able to access its benefits due to lack of meaningful eligibility verification safeguards.
Well said
Where did you get your blog layout from? I’d like to get one like it for my blog.
I’ve been reading along for a while now. I just wanted to drop you a comment to say keep up the good work.
Here are two eye openers about government paying for healthcare.
ObamaCare and the Doctor
Dr. Zane F. Pollard posted a frightening article describing Medicaid, and by extension ObamaCare.
Medicaid pays for medical services to the poor, and in this case to poor children who face vision impairment or blindness. Regardless, Medicaid denies and delays their care.
Consider that Medicare/caid are intentionally underpaying for the medical care that they mandate.
The government is proud of how they are negotiating lower prices for the ‘caids, but they are still going bankrupt with exploding costs.
Hospitals (and partly doctors) are caught in the middle. They survive by raising prices on the sick who can pay (the insured). Then, the government (and you) blames the insurance companies for raising premiums to cover the increasing prices for hospitals and doctors.
Boston Medical Center Sues Mass Medicaid
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Boston Medical Center’s complaint claims the state is underfunding the hospital by $181 million annually by failing to adequately cover the cost of care for Medicaid, Commonwealth Care and uninsured patients.
BMC CEO Elaine Ullian: “This institution was and remains an enthusiastic supporter of the state’s health care reform law. But it should not and cannot be financed on the backs of the poor. We hope our suit serves as a cautionary tale to federal policymakers as they take up national health care reform.”
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“Join your fellow pervs for some explicit, twisted fun,” urged a recipient of more than $250,000 from Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package, which received the money through the National Endowment for the Arts.
The stimulus is also being spent on “nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night ‘pervert’ revues,” and “pornographic horror films.”
While providing taxpayer funds for “numerous” sexually perverse projects (according to the August 11 Washington Examiner) and lots of money for welfare, the stimulus package has done little for America’s roads and bridges.
Why? Because feminist leaders complained that rebuilding roads and bridges would employ working-class men, who have borne the brunt of the recession, rather than women or the “sexually diverse.” Unemployment is very high among transportation and construction workers, who are overwhelmingly male.
As the New York Times has noted, the vast majority of people who have lost their jobs in the current recession are male — 82%. But the stimulus package is not aimed at helping them. In response to demands from feminist leaders, the Obama Administration rewrote the stimulus package to largely exclude them, as Christina Hoff Sommers has chronicled at length in the Weekly Standard and elsewhere.
Personally, when I run out of money, I start cutting down on my expenses, and when times go from good to bad I see a lot of waste that I never bothered to look at before because I had the money at the time. I think the government should do the same thing. All those survey results they report - check out the actual questions. They don’t ask “if you only had $100 to spend, which would you spend it on?” They ask, “Do you think we should be spending money on this?” without providing information about the limits or what it will cost, or will be paying for it. People don’t realize they will be paying for it in the end, so they just say “sure, that sounds like a good idea” not thinking about the cost. Then the survey results become some kind of “proof” of what the public wants. Big difference when it is personally relevant. My kids are a lot more frugal if I give them $20 to spend than if I pull out the debit card and they pick out what they want.