Obama plan

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[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

hur hur oblahma iz spendin ur munneyz lol

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

He's also full of shit.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

The OP? Sure.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

No. I meant Obama's lying ass.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

he's lying about spending money?

Instances of 180 degree policy switches in the Obama Admin

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Lobbyists
Iraq
Gitmo
Patriot Act
Wiretapping

Re: Instances of 180 degree policy switches in the Obama Admin

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

Wait, you mean he can't completely deconstruct an entire government's setup that took years to get in this condition in under a year?

Re: Instances of 180 degree policy switches in the Obama Admin

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

He isn't even trying, as far as I can tell.

Re: Instances of 180 degree policy switches in the Obama Admin

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

based on?

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Aaah.

And where was our outrage for the last 8 years?
Yeah, didn't think so.

So.
Name an Obama lie.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

WHERE'S THE PUPPY?????????

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

lol

I Voted for Obama, dumbshit

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Just because I haven't been expressing it here doesn't mean I haven't had it. I'm an equal opportunity, bipartisan hater. So far, it appears that he's lied about everything but the dog.

Re: I Voted for Obama, dumbshit

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

I totally believe you.
=/

See also ...

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

this. (http://community.livejournal.com/politicartoons/1236155.html?thread=24565179#t24565179)

Re: See also ...

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Oh we're going to play that little game?

Fine.

This.
http://community.livejournal.com/politicartoons/1236155.html?thread=24566459#t24566459

[bord-du-rasoir.livejournal.com]

"Contrary to some claims, President Obama’s 2010 budget would reduce federal deficits by about $900 billion over the next ten years compared to current budget policies. The $900 billion is the difference between deficits over the next decade under the President’s budget, as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and projected deficits under a realistic assessment of current budget policies. (See figure below.)

Some critics charge that Obama’s budget is fiscally irresponsible, and they cite CBO’s estimate that, under it, deficits would total $9.3 trillion over the next decade. They fail to note, however, that these future deficits result from the existing budget policies that Obama inherited — not those that he is proposing."



PDF of this report (4pp.) (http://www.cbpp.org/files/3-31-09bud2.pdf)

Except that "budget policies" Obama inherited didn't call for trillions in deficit spending

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

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Re: Except that "budget policies" Obama inherited didn't call for trillions in deficit spending

[bord-du-rasoir.livejournal.com]

"Budget policies" Obama inherited didn't call for trillions in deficit spending

They do. Read the report.

Re: Except that "budget policies" Obama inherited didn't call for trillions in deficit spending

[vivianc1968.livejournal.com]

He didn't inherit a budget. There was a stop-gap in place because the Democrat controlled congress thought they would have better luck dealing with McCain or Obama than Bush. And if you want to discuss "budget policies", you would do well to understand that the most recent budgets prior to Obama were passed by Democrats, not Republicans.

Also, the numbers being used by the CBPP (a liberal economic think tank) don't match the government numbers.

Re: Except that "budget policies" Obama inherited didn't call for trillions in deficit spending

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

No, they don't. Read the budget. You know, that thing that has the actual (and not massaged) numbers in it.

Bush was projecting surpluses by 2012.

Now if you want to talk about the Democrat budget that was passed after Obama got into office...it's all Democrat, all the time!

Re: Except that "budget policies" Obama inherited didn't call for trillions in deficit spending

[syndicalist.livejournal.com]

Bush was projecting surpluses by 2012.

Oh, well, hell, you just told us, didn't you. I mean, if Bush was saying it!

Re: Except that "budget policies" Obama inherited didn't call for trillions in deficit spending

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

Re: Except that "budget policies" Obama inherited didn't call for trillions in deficit spending

[rumorsofwar.livejournal.com]

Bush was projecting surpluses by 2012.

There isn't a font large enough to capture this LOL, so I'll keep it as is.

Re: Except that "budget policies" Obama inherited didn't call for trillions in deficit spending

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Which of course demonstrates your inability to maintain the topic thread.

[rumorsofwar.livejournal.com]

Oh shi--

[polyanarch.livejournal.com]

Keep on writing zeros, Zero.

(http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zimbabwemoney2590299.jpg)

[rumorsofwar.livejournal.com]

New conservative meme that's already popped up twice in this thread. And we Obama supporters are supposed to be the robots? LOL

[ihatemostthings.livejournal.com]

+1

fail

[polyanarch.livejournal.com]

It'd be funnier if I actually WERE a conservative...

Re: fail

[rumorsofwar.livejournal.com]

You're using a conservative meme, so I'm just calling it like I sees it.

[spoon-o-doom.livejournal.com]

I still don't know what all the flack is about. Why was it okay when Bush broke the bank putting us in Iraq (needlessly, I might add) but it's not okay that Obama is spending a lot to get us out of the economic jam we are now in? If anyone has a plan to do it without spending big dollars, then speak up. This whining just sounds like a lot of Republican sour grapes to me,

[ygrii-blop.livejournal.com]

Conservatives love spending money to kill niggers. Spending money to feed niggers... not so much.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Thanks for proving once again that you are a racist asshole.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Thanks for proving once again that you don't have a goddamn clue what is real and what isn't.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

How's that rage therapy going?

[rumorsofwar.livejournal.com]

Conservatism is a race? Oh wait.

[ygrii-blop.livejournal.com]

Oh my... you saw the poison word and all your beepers and bells and buzzers and red lights went off, didn't they?

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

First of all, it was not "okay". Second of all, Bush's spending was six times less than Obama's.

So let's pose the flip-side: if Bush's spending was so horrible why is Obama's far greater spending nothing to worry about?

The numbers

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy09/pdf/budget/outlook.pdf

The 2007 deficit was 1.2 percent of GDP, well
below the 40-year average of 2.4 percent of
GDP. Four years ago, the President announced
in his 2005 Budget that by 2009 he would cut
the deficit in half from its projected peak. The
President achieved his goal three years ahead
of schedule, in 2006, when the deficit fell from a projected peak of 4.5 percent of GDP, or $521 billion,
to 1.9 percent of GDP, or $248 billion. Last year, the President announced a new goal of balancing
the budget. The policies in this Budget continue the effort to reach that goal.

THE NATION’S FISCAL OUTLOOK
The 2008 deficit is projected to be $410 billion, or 2.9 percent of GDP, and the 2009 deficit is
projected to be $407 billion, or 2.7 percent of GDP. The primary reason for increasing deficits in the
near term is the President’s economic growth package and an expected slowing of receipt growth,
due to an expected reduction in corporate tax receipts from recent high levels. Another reason for
increases in the projected near-term deficits is increasing defense and emergency spending.
The Budget reflects the full cost of the GlobalWar on Terror for 2008. Actual funding needs for 2009
and beyond will be determined by security conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and will continue to be
evaluated. In addition, the Budget reflects a one-year extension of Alternative Minimum Tax relief
for the 2008 tax year and an allowance for the cost of an economic growth plan. The Budget proposes
to allow Americans to invest in voluntary personal retirement accounts beginning in 2013 and makes
permanent the President’s tax relief. Taken together, the President’s policies are expected to lead
to fiscal improvements, with a deficit of $160 billion, or 1.0 percent of GDP, in 2010 and surpluses
of $48 billion and $29 billion, or 0.3 percent and 0.2 percent of GDP, projected for 2012 and 2013,
respectively.

But the "previous leadership" was worser!!!!1! Uh...YES WE CAN!!!!11!!!

Suckers.

Re: The numbers

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Are you unaware of the magnitude in the difference between a deficit of $150-200 billion and $3,000 billion?

[xforge.livejournal.com]

spending was six times less than Obama's

Not counting what he kept off-budget, which was more than was on-budget.

[vivianc1968.livejournal.com]

You are confusing "budget" with "spending". The wars are included in spending, even if they were not included in the budget.

[syndicalist.livejournal.com]

So, the middle of a crisis is when the US govt. should become the most anal retentive ever about government spending?

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

So, as long as you don't plan for it, it's ok?

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

I think of my first half of my response here (http://community.livejournal.com/politicartoons/1233621.html?thread=24506581#t24506581) applies to this as well.

[ihatemostthings.livejournal.com]

Shut up!

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

That is the typical hand-waving from the left when they don't wish to address the topic at hand.

Re: Shut up!

[ihatemostthings.livejournal.com]

it's sad when a failboat doesn't realize he's a failboat.