Playing to a crowd that doesn't know the difference between "million", "billion" and "trillion"

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Because it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Obama is trying to mislead the easily misled with this one.



Seriously, who (outside of an Obamaniac) thinks cutting $100 million is a significant achievement?

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[thies.livejournal.com]

Guess we should just cut the military, infrastructure and educational spendings by 90% to get back on track to small government.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Repeal Obamanomics.

[epikaste.livejournal.com]

facepalm.jpg

[ygrii-blop.livejournal.com]

Really, if they'd cut the defense budget by half, that would be a tremendous savings right there and we'd still have the largest, most bloated military in the world.

[thies.livejournal.com]

my money is on the repudrones then foaming at the mouth about the potential uprise of out of work soldiers and it's again... time for a revolutioooon! *runs around screaming with excitement*

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Or we could cut social spending in half and still have the largest, most bloated social services in the world.

[greystroke.livejournal.com]

I think China has about 6,000,000 in uniform at all times ... full employment you know ...

[kadaria.livejournal.com]

Wow, we are "not fooled" but using findings from the Heritage Foundation...
I lol'ed.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

You object to basic laws of mathematics? That explains so much....

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Back up your numbers using real sources or fail yet again.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

*pats you on the head*

Reputable sources even? No, anything but that....

[texas-reddmann.livejournal.com]

Okay spunk for brains. Let's cover this.

Source. (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/index.html) Factual even, with those little details you and your sites like to leave out....again and again and again.

Note: The federal fiscal year starts from Oct. 1 to Sept. 31, so we're currently running off a budget (FY2009) enacted before Obama even got elected.

FY2008: 2.524 Trillion dollars brought in, 2.983 Trillion dollars paid out, 459 million added to the deficit.

FY2009: 2.186 Trillion brought in, 3.938 Trillion paid out, 1.752 Trillion added to the deficit.

Now, when you remove the parts added by Congress re: bailing out the banks, wall street, and insurance agencies operating under Bushie's rules for 8 years, I bet this would be less.

On to the deficit: First, Source, (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/hist.pdf) via here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt#cite_note-autogenerated1-19)

We crossed the first Trillion mark right around 1990, post-Reagan/mid-Bush Sr., when we were at 3.233 Trillion dollars. In 2000, we were at 5.674 Trillion. In '05, it was 7.933, in '07 it was 9.008, in '08 it was 10.699 Trillion.

We're in this because of "conservative" ideas and spending. Now do the world, or at least us, a favor and shut the hell up. He's been in office for three months, and has done a pretty damn good job, considering what he was given to start with.

Re: Reputable sources even? No, anything but that....

[texas-reddmann.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, just to add: The last time we had a Democrat as President, he took us from a yearly deficit to a yearly surplus. Long term, it looks as if this one can do the same. The key is long term, and according to your "conservative" sources, 3 months should be long enough. What will your sneering arguments be in a few years, when the numbers start going down again?

Re: Reputable sources even? No, anything but that....

[rawbery79.livejournal.com]

Eh, he won't respond. He's nothing but a big fat pussy chickenshit.

Re: Reputable sources even? No, anything but that....

[thomasblair.livejournal.com]

Bush was a ridiculous fiscal manager. That said, you can't pin Obama's stimulus affecting FY2009 on Bush. Nor can you pin the appropriations bill on Bush.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

Can you take the Matt Taibbi challenge (http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/04/19/questions-for-teabaggers/)?

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

Using the "teabagging" comment gives this an enormous fail.

[rawbery79.livejournal.com]

You really bring down the collective IQ of this community, dontcha?

[atreides74.livejournal.com]

You're truly retarded.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

The budget is the way it is because it's the best option to get us free from this economic sinkhole that Bush & co tossed the country into. You want someone to blame for this shit, blame Bush & co for getting us into this economic mess in the first place.

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

So the Nobama plan of putting money into the economy by taking money out of the economy then putting it back into the economy and taxing it as it passes through has been nothing but a huge failure.

While it's easy to blame Bush, just what were the dems doing during those 8 years? Besides obstructing choice of schools, back-stabbing the military, and keeping us dependent on foreign oil?

[dwer.livejournal.com]

Every news item I've heard states that everyone knows that this $100mill is a drop in the bucket; it remains to be seen if there will be more cuts or not.

You guys really don't know how to do populism, do you...

And boy, have you gotten PWNED in this post.

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

Look, it's PR. It's the same reason why right-wing politicians and newspapers complain endlessly when city councillors or members of parliament get a pay increase, even though their pay is a drop in the bucket compared to the city budget, or the provincial budget. Blah blah blah, cut the fat, blah blah blah, outsource the watering of the plants maybe save a couple thousand, thus drastically reducing the seven billion dollar budget, blah blah blah.

Apparently, it works on some people. There've been lot of symbolic pay freezes this year, even though elected representative pay is spare change compared to the overall budgets. There's been a lot of senseless complaining about pay that wasn't being frozen.

Bah, humbug. Yay, symbolism.