Showing posts with label Budget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budget. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

The House Controls The Purse

























The vaunted "Clinton Surplus" was, in fact, the work of a GOP House that was willing to fight for fiscal sanity (current Ohio Governor John Kasich was one of the architects of the surplus); in addition, two events conspired toturbocharge the economy -- in spite of Clinton, not because of him.

• Liberals like to talk about Reagan's deficits, but they ignore the fact that every budget Reagan ever sent to the Democrat-controlled House was declared "dead on arrival". Reagan supported a Balanced Budget Amendment, sought to eliminate useless agencies like the Department of Education, and otherwise believed in the U.S. spending within its means.

• Since the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, they have jammed through the most fiscally irresponsible spending programs in world history (I won't use the word "budget", because they've refused to propose a budget for roughly 1,029 days).

Monday, August 01, 2011

JournoList Still Puts Out The Meme.

"Help! Help!The sky is falling!I have to go tell the king!" I find it humerous that an acorn was also the impetous in the original story. How apt.

  • Rep. Nancy Pelosi“We’re trying to save life on this planet as we know it today.”

·         Rep. Nancy Pelosi“They want to destroy your rights.”

·         Sen. Harry Reid“The time for ideological extremism should end.”

·         Rep. Rangel“These people don’t care about our country.”

·         Comm. Director Dan Pfeiffer“…could potentially put us towards a depression because House Republicans…are unwilling to compromise.”

·         DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz“This is almost like dictatorship.”

·         Rep. Garamendi (D-CA) – “They basically want to terminate the American Dream.”

·         Rachel Maddow Show“shameless, craven, unprincipled, partisan hackery”

·         Tom Friedman“If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the G.O.P. on a suicide mission.”

·         Rep. Hoyer“They want to shoot every bullet they have at the president.”

·         Van Jones“They want to repeal the 20th century. They want to smash down every American institution our grandparents fought for…”

·         Joe Klein in Time“Osama bin Laden, if he were still alive, could not have come up with a more clever strategy for strangling our nation.”

·         Steve Rattner on MSNBC“It’s a form of economic terrorism…These Tea Party guys are like strapped with dynamite standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour saying either you do it my way or we’re going to blow you up, ourselves up, and the whole country with us.”

·         Paul Krugman in NY Times“Republicans have, in effect, taken America hostage…”

·         William Yeomans at Politico“they have now become full-blown terrorists. They have joined the villains of American history who have been sufficiently craven to inflict massive harm on innocent victims to achieve their political goals.”

·         Martin Frost at Politico“We now have a group of U.S. politicians seeking political purity, who seem to have much in common with the Taliban.”

·         Rep. Schakowsky“Republicans, stop fragging the American economy and the American people!”

·         Margaret Carlson“they’ve strapped explosives to the Capitol and they think they are immune from it.”

I'm sure that all of these saavy pols are hoping that they called the voters of the US "terrorists" of some such.

“It’s The Spending, Stupid.”

The Toronto Sun reported:

Wars and tax cuts not responsible for U. S. deficit

How did the United States get into this debt mess?


President Obama blames both parties, and he’s right. But the real question isn’t who did it, it’s how. The answer is social programs.


America’s previous debt problems all came from major national emergencies, beginning with the Revolutionary War. The Civil War saw debt skyrocket from $65 million in 1860 to $2.5 billion in 1870; World War I from $2.6 billion in 1910 to $26 billion in 1920; World War II from $43 billion in 1940 to $257 billion in 1950. But when the clearly defined crisis ended, so did the extra spending, and the debt stabilized.


Even the Cold War produced little borrowing; 1960’s $290-billion debt was just 13% higher than in 1950. But then it exploded: $389 billion in 1970; $930 billion in 1980; $3.2 trillion in 1990; $5.7 trillion in 2000; and 2010’s $13.6 trillion.


Still, to say the debt is at record levels is not, by itself, to say much. Between economic growth and inflation, a debt that was horrifying in, for instance, 1840 would be laughable today. (Since you ask, it was $3.5 million.)


The best way to gauge the seriousness of government debt, though far from perfect, is by its share of GDP. That measure shows U.S. federal debt staying under 40% even in the Civil War and World War I, rising a bit above it in the Great Depression, spiking in World War II at over 110%, then falling steadily to under 30% by the early 1980s. Then it rebounded and, after a dip in the late 1990s, shot upward.


A “discourse” on the left blames it all on the right. The Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick just blamed this year’s $1.4 trillion deficit on “George W. Bush’s tax cuts and by Barack Obama’s continuing to wage two unwinnable, unaffordable wars and starting a third in Libya”. But it just ain’t so.


Tax cuts cannot be the culprit because the United States does not have a revenue problem. For six decades federal taxes took an average of just under 18% of GDP and, after a sharp recessionary dip, are heading back that way.


The U.S. has a spending problem. From an average of just over 18% of GDP from 1950 to 1974, federal spending rose to an average of 20.8% from 1975 to 2007 then shot up to over 25%. And not on wars: at $666.7 billion in 2010 (about 4.5% of GDP) the military budget is less than half the deficit. Moreover, defence’s share of GDP fell from nearly 15% in the early 1950s to under 10% by 1970 to under 5% by 2000 yet the budget was not on fire in the 1950s or even 1970s.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

President Snippy Pants Lectures Republicans For Passing Legislation

Yeah, he lectures all of us as if he knows it all when he hasn't a clue. Oh, he also doesn't have a plan. When was the last time Democrats passed a budget? I purposely didn't say a responsible budget because the last time they did was when General Jackson was a Boy Scout.
Robert Stacy McCain nails it:


And the only question now is whether President Snippy Pants will get away with this transparent trickery.

Well said Mr. (Other) McCain, well said.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Obama: Give Me The Money Or Grandma Gets It

Obama can't guarantee that Social Security checks will go out to seniors. Really?



How many bad movies does this type of juvenile behavior bring to mind.

Sunday, May 01, 2011

STUNNER! Government Overspending Caused Deficit!

Congress thinks if their checkbook, which they print, still has checks they still have money.



















As congress sits on their yachts they discuss cutting back on the Boodles as one way to show their solidarity with the little people.

ADDED: Tea Party favorites in House raking it in

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Gallup/USA Poll: Seniors Prefer Ryan Over Obama

Gallup/USA polling likes to use little tricks such as weighting its polls with unusually high numbers of Democrats and they just released a poll that is going to cause some serious heartburn in the hallowed halls on power in DC.

Seniors like the Ryan/GOP plan for health care reform better than they like the Obama/Dem/Poliburo plan.

Gallup: Seniors Most Favorable To Ryan Budget

Somebody is going under the bus for this one.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

AP poll shows 6 in 10 Americans want spending cuts, not tax hikes

Among the public, 62 percent say they favor cutting government services to sop up the red ink. Just 29 percent say raise taxes.


If AP polling is reporting "6 in 10" I would think the actual number is 8 in 10 Americans want spending cuts, not tax hikes.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Obama: WE'RE BROKE. TIME TO SHOP!

How many parks do we need and where do we need them? How much government owned land do we need and where is it needed? Yellowstone ain't moving soon. The Grand Canyon is pretty much staying put. Death Valley, still being dead, isn't moving either. Our biggest national park, called Alaska, is way up north and appears to be set in its ways. The wee one, Acadia National Park in Maine, is serenely resting where it is and has no plans to abandon the Atlantic Ocean.

Obama wants to buy more land for parks. Why? Because Americans "can go days without stepping on a single blade of grass."

The government(s) already own about 1/3 of the land in the United States of America, but they want more. I feel like the spouse that takes a second job to support my significant other's shopping necessities. But first where is Obama going to buy that land and with what? Well, last first, he's going to buy it with our money, but he's doing it for the children. First last, he’s going to buy it where it isn’t needed which means there is another reason to buy all this land and conservation isn’t part of the equation except in the talking points.

I am assuming, which is dangerous with Obama, that his pitch about the elusive blades of grass is pathos for all, but especially about the children. Where are these children whose feet will never touch a blade of grass? Idaho? Ohio? Iowa? Nope, they’re in big cities, specifically the inner city and where, outside of Detroit, is Obama going to find land to fill with so many blades of grass? Put that aside for a moment and ask how the children are going to get to these blades of citified grass luring them to a caressing care for the urban soul? It won’t be by bicycle. It will have to be by some mode of transportation that requires more roads, more unisex bathrooms, more facilities for the disabled, more security, more food stands, more parking lots and all the other things that government likes which starts to point out that each park better be huge if they want to include those elusive blades of grass. We already know we don’t have the money to purchase said nature (HA, who cares? It’s for the children and the good of the nation to have idle land.), but is Obama aware that there aren’t huge swaths of land available where his needed parks would actually do what he wants them to do?

Oh, let’s cut the crap here. Obama and his Democrat compatriots don’t give a whit about blades of grass nor more parks nor the people that go for days without stepping on either. They want government to control more land and I’ll betcha the land they buy will be sitting on top of something farmable like oil, gas, metals and other useful products that could raise the GNP. 


BTW, that grassy goodness won’t be anywhere near people that haven’t touched it for days.

Saturday, April 09, 2011

Obama, After Taking Credit For The Republican Budget, Shows What He Thinks Of Boehner

Yeah, yeah, Reid tries to spin Boehner's victory as his (I love it when liberals whine) and Obama goes to the Lincoln Memorial to talk trash about congress working with him for America and saying the cuts, which he did his "Nope Zero" compromise, were all about him.

What were Obama's real thoughts?













There has been a sea change in Washington, DC and Boehner made it through the shoals to keep that sea change going in the right direction.

Bam Bam is not happy that weakened Reid and Pelosi are no longer able to carry his water. He should be because he is unable to do so. He is that weak.

More cuts coming.

Friday, April 08, 2011

Harry Reid Just Announced He Will Shut Down The Govt Over Abortion

Reid and the usual posse of Democrat lackeys just held a press conference in Washington, DC.

After Saying Boehner has to choose between solving our economic problems or abortion Reid went on to list a litany of end of the world descriptions of what would happen if the government shuts down. My favorite was that Reid is so worried about saving the Cherry Blossom Festival! Maybe he can join the festival with cowboy poetry.

Reid then says the Democrats are being reasonable because they want to save the lives of women and maintain their health, but Democrats can't get Republicans to see the light. Reid then went on to lie about federal money, Planned Parenthood and tax dollars being used for abortion.

Reid didn't mention that he personally failed to pass a budget last year when Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House. Reid is a liar. 

The Orchestrated Outrage Of Democrats And Budget Cuts (With An Update About Louise Slaughter Stating Nazi Republicans Want To Kill Women!)


Let’s look at the Democrat trash talk about Republicans, the pre-planned Democrat shut down of government and budget cuts.

Democrats are saying they can’t find or allow $100 Billion in cuts to the trillion plus spending of the federal government. They are f-ing morons if they think anybody sane is going to believe that. In reality they know they are full of it so they trash talk to try to deflect the discussion into conversations they like; women, racism and the poor poor pitiful poor who might not have the money for new flat screens and cars deemed prestigious enough to drive to the mailbox to pick up their government dole.

Madamned Pelosi has angrily stated that the Republican cuts are a war on women because of cuts to Planned Parenthood which isn’t really about parenthood unless they want to nurture their dead babies.

Jesse Hustler Jackson upped the ante by comparing the Republican cuts to the Civil War which was his way of bringing in mayhem, death and racism. This from a guy who has made millions by hustling racism for profit.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Jesse Jackson under study, is saying that Republican cuts are the same as bombing innocent civilians. Did this dimwit really say that? Really? I knew she was not the sharpest tool in the shed, but this puts her in the dumber than a box of rocks category. She probably thinks carpet bombing is a rug cleaning technique.

Mother Jones, still dead and still ugly, in hopes of retaining the soccer mom vote, which they despise, but stranger bedfellows can be found at Mother’s house, says Republican cuts will harm the middle class which probably includes everything Mother hates like apple pie.

USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah testified before the House Appropriations State and Foreign Ops subcommittee that the mean old Republicans are planning to kill 70,000 children with their budget cuts. Presumably the 70,000 will be female and minority children.

The always entertaining Jan Schakowsky, a fun fasting member of congress, goes for the group approach of Republican caused societal bankruptcy saying the cuts would hit students, the poor, pregnant women, the disabled, and older Americans hardest.

Jim Moran, Virginia’s missing village idiot speaking for the ghost of Al Gore, says that Republican cuts will gut Mother Earth and that the EPA will be hit hardest. No doubt the kind gentleman had given Gaia a snuggle to sooth her weeping breast.

The list of orchestrated outrage and foolishness goes on and on. You can add to the list if you wish, but these people are idiots for ruining our economy and for wasting our time. 


UPDATE: from Gateway Pundit:


Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) said today that the new Republicans elected to the House of Representatives last November came to Congress “to kill women.” She also likened Republican efforts to prohibit federal funding of abortion except in cases of rape, incest or where the life of the mother is endangered to actions taken by Nazis.


How could I forget the Princess of Smug Self Righteousness? Thanks for reminding me Gateway

Thursday, April 07, 2011

Situation Normal: Boehner Is Doing What Is Right-Reid Not So Much At All

Hapless Harry. So gloomy. So disappointed in all of us because he and Madam Pelosi never got around to passing a budget last year. If only we had had the foresight to see Reid's planned government shutdown this year then last year poor Harry would've have done something to avoid it, but alas we, the voter, didn't help him save America by voting for Democrats.

It's all our fault.

Boehner is doing what he does which is not spending gads of our money and trying to save our money and rolling back critical legislation concerning drunken gay sex in Argentina. We're approaching an economic meltdown and Boehner has the audacity to think we shouldn't be spending money to study why drunks engage in unprotected sex. In another country.

Pundit and Pundette has a great roundup which I agree with including Pundette's feelings about Boehner.

Boehner vs. Obama

Granted, I am a fan of Boehner and I think Reid should be a deep fryer at McDonald's if they assign someone to watch over him constantly. There are a lot of conservatives and Tea Party members who I respect, but are already saying Boehner is a turncoat and a weepy boy for not having already fulfilled their political dreams. That, my friends, is stupid stuck in high gear, but hey, they've got every right to say it. We can agree on so many other things so why get waysided.

Boehner is herding cats and getting the job done. It will take time, but he will stay with it. Reid is also consistent, consistently wrong and consistently pedantic in his approach, but if Harry wants to drone for hours about this or that, which is really always about denying the voters their wish, then drone on Harry. We'll wait until you're finished and then ignore you and move the ball forward without you and your minion mimics in congress.

Harry Reid & Demos Will Shut Down Govt Because Of Ideology Not Negotiated Money Cuts

Hapless Harry just spoke that he is not happy and that the government will probably shutdown. In his most rousing monotone he said this would happen because of ideology as the numbers (money/cuts) were very close. In other words Harry is shutting down the government because he believes it will help Democrats (politics) and because he and Obama don't like Boehner's politics (again politics).

Harry and the Demos are still in denial over the last election.

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Has Pelosi Actually Read A Bill?

That would be shocking if Pelosi actually knew what is in a bill before she voted for it. What's next? Is she going to actually learn math?


Under Pelosi the deficit, the national debt and unemployment have exploded, but she chatters on in rote fashion about seniors & children being hurt by fiscal sanity. She has used this rhetoric for so long (she learned it from her daddy the mayor) that it has never occurred to her that her policies have been destroying seniors and children and their future. Maybe one day she can use some of her millions to help those she has hurt, but in the meantime she wants to just keep using billions from taxpayers to elect herself and other Democrats.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

John Kerry's Intelligence As Mythical As His Medals

John Kerry. Still lookin' good in his windsurfing spandex. Still married to a dead Republican's wife who is worth 57 gazillion dollars. John Kerry, still a tad iffy on history, dates, times and math.

GOP will paralyze Senate floor with reading of 1,924-page spending bill

“The irony, the hypocrisy of us sitting here with them standing up and saying 'Oh my Gosh, it’s the last minute,' ” he added. “It’s the last minute because they haven’t let us do anything. The game plan is usually to keep preventing things from happening.”

How many Democrat and Independent votes are there in the current Congress Johnny Boy? So, who's preventing who? If you believe your statement true, how pathetic is that?

So Johnny F. are you afraid that if senators actually hear what is in the bill that you might not have enough time to get to your mansion of choice to celebrate the birth of Christ?