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"Many of the savings identified in the president's budget are phony
, and the real ones are used to offset the costs of his new spending increases or tax cuts," the Post editorialized. The newspaper also noted that "the health-care savings he has identified are all directed to new health-care spending, and, even then, they cover only a fraction of the likely costs of a health-care bill -- of what would become yet another entitlement program."

In fact, the cost of implementing the type of health-care plan that Obama proposed during his campaign has been estimated at roughly $1.5 trillion over ten years. The only way Obama would be able to seriously reduce costs of medical care under a government-controlled system would be to ration care to the sick and slash reimbursement rates for doctors, which will trigger longer waiting times for patients. While Europeans may be used to this, it is harder to imagine Americans standing for it.

All told, Obama's agenda is projected to more than double the public debt to $17.3 trillion by 2019, according to the Congressional Budget Office, equal to a staggering 82.4 percent of the economy.

Obama will be hard-pressed to pay off that debt without either massive, broad-based tax increases, or printing enough money to pay off the debt, which would trigger massive inflation.

So while, like any gambler, Obama may be having a good run at the moment, the long-term odds are working against him.

Philip Klein is The American Spectator's Washington correspondent.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/17/obamas-big-government-gamble/print
 

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LOL

I wonder who made up those numbers, because they are nothing but pulled out of thin air.

41,000 jobs were saved in CT? in three months? was any money even disbursed yet?

Most importantly, HOW???????

You gotta have faith.
 

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obama gettin it done. keep it up.

ive noticed my quality of life has improved since he's been in office, i got a raise at my job that was held back when W was in office.

thats how i always judge presidents, has my quality of life improved or decreased under that current president.

thanks barack.
 

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obama gettin it done. keep it up.

ive noticed my quality of life has improved since he's been in office, i got a raise at my job that was held back when W was in office.

thats how i always judge presidents, has my quality of life improved or decreased under that current president.

thanks barack.


"Obama's agenda is projected to more than double the public debt to $17.3 trillion by 2019, according to the Congressional Budget Office"



And when the time comes to pay these bills, a new president will be in office who you will blame for decreasing the quality of your life.



....astounds me how many people can be sold on short term prosperity because they are too incompetent to look ahead
 

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ive noticed my quality of life has improved since he's been in office, i got a raise at my job that was held back when W was in office.

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sweet! they letting you run the register now or still just making the onion rings?
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Massachusetts

Jobs created or saved by the recovery act : 79,000

Workers recieving the making work pay tax credit : 2,447,000

Aditional children with health care : 54,000

Students aided by the american oppurtunity tax credit : 71,000

Pretty nice so far. Thanks for the link wil.
 

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"Obama's agenda is projected to more than double the public debt to $17.3 trillion by 2019, according to the Congressional Budget Office"



And when the time comes to pay these bills, a new president will be in office who you will blame for decreasing the quality of your life.

2019 i'll be in some villa in montenegro drinking some cocoa with my ghini in the garage.


yeeeyyyaaa
 

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2019 i'll be in some villa in montenegro drinking some cocoa with my ghini in the garage.


yeeeyyyaaa

And you'll be a 50-year old virgin.

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"Obama's agenda is projected to more than double the public debt to $17.3 trillion by 2019, according to the Congressional Budget Office"



And when the time comes to pay these bills, a new president will be in office who you will blame for decreasing the quality of your life.



....astounds me how many people can be sold on short term prosperity because they are too incompetent to look ahead



And, to give the kool-aid drinkers an idea what just one of these
17.3 trillion dollars of debt looks like:




Start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation.
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A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000.

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Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars or 100 packets of $10,000 as shown below.

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A $100 million dollars fits neatly on a standard pallet...


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And $1 BILLION dollars... 10 pallets....


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Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number
we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a
million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.


I give you $1 trillion dollars...
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(And notice those pallets are double stacked.) look at the little guy on the far left!!

So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "a trillion dollars"... this is what they're talking about.
 

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Zit, no doubt. Debt sucks. I wish we figured that out during Reagan and GWB admins. We would have been better off if these guys never spent anything, now we have to spend more to compensate for the damage. Do you think Obama likes running up the debt?! Of course not. But much like FDR, he has to spend to get us out of the muck.
 

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2019 i'll be in some villa in montenegro drinking some cocoa with my ghini in the garage.


yeeeyyyaaa

by 2019 you're hoping your parents let you move from their basement into the guest house

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some left wing propaganda machine pulls numbers out of it's ass, puts it on paper and baddabing

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this is some of the worst propaganda garbage I have ever seen. with absolutely no proof this site is saying that the stimulus bill has probably saved 3.5M jobs. if you remember, BHO said that if "his" bill wasn't signed we could face 9% unemployment by the end of 2009. well, folks, we're at 8.5% and climbing and it's only April.

estimates from leading economists say we will reach 9.8% unemployment this year, not stopping until 2010. so, what happened to the threat that we'll reach 9% unemployment unless we spent a trillion dollars?

screw it...don't think for yourselves just go to my.barackobama.com for the truth. while you're at it go to gtc08isnotamoron.com and headupmyass.com
 

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this is some of the worst propaganda garbage I have ever seen. with absolutely no proof this site is saying that the stimulus bill has probably saved 3.5M jobs. if you remember, BHO said that if "his" bill wasn't signed we could face 9% unemployment by the end of 2009. well, folks, we're at 8.5% and climbing and it's only April.

estimates from leading economists say we will reach 9.8% unemployment this year, not stopping until 2010. so, what happened to the threat that we'll reach 9% unemployment unless we spent a trillion dollars?

screw it...don't think for yourselves just go to my.barackobama.com for the truth. while you're at it go to gtc08isnotamoron.com and headupmyass.com

do work son young buck.
 

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by Gene Healy

Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute and the author of The Cult of the Presidency.
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This article appeared in the DC Examiner on April 28, 2009.





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Unless you've been smart enough to avoid the news entirely for the last few weeks, you know that tomorrow marks President Obama's first 100 days in office. But you may not know that the "100 days" phrase didn't start with FDR, but with Napoleon.
William Safire's Political Dictionary tells us that it originally marked the period between the little dictator's escape from Elba and rampage across Europe before his final defeat at Waterloo.
So far, Americans seem broadly tolerant of Obama's power grab.
So perhaps the question to ask about presidents' first 100 days is, how much damage has our new Emperor done? In Obama's case, the answer is, a lot. He's made a running start toward transforming the federal government's role in the economy and — if such a thing is even possible — further expanding the president's role in American life.
On the bright side, though, at least this president has a sense of humor. How else can we interpret his offer to cut $100 million from a $3.9 trillion federal budget? Economist Greg Mankiw puts those numbers in perspective:
"Imagine that the head of a household with annual spending of $100,000 called everyone in the family together to deal with a $34,000 budget shortfall." The new austerity plan? One fewer latte at Starbucks this year — the rest goes on the credit card.
Thus far, Obama has signed into law a major expansion of children's health insurance and a $787 billion "stimulus" package that ramps up federal involvement in health care and education — spending that's unlikely to shrink when the economy rights itself.
The projected $1.8 trillion deficit for the current fiscal year equals the entire federal budget in 2000. But have no fear, taxpayers: Obama's going to ease your burden by forcing the Department of Homeland Security to buy its supplies in bulk and cancel some magazine subscriptions.
This is a president with grand plans and vast powers. He promises a "cure for cancer in our time" and views his budget as a "blueprint" for the entire American economy. This is a president who can fire the CEO of GM without so much as a courtesy call to major shareholders — a president who wants new powers allowing him to preemptively seize financial institutions deemed "too big to fail."
But this president sweats the small stuff as well. Not a sparrow falls without our National Father noticing — and offering a seven-point plan for sparrow recovery. Last week, Obama assured Americans that the days of hidden credit card fees are over.
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That followed upon his April 9 infomercial-style TV appearance urging you to take advantage of low interest rates and refinance your mortgage! This is a president who stands behind the warranty on your Chevy Suburban. You're not gonna pay a lot for this muffler! POTUS commands it.
A raccoon-eyed Dick Cheney, newly emerged from his underground bunker, growls that Obama is shrinking presidential power in national security. It's hard to see how that's so. Hype and Hope aside, Obama's anti-terror policies don't differ that much from the Bush-Cheney approach.
Obama's Justice Department has fought to retain most of the Bush-era powers governing enemy combatants and surveillance. They've embraced the Bush-Cheney position that the State Secrets Privilege bars the courthouse door to litigants who claim they've been harmed by warrantless wiretapping.
Worse, according to constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald, the Obama DOJ has gone even further than the Bush team, arguing that "all claims of illegal government surveillance are immunized in the absence of 'willful disclosure' to the public of the intercepted communications."
Conservatives who recently screamed bloody murder over a DHS report targeting "right-wing extremists" (including pro-lifers and gun enthusiasts) ought to ask themselves if it was such a good idea to have fought relentlessly to expand federal wiretapping powers over the last eight years.
So far, Americans seem broadly tolerant of Obama's power grab. In a recent Gallup poll, 86 percent think he's met or exceeded early expectations. But danger lurks for Obama in some of Gallup's numbers. More Americans reject an expanded role for government in fighting the financial crisis than support it, and only 13 percent want the expansion to be permanent.
Despite current appearances, Americans retain a healthy streak of anti-statism. Obama's overreaching may eventually lead to his Waterloo


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ive noticed my quality of life has improved since he's been in office, i got a raise at my job that was held back when W was in office.

thats how i always judge presidents, has my quality of life improved or decreased under that current president.

thanks barack.




Now that's truly hilarious...especially coming from a self-proclaimed socialist. I'm assuming you either turned downt he raise or went out and handed out whatever extra money you may have gotten to the poor, right? After all, you have so much more than they do, komrad.

Not to mention, getting a raise has nothing to do with which party the sitting president belongs to. I doubt your boss was sitting in his office saying "You know, I wasn't gonna give him anything, but now that we have a new president, where's my check book?" Especially since a lot of companies are busy hiding their assets before Obama drops his tax bomb on them...
 

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im a socialist when it doesnt involve me.

when it involves me, im a republican. im a college student who works 2 full time jobs and goes to school part time, im in the democrat phase. when i start making money, ill be a republican. not that hard to understand. i dont make republican money so im championing for human rights and freedoms. when i make money, i wont give a shit about human rights and freedoms because i'll be making money which is the only thing that matters.

this shit right now is a phase. when i make bank ill smarten up. but now i dont care if the rich get taxed 100 percent because it dont affect me.
 

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