i'm not quite sure how this thread got off on the tangent it did...but i went to factcheck.org to see if they had anything on obama's great health care plan, and whether it would add to our already incredibly bloated deficit. it does:
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/07/oba...ws-conference/
■Obama promised once again that a health care overhaul “will be paid for.” But congressional budget experts say the bills they’ve seen so far would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit over the next decade.
and as for his overall budget? ~■
Obama claimed his budget "reduced federal spending over the next 10 years by $2.2 trillion" compared with where it was headed before. Not true. Even figures from his own budget experts don’t support that. The Congressional Budget Office projects a $2.7 trillion increase, not a $2.2 trillion cut.
so, if obama has great ideas, fine. if he turns out to be a great president-wonderful. but MY beef with him is his spending, and the above shows why i'm concerned. i don't give a damn what party he belongs to, i don't care about his ability to give good speech. but all i've seen from his treasury secretary and from economists is that our economy will not do well, will continue to take blow after blow, if our deficit isn't brought under control. yet our president wants to spend even more that we don't have.