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Originally Posted by Riot
??? The President doesn't make up the vast majority of what we spend every year - it is largely predetermined, Medicare, federal employees, defense, etc. For example Fed employees are getting a 2% raise this year.
Are you talking about what is in the House and Senate now, the omnibus bill for 2010 spending, right?
So tell me, out of all the 2010 spending ("Obama's budget" is not what it is), what is specifically Obama's programs, added, that you don't like?
And yes, that bill (those bills, House and Senate are different) are huge and filled with pork, and much will be cut out, and the vast majority of crap in it is put there by our Congressmen and Senators for their districts and states.
Blaming everything in there for 2010 all on Obama is ridiculous. And yes, you have to wait and see what is passed and what is not.
News (not op-ed) article discussing it: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=alggRZ3von6w |
you're now splitting hairs. you're suggesting obama isn't attempting to increase spending, and that it isn't just 'his budget'. but i know what i read in the below:
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/07/oba...ws-conference/
A $5 Trillion Whopper?
The president claimed he has cut federal spending by more than $2 trillion.
Obama: I am very worried about federal spending. And the steps that we’ve taken so far have reduced federal spending over the next 10 years by $2.2 trillion.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office doesn’t agree that Obama’s budget has “reduced federal spending” at all. Quite the opposite.
His budget calls for vastly increased spending, according to CBO.
Last month CBO estimated that total federal spending,
without the changes Obama proposed in his budget, would be just under $39 trillion over the next 10 years. It also estimated that
if Congress adopted the president’s budget,
spending would increase to more than $41.7 trillion over the same period. As a percentage of the economy, CBO figured that
federal spending would rise from 22.1 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) under current law, to 23.7 percent under Obama’s budget proposals
and no, it hasn't passed as yet-but his simply asking for it belies your posts.