Another Obama Lie

Posted on May 7, 2009
Filed Under Political Rantings |

I read the report and thought that I was miss-reading the article. Nonsensical. That was my initial impression. Here’s part of the piece:

The Obama administration today unveiled program details of a $3.4 trillion federal budget for the fiscal year beginning in October, a proposal that includes substantial increases for a number of domestic priorities as well as a plan to trim or eliminate 121 programs for a savings of $17 billion.

In a statement delivered at the White House after the budget details were released, President Obama defended the cuts from critics on both sides — those he said would fight to preserve the targeted programs and others who consider the reductions insignificant.

"We can no longer afford to spend as if deficits don’t matter and waste is not our problem," he said. "We can no longer afford to leave the hard choices for the next budget, the next administration — or the next generation."

Spend 3.4 trillion. Cut the budget by 17 billion. Do the math. Less that 1/2 of 1%. How is spending into trillions of dollars in debt consistent with the president’s words? Maybe he thought that we wouldn’t notice that he was spending trillions?

And to add insult to the lie, guess where the budget "cuts" are being made?

About half of the trims would come from curbing defense programs that have been identified by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates as expendable. They include ending production of the F-22 fighter plane — thus saving $2.9 billion next year — and canceling a new $13 billion presidential helicopter fleet, which would save about $750 million in fiscal 2010.

In a letter to Congress accompanying the new budget documents, Obama said his proposals make "long-overdue investments and reforms" in education, health care and renewable sources of energy while "beginning to rein in unsustainable deficits and debt." He said the proposed program cuts "are just the next phase of a larger and longer effort needed to change how Washington does business and put our fiscal house in order."

Obama promised to "transform" America. Those were dangerous words and we are now seeing the "hopeless change" so integral to Obama’s election.