The Real Mitt Romney

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Adak

When you overspend by a Trillion dollars in EVERY YEAR, and still can't restore a robust economy.

Time for you to go. You've done all the good you could do, clearly.

That ultra liberal newspaper (sarcasm), the Wall Street Journal, says you are full of shit. Why do you lie so much?

• In the 2009 fiscal year — the last of George W. Bush’s presidency — federal spending rose by 17.9% from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion. Check the official numbers at the Office of Management and Budget.

• In fiscal 2010 — the first budget under Obama — spending fell 1.8% to $3.46 trillion.

• In fiscal 2011, spending rose 4.3% to $3.60 trillion.

• In fiscal 2012, spending is set to rise 0.7% to $3.63 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the budget that was agreed to last August.

• Finally in fiscal 2013 — the final budget of Obama’s term — spending is scheduled to fall 1.3% to $3.58 trillion. Read the CBO’s latest budget outlook.

What's that you say? Oh, I see, you said "overspend" not "spend". You don't care that Obama has increased the budget less than any president since Ike in the 1950s? You still think that when the economy is weak and tax revenue is lower, the government should spend within its means? Don't you realize that when times get tough, that's when you get more people who are unemployed and you need the government to come in and pay for services that weren't needed so much during the boom years.

It like a family, saving up for a rainy day during the good times, and then spending some of that rainy day fund to get through the bad times.

[Adak]

Originally Posted by glatt

That ultra liberal newspaper (sarcasm), the Wall Street Journal, says you are full of shit. Why do you lie so much?

It tells me you don't know what I'm saying. The dollar amount that we spend, is not important. What IS important, is the balance of income vs. expense. When your family income goes down you need to sharply curtail expenses, right?

Same with our government - if they were smart - but they aren't smart. And that is a problem IF WE KEEP IT UP.

Obama intends to keep it up! Do you know what an "Oh Holy Hell!!" is? That's what a monetary crisis is, in a nutshell. And that is what all this overspending is pushing us toward. We will ALL rue the day that we have a monetary crisis, in our country!

More immediately, his idea of pushing us all to depend on the gov't, is very unsettling. I don't want more gov't - I want my freedom, and my wallet left with something in it, thank you.

What's that you say? Oh, I see, you said "overspend" not "spend". You don't care that Obama has increased the budget less than any president since Ike in the 1950s? You still think that when the economy is weak and tax revenue is lower, the government should spend within its means? Don't you realize that when times get tough, that's when you get more people who are unemployed and you need the government to come in and pay for services that weren't needed so much during the boom years.

It like a family, saving up for a rainy day during the good times, and then spending some of that rainy day fund to get through the bad times.

And if Obama's stimulus policy had worked, I'd say OK, let's re-elect him. But it has failed, and he has no new plan, no new WAY to fix it.

Obama is on Comedy Central tonight. He's been on: The Tonight Show, The David Letterman Show, "Pimp with a Limp", and just about every TV talk show you could imagine. He's bright, does some funny jokes, and can do an excellent imitation of Al Green (the singer).

But I don't CARE about any of that. I want to see our economy growing again, at by more than a crippling 1 or 2 percent!
If Obama could deliver that, and open up some federal lands to oil drilling (and lower the fuel costs), I'd vote for him in a heartbeat. But he can't, and with his ideology, he believes he SHOULDN'T.

Basically, Obama wants to piss down my backside, and tell me it's raining.

No thanks.