Posts Tagged ‘spending’

Bob Maistros

Wow.

It seems like mere moments since the Congressional Budget Office released one shock-and-awe sort of prediction – that the budget deficit would hit an incredible, inedible (as in hard to swallow), record $1.48 trillion in this very fiscal year, 2011, which really began on October 1, 2010.

So yesterday.

Real money.

Turns out, according to the President of the United States, one Barack Hussein (“Roll the Printing Presses”) Obama, this year’s actual budget deficit will be $1.65 trillion.

To allow for a little perspective on this matter:  when I was a young but preternaturally aware child of eight years old, the entire federal budget was $100 billion (and the government’s hitting that figure raised a major fuss).  It didn’t clamber up over $170 billion for another seven whole years, driven by LBJ’s “guns and butter” combo of the Great Society and Vietnam.

And it was sometime in that era that legendary Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen is said to have uttered his humorous observation, “A billion here, and billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”

Real money, huh?  These days, $170 billion is a rounding error in the federal deficit.

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Andy Hefty

Like the once-frozen caveman on Saturday Night Live who became a lawyer confused by all the nuances of modern technology, I find myself scratching my oversized, unattractive noggin over the silliness exuded by Congress and the White House.  I’ll admit:  in many respects, I can be like that simple caveman.  But I never went to law school, and I insure my cars through the famous caveman-hated company.

Simple Caveman has the answers

With the endless insults hurled across the political aisle that those of a traditional mindset are Neanderthal to begin with, you can see why those on the left refuse to even ponder simple solutions.  God forbid that they should be aligned with knuckle-dragging right-wing extremists who think simple thoughts like more guns make for less crime.

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Andy Hefty

JACKSONVILLE – At the risk (or is that the overwhelming sense of euphoria?) of tweaking “mainstream” media, Democrats in Congress, and top-level yes-men in the White House, I would like to announce my proud and unapologetic membership into the “Party of No!”

And now a word from the Republican Party!

It’s getting rather sickening in Washington with everyone pointing fingers and pushing blame over health care, taxes, spending, environmental issues, military, and all the other issues that surround us. The latest robotic repetition is calling Republicans “the party of no.”

Well I got news for you: I like that title.

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Andy Hefty

JACKSONVILLE — Outgoing Florida Governor Charlie Crist is scratching his head.  Establishment Florida Republicans are having trouble with the decline in Crist’s poll numbers (not that I have confidence in any polls).  Media speculators other than Talk Radio and conservative bloggers are wondering why Crist isn’t handily winning the GOP Primary for the US Senate.

Sorry, Charlie.

But ordinary Floridians do not seem to wonder at all.

In a recent cartoon, my good friend Ed Gamble of the Florida Times-Union seemed to mock the “far right” by calling Crist too liberal.  Crist is touting how he is pro-life, pro-gun, anti-tax, and anti-big-government.  And yet, Crist is surprised that he can’t get the support of the rural, religious, gun-toting conservatives throughout the state.

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Dan Sherrier

The House of Representatives has approved a $155 billion “jobs” bill.

Oy vey.

If Congress could magically create $155 billion without consequence, that would be nifty. But it can’t. Therefore, the very idea of a jobs bill is unsettling.

Don't worry. Our kids will handle it.

The money has to come from somewhere. No other country is going to give it to us for free, so ultimately, it becomes our responsibility. The $155 billion to pay for these jobs must be generated from within America. The government can’t create it; it can only require that private citizens hand it over in the form of taxes.

So all of us who qualify as “private citizens,” we’re paying for it. Or our children. Perhaps their children. But debt payments can only be deferred for so long. And don’t forget interest. Read the rest of this entry »

Bob Maistros

The Press Secretary:  “Ladies and gentlemen of the media, the President of the United States will now appear to make a statement.”

The President:  “Thank you.  As you know, my administration and I recently completed a lengthy review of our Afghanistan policy, at the conclusion of which I made the decision to grant commanding General Stanley McChrystal some 30,000, or 75 percent, of the additional 40,000 troops he requested to effect a surge in that strategically critical  nation.

Whatever the generals need! Kinda. Sorta.

“I also made the determination that we will begin to draw down those forces after 18 months, depending on circumstances on the ground.

“In making that announcement, I indicated that the dire economic and fiscal condition of our nation was a factor in my decision to limit the number of additional troops being dispatched as well as the duration of their deployment.

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Herman Cain

There’s an old saying that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who make things happen, people who watch things happen and people who ask what happened. The latter group will wake up in the not-too-distant future and ask what happen to the United States of America if they just sit there.

Uh, dude . . .

The big government tax-and-spend liberals are happy with this irrefutable government power grab of our liberties, while too many conservatives at heart are just sitting on the couch. And since the mainstream media is not connecting the dots about what is really happening, here are some recent examples:

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