News flash! Obama most frugal president since Ike
From the Marketwatch column at the Wall Street Journal:
“Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true.
But it didn’t happen. Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s…..
Over Obama’s four budget years, federal spending is on track to rise from $3.52 trillion to $3.58 trillion, an annualized increase of just 0.4%.”
The column makes many of the points made on this blog in the past. For example, it points out that when Obama took office in 2009, the fiscal 2009 budget year was already four months underway, driven by spending and revenue programs put into place under President Bush.
If we rank spending increases for presidential budgets since 1980, it looks like this:
Reagan, 1982-85: Annual increase of 8.7 percent
Reagan, 1986-89: Annual increase of 4.9 percent
Bush I, 1990-93: Annual increase of 5.4 percent
Clinton, 1994-1997: Annual increase of 3.2 percent
Clinton, 1998-2001: Annual increase of 3.9 percent
Bush II, 2002-2005: Annual increase of 7.3 percent
Bush II, 2006-2009: Annual increase of 8.1 percent
Obama, 2010-2013: Annual increase of 1.4 percent
(It should be noted that in the interest of fairness and accuracy, the above numbers attribute increased 2009 spending from the Obama stimulus to Obama, who initiated it and signed it into law, rather than to Bush. That’s why the annual increase in the chart — 1.4 percent — is higher than the 0.4 percent mentioned in the column excerpt.)
I understand that this data strike directly at the heart of the GOP caricature of Obama. They contradict the foundation of the conservative rant against this president, not to mention the idolatry directed at Ronald Reagan. And since the data cannot be rebutted — the plain numbers are there for all to see — they will simply be ignored lest millions of heads explode simultaneously.
In that light, I thought I would close with this last little bit of data from the Wall Street Journal article:
“After adjusting for inflation, spending under Obama is falling at a 1.4% annual pace — the first decline in real spending since the early 1970s, when Richard Nixon was retreating from the quagmire in Vietnam.
In per-capita terms, real spending will drop by nearly 5% from $11,450 per person in 2009 to $10,900 in 2013 (measured in 2009 dollars).”
– Jay Bookman
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MiltonMan
May 23rd, 2012
1:37 pm
Yes – just love the libs and their continued idiotic usage of percentages rather than actual numbers – “rich need to pay their fair share”; “Romney only paid 10% in federal taxes”; “Buffet pays less in percentage than his secretary”; “Obama spending less than any previous president going back to the 50s”, etc., etc.
I finally realize why there a few, very few libs in the engineering field.
Brosephus™ - "Browning America Since 1973"
May 23rd, 2012
1:38 pm
Midori
I am completely innocent…. I did/said nothing wrong.
However, if/when we ever get the chance to meet, I’ll pony up for that iced tea.
Talking Head
May 23rd, 2012
1:39 pm
now this is funny, i don’t care who you are!
http://votingamerican.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/obama.jpg
curious
May 23rd, 2012
1:40 pm
Righty,
I hope you’re joking.
I’m an employer and I would be broke if not for the employees. Everything we do or touch, except bodily functions, is because some employer had a part of producing it.
Loyalty is a two way street; you seem to be on a one way street.
JamVet
May 23rd, 2012
1:40 pm
71, do you always have this much trouble with standard, written English?
The point at hand was: “An employer has one responsibility.”
Where in the name of Allah did you come up with your question about what is the role of business?
Brosephus™ - "Browning America Since 1973"
May 23rd, 2012
1:40 pm
Did I miss something? Frugal typical doesn’t mean you are increasing your spending less than someone else but you are actually spending money less than everyone else.
Yes, you did miss something. You can be frugal and increase spending 1%. You can’t be frugal increasing spending 7%. Frugal doesn’t mean you’re decreasing spending either.
Jefferson
May 23rd, 2012
1:42 pm
Money, money, money…. money.
Talking Head
May 23rd, 2012
1:44 pm
There is nothing frugal about spending $3.58 trillion, especially when you take into account the promise that Obama would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term in office.
Nobama
May 23rd, 2012
1:45 pm
BITE ME !!
Mighty Righty
May 23rd, 2012
1:47 pm
Matti
Sorry that you can’t take care of your self without the government forcing some one who can take care of their self to give you theeir money. You have failed to understand the basic laws of economic reality:
The Freedom To Try
The Freedom T Buy
The Freedom To Sell
The Freedom To Fail
The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free market economy and a minmum of government regulations.
Common Sense isn't very Common
May 23rd, 2012
1:47 pm
Interesting debate concerning fiscal responsibility
The things to do while in debt are to cut or slow down spending and increase revenue.
So which of these are being done to any great degree?
JamVet
May 23rd, 2012
1:48 pm
Miltie, it;s all good those liberal high tech companies, owned by liberal employers that support liberal causes just use you minions as part of their machinery.
And no, you do no deserve to get the weekends off, or get vacation pay or get paid sick leave or get paid health benefits but some union guy sweated and bled for you, so you get to mooch off of his work…
Mick
May 23rd, 2012
1:48 pm
Nothing has been debunked, it’s very obvious that some can’t handle the truth because it doesn’t fit into their well defined preconceived notions of president obama. Let’s have an election and get this over with, then move on or move forward…
kayaker 71
May 23rd, 2012
1:50 pm
JamVet, 1:46,
Standard, written English is really not so hard if you just concentrate. And what, in your view, is that “one responsibility” that an employer has? You and Bozo are convinced that it is not to make a profit. You apparently think that business was put on this earth to serve the needs of the people, provide jobs and guarantee retirement security. News Flash (as Bookman would say)…… business is in the game for one reason only…. to make a profit for their shareholders. BTW, that evil Bain Capital that you and all of the libs are so upset about….. they gave twice as much money to Democratic candidates in 2008 than they did to Republicans. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, N’est-ce-pas?
JamVet
May 23rd, 2012
1:51 pm
“The Freedom To Fail”
That a neocon even dares write those words is friggin’ hysterical!
Especially after their socialist hero GWB deem certain “players”, Too Big to Fail.
The party of MORE and MORE corporate welfare does make me laugh!
Senior Citizen Kane
May 23rd, 2012
1:51 pm
I guess nobody bothered to read the second page of the column:
By no means did Obama try to reverse that spending. Indeed, his budget proposals called for even more spending in subsequent years. But the Congress (mostly Republicans but many Democrats, too) stopped him.
Jm
May 23rd, 2012
1:51 pm
Jay 10:03 every president has to deal with the cumulative legal morass that is our legal code
It is incumbent upon our leaders to manage the budget wisely
Obama hasn’t
Common Sense isn't very Common
May 23rd, 2012
1:51 pm
Mick
Let’s have an election and get this over with, then move on or move forward…
—————————————————————-
Move up or down they are both directions
Matti
May 23rd, 2012
1:52 pm
Mighty Mouse,
Seriously? Are you smoking the sticky today, or are your hallucinations the result of a summertime pharma-salad? Your response to me in no way pertains to anything I said, nor anything reality based. I work. I pay my bills AND my taxes. You don’t support me in any way whatsoever, and your yammerings have nothing to do with my freedoms.
Perhaps a med adjustment would help, or maybe try taking them with a meal. Bless your heart!
Adam
May 23rd, 2012
1:54 pm
I have an idea! Let’s all focus on the word FRUGAL, which will keep everyone running in circles for HOURS.
Joe Hussein Mama
May 23rd, 2012
1:55 pm
M. Righty — “Joe, the Congressioanl Budget Office is a well known manipulator of facts for the left wing of the Democrat Party as was demonstrated during the Obamacare fiasco on cost. (They were only off 100%) I prefer actual dollars as listed above.”
You linked a conservocrank’s site as your evidence and you call the CBO biased? Bulldada.
The CBO is the *authoritative record-keeper* on historical expenditures for all of government — under Presidents of all parties — and if you can refute their figures, go ahead. But I don’t think you can, and I don’t think you will.
As regards your ‘evidence,’ I’m not going to dignify your conservacrank website by even reading its stats; the bias they walk in with is apparent the moment you open the page.
Recon 0311 2533
May 23rd, 2012
1:55 pm
I see we’re still on the most foolgal president topic.
MiltonMan
May 23rd, 2012
1:55 pm
“One man did cause the housing meltdown and his name is Alan Greenspan. And his tenure was during George W. Bush’s presidency.”
Another lib lie. Anyone with a half a brain can deduce that there were plenty of factors & plenty of people to blame on this:
(1) Second mortgages & HELOCS allowed people to buy more expensive real estate driving the prices up
(2) Lax regulation of the financial sector & multiple deregulation of this sector – opening up CDOs; sub-prime loans
(3) The Fair Housing Act – Making it the “right” of every American to own a house.
etc.
etc.
For a lib to blame this on Bush = plain & simple stupidity
Common Sense isn't very Common
May 23rd, 2012
1:56 pm
Adam
FRUGAL means I spend for what I want but you can’t
Talking Head
May 23rd, 2012
1:56 pm
““The Freedom To Fail”
That a neocon even dares write those words is friggin’ hysterical!
Especially after their socialist hero GWB deem certain “players”, Too Big to Fail.
The party of MORE and MORE corporate welfare does make me laugh!”
An example of someone in denial to the fact that Obama and Bush are one in the same.
PJ
May 23rd, 2012
1:56 pm
The role of business in this century (Unlike when Henry Ford was around) is:
1. To make a profit for investors
2. To ship jobs overseas
3. To make a profit for investors
4. To charge top dollar prices made by underpaid overseas workers
5. To make a profit for investors
6. To bust unions
7. To make a profit for investors
8. To spend 10’s of millions to elect a president to do their bidding
9. To make a profit for investors
10. To make every elected conservative office holder sign a pledge that supercides their oath of office
11. To make a profit for investors
12. To make public service look criminal
13. To make a profit for investors
14. To making it only a two class society, rich and poor
15. To make a profit for investors
16. To keep the races and the genders fighting for the little that is left on the bottom
17, To make a profit for investors
18. To make sure every public service organization is turned into a private industy business
And lst but not least
19. To make a profit for investors
Jm
May 23rd, 2012
1:59 pm
Mick 1:48
Are you a bird?
Like sand in your gullet?
Midori
May 23rd, 2012
2:00 pm
good job PJ @ 1:56
Bro — that’s a deal
HI KAMMY!!
Mighty Righty
May 23rd, 2012
2:00 pm
Curious, Dont act dumb. The person I was addressing thought a company who was going out of business had an obligation to fund a retirement program for the very people who if they had produced the company would most likely still be in business. BTW I too owned sevelal successful business from California to Atlanta, Georgia. I sold them and retired. I was able to employee people at a good wage with better than average benefits because I made sure the businesses were profitable. I suppose you would be one of those who operate at a loss and try to make it up on volume, but what the hell your a nice guy. A business first responsibility is to make a profit without which there will be no jobs. Only the government can deny that and remain around. And Yes, I have laid off people. Didn’t want to. I have never met anyone who enjoyed doing that.
larry
May 23rd, 2012
2:02 pm
I guess everyone forgot about the budget surplus we had last month…..
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12112173-us-government-reports-58-billion-budget-surplus-in-april-2012-first-time-since-2008
Recon 0311 2533
May 23rd, 2012
2:02 pm
PJ, got 10 out of 19 right, so at least one liberal learned something from this thread.
Jm
May 23rd, 2012
2:04 pm
This whole nonsense was debunked last time jay posted the same thing
He does love the propaganda
Adam
May 23rd, 2012
2:05 pm
FRUGAL means I spend for what I want but you can’t
Oh, so it’s a Republican word! Like I can spend on military but you can’t spend on helping the poor! Thanks for the help on that one. Whew.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 23rd, 2012
2:05 pm
An employer has one responsibility. That is to make a profit for its investors.
There’s your sign.
Adam
May 23rd, 2012
2:06 pm
An example of someone in denial to the fact that Obama and Bush are one in the same.
And just like when Bush was in office and Democrats were in the minority, they all voted in lockstep against anything Bush wanted no matter what it was… oh wait…
Recon 0311 2533
May 23rd, 2012
2:07 pm
O.T. but I guess it really doesn’t matter now. When the Carnival man was asked at the press conference if Obama had soared on the OWS movement given the recent violence, Carney stuttered and stammered completely lost for words. Comical
Mick
May 23rd, 2012
2:08 pm
jm
Even when you try to be a smart arse, you fail…at least you’re consistent…
Just Wondering
May 23rd, 2012
2:10 pm
where are Fred & Becky, this is boring
(ir)Rational
May 23rd, 2012
2:11 pm
Kam – And what sign is that? I’m always curious when y’all say that, but I never know exactly what you mean. Also, if that isn’t the responsibility of businesses then what is?
Well aint that something
May 23rd, 2012
2:11 pm
“so at least one liberal learned something from this thread.”
Now if you to learn something that might be up there with Biblical type miracles…….. but you never know
Steve
May 23rd, 2012
2:11 pm
Wow…13 pages and it’s only 2 pm
Mighty Righty
May 23rd, 2012
2:11 pm
Quote from the New York Times
Obama’s Speech: ‘Too Big to Fail’ Gets Bigger
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
The third in our series on President Obama’s speech today — a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers — on financial regulation and the economy.
One of the central goals of President Obama’s regulatory overhaul plan is to rein in banks and financial institutions that are “too big to fail.” The meltdown that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers exactly one year ago, followed by the nightmarish spectacle of bailing out reckless giants like American International Group and Citigroup, are things that policymakers never want to see again.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 23rd, 2012
2:13 pm
Hiya, Midori!
Rickster
May 23rd, 2012
2:13 pm
larry… lessee… what could possibly have caused a one-month surplus? Income exceeded outgo solely because April was the month taxes had to be paid. So more money than normal came in – spending certainly didn’t go down.
Steve
May 23rd, 2012
2:13 pm
What have conservatives done for this country except make the very wealthier even stronger? What have you accomplished for us?
Matti
May 23rd, 2012
2:13 pm
I do applaud the honesty some of you display. Why can’t the CEOs and corporate raider types just be truthful with the American workers?
“We are shipping your jobs to a third-world country because those chumps are poor enough to work 70-hour weeks at $3/hour and not complain, thereby maximizing my personal profits. My wife is nagging me to get a new place in Aspen, send Junior to school abroad for four years, and Christmas in Thailand. And if I don’t throw her a better birthday party than her sister got when HER husband rented out that entire island for a week, I’ll never hear the end of it. So, my loyal workers, I bid you adieu. That means so long, suckers! But hey, this doesn’t have to be forever! Have your people call my people when you’re ready to work 70-hour weeks at $3 per, no benefits or vacation, and sign a card for me every time I leave on one of my fabulous two-month sailing trips, and I MIGHT consider bringing the jobs back to this great country I love so much! You know… if the price is right.”
Talking Head
May 23rd, 2012
2:14 pm
“And just like when Bush was in office and Democrats were in the minority, they all voted in lockstep against anything Bush wanted no matter what it was… oh wait…”
Like half of his time in Office when Dems were in the minority? Or like the last 2 years when Dems passed bills and he signed them into law bc Bush became a Progressive.
Peter
May 23rd, 2012
2:15 pm
Hmmmmmm is this correct ? Republican’s mostly to blame for the ills in Washington ?
Scholar Norman Ornstein is pointing fingers in a new book, “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks,” co-authored with Thomas Mann. Congress is partisan and polarizing, and one party, said Ornstein, bears the brunt of the blame.
“I wouldn’t say it’s all Republicans,” said Ornstein, “it’s 80-20 at this point.”
PJ
May 23rd, 2012
2:16 pm
Recon 0311 2533 @2:02 pm
Which of the other nine were incorrect? Which were not true?
Common Sense isn't very Common
May 23rd, 2012
2:19 pm
Matti – I’m happy to see you so optomistic these days.
Hang in there
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 23rd, 2012
2:19 pm
Also, if that isn’t the responsibility of businesses then what is?
Making a profit most certainly is one of the responsibilities of a business.
But not the only one.
PJ
May 23rd, 2012
2:20 pm
Oh and I forgot one:
20. To make every war a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
May 23rd, 2012
2:22 pm
Frugal? And a one term’er to boot if you believe every poll you see…..Even the polls from the main stream who are cooking them the best they can.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 23rd, 2012
2:25 pm
I’m a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with…cause we’re smart and they are not
Is this your first foray into blogging?
Are you aware that Jay can see everything you type before you post it?
getalife
May 23rd, 2012
2:27 pm
The bain attack is working .
It did not matter to cons but it matters to the majority of the American.
willard blood in the water.
Finish him of President Obama.
Adam
May 23rd, 2012
2:27 pm
Kamchak: Is this your first foray into blogging?
Renamed mystery meat
Are you aware that Jay can see everything you type before you post it?
Um… no. This is not true. There are filters for certain keywords and such, but this is just not true.
(ir)Rational
May 23rd, 2012
2:28 pm
Kam – Okay, I’ll give you that, but the cynical side of me says that everything else stems from that one responsibility. But you kind of ignored my first question.
Are you aware that Jay can see everything you type before you post it?
Not before I hit submit comment, right?
barking frog
May 23rd, 2012
2:29 pm
Adam
Jay can see everything you
post before you type it.
MiltonMan
May 23rd, 2012
2:29 pm
“Especially after their socialist hero GWB deem certain “players”, Too Big to Fail.”
Cons have the backbone to turn on their chosen one(s) – reason why the clown Bush II left office with a 20% approval rating. Libs, on the other hand, are knuckle-heads & will stick with their “leaders” – look at all of those still enamored by that Hope and Change” crap.
getalife
May 23rd, 2012
2:30 pm
American people.
D’oh!
Joe Hussein Mama
May 23rd, 2012
2:30 pm
Adam — “Renamed mystery meat”
I was going to suggest “Nitwitticus of Borg.”
DBCOOPER
May 23rd, 2012
2:30 pm
ROMNEY will defeat the ‘Food Stamp’Prez in November Jay. You know it Jay. That’s why you’re digging up all the ’straws’ you can.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
May 23rd, 2012
2:30 pm
Bain attack is working……………….For who? polls don’t show it.
Madmax
May 23rd, 2012
2:31 pm
Brosephus™ – “Browning America Since 1973″
May 23rd, 2012
1:04 pm
So when we get to a deficit of 5 trillion a year, we can even reduce the rate of spending more while we spend more. DC doublespeak. Until we actually have more revenue than we spend, we are dropping a mountain of debt on our chidren and grandchildren and their offspring as well.
It will take revenue increases but it is going to take an overhaul of government as we view it to do it. We (as a nation, Republican, Democrat and independant, male, female, black, white, heterosexual, bisexual and and gay, and anybody I missed) have become a bunch of takers and have bought into some ideological nightmare where we look to the government to take responsibility for everything in our lives and nothing is our fault. If we’re fat, we look to the government to find a solution (appoint a czar, build a department, pass some reg’s, hold conferences and make a big deal out of it) instead of individually getting up and away from the keyboard and working out and controlling our appetites. If we’re sick, we want the government to take care of us (what the hell happened to your family?). If we make bad decisions as citizens (I’m sorry but there is an old adage that says if it sounds too good to be true, it is) or as corporations (why should other people (including other corporations) bail out a corporation that cannot do it on its own), we want the government to make us whole. All this weakens the whole fabric of the collective we as Mary E. likes to comment.
Matti
May 23rd, 2012
2:31 pm
Are you aware that Jay can see everything you type before you post it?
Wow! No wonder he never addresses me! If he can read the stuff I delete before clicking “Submit Comment”…. whoa jimminy! Hahaha!
MiltonMan
May 23rd, 2012
2:32 pm
I’m a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with…cause we’re smart and they are not = APS educated by-product.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 23rd, 2012
2:32 pm
Renamed mystery meat
Renamed many more times than you possibly realize.
Um… no. This is not true. There are filters for certain keywords and such, but this is just not true.
If this mystery meat is who I think he is, he is the one who made that claim three years ago.
DBCOOPER
May 23rd, 2012
2:32 pm
SNAP scanners unite!
TaxPayer
May 23rd, 2012
2:32 pm
Would you look at that! Oil futures below $90 per bbl. Republicans whined about high oil prices and President Obama fixed that for them too. Do y’all need him to tuck you in at night as well and read you a bed time story. Well, he’s too busy for that but I bet he could send one of his daughters to handle that for ya.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
May 23rd, 2012
2:33 pm
But the coffee crowd on here only think polls count when they go their way.
Mick
May 23rd, 2012
2:33 pm
After president obama gets 4 more, heads will be explodin..yes can’t wait…
Peter
May 23rd, 2012
2:33 pm
PJ. you forgot to add about the CEOs making 15 million a year, along with stock options totaling another 10 to 20 Million…..
When you out source to India, and cut all the American workers, thus you have a great opportunity to pay yourself a huge bonus !
Adam
May 23rd, 2012
2:33 pm
Kamchak: Oh, I get it now. I wasn’t here 3 years ago so I didn’t know about that
Also this is funny:
Jay can see everything you
post before you type it.
getalife
May 23rd, 2012
2:33 pm
Wait for it I am a lib.
The American people will not elect a vulture capitalist that loves to fire people.
242 more days
May 23rd, 2012
2:34 pm
The CBThe CBO is the *authoritative record-keeper* on historical expenditures for all of government — under Presidents of all parties — and if you can refute their figures, go ahead. But I don’t think you can, and I don’t think you willO is the *authoritative record-keeper* on historical expenditures for all of government — under Presidents of all parties — and if you can refute their figures, go ahead. But I don’t think you can, and I don’t think you will
SO Joe, is this the same CBO that had to revise their GUESS on the cost of the O’Bamacare, after they read it?
ObamObamacare’s Gross Costs Double to $1.76 Trillion, CBO Projectsacare’s Gross Costs Double to $1.76 Trillion, CBO Projects
Well aint that something
May 23rd, 2012
2:34 pm
“Cons have the backbone to turn on their chosen one(s) – reason why the clown Bush II left office with a 20% approval rating.”
hahahahahhahha
translation: It took me 7 yrs to realize what those who didn’t vote for him knew before he was elected the 1st time
hahahahahahaa
Adam
May 23rd, 2012
2:34 pm
TaxPayer: Would you look at that! Oil futures below $90 per bbl. Republicans whined about high oil prices and President Obama fixed that for them too. Do y’all need him to tuck you in at night as well and read you a bed time story. Well, he’s too busy for that but I bet he could send one of his daughters to handle that for ya.
And he brought you m-fers donuts…
Peter
May 23rd, 2012
2:34 pm
TaxPayer. Republican’s don;t want a bed time story….they want a President that reads to kindergartener’s……while the enemy is attacking so, they can invade another country.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
May 23rd, 2012
2:35 pm
Love that the race card came out today for the Kentucky and Arkansas results. Surely poor job performance had nothing to do with it.
(ir)Rational
May 23rd, 2012
2:35 pm
Adam – And he brought you m-fers donuts…
Krispy Kreme or Dunkin Donuts? It is important.
Butch Cassidy
May 23rd, 2012
2:35 pm
MIghty Righty – “The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free market economy and a minmum of government regulations.”
True, but on the downside, such beliefs lead to global economic meltdowns that are difficult to recover from, and tend to take years to undue the damage done.
Doggone/GA
May 23rd, 2012
2:35 pm
“Um… no. This is not true. There are filters for certain keywords and such, but this is just not true”
Actually, it’s an inside joke. There was a time, not so long ago, when the blog was…shall we say…”messed” up. It would post replies out of order, so sometimes an answer would be on the blog before the question. And we had a poster who…SERIOUSLY…believed that Jay could read what he was typing before he posted it!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 23rd, 2012
2:36 pm
But you kind of ignored my first question.
Sorry, I thought most everyone knew the reference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvj_acGhbPk
stands for decibels
May 23rd, 2012
2:37 pm
Um… no. This is not true. There are filters for certain keywords and such, but this is just not true.
Adam, here’s a link to this crazy assertion made here about Jay’s incredible cyber powers–
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2010/03/17/health-care-debate-bringing-out-the-best-in-america-or-not/?cp=all#comment-257319
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
May 23rd, 2012
2:38 pm
So, The President can’t do anything about rising oil prices……. But has everything to do with them coming down…..And we’re to believe that pot smoking doesn’t harm brain cells…..Beautiful.
TaxPayer
May 23rd, 2012
2:40 pm
What’s an m-fer. I don’t eat doughnuts.
Doggone/GA
May 23rd, 2012
2:40 pm
“So, The President can’t do anything about rising oil prices……. But has everything to do with them coming down”
Not real good at picking up sarcasm are you?
Mick
May 23rd, 2012
2:40 pm
stands
How in the world did you find that? I remember when it happened in real time – theater of the absurd…
Talking Head
May 23rd, 2012
2:40 pm
“After president obama gets 4 more, heads will be explodin..yes can’t wait…”
If the American people re-elect Obama, my head might explode.
(ir)Rational
May 23rd, 2012
2:41 pm
Kam – Obviously I didn’t know, otherwise I wouldn’t have asked. Duh.
TaxPayer
May 23rd, 2012
2:42 pm
So, The President can’t do anything about rising oil prices……. But has everything to do with them coming down…..
Republicans here and elsewhere whined like little babies and pointed fingers at Obama for high oil and gas prices so I thought I would let the little babies know that President Obama heard your cries and fixed it you little boo boo. Now go back to sleep.
Joe Hussein Mama
May 23rd, 2012
2:42 pm
Oh, look. Righty’s conservacrackhead blogger’s OWN DATA agrees with me. Clinton DID realize annual surpluses.
Go here:
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1990_2010USb_13s1li111mcn_G0f
Set the parameters as follows:
First Row:
$ billion
United States
(anything, doesn’t matter)
Second Row:
Default
Linear
Bar
Stack
Medium
Color
FY ‘04 Budget or later
Third Row:
FY 1990
FY 2010
Fourth Row:
Federal Deficit
No sub-category
Mark the radio button for “Fed”
See how the deficits are NEGATIVE in 1998 – 2001. Negative deficits = surpluses.
So thanks for the assist, Righty. Your own site supports EXACTLY what I said earlier.
I’ll see you in a couple of hours; I’ve got some job applicants to interview now. Because us job creators just roll like that.
Steve
May 23rd, 2012
2:42 pm
Why hasn’t anyone addressed the fact that Romney was a lousy governor in Massachusetts?
TaxPayer
May 23rd, 2012
2:43 pm
If the American people re-elect Obama, my head might explode.
Could you YouTube that for us. It could go viral.
Joe Hussein Mama
May 23rd, 2012
2:43 pm
Timestamp — “SO Joe, is this the same CBO that had to revise their GUESS on the cost of the O’Bamacare, after they read it?”
Righty’s “evidence” agrees with me and disagrees with him. So now you’re BOTH wrong. See my post at 2:42.
Finn McCool (The System Isn't Broken; It's Fixed ~ from an Occupy sign)
May 23rd, 2012
2:43 pm
Jay can see what color underwear you have on.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
May 23rd, 2012
2:43 pm
Obama is toast. 5 months is a long time just to bash the other guy. Hope and change is long gone. Pretty easy read after months of this…..even for the one’s who don’t pay attention.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
May 23rd, 2012
2:46 pm
Steve….because they don’t want to dig in this current President’s total unpreparedness for office…. And boy, it shows.
Joe Hussein Mama
May 23rd, 2012
2:46 pm
Mystery Meat — “Obama is toast.”
Nope. He’s in very good shape.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Steve
May 23rd, 2012
2:47 pm
Look what happened when we elected a Texas governor with a horrible track record there…now you want a corporatist plutocratic cultish fake like Romney, with a similarly horrible record as governor, to run us into the ground again? What is wrong with you people?