"Clown Prince" Weekly Blather; February 13th

A Patriotic Response To The "Clown Prince" 02/13/2010 Weekly Address February 13, 2010 All across America, people work hard to meet their responsibilities. You do your jobs, take care of your families, pay your bills. Sometimes, particularly in tough times like these, you have to make hard choices about where to spend and where to save. That’s what being responsible means. That’s a bedrock value of our country. And that ought to be a value that our government lives up to as well. Yet, over the past decade, this hasn’t always not been the case. Ten years ago, we had a big budget surplus with projected surpluses far into the future. Ten years later, those surpluses are gone. In fact, when I first walked through the door, the government’s budget deficit stood at $1.3 trillion, with the budget gap over the next decade projected to be $8 trillion. [What I'm not telling you: Notice how I deliberately left out "government" while talking about responsibility?? Governments at any level--in any country--are the most irresponsible individuals on the planet; I know that!! I have practiced fiscal irresponsibility at every level--be it ACORN, as a street agitator; the US senate, during my 142 days of federal legislative INexperience or as the "Clown Prince." The surplus I refer to was primarily due to the fall of communism in the former Soviet Union which drastically reduced our need for defense spending. "Slick-Willie" claimed the surplus as his own doing--as democRATs and later, obamacRATs--are wont to do. The most recent round of obamacRAT control of Congress has been devistating to the "federal wallet!!!" That was the start to huge annual growth in the federal deficit. I'm "always at the ready" to condemn President Bush for the huge deficits; I never acknowlege that the House of Representatives ORIGINATES ALL SPENDING LEGISLATION!! In order to honestly assign blame, we must have a look at the deficit figures for the past several FISCAL years:

• Fiscal Year..............Deficit Amount
• 2005......................$318Billion
• 2006......................$247Billion
• 2007......................$147Billion
• 2008......................$410Billion
• 2009......................$1.84TRILLION
• 2010{Projected}....$1.17TRILLION

Can you see how the 110th Congress {both houses under obamacRAT control} started an already large "snowball" rolling... gaining speed and "volumne" at an exponential growth rate!!!] Partly, the recession is to blame. With millions of people out of work, and millions of families facing hardship, folks are paying less in taxes while seeking more services, like unemployment benefits. Rising health care costs are also to blame. Each year, more and more tax dollars are devoted to Medicare and Medicaid. But what also made these large deficits possible was the end of a common sense rule called “pay as you go.” It’s pretty simple. It says to Congress, you have to pay as you go. You can’t spend a dollar unless you cut a dollar elsewhere. This is how a responsible family or business manages a budget. And this is how a responsible government manages a budget, as well. It was this rule that helped lead to balanced budgets in the 1990s, by making clear that we could not increase entitlement spending or cut taxes simply by borrowing more money. And it was the abandonment of this rule that allowed the previous administration and previous congresses to pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy and create an expensive new drug program without paying for any of it. Now in a perfect world, Congress would not have needed a law to act responsibly, to remember that every dollar spent would come from taxpayers today – or our children tomorrow. [What I'm not telling you: There are alot of factors involved here: continually rising taxes on American businesses and American workers; continually rising expenditures with FALLING revenues to the Treasury Department; Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are "untouchable" with respect to cuts in costs and benefits while being rife with fraud. The word 'rule' is crucial when talking about spending, deficits and deficit reduction! Pay-as-you-go was enacted into law in 1990 and allowed to expire at the end of 2002. The deficit spending by the Congress returned with a vengence!! The PAYGO system was reestablished as a standing rule of the House of Representatives (Clause 10 of Rule XXI) on January 4, 2007 by the 110th Congress. This 'rule' was--and is--routinely waived or outrightly ignored.

{Point to ponder: Where did the Congress reduce expenditures to cover the $787Billion presidential slush-fund? to cover the $1Billion Cash-for-Clunkers program??}

As you know, I deplore any tax cuts that will benefit businesses or the serf class; I call them "tax cuts for the rich"..... continuing to build on my plan of class warfare. Here's where I again attempt to deride President Bush, when 'in real life' his routinely pilloried tax cuts truly benefitted the serfs... reducing his economic control over that class of Americans!! Even I ignored PAYGO when I whined to have President Bush force TARP through the congress; when I whined enough to get my slush-fund, yadda, yadda, yadda!! The true message here is "when democRATs and obamacRATs are involved, the 'piss-away' rate is astronomical!! But this isn’t a perfect world. This is Washington. And while in theory there is bipartisan agreement on moving on balanced budgets, in practice, this responsibility for the future is often overwhelmed by the politics of the moment. It falls prey to the pressure of special interests, to the pull of local concerns, and to a reality familiar to every single American – the fact that it is a lot easier to spend a dollar than save one. That is why this rule is necessary. And that is why I am pleased that Congress fulfilled my request to restore it. Last night, I signed the “pay as you go” rule into law. Now, Congress will have to pay for what it spends, just like everybody else. But that’s not all we must do. Even as we make critical investments to create jobs today and lay a foundation for growth tomorrow – by cutting taxes for small businesses, investing in education, promoting clean energy, and modernizing our roads and railways – we have to continue to go through the budget line by line, looking for ways to save. We have to cut where we can, to afford what we need. This year, I’ve proposed another $20 billion in budget cuts. And I’ve also called for a freeze in government spending for three years. It won’t affect benefits through Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. And it will not affect national security – including benefits for veterans. But it will affect the rest of the budget. [What I'm not telling you: You have no idea how it pained me to sign that PAYGO thingie!!! Now I'll force the congress to "exempt" any new vote-buying schemes I come up with; new slush-funds I'll need to reward the unions, street thugs, etc!! ".....will affect the rest of the budget....." What-ta-hell is left to affect, after we exempt all the entitlement programs, whose specific design is to buy votes!! Have you noticed, when I talk about tax cuts for workers and businesses, I get this funny look on my face; all that rhetoric is tongue-in-cheek; I have no intention of following through on those promises. Don't you find it somewhat suspect that... After signing PAYGO into law.... I submit a 2010 $3.552TRILLION budget, with revenues OF ONLY $2.381TRILLION; leaving a deficit of $1.171, how stupid is that?!?!?! This budget pushes the national debt to a whoopin' $14.078TRILLION!!! I've succeeded in forcing all--but selected--Americans into fascism, whether they want it or not!! This nation will PROBABLY NEVER pay off the national debt; if they're able to, it'll be three generations--or more--out!! $20Billion in budget cuts proposed.....?!?! In the whole sceme of things, what-ta-hell good does that "drop in the bucket" do?? It's a mere .0074 OF ONE PERCENT {seven THOUSANDTHS OF ONE PERCENT!!} which amounts to the same force as "a fart in a whirlwind!!"] Finally, I’ve proposed a bipartisan Fiscal Commission to provide recommendations for long-term deficit reduction. Because in the end, solving our fiscal challenge – so many years in the making – will take both parties coming together, putting politics aside, and making some hard choices about what we need to spend, and what we don’t. It will not happen any other way. Unfortunately this proposal – which received the support of a bipartisan majority in the Senate – was recently blocked. So, I will be creating this commission by executive order. After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It’s easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What’s hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that’s what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend. And with the return of “pay as you go,” as well as other steps we’ve begun to take, that is exactly what we are doing. [What I'm not telling you: "Bipartisan or bipartisanship" to me and the vast majority of other obamacRATs means anyone of the opposition party.... ROLLS OVER AND PLAYS DEAD!! No other definition is acceptable!! That "Fiscal Commission"... that's just another cleaver way to add to the 250,000 NON-ESSENTIAL workforce in federal government. Rather than allow the entire congress to guide the operation and direction; when I can't get them to do as I demand, I just sign an 'executive order'... which requires approval FROM NO ONE!!! that "take responsibility for every dollar we spend...." That "load'da Shit" will never happen during my regime!!!]