Replies to post #173297 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[F6]

SilverSurfer -- hot air, indeed -- straight out of yet another fascist butthole

[tinner]

We have tried Rep. rule for 29 of the last 44 years and I guess something good happened in those 29 years. Care to tell me what those were.....................................waiting.

[tinner]

I'll help....other than HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE DEFICITS and few jobs..........what other things thrilled you?

[StephanieVanbryce]

You may have thought the Founding Fathers, who strongly believed in low taxes, small government, and checks and
balances to keep politicians from gaining too much power helped make America a great nation

LOLOL .... yeah .. .just like 'Small Government' Reagan did ... lmao!



Growth In Government Spending Under President Obama Slower Than During Bush, Reagan Administrations

Adam Peck on Mar 19, 2012 at 10:55 am



Republicans have continually decried the Obama Administration’s “runaway spending” since he took office, blaming him for growing deficits and a mounting national debt. But a quick glance at the facts show that, compared to George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, Obama is actually embracing fiscal conservatism more than any other president in recent history, with the exception of fellow Democrat Bill Clinton.

The Atlantic crunches the numbers:http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/obama-most-fiscally-conservative-president-in-modern-history/254658/

For all the talk you hear about Obama’s historic spree, government spending actually hasn’t increased so dramatically under this president. The stimulus was big, but it’s over. It’s been replaced by, if not austerity (which has struck our states and cities) then a hard correction to the center.

Evidence of the cost-cutting measures employed by Obama can be found in the last several jobs reports. While the overall number of jobs created has steadily increased for the last several months, those advances have all come entirely in the private sector. Public sector jobs have actually been on the decline for much of the last year as government spending on some agencies and programs have been cut.

Economics Professor Mark Thoma provides a helpful chart on his blog that puts President Obama’s per capita spending into context, comparing it with the spending of every president in the last 40 years.



That’s likely a hard pill to swallow for Obama’s critics, who have spent years hammering his administration for record spending and fiscal irresponsibility. The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson put it best: “Going by federal expenditures…it would seem that if Obama’s a socialist, Ronald Reagan is Karl Marx with an ICBM.”

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/03/19/446990/obama-bush-reagan-government-spending/

..........stop your bullshit! NO ONE here is going to go for it. as I told you before.. Take it
to the STUPID BOARDS! you'll feel at home there ........witless

[StephanieVanbryce]

Here’s a newsflash for Barack Obama: government investments didn’t make this country great.

ROTFLMAO .. ...here's a NEWSFLASH for ya !

President Obama April 3, 2012

I believe deeply that the free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history.

I have never been somebody who believes that government can or should try to solve every problem.

As President, I’ve eliminated dozens of programs that weren’t working, and announced over 500 regulatory reforms that will save businesses and taxpayers billions, and put annual domestic spending on a path to become the smallest share of the economy since Dwight Eisenhower held this office -- since before I was born. I know that the true engine of job creation in this country is the private sector, not Washington, which is why I’ve cut taxes for small business owners 17 times over the last three years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/us/politics/obamas-remarks-to-newspaper-editors.html?ref=politics

AND that is JUST the MOST recent time that I know of, where he has repeated that sentiment ...so IF you have ONE darn gut in your guts ... you go into the comment section of 'haskins' pack of lies... and SHOW him how they are nothing but FULL of HOTAIR! .. that is .. IF you have any guts ....