Mr. Soetoro knew that economy was bad when he ran for office. He and the Democrats talked about president Bush like Bush had three legs. They accused Mr. Bush of giving tax breaks to the wealth, running an unfunded war and signing unfunded prescription medicine bill into law.
When Barry became president, he told a reporter that America was out of money and was running in deep deficits and what did he and a Super Democrat majority in the Senate and House do, create jobs? No. Cut spending? No. they force through Congress the greatest social spending spree in the history of the republic. Barry didn’t stop the war as he promised he increased it, still unfunded.
Oh he talked about jobs the whole time but that’s all he did about jobs. Job talking, he wore the job talk out but didn’t produce the jobs that he was talking about. (see7:16min video)
Job Talking from Alaphiah on Vimeo.
In addition to that he and congress begun to spend unprecedented amounts of money the likes, which no one had ever seen.
February 2009
$275 Billion Stimulus Package – Homeowners Bailout
The Obama Administration handed out a $275 billion mortgage stimulus plan, designed to assist more than 9 million American homeowners in refinancing their home loans or averting foreclosure. Of the $275 billion stimulus, $75 billion was allotted for direct spending for keeping people in their homes, and $200 billion came in the form of additional help for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (See above, in the July 2008 entry, for more information on the first economic stimulus package that was awarded to these mortgage giants.)
March 2009
$30 Billion Stimulus Package – AIG Bailout
The federal government intervened once again to help insurance giant AIG, this time in the form of a $30 billion loan from TARP funds. (See above in the September-November 2008 entry, for more information on other AIG bailouts.)
March 2009
$15 Billion Stimulus Package – Small Business Loans
The Obama Administration introduced a $15 billion economic stimulus venture aimed at the small business lending market to get money flowing into small business lines of credit again.
March 2009
$1 Trillion "Toxic Asset" Program – Banks Bailout
The Obama Administration launched a public-private economic stimulus venture (involving the U.S. Treasury and FDIC) to try to get toxic assets off the balance sheets of banks so that they can return to normal lending practicesMarch 2009.
March 2009
$22 Billion Stimulus Package – Automakers Bailout
The Obama Administration extended another $22 billion in loans to Chrysler and GM, this time, with strings attached, including the firing of General Motors Chairman Rick Wagoner.
April 2009
$1 Trillion Stimulus Package – G-20 World Leaders Stimulus
The leaders of the 20 most powerful countries in the world (representing 85% of global economic production) convened in London and agreed to $1 trillion in economic stimulus funds, as well as tighter global financial regulations. (source)
Those nasty Bush tax cuts that Barry is always downing, as president he extended those tax cuts to the “wealthy.” He did stop the war as he promised. He signed into law several unfunded big money programs and just made the economy worst. A further look at the president’s spending:
January 20, 2009
President Obama sworn into office
• President tells the American people in his Inaugural Address: “Those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.”
• Debt Held By Public = $6.31 trillion
February 17, 2009
President Signs into Law the Spending Stimulus
• The stimulus adds $821 billion in new spending according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
• The White House promises this infusion of spending and borrowing would keep unemployment rate below 8%. As millions of Americans are painfully aware, that promise was broken.
• Debt Held by Public = $6.48 trillion
February 26, 2009
President Issues FY2010 Budget
• The President’s budget adds $2.7 trillion in new debt in FY2010 and imposes $1.4 trillion in new taxes.
• Debt Held by Public = $6.58 trillion
March 11, 2009
President Signs FY2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act
• The massive spending bill includes 8,696 earmarks at a cost of $11 billion.
• The spending bill adds $19 billion in new spending above the baseline – an 8.6% spending increase.
• Debt Held by Public = $6.66 trillion
April 29, 2009
Congressional Democrats Pass FY2010 Budget
• The Congressional Democrats’ budget calls for a $2 trillion debt increase in 2010, and another 8.9% increase in non-defense discretionary spending.
• The reconciliation process is abused to later pave the way for health care overhaul to be jammed into law.
• Of note: this is the last time Congressional Democrats will bother budgeting.
• Debt Held by Public = $6.85 trillion
February 2, 2010
President Issues FY2011 Budget
• The President’s budget more than doubles the debt; pushes the FY2011 deficit to a new record of $1.6 trillion; drives spending to a new record of $3.8 trillion in fiscal year 2011; and raises taxes by more than $2 trillion through 2020, under the administration’s own estimates.
• Debt Held by Public = $7.85 trillion
March 23, 2010
President Signs Health-Care Overhaul Into Law
• The massive new law adds $1.4 trillion in new spending over the next decade, and over $2.5 trillion once the law is fully implemented.
• Despite sluggish economic growth and high unemployment, the law imposes over $500 billion in new tax hikes. CBO Director Elmendorf would later testify that the law would reduce employment by roughly half a percent – a reduction of approximately 800,000 jobs.
• Debt Held by Public = $8.18 trillion
April 15, 2010
Congressional Democrats Decide Not to Do a Budget for FY2011
• The 1974 Budget Act requires Congress to pass a budget each year by April 15.
• In an unprecedented budget failure, House Democrats not only failed to pass a budget – they opted to not even propose a budget.
• Debt Held by Public = $8.39 trillion
July 21, 2010
President Signs Financial Regulatory Overhaul Into Law
• In addition to heightened regulatory uncertainty, the massive new law adds $10.2 billion in new spending.
• Debt Held by Public = $8.69 trillion
February 14, 2011
President Issues FY2012 Budget
• The President’s budget yet again calls for the doubling of the debt in five years, and tripling the debt in ten years.
• The President’s budget spends $47 trillion over the next decade, imposes over $1 trillion in new tax hikes, and fails to address the drivers of the debt.
• Debt Held by Public = $9.45 trillion
April 13, 2011
President Delivers Speech on Deficit Reduction
• The President appears to abandon his own budget by offering a ‘framework’ that calls for additional tax increases, defense spending cuts, and Medicare price controls – yet lacks sufficient detail to back-up claims of deficit reduction.
• Debt Held by Public = $9.65 trillion
April 15, 2011
House Passes FY2012 Budget Resolution
• The House-passed budget cuts $6.2 trillion in government spending over the next decade, saves Medicare, strengthens the social safety net, lifts the crushing burden of debt, and spurs economic growth and job creation.
• Senate Democrats fail to meet their legal requirement to pass a budget by April 15.
• Debt Held by Public = $9.68 trillion
April 18, 2011
S&P Issues Credit Warning on U.S. Debt
• The rating agency sets off the latest alarm bells, warning of lawmakers of unsustainable fiscal course.
• President Obama has still not proposed a credible budget; Senate Democrats have still not proposed any budget.
• Debt Held by Public = $9.68 trillion
May 13, 2011
Medicare and Social Security Trustees Issue Warning of Looming Insolvency
• According to the programs’ own trustees, the unsustainable future of Medicare and Social Security threatens the health and retirement security of America’s seniors.
• President Obama and Congressional Democrats continue to engage in a partisan campaign to attack efforts to save and strengthen these critical programs – while offering no serious solutions of their own.
• Debt Held by Public = $9.67 trillion
May 25, 2011
Senate Unanimously Rejects President’s FY2012 Budget; Vote is 97-0
• While the President’s plan to accelerate our nation toward bankruptcy is unanimously rejected, the stunt on the Senate floor reveals the bankruptcy of Senate Democrats’ ideas.
• Senate Democrats have still not proposed any budget.
• Debt Held by Public = $9.72 trillion
June 23, 2011
CBO Director Further Discredits President’s Fiscal Record
• In testimony before the House Budget Committee, CBO Director Doug Elmendorf responds to questions on the President’s ‘Framework’: “We don’t estimate speeches. We need much more specificity than was provided in that speech for us to do our analysis.”
• Debt Held by Public = $9.74 trillion
July 8, 2011
Unemployment Hits 9.2%; Day 800 Since Senate Democrats Last Passed A Budget
• A devastating jobs report that shows the unemployment rate at 9.2% coincides with the 800th day since Senate Democrats last thought the federal government needed a budget.
• Debt Held by Public = $9.75 trillion
July 11, 2011
Senator Conrad Gives Budget Speech on Senate Floor
• On Day 803 since the Senate last passed a budget, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad takes to the Senate floor to deliver a speech about the Senate Democrats’ non-existent budget resolution.
• Senator Conrad makes the case for imposing over $2 trillion in new taxes, but provides no actual budget resolution and no credible details.
• Debt held by Public = $9.75 trillion
July 15, 2011
President Holds Press Conference: “We’re Running Out of Time” to Deal with Debt
• President Obama tells reporters: “I've got reams of paper and printouts and spreadsheets on my desk, and so we know how we can create a package that solves the deficits and debt for a significant period of time. But in order to do that, we got to get started now.”
• The American people have still not seen any “paper” or “printouts” of what specific spending cuts the President supports. The American people have still not seen any “spreadsheets” from the White House to corroborate their claims of having offered a deficit reduction plan.
• While it’s long past time for Washington “to get started now” on tackling our debt problems, President Obama has still not proposed a credible budget, and Senate Democrats have still not proposed any budget.
• Debt Held by Public = $9.75 trillion
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He’s like the Bee Gee with all his job talking is all jive. In addition, in September in his big speech on the economy he’ll ask for another stimulus package to spend on, yes you guessed it, creating jobs.
