Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:07:01
What sound does a trillion dollars make?
Listen for yourself:
Nice thud when 1100 pages hits the floor…
Obama lied, and if you voted for him, you should be outraged. From the website Obama set up:
End the Practice of Writing Legislation Behind Closed Doors: As president, Barack Obama will restore the American people’s trust in their government by making government more open and transparent. Obama will work to reform congressional rules to require all legislative sessions, including committee mark-ups and conference committees, to be conducted in public. By making these practices public, the American people will be able to hold their leaders accountable for wasteful spending and lawmakers won’t be able to slip favors for lobbyists into bills at the last minute.
Go ahead. Defend it. I dare you. And for those Obama voters who won’t engage in politics online, that’s fine, I respect that, this shit can get ugly, but...just think about these two items. Watch that video then read what Obama promised and see if you can stay calm. If you can...why? Why aren’t you pissed off? IT’S YOUR MONEY HE’S BURNING. You should be sending email to your Senators and Representatives and calling the White House switchboard to register your disgust. He lied to you. He has a duty to you to keep at least one of the hundreds of promises he made. Wouldn’t it be great if it was this one?
End the Practice of Writing Legislation Behind Closed Doors: As president, Barack Obama will restore the American people’s trust in their government by making government more open and transparent. Obama will work to reform congressional rules to require all legislative sessions, including committee mark-ups and conference committees, to be conducted in public. By making these practices public, the American people will be able to hold their leaders accountable for wasteful spending and lawmakers won’t be able to slip favors for lobbyists into bills at the last minute.
Posted by JimK at 03:07 AM on February 14, 2009
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#2 Posted by JimK 
on 02/14 at 04:07 PM -
Thank you, Wanna. I appreciate that. It wasn’t cool when Bush and his handlers railroaded the Patriot Act, and this stimulus bill isn’t right either.
Machiavelli and I are gonna have a fistfight in the afterlife if there is one.
#3 Posted by Christian on 02/15 at 02:47 AM -
But Jim, this is needed NOW!!!! I mean, I heard Pelosi the other day say that 500 million jobs A MONTH will be lost if we don’t spend this ginormous waste of money that noone actually knows how its going to stimulate the economy, much less read the damn thing. If we can’t believe these assclowns, then what kind of hopeandchange can we believe in?
Just frak me runnen.
#4 Posted by wannabegerman 
on 02/21 at 02:59 PM -
THINGS JUST GOT WORSE:
As was the case with many things the Bush administration touched, the federal budget was gamed in such a way to make the deficit problems look smaller than they actually were. But now Obama and his team are set to change that.
Only problem? The deficit is going to get a lot bigger.
How much?
Try $2.7 trillion.
From NY Times:
WASHINGTON — For his first annual budget next week, President Obama has banned four accounting gimmicks that President George W. Bush used to make deficit projections look smaller. The price of more honest bookkeeping: A budget that is $2.7 trillion deeper in the red over the next decade than it would otherwise appear, according to administration officials.
The new accounting involves spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Medicare reimbursements to physicians and the cost of disaster responses.
Mr. Obama’s banishment of the gimmicks, which have been widely criticized, is in keeping with his promise to run a more transparent government.
#5 Posted by Buzzion on 02/25 at 11:28 AM -
The new accounting involves spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Medicare reimbursements to physicians and the cost of disaster responses.
Mr. Obama’s banishment of the gimmicks, which have been widely criticized, is in keeping with his promise to run a more transparent government
Which then allows to him to cut down these things like military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan so he can claim to have reduced the deficit. Just not in any meaningful way.
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#1 Posted by wannabegerman
on 02/14 at 10:12 AM -
Definitely shady. I do feel some urgency for the government to take action, but the Obamer seems to be taking advantage of the situation. Exploitation of the American people and Congress in the name of the crisis isn’t cool.