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The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this BULL

Posted by Dennis Rhea on August 5, 2011 at 3:33pm
DO NOT RAISE TAXES, THE CLOWN IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS ALREADY GETTING OVER 160.00 MORE A MONTH FROM ME BY LETTING THE MAKING WORK PAY TAX CREDIT EXPIRED DECEMBER 31, 2010, WHAT IN THE HELL WAS THIS IF IT WAS NOT A TAX INCREASE THAT TOOK MONEY AWAY FROM MY FAMILY WHILE THE STATE DEPARTMENT SPEND OVER 770 MILLION FIXING MOSQUES AND OBAMA WANTING TO GIVE AMNESTY TO 30 MILLION LAW BREAKERS (ILLEGALS). THE HOUSE PASSED AN OUTSTANDING BILL BUT THE SENATOR LAP DOGS OF OBAMA VOTED IT DOWN SO OBAMA CAN CONTINUE THIS SPENDING WAYS UNTIL HE SPENDS US INTO BANKRUPHY. THIS TAX DOES TAKE INTO THE ACCOUNT OF ALL THE OTHER TAXES ON OUR PHONES, LIGHT BILLS ETC, CONGRESS IS TAXING US TO DEATH AND NOW THE CLOWN WANTS MORE OF OUR MONEY AND THIS IS FROM SOMEONE THAT NEVER WORKED A HONEST DAY IN HIS LIVE.

GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER OR BE REPLACE BY TEA PARTY MEMBERS IN THE NEXT ELECTION.
The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this BULL.
So once more, a short civics lesson.
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for FY 2008 & FY 2009 as well as FY 2010 & FY 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009. Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period: (below)
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
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Granted Obama wanted a $2.4 Trillion increase in the debt limit but this not something to celebrate.

Posted by Dennis Rhea on August 5, 2011 at 3:28pm
Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, has caved in to Barack Obama's demands for an increase in the debt ceiling.
Boehner has said he will support a $1 Trillion increase in the national debt limit. Granted Obama wanted a $2.4 Trillion increase in the debt limit but this not something to celebrate.
It's like arguing with a thief who wants to steal all your money and finally agrees to only take half. You might be relieved that he didn't take it all but it's still a very bad outcome.
It’s time to end our addiction to deficit spending.
We can’t keep borrowing money so we can spend money we don’t have.
If we do not, there will be a day of reckoning and it will not
be a good day for the United States of America.
We need to remind Speaker Boehner, and all other Republican members of Congress, that they weren't put in charge of the House of Representatives to engage in discussions of how much to raise the debt limit. They were put in charge to stop the insanity of decades of deficit spending.
The House of Representatives votes on Wednesday. Republicans have a historic opportunity to finally force the government to live within its means. All they have to do is refuse to raise the debt limit.
It's a showdown between big spending, big government liberals led by Barack Obama, and conservative tea party Republicans who were elected to rein in out of control government spending and save our country from bankruptcy.
Now is the time for all patriotic Americans who stand with the tea party Republicans to make their voices heard in Washington, D.C. Tell the politicians NO to back room deals and compromises. NO to more taxes. NO to spending money we don't have.
A smear campaign has been waged against the members of Congress who want to do the responsible thing and call a halt to the deficit spending.
Make no mistake about it. We are in a battle for the soul of America with a greedy and voracious government that is never satisfied with the amount of our hard-earned money that they take from our paychecks and spend as they please.
There is no limit to the amount of spending they want. No matter how much they get, they always, without exception, want more.
Because of this we have a crushing national debt of $14 TRILLION dollars. The interest alone on that debt costs $200 billion every year--and that could skyrocket if interest rates went up. But $14 Trillion is not enough for Obama. When he took office the national debt was "only" $10 TRILLION.
Now, he's asking for another $2.4 TRILLION--and even though we are in the worst recession since the Great Depression, he wants higher taxes on top of that. Our country cannot survive a continuation of the irresponsible policies of the last two and half years.
Don't let the Republicans sell us out and rubber stamp another increase in the debt limit. Republicans hold all the cards. They just need the guts to say NO to continued deficit spending.
Our debt numbers have no parallel in history. We now borrow 42 cents of every dollar we spend. We borrow the money from China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, to name a few of our biggest creditors. Obama has racked up more debt than any other President in American history. In fact, he is on course to be responsible for more national debt than all other Presidents combined.
This is not a polite argument between two equally valid philosophies. This is a struggle for survival. Our massive national debt threatens us with destruction. It threatens the greatest economic system the world has ever seen. It threatens our individual liberty and free choice--because the bigger the government gets, the more our rights are threatened.
The future of our country hangs in the balance. Will you answer the call?
Send your urgent and personalized Faxes to Speaker John Boehner and the Republican members of Congress. Tell them to end the outrageous spending policies of Barack Obama and the Democrats.


Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and the left-wing media are all lying to us.
They say that America will default on our obligations to bondholders if we don't raise the debt limit.
Not true!
They say that America will default on our obligations to pay Social Security or Medicare to our senior citizens who have earned it.
Not true!
The federal government collects $200 billion every month in taxes and fees--more than enough to cover our bond interest payments, Social Security, Medicare, military pay and all veteran's
The proof is in the pudding. If Republicans compromise with Obama, it will prove that all the talk about reining in out-of-control government spending and bringing much needed tax relief to patriotic Americans who are still struggling under the oppressive grip of the Obama recession, was nothing but campaign rhetoric. The American people do not want Congress to raise the debt ceiling, yet, Speaker Boehner himself is proposing an increase. Will our “leaders” ever listen? Apparently not! Instead, time after time they have gone to the bargaining table and sacrificed Republican principles on the altar of political compromise. No more business as usual. This must stop or the Republican Party will pay the price of defeat.
Instead of drawing a line in the sand, Speaker Boehner offered concessions. At one point Boehner was not only ready to raise the debt limit but he was willing to raise taxes by a staggering $800 billion!
Meanwhile there was no compromise from Obama and Democrats. Obama threatened to veto a Republican plan to combine raising the debt limit with spending cuts and a balanced budget amendment. When the bill passed the House, Obama vowed: "If it passes the Senate... I'll VETO it.”
As it turned out, Obama didn’t have to veto the bill. Harry Reid tabled it without a debate and that was that. A full debate with allowance for amendments might have produced a reasonable outcome, but there was no compromise from the democrats and now, it would appear that Cut, Cap and Balance is dead and our Republican leaders, instead of taking the fight to Barack Obama, have resorted to Washington habit of compromise.
The time has come to tell the Republicans in Congress that we are fed up watching them emerge from behind closed doors and announce a deal that compromises away our principles. If that happens again, and they try to railroad through another bill before anyone has a chance to read it, they will be destroying the Republican Party. Send your faxes today. Tell them where you stand. It’s important to stand up and be counted on this vital issue.
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