President Obama tried to make the argument today that he’s the real small-government leader, not Reagan and other Republicans.
“After there was a recession under Ronald Reagan, government employment went way up,” Obama said at a college in Albany, N.Y. “It went up after the recessions under the first George Bush and the second George Bush. So each time there was a recession with a Republican president, compensated — we compensated by making sure that government didn’t see a drastic reduction in employment.”
“The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me,” he continued. “So I make that point just so you don’t buy into this whole bloated government argument that you hear.”
The purpose of the speech was for Obama to announce his “to-do list” for Congress — “just like when Michelle gives me a list, I check it off.”
“I’m going to need you to pick up the phone, write an email, tweet, remind your member of Congress we can’t afford to wait until November to get things done,” Obama said.
I don’t mind waiting Mr. President. Most everyone I talk to is doing just that.
No administration has reduced aggregate government spending as a precentage of GDP as much as Obama’s in forty years. If you look at the full chart, back to George HW Bush, you reach an inescapable conclusion: the biggest spenders and borrowers are Republicans and the most fiscally conservative presidents have been Democrats. Given the last two decades, the Tea Party, if they really want to shrink government, should be voting for Obama.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/04/business/economy/off-the-charts-shrinking-government.html?ref=economy
Oh, so this is the new narrative…
Obama racked up more debt than Washington through Clinton combined? Obama racked up as much debt in 3 years as his much-derided predecessor did in 8? 8+% unemployment? More like 12+% if we count people who gave up looking for a job? Gasoline prices doubling since Obama took over? Real inflation at 10+% per year?
But we must be thankful that Obammy “shrunk” government, according to some wacky formula compiled by one of Obammy’s cheerleaders.
“Facts are a stubborn thing …”
As they say, figures don’t lie………but liars figure.
That’s true, facts don’t lie. Read the chart, Cynic, the so-called “gains” have been in limiting increase in military spending (while somehow committing us to an “illegal war” in Libya). The actual shrinkage has been at the state and local government level.
Now, I wonder how Obama takes credit for that? Oh! I know, Bailouts don’t count, and localities have had to tighten their belts while our Dear Leader runs around campaigning and Michelle takes vacations. On the other hand maybe Dear Leader’s constant campaign stops have been to convince those pesky local governments that they should stop spending money – like on golfing trips!
Do NOT post numbers to support your claims when an simple inspection of those numbers say just the opposite.
It just make you appear – illiterate.
CW You are so sould out it’s hard to know where to start.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/08/another-liberal-myth-down-the-drain/
Facts are stubborn things. Especially the Real facts and not your made up pretzle logic facts.
Of course! The story you linked explains why all the federal, state and local government worker’s unions are supporting Republicans, year after year. On the other hand, maybe it means that the NYT is using statistical voodoo to fool ignorant fools like you, Cynic. I wonder which is more likely?
This is the latest meme coming from Krugman. It was picked up by Invictus at Barry Rithotz’s blog, The “Big Picture” and destroyed by Karl Dennninger at Market-Ticker. It came from, no surprise here, Paul Krugman and is a myriad of misleading statistics. First, it is a rate of change chart, not a chart of absolute numbers. So, as Obama started from a higher base, even an absolute increase in spending may look like a smaller percentage change. Second, as pointed out, most of the reductions came at the state and local level where governments cannot deficit spend. The only response to this idiocy is to point and laugh.
There are facts and there are statistics. These are statistics. As one of my professors in the subject once told me, “I can make the statistics show you whatever I want them to tell you.” And that is true. Can pigs fly? I could compile the statistics to show you just how they do it.
Yep, Facts are a “stubborn thing” especially when they are couched in creative bookkeeping and manipulated to the point of irrelevance.
The facts are, demoncrats are the most expensive politicians around, Republicrats aren’t much better, BUT, THEY ARE BETTER!
It’s time for a purge, top to bottom – all the socialists/marxists/communists/liberals got to go! They’re destroying the country and what they replace it with will NOT be anything we can recognize as America OR that we will want to be subject to!
You can make anything sound good through statistics, figures, etc. until one looks at what they really mean, what they are derived from, and what truth the statement is designed to divert you from. As a statement this one is stuffed with misleading facts and is in fact, rather meaningless.
So, if you disagree with what has been presented tell us why, in detail, what you find wrong or inconsistent? I agree you “can make anything sound good through statistics, figures, etc. until one looks at what they really mean, what they are derived from, and what truth the statement is designed to divert you from.” So can you tell us what they really mean, what they are derived from, and what truth the statement is designed to diver us from?
“As a statement this one is stuffed with misleading facts and is in fact, rather meaningless.”
So, tell us Mr. Expert, what (in detail) is misleading or meaningless, other than the fact that the truth doesn’t support what you already want to believe and you just don’t like President Obama because he’s a big old poopy pants.
The simple fact is republican Presidents have always been of the borrow and blow variety. Democrats, not so much.
Oh I know I look like my daddy but now I see the “F” I got in economics was because my professor did not know these things. Hail Caesar ! I mean Barack Obama!!!
Seriously, how much did you get paid for this nonsense or are you a regular re-election hack?
President Obama has shrunk government as a percentage of GDP more than Reagan. That one hurts. I can tell. But don’t let facts interfere with what you want to believe.
Hey Hack, Gross Domestic Production Shrinkage (that’s been in the worst slump in 50 years) has been artificially propped up by government deficit spending… I’ve looked at the twisted thinking to support your (et al.) ridiculous assertion and have decided you aren’t serious or expect a typical Obomite not to understand the issue.
Fact check: federal employment stayed between 1.1 and 1.2 million workers between 1981 and 2008. It spiked to 2.15 million between 2008 and 2010 under your hero.
The recent reductions are primarily in military personnel and it’s still over 1.7 million.
In addition, federal salaries have increased dramatically compared with salaries in the private sector.
Yes, total government spending as a percentage of GDP has declined over the last three years. State-and-local spending has declined over the last three years by 15.3%, while FEDERAL SPENDING IS UP 19.3%.
So… how is what happened at the state-and-local level in any way attributable to Obama?
So now adding a quarter million jobs to the federal payroll is shrinking the federal government. Just how stupid and ignorant are you?
CW You are so sould out it’s hard to know where to start.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/08/another-liberal-myth-down-the-drain/
Facts are stubborn things. Especially the Real facts and not your made up pretzle logic facts.
Where the hell did all our tax money go with such a small govt? In Obama’s sugar daddies’ pockets? Michelle put it away in her off shore accounts during her numerous Antoinette tours?
He is either a liar who spends trillions for a bigger govt., or a moron who wastes trillions on a smaller govt. Take your pick: a liar or a moron.
Cynical — You’re not cynical. You’re a dem op and it’s no wonder, you’re a suck-up.
The decline in gov’t employees was from retirement. Obama had nothing to do with it.
Sigh…here we go again. OK first, we need to start with the skeptics eye. When one sees a chart or two that seem so counter intuitive it makes your hair hurt, then maybe we should step back and say hmm, it’s counter-intuitive and in the New York Times, so there may be some grain of truth in it.
Second, Cynical, you have no statistics background and very little math in your education. I can tell because you so willingly accept the numbers as presented without nary a pause to see if they’re inaccurate or incomplete. And these are. Worse the people that printed these numbers know this and that’s probably more disturbing than your willful and unquestioning ignorance.
I leave with this question, and not just for you but those on both sides of the aisle. If government actually has gone down, gotten smaller, where did the money go? The only answer I can come up with is that we are now a kleptocracy that makes African dictatorships look like pikers.
So now we’re to believe that your jug-eared hero did not quadruple the deficit in less than one year? You clowns aren’t even good liars.
Couldn’t have said it better myself! Reduced government spending?? Can you say Solyndra?
Note that the troll is ready with the appropriate talking point at just the right time. Well paid staff do these things. Only the lies aren’t working.
“Given the last two decades, the Tea Party, if they really want to shrink government, should be voting for Obama.”
Actually they should be voting for Ron Paul, the most small-government guy in all of Congress for decades. But the Taxed Enough Already Party was hijacked by big-government fake conservative hypocrites.
Ron Paul: “I want to cut a trillion dollars of waste and eliminate the income tax and IRS.”
Taxed Enough Already Party: “Nah!”
Wow, and we’ve had this wrong all the time. What country will I wake up in next, Argentina?
Umm, yup…the New York Times, absolute font of honest and unbiased opinion.
Judging by the response by you and the others I can tell this one hit a nerve! That’s good. A little truth from outside your own echo chamber is a good thing, even if it is the NYT. As Harry Truman said, ” I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” I feel for you guys …
One thing that this demonstrates to me is that none of you will accept anything that doesn’t already support what you want to believe. This is the mindset of a typical low-information voter.
So Obammy could now say “I like to fire government workers” ?
Cynic Wonderful
People never get what they want…
BUT
They always get what they deserve!
Maybe America “deserves” BHO?
Maybe BHO is the final demise of this once great nation?
Just maybe BHO is Nero reincarnant, here to burn us down to ashes.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA…ohh boy let me catch my breath…okay…HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Getting info from the NYTimes means that the info needs to be verified through a different source because the Times distorts the “facts” so often as not to be believed. As Mark Twain said “figures can lie and liars figure”, I am sure the Times dug up numbers to support their position but do these numbers accurately represent the “facts”. I will have to check it out later today.
It is obvious that this writer must be speaking cynically. He has reduced the government all right. Reduced to one, himself dictating to the American people what they want and how they should get it through the government. Disagreement is not tolerated while making the claims to be the most tolerant. Crushing the constitution while claiming to be a constitutional lawyer. Ruling by executive order while blaming the congress and senate for his mistakes.
Hopefully, he will destroy himself before he destroys the country. America will never be the same after this president finishes his term.
Doc,
BHO is just accelerating the process set in place years earlier by Woodrow and FDR.
The Marxist theme is being reinacted for it’s final death knell on America.
Grab your wet suite and life vest because the water is really cold and it’s a long swim to new land
It shouldn’t be hard to prove what you say. Of course you need to also say that under his leadership(or lack thereof), our GDP has shrunk so much that all his has to do is lay off 2 government worker’s to prove your point. Have you even read the unemployment figures?
And all federal employees and the unions that represent federal employees should support Republicans?
Obama has created more debt in 3 years than George Bush did in 8 years
Actually, the major hiring frenzy isn’t until after the 2013 Innauguration. It’s set up to escalate as ObamaCare kicks in, IRS employees explode, State governments forced to meet mandates contained; medicare and social security; the executive orders signed and the increased regulations of the EPA, Homeland Security, TSA, Regulations! Land grabs! Business takeovers! Assets siezed. Basiclaly, all employment will be the government; you may not get paid but you’ll have a fairly efficient camp to live in.
Cynical Wonderment
Both candidates will maintain the spend thrigt “Statist” Quo…!
Both will be forced to either borrow, raise taxes or do both to contine to pay for the now “exponential” growth rate of entitlements WE can no longer afford.
Only Ron Paul had the correct response…
CUT ONE DOLLARS TRILLION immediately from the Federal Budget
and balance the budget in three years.
That is the ONLY sane choice
But NOOOOO! They insist on spending US into a Black Hole.
We’ve reached the Event Horizon, and their solution is More Spending Scotty!
Give er more spending!
The balls on that guy!
The balls on that guy!
Prez Barack from the very beginning has been in the habit of bald-faced turnspeak, asserting the exact opposite of what the facts show. He knows that doing this will work, cuz Bob and Jon and George and Ba Ba and Joy and George and Ellen and Oprah and Matt and everybody agrees that the gubmint’s way is the right way, and must not be stopped.
It’s a final, official conversion to socialism that they don’t want to see stopped. So the opinion programmers in the news entertainment industry, academe, bureaucracy, the unions and the pulpit will all work to prop of the Prez’s fictive realities. Sure, if you wanna get serious about it he and Barney and Nancy and Harry are bald-faced liars, but hey we all can agree to disagree. Jefferson said you can have your own opinion but you can’t have your own facts. Time have changed.
“Turnspeak.”
I’d never heard it before, but the term fills a definite semantic need. Thanks!
Try ‘JiveSpeak?’
There is much debate on where the term turnspeak came from. I subscribe to the theory that Hitler first used it with his outrageous claim that he had no choice but to invade the Sudetenland to protect the beleaguered German ethnic minority there. Turnspeak is a very important practice now, what with the pervasiveness of 24/7 news entertainment and opinion programming afoot in education and gubmint.
Turnspeak first came out of the closet in the much quoted CIA communications handbook from the 1960s (I think). It taught that the best lie to tell was a Big Lie, followed up by steady repetition of it over all available media.
We’ve since devolved from reality to fictive reality. That’s my pet theory, Fictive Reality. This is why Mitt is trailing Prez Barack Hussein in the polls. Barack has bad facts, but great media. Bingo.
I get it…
Turnspeak = lier and turn coat traitor all rolled into one
Works for me!
From the internet: Guess where turnspeak was first employed as a propaganda tool? In March 1939, some enterprising journalists recognized that Adolf Hitler was using “the big lie” in justifying Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Whose fault was it that Germany was forced to invade? It was the fault of the Czechs, of course. They were trying, Hitler claimed, to provoke a regional war by attempting to claim their land as their own.
“Thus the plight of the German minority in Czechoslovakia was merely a pretext … for cooking up a stew in a land he coveted, undermining it, confusing and misleading its friends and concealing his real purpose … to destroy the Czech state and grab its territories,” wrote William L. Shirer about Hitler’s gambit.
Actually, he’s been smoking and inhaling.
If he had balls he would not have needed a memo blaming the military if the obl mission failed.
When he talks about government employment, does he refer to the Federal Government? Or, is he including state and local government entities that unlike the federal government had no choice, but to adjust to the new economic realities?
So he’s acting like losing jobs he didn’t want to lose in gov’t sectors he didn’t want to lose them in was a plan all along. Great. Leave it to a liberal to indulge in enough semantic gibberish and doublethink to always be right, even when they completely fail. Oh, that atom bomb that accidentally destroyed Rhode Island, we were going to saw that off anyway – this way was cheaper and a tough love project too.
Hes got nothing so at this stage and on into the fall this is ewat your gonna get.Its called throwing everthing at the wall and hoping something sticks.This is what happens when a bunch of prissy, metrosexual, overpaid stuck up white guys run your campaign.
2008 4,206 2009 2,774 1,591 66 4,430 2010 4 2,776 1,602 64 4,443
Number of Federal Employees
2008 4,206,000
2009 4,430,000
2010 4,443,000
http://www.opm.gov/feddata/HistoricalTables/TotalGovernmentSince1962.asp
I guess math is above his pay grade too
I guess math is above his pay grade too.
Hey, he’s a double whammy Ivy Leaguer, and an Editor in Chief to boot. It’s been reported he has an IQ of 275, which would put him up there with Newton and Einstein. He even bragged to reporters during his 2008 campaign that he could go without policy wonks, cuz he was a wonk on all the important stuff. Still is. If the public wants curtailed gubmint spending, well hell, he’s smart enough to claim that he cut gubmint spending. Simple as that. And, smartly, it’ll work.
I’ve always found it amazing that he could be a Law Review Editor (in charge), and never have written an article. never. He couldn’t even write his own autobiography, eh? LOL.
It fits – he’s really done anything except community organize, found ACORN, etc. He hardly ever showed up in the senate, missed more votes than Eric Holder has told lies…hmm that is alot…anyway. Point is Obama has no real record now or since. He’s a cheap pantomime.
Classic response Jay!
I know I can always count on Oblameo for a good laugh.
Obama is such a liar, it’s embarrassing
Rich K says: This is what happens when a bunch of prissy, metrosexual, overpaid stuck up white guys run your campaign.
A Democrat cannot open his mouth without lying.
“A Democrat cannot open his mouth without lying.”
Oh? Please explain how Teddy Kennedy got so big, then.
“Please explain how Teddy Kennedy got so big…”
He ate a lot.
Is he including all the people employed by General Motors that are now effectively government employees? How about all the other employees at entirely government funded companies like Solyndra, Beacon, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, Eastern Energy etc.
You’re all over-analyzing this. The only proper response…
…after me…
Gigantic, vastly amused, belly-laugh. One of those that just goes on and on…
File this one under “bending the cost curve”, “shovel ready jobs”, “if you like your insurance you can keep it” and “the 21st century green economy.”
Really, is anyone surprised by this stuff any more?
this is pure alinski, right out of their revolutionary manual. take your opponents strong points and claim them as your own. claiming to be a small gov guy is like jimmy carter claiming to be an ultimate fighter. nobody believes that crap. the reason he is claiming stuff like this is because his own core beliefs are so repugnant to the average American.
you are spot on with that analysis…
Don’t forget about the contractors too. As usual, the flim-flam man is waving phony numbers around knowing the MSM won’t challenge them. Romney’s team needs to get Rep. Issa’s take on the real federal employment numbers, including “community outreach” organizations hired to sign people up for government benefits, and pound the truth right up Obama’s you know what.
No doubt we’ve had presidents before with holes in their consciences but never one with no conscience whatsoever.
Until now.
@Jay, #7. A better number to use from the table you linked to is the number of civilian federal employees within the Executive Branch, which is probably currently around 2.7 million. The 4.4 million figure you cited includes the armed forces.
Looking at the historical figures in the first column of the table, one sees that the number of Executive Branch employees increased by around 1% each year during Reagan’s two terms in office (irrespective of the recession), remained flat during George H. W. Bush’s one term in office, decreased by around 2% a year during each year of Clinton’s two terms, and then remained flat during George W. Bush’s two terms. So on this basis, I’d say that President Pinochio has flat out lied about the trend in both Bush administrations, shaved the truth about the Reagan administration, and forgot to credit Bill Clinton for doing what no one else seems to have done, which is to cut the OFFICIAL government work force. I capitalize the word OFFICIAL, because everyone in DC knows that the federal government hires a lot of civilian contractors to do work that keeps the wheels of government moving. Without the “Beltway Bandits” government operations would quickly grind to a halt. None of the employment figures take those armies of contractors into account. Without them, the employment figures are a total Alice in Wonderland fiction.
“and forgot to credit Bill Clinton for doing what no one else seems to have done, which is to cut the OFFICIAL government work force.”
Some credit is due Clinton, and a great deal to the House Republicans.
NO credit is due to Clinton. By his own official admission, the reduction was solely due to gutting the military; the number of non-military bureaucrats went up.
Of course, gutting the military and refusing to defend the country by Clinton led directly to 9/11.
Clinton bombing the Middle East led to 9/11. Well, along with all the other times the U.S. couldn’t keep its nose out of other countries’ business.
There’s a press conference video of Ron Paul back in 1998 or so after Clinton threw bombs around. It might be the maddest I’ve seen Ron Paul in the previous 10 years. They asked him if he was going to vote to impeach Clinton, and he said yes, but he said the Lewinsky stuff is tame compared to the real reason Clinton should be impeached: bombings of other countries “that are liable to start a war” and that “will increase terrorism against the U.S.”
Ron Paul correctly predicting the future, as usual.
I have to laugh thinking about that… remember when all the “experts” didn’t see the housing bubble coming? Except of course Ron Paul who spoke about it five years before it happened.
Obama is right of course. He has been cutting a lot of positions in the bloated government. Mainly for precisely this moment in time, so he can try to convince people he is “Super-Reagan”. Unfortunately for America though, he is replacing those he doesn’t need, such as: Congress, The Supreme Court, and anything else that reminds him of a Constitutional Republic with his totalitarian, rat Marxist Czars and thug unionist Chicago crime family. If Obama isn’t stopped, we will be.
rat Marxist Czars
I love this phrase. It captures what besieges us today. Makes me wanna go and read some Dostoevsky. Getting dark on Romanovs and Pinkos can take ones mind off Barack, Bernie, Nancy and Harry. From Nicholas to Stalin was bad; from Reagan to Obama is beyond the pale.
I hope he had his nomex underwear on.
he doesn’t mean the number we are paying has declined, he means that the number of government employees who actually perform work has declined.
Let’s see…… Chrysler/GM takeover, huge IRS employment increase, big EPA regulators increase, takeover of student loans, and let’s not forget Obamacare (1/6 of our economy) or the Dodd-Frank financial business takeover (yes it is).
Sure… he is a small govt guy. He’s also selling waterfront property in New Mexico.
He says he’s the smartest…..must mean he’s not.
BS detector just overloaded. Breaker tripped. Offline indefinitely.
employment among non-governmental employees has gone down, too!
Federal employment has skyrocketed under Comrade Obama, of course. Like with the SEALs, he is taking credit for something the state governments have done.
Can’t SOMEONE take a freakin’ baseball bat to this moron? Hell, it seems his staff are complete morons…who’s guarding the coop?
The knock at the door in the middle of tonight is from the Secret Service sent home from Columbia to look into violence threats on the Prez. Fair warning!
Wow. Just wow. What a moron. 52% of the electorate put this SCoAMF in office.
The only shrinkage is in state and local spending, over which Obama has no control. Furthermore, state and local governments can’t print money; they have to live within their budgets and with the economy in the toilet, no wonder the state and local budgets shrank. Obama’s claim that he’s shrunk government is pure bs.
Proverbial Nail on the Head Mr. Aitken.
Big government or small government; it is not a matter of counting employees. It is the intrusion into our lives bothers small government advocates.
*shrug*
You used to see this all the time on the old Yahoo MBs as well when some libs would start claiming that “We’re the *real* conservatives” or “We’re the ones who are *really* Pro-Life. If you cared enough to call them on it then you rely upon being entertained with some truly twisted logic as they tried to justified what they has wrote to themselves as well as to you. But I still thought it worth reading. That’s because somewhere around 2000 to 2003 or so I came to the conclusion that what you see libs post on the Yahoo MBs today will be what they say publicly in the future and this way you wouldn’t be too shocked at their gall to respond when they did it. Nice to know this still seems to be the case.
Have you noticed Obama is making ever-more-weird claims? I mean, just bizarre assertions that are false on their face. I hear him say off the wall stuff like this, and it’s so creepy it gives me an out-of-body experience:
I’m in a two-star general’s air-conditioned double-wide trailer outside of Saigon. I’ve been asked there for lunch with the general and some guy in civvies who’s obviously a spook. I’ve just had played for me some frighteningly unhinged rantings of a person of high-rank, whom the general said had “very obviously gone…insane.”……
Poor Obama. Nobody told him that you will go to Hell for lyin’ just the same as if he wuz stealin’ chickens.
Funny, I don’t see <b<Pass a Budget on the to do list for Congress. I wonder why that is.
Shorter Obama: “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.”
Here’s the bottom line: do you feel better now than you did four years ago?
I think most people don’t. Despite the legacy media being completely in the tank for The Won, their chirpy pro-The Won stories can’t make people forget high gas prices, foreclosures, job losses, and a general sense The Won would prefer to be golfing, or on vacation, rather than governing.
We’ve had four years of a childish ideologues who’ve been perfectly happy to run this country into the ground to prove their faculty lounge theories. Enough. They’ve been in too long for any good thay may have done. In the name of God, le them go.
A better question might be: do you feel better than you did eight or 12 years ago?
Probably not. So, either way, let’s elect Bush’s fourth term. Obama or Romney, very similar. Supporters of TARP, bailouts, Patriot Act, NDAA indefinite detention, policing the world, The Fed…. plus with Obama and Romney, we also get gun grabbing and health care mandates. awesome.
EVERYBODY KNOWS OBAMA DON’T DO MATH.
He can’t even get a budget introduced into Congress that he can get his own lackeys to talk about. They reject it straight out. Man! It’s gotta be pretty bad.
Obama’s like a suicide bomber at a wedding reception.
We know what’s coming.
When he starts making arguments that he is Napoleon, send in guys in white suits.
That would be racist.
If there is anything I’ve learned about Barack Obama it is this: When he makes a claim the truth is almost always the opposite.
“Unemployment will never exceed 8 percent”
“If you like your health plan you can keep it.”
“These jobs are shovel-ready.”
Was he just clowning around or was being seriously stupid?
Lying is their first and primary tool.
obama is so far beyond orwellian that he couldn’t recognize the truth if he saw it.
He’ll say anything they write for him.
As long as he has the lifestyle of an emperor and power greater than any person who ever lived, he’s down with whatever they write down.
He enjoys lying. It’s probably his greatest pleasure. Next to destroying western civilization and punishing anybody who thinks the triumphs of the west are admirable.
Will the real moron please stand-up.
His legacy will be the biggest liar in the Oval office ever….and not only has he saved Jimmy Carter’s reputation, he has given Bill Clinton some space to breathe, he will only now be the 2nd biggest liar of all time.
Obama-nation – LMAO, tell us Americans whem we can stop laughing hysterically!
Of course, the 100,000 new IRS agents required under the health-insurance-overhaul law, and the $46billion sucked from the economy by his 104 new regulations, do not count as government employment.
And don’t forget all the unvetted Czars
There’s only one real small-government presidential candidate. Ron Paul.
To Get Ron Paul’s Insanity, You Have To Understand Libertarianism
“Libertarianism is to authentic conservatism what Barack Obama is to 19th century liberalism” http://bit.ly/vBBvkk
“The federal government filled a net 59,995 and 47,062 new permanent, full-time, non-seasonal, non-postal jobs. Combined, that means that federal employment rose by 107,057 jobs.” – WHAT ‘reduction’!?
AND we ALL know the recession was created/caused and protected by Democrats!
Subprime Disaster: Clinton Confesses (Read: brags) on video! bit(dot)ly/po3wDZ
The True Origins of Financial Crisis bit(dot)ly/u58b
Reid’s Sudden Regret bit(dot)ly/oRQ3Sl
Cynical has to be a democrat operative, who else can get so totally dismantled by responses and think they’ve won just because he/she “hit a nerve”! If going on conservative sites and getting dressed down is their idea of winning activism it doesn’t say much for their hopes, but it does say a lot about their desperation. Maybe we should go on mainstream sites more and hit them with reality. Maybe a few dupacrats who don’t know their party has been hijacked by the far left (probably 70%) will pull their heads out of their nether regions in time for the election.
That’s the BIGGEST crock of crap I’ve heard today. He takes credit for things he hasn’t done and lies about things others HAVE done.
Congress has a moral and constitutional responsibility to reject 0bama’s “to do list” and remind this pr**k that he is not a Caesar but the chief executive of a constitutional republic.
One thing I know for sure, I do not want to live under a Communist regime. That’s what Obama wants to do to this country with his “CHANGE” policy. He’s deliberately dismantling this nation. piece-by-piece, and setting us up for foreign conquerers. He’s given our sovereignty to the UN. He’s bypassed Congress, and set it up so they can confiscate your lands, at-will. He’s bankrupted this country to make it weaker.
Just look at his friends, most are all Communists,terrorists, and Muslims. And they are now in the White House, dictating your way of life. Obama went to a Muslim school in Indonesia. He detests Christians, and works against them. He supports most things that are evil and rejects the good things. Woe to the people who support him. We don’t live long on this planet, but in after-life, that is eternity. What you do in this life, you will reap the consequences when you go six feet under.
If you look at the charts you will see that most of the government shrinkage under Obama is out of the military. This is the one place we can’t afford it.
Billions for his crony green capitalist friends but not one cent for the military.
The US Department of Labor Statistics says the permanent full time jobs increase from December 2008 to January 2011 for the US Federal Government was approximately 153,000.
So, basically the US Federal Government has been increasing at a rate of approximately 77,000 full time Federal jobs per year since Obama has taken over.
Those are Federal Government Administrative jobs under the Obama Administrative branch; they do not include military, Congressional, or jobs under any other part of the Federal Government, nor do they include part time jobs.
Could it be that he is the REAL small government president because of his dictator-style?
This is a joke, right? He can’t be serious. Is this for SNL? This is one of the best one-liners I’ve heard in almost 4 years!
If you believe this garbage from Obama I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale at a really good price.
So you ALL are arguing over trival factoids.
Government has increased from a mere 3% of GDP in 1913 to a whopping 38% today!
And both parties want to grow it to 50%!
It’s like arguing which stray broke the camels back
What’s the point which President or which Party grew government faster…
The POINT is that Government is TOO BIG!
WE the PEOPLE can’t afford YOU the Government!
You’ve promised and spent and spent and promised US into a huge economic HOLE!
Government OVERHEAD (regs, taxes, entitlements etc.) have become a cancer on our economic engine, adding so much burden that WE the PEOPLE can no longer compete in a shrinking gobal market…!
AND
Now both parties are arguing over who gets the shovel next to KEEP DIGGING!
What part of “Spending Problem” does our Government NOT understand??
Maybe this CPA’s explanation might jar some thinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW5IdwltaAc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
So this political season we’ll continue to
“gag on gnats” (gay marriage) and “swallow camels” (King Kong National Debt)
Yes…. lets just keep arranging those deck chairs and ignore the ice water around our ankles!
TEA
I cant believe Obama can tell all these whoppers with a straight face. If anybody believes him I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell them.