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- May 17, 2008
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Talking about closing the barn door after the horses escape. In the first five months of this administration President Obama has tripled the size of an already bloated federal deficit.
Shouldn't he have thought of this pay as you go thing BEFORE the porkulus, his massive budget or all of those bail out funds? At this rate the share of deficit owed by each man, woman and child will be over $150K by 2019.These Obama deficits are working their way to crippling the economy.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged Congress to pay for new increases in federal benefit programs as it goes rather than sink the nation deeper into a debt, calling it a matter of public responsibility. Republicans lashed back that Obama is no voice of fiscal restraint as the deficit soars.
The president's plan would require Congress to pay for new entitlement spending, such as health care, by raising taxes or coming up with budget cuts — a "pay-as-you-go" system that would have the force of law. Under the proposal, if new spending or tax reductions are not offset, there would be automatic cuts in so-called mandatory programs — although Social Security payments and some other programs would be exempt.
Not noted by the president: Tuesday's plan is a watered-down version of the so-called "PAYGO" rules proposed just last month in his own budget plan.
Shouldn't he have thought of this pay as you go thing BEFORE the porkulus, his massive budget or all of those bail out funds? At this rate the share of deficit owed by each man, woman and child will be over $150K by 2019.These Obama deficits are working their way to crippling the economy.