Restore earmark spending to pre-1994 levels (Comments)
"Barack Obama is committed to returning earmarks to less than $7.8 billion a year, the level they were at before 1994." — Obama's "The Change We Need In Washington"
Cut federal contract spending by at least 10 percent (Comments)
"Barack Obama will reform federal contracting and reduce the number of contractors, saving $40 billion a year." — Obama's "The Change We Need In Washington"
Improve contracting operations (Comments)
"Barack Obama will hire more contract managers and improve training." — Obama's "The Change We Need In Washington"
Cut waste in federal budget (Comments)
"I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less…" — 8/28/08, Denver
Pay for job programs by cutting spending elsewhere (Comments)
"I'll pay for every part of this job-creation agenda by ending this war in Iraq that's costing us billions, closing tax loopholes for corporations, putting a price on carbon pollution, and ending George Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans." — 2/24/08, Lorain, Ohio
Reinstate pay-as-you-go budget rules (Comments)
"Obama will reinstate pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) budget rules, so that new spending or tax cuts are paid for by spending cuts or new revenue elsewhere." — Obama's Blueprint for Change
If you know of other promises about government spending,
please add them to comments.
There are only three ways for a government to spend money it does not have: borrow, raise taxes, or simply print more money. President–Elect Barack Obama unveiled his trillion dollar economic stimulus package on January 8, the proposed American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, which he hopes to sign in the early days of his administration.
Already facing a trillion dollar deficit in fiscal year 2009, the proposed stimulus plan would require the federal government to borrow one-third of its budget, approaching 10 percent of GDP. Trillion dollar deficits are not sustainable and could lead to future financial crises and runaway inflation. When the government spends money, it takes the money from the private sector. When government borrows money, it mortgages the future.
America is getting sticker shock from President Obama’s plan. Taxpayers are tired of bailouts and have no appetite for taking on two trillion dollars worth of debt in 2009. This recession was caused by market distorting government policy, and it can not be solved by government living beyond its means.
Barack Obama’s government spending ideas are proper.
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SCANDAL! SCANDAL! SCANDAL!
EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!
George W. Bush continuously criminally stalked Margie Schoedinger to the point that she could not get away from it, and she committed suicide in desperation to escape: he murdered her.
“In her suit, Margie Schoedinger states that George W. Bush committed sexual crimes against her, organized harassment and moral pressure on her, her family members and close relatives and friends. As Schoedinger said, she was strongly recommended to keep her mouth shut… . Furthermore, she alleges that George Bush ordered to show pressure on her to the point, when she commits suicide” (blog of drizzten).
“One of those ‘very leasts’ [was] George Bush’s personal complicity in the death (murder to be precise) of my friend Margie Schoedinger in September of 2003. Determining the exact whereabouts and contacts of [then] president-elect George Bush on September 21 thru 22, 2003, should be entirely lacking in difficulty” (Leola McConnell—Nevada Progressive Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010).
Leola McConnell is correct: Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Margie Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder.
BEWARE: If the president of the United States hates one—for whatever reasons—he can continuously criminally stalk one to the point that one cannot get away from it, and one ultimately commits suicide in desperation to escape. He can murder people in this way.
Bush is getting away with his murder of Margie Schoedinger—with no sheriff, prosecutor, or court willing to uphold the rule of law.
Bush’s method of murdering Margie Schoedinger cannot exist in a vacuum: he must have murdered other people in the same way.
Bush should confess, come out with the names of all of the people whom he murdered in the disgusting way he murdered Margie Schoedinger, undergo execution, and accordingly find himself at the intersection where he would be free.
(There are thousands of copies of the information above on the Internet. It exists very extensively in all major search engines. Please feel free to go to any major search engine, type “George W. Bush continuously criminally stalked Margie Schoedinger to the point that she could not get away from it, and she committed suicide in desperation to escape: he murdered her,” hit “Enter,” and find innumerable results.)
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Andrew Wang
(a.k.a. “THE DISSEMINATING MACHINE”)
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
President Obama's projected deficit is frightening. Looking at the GDP previous to the Great Depression and during it, we see our country is parallel to that same situation. With expected deficit figures in the trillions, can we believe by government grants, government loans, and government borrowing, this will actually help our economy? I remember when the president assured us he would cut government spending by 10%, yet he has quadrupled the spending in the last six months! Normally I would look towards the future in anticipation of this ten percent decrease, yet the projections show no alternative to this spending lacking sufficient evidence it will ever decrease.
and Wang, have you not realized the significance of wording in media? or the addiction to discrediting authority?