{"id":921,"date":"2013-10-20T19:44:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T02:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2013-10-20T20:25:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T03:25:54","slug":"how-can-you-tell-when-obama-is-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"How can you tell when Obama is lying?"},"content":{"rendered":"

His lips are moving. \u00c2\u00a0Yes, I’ll be here all night.<\/p>\n

But seriously, does the man ever tell the truth? \u00c2\u00a0Remember back in 2008 when he was telling us how terrible Bush was for raising the debt to *GASP* $9 TRILLION dollars?<\/p>\n

Well here it is just 5 short years of King Barack’s rule later and do you know what our national debt is now? \u00c2\u00a0That’s right, it’s fast closing in on $17 TRILLION. \u00c2\u00a0In other words he’s coming close to doubling the debt since he raged about how terrible Bush was for having it so high.<\/p>\n

Do you remember him telling us one of his first priorities would be to balance the budget (right after he closed Gitmo on his first day in office). \u00c2\u00a0What’s that you say? \u00c2\u00a0Gitmo is still open? \u00c2\u00a0Yes, and the budget is still not balanced.<\/p>\n

The saddest part of this is seemingly intelligent people think Obama has it under control and actually knows what he’s doing. \u00c2\u00a0That must have been what the Romans were saying too….<\/p>\n

Here’s a good article I found on this subject.<\/p>\n

Link<\/a>
\nPresident Obama likes to say that raising the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s borrowing limit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t add a dime\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the federal debt, but he neglects to mention that the government already has borrowed the equivalent of more than 60 trillion dimes since he took office.<\/em><\/p>\n

When Mr. Obama became president in January 2009, the total federal debt stood at $10.6 trillion. This week, it hit $16.7 trillion \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an increase of 57 percent. In the same time frame under President George W. Bush, total federal debt rose 38 percent. Under President Clinton, it rose 32 percent.<\/em><\/p>\n

The administration says the government will run out of authority to pay its bills by Oct. 17 unless Congress raises the debt limit again to allow more borrowing. The president portrays the move as one of simple responsibility.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It does not increase our debt,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Obama said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It does not grow our deficits. All it does is allow the Treasury Department to pay for what Congress has already spent.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

The president rarely mentions that he, by law, approves congressional spending, and his argument glosses over the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s burgeoning total debt.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s certainly not the whole story,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Alex Brill, a budget specialist at the American Enterprise Institute. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen a dramatic increase in the debt held by the public in the last four or five years, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s projected to only get worse.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

On Oct. 4, the debt held by the public \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not including Social Security and Medicare \u00e2\u20ac\u201d had risen 89.3 percent since Mr. Obama took office, according to FactCheck.org, a nonprofit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The administration recently projected an annual deficit of $750 billion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 and $626 billion the year after that.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153At that rate, the debt owed to the public will more than double during the Obama presidency,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d FactCheck said in its quarterly statistical report on Mr. Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tenure in office.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many Republican lawmakers say that is the reason spending cuts and entitlement reform should be part of the discussion to raise the debt limit.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are in trouble financially,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, said Tuesday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are $30 trillion in the hole, plus another $17 trillion in debt. Wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it be smart if we started addressing that problem before we blankly allow an increase in the level of the credit card?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Obama said he won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talk about long-term budget issues until Republicans agree to reopen the government and raise the debt limit without conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n

The office of House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said Wednesday that linking spending reforms to increases in the debt limit is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153common, bipartisan practice.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The Republican leadership pointed to a Congressional Research Service report last month that said Congress has used debt-limit laws to change fiscal policy 20 times since 1917. In that same 96-year span, the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s debt limit has been raised 103 times.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the increasingly contentious showdown with Congress, Mr. Obama also is fond of pointing out that budget deficits \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the annual red ink that contributes to the total debt \u00e2\u20ac\u201d have been falling at the fastest pace in 60 years. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true largely because spending rose dramatically in his first term as the administration tried to blunt the impact of the Great Recession.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153grand bargain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on spending and entitlements eluded the president and congressional Republicans in 2011, Mr. Brill said, it is the kind of approach still needed to get the debt under control.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s logical and appropriate what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hearing from many Republicans that we need to not only deal with the debt limit itself but we need to deal with the underlying cause of this pressure to increase the debt,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That means we need to deal with entitlements.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His lips are moving. \u00c2\u00a0Yes, I’ll be here all night. But seriously, does the man ever tell the truth? \u00c2\u00a0Remember back in 2008 when he was telling us how terrible Bush was for raising the debt to *GASP* $9 TRILLION dollars? Well here it is just 5 short years of King Barack’s rule later and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}