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It’s been 16 years since President Clinton took office, and at the time he asked the public for suggestions on how to reduce the deficit. If I remember correctly, Al Gore was tasked to find inefficiencies and redundancies in government and squash them. It never happened. The federal budget has ballooned from about $1 trillion…
It’s open to the public, charges $20 for a trim, netted $450,000 – with a profit – in 2009, and yet somehow this institution needed a Senate-funded bailout of $300,000 last year? Goodness grief, shut the damn institution down.
Even with the TEA party. Even with Republican control of the House. Even with the economy in trouble with 9 percent unemployment. Even with the mortgage issues. Our federal and state government moved right on ahead and increased their total spending by 5 percent. How much has your spending increased?
Can the misinformation STOP already? The United States federal government is not going to “run out of money.” A statement like that clearly implies the federal government has no income, which is a lie.
I don’t have the time to review or write about the Connecticut budget deal which is being announced – as I understand it – right now by Gov. Dannel Malloy (D). Consider this a placeholder for future comments by Jim or myself.
Not much to say here…I’ll let you read it for yourselves, but just in case you missed it, this from the Associated Press this afternoon.
In 2009, President Bush’s proposed budget was $3.1 trillion. For 2010, President Obama’s budget proposed a 12.7 percent increase in the federal budget to $3.55 trillion, but that was not enough. For 2011, he doubled down, proposing a 7.5 percent increase. This year, Obama is taking the debt and deficit more seriously.