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Headlines from the Hot Air authorsTue, 16 Feb 2016 23:42:06 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: karenhasfreedomhttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/05/the-budget-baseline-con/comment-page-1/#comment-2209213
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:32:07 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=231442#comment-2209213You all know that this baseline has included the 2009 omnibus bill passed in January 2009 and the almost trillion dollar stimulus passed in 2009. These spending levels were in the baseline for each continuing resolution passed for eac year since 2009 because of Harry Reid’s refusal to pass a budget since 2009. Thus, the ongoing trillion dollar deficits.
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Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:48:02 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=231442#comment-2209129Just wondering… is “ObamaCable” an “entitlement” like the “ObamaPhone” apparently has become?

NB: I know Obama Phone wasn’t started under Obama…it is the meme I’m referring to above.

Those wars are already being unwound and everyone knows the money will never be spent.

I’m gonna’ save so much money by not buying a yacht next year that I’m going to not buy TWO yachts! If I keep this up, I’ll be rich soon!

]]>By: tomhttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/05/the-budget-baseline-con/comment-page-1/#comment-2209088
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:23:12 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=231442#comment-2209088The federal government is built on the principle og keeping everybody happy by feeding them more and more money. Democrats and Republicans and non-partisans, all depend on getting that next year’s Christmas list called a budget, or at least a few good continuing resolutions.

But if there was ever a time to break the old paradigm, it’s now. Demand real cuts, and let the executive agencies whine about what they can’t do. I think you would find surprisingly broad public support from everyone except the special interests, who will never be happy without more money for their pet causes.

This is the ground to fight Obama on. If businesses are having to lay people off left and right, why should the federal government be immune to spending cuts?

]]>By: gwelfhttp://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/05/the-budget-baseline-con/comment-page-1/#comment-2209064
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:08:34 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=231442#comment-2209064Imagine if the government had to follow the same accounting practices that it forces on corporations.
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Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:00:33 +0000http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=231442#comment-2209052

Let’s simply eliminate this accounting gimmick once and for all.

psrch on December 5, 2012 at 12:49 PM

Not to mention the borrowing from FICA tax surpluses to lower the official deficit number while simultaneously claiming that we still have trillions in the Social Security “lockbox”. My father, who is a CPA, is fond of saying, “If I used the same accounting practices as the federal government, I’d be sitting in jail!”

The most absurd current example is Mr. Obama’s claim that his “$4 trillion” plan reduces the deficit by about $800 billion over 10 years by ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And then when Obama proposes to increase spending by $200 billion or whatever, he claims that he’s actually cutting it by $600 billion.

Let’s not forget that the “one-time” “stimulus” has also been folded into the baseline, so that Obama can claim to be holding spending more or less constant while actually spending the equivalent of a new stimulus every single year.

That, incidentally should be the response to anyone who claims that we need a new stimulus because the first one wasn’t big enough. We’ve had four “stimuluses” already – what more do you want?