Home[…] Why are today’s politicians, journalists and economists so complicit in deliberately misleading the public about the current and future state of U.S. finances? Why do they speak of “cuts” in future federal spending when the CBO routinely projects increases in the range of +30% to +65%? Check those numbers again, dear citizen: they’re positive, not negative. “Baseline budgeting,” which blithely presumes a perpetually-growing government, was first enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1974, in order to side-step White House efforts to “impound” (limit) federal spending; but that doesn’t condone the gimmick – or justify lying to the public. When people hear that Washington will “cut” spending by $2 trillion over the coming decade, they think that’s a lot of money and that outlays might be $2 trillion lower a decade hence – not higher by 50% or more. Even Boehner’s budget plan, like many others, backloads the “cuts” into later years; he’d “cut” outlays by only $23 billion in 2012, equivalent to less than three days of total federal spending at the current spending rate. [Richard Salsman, Forbes, Washington’s Budget “Cuts” Would Boost Spending 50%]
Huh. Sounds to me like EVERY plan that was put forward, and every idea that’s going to be tossed around when those crooks get back from their little break, will be all about the spending. It’s up to us to read between the lines and watch for the truthful articles like this one that let us know what’s going on.
For the record? I was listening to NPR this morning, and I was both a little startled and more than a little pissed off to hear the liberal as hell media bash the liberal as hell politicians and Pres. Obama for this current debacle. WTF, peeps? Have you just not figured out a way to turn it around on the tea party people yet? Because that’s the usual modus operandi, so far as I can tell. Both sides are so far removed from reality that I can’t identify with either of them, and I don’t think I WANT TO. But…hey, NPR? I’d be careful, if I were you; you do realize that they are doing budget CUTS? Bashing the everloving hell out of the very people who are writing the budget that includes YOU might not be super smarty pants right now. I’m just saying.
(Source: primal-libertarian)
