Budget hilarity by Barack Obama
Check this out. 9% increase in domestic/4% increase in defense. Nothing new here. Obama wants to spend way more than ever before, even atop his stimulus.
Let’s look at two sentences that illustrate how big of a lie this whole “savings” push is:
The administration is proposing saving $91 million by eliminating funding for plans to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
And…
The budget plan requests $197 million to explore other options for disposing of the material.
Alright, so really no savings whatsoever. Actually, its a request for about $100M more! Our President is lying right to us. He wants to come off as a budget hawk for political points, but he’s only asking for $17B in savings, whereas Bush asked for $34B last year with a much smaller budget, and he’s the one being ridiculed as the creator of the deficit that Obama inherited (despite the fact that he voted for Bush’s budgets each time).
There is no defense for this cloak and dagger misinformation to the public. I wonder, will any media outlet have the nuts to call this out? Will any liberal provide a rationale for this below-board presentation by the One?
