La La Land

Tuesday 8 January 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized

It seems pretty clear that Obama lives in la la land. The Wall Street Journal:

What stunned House Speaker John Boehner more than anything else during his prolonged closed-door budget negotiations with Barack Obama was this revelation: “At one point several weeks ago,” Mr. Boehner says, “the president said to me, ‘We don’t have a spending problem.’ ”

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The president’s insistence that Washington doesn’t have a spending problem, Mr. Boehner says, is predicated on the belief that massive federal deficits stem from what Mr. Obama called “a health-care problem.” Mr. Boehner says that after he recovered from his astonishment—”They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care system”—he replied: “Clearly we have a health-care problem, which is about to get worse with ObamaCare. But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem.” He repeated this message so often, he says, that toward the end of the negotiations, the president became irritated and said: “I’m getting tired of hearing you say that.”

Wow. How one, much less the one in charge, can look at a federal budget that has more than doubled in less than 10 years and still insist that we don’t have a spending problem, and that we simply can’t afford to cut any part of the budget because we’re already in a cycle of severe austerity is beyond me. My kindergartner can tell you that when you spend significantly more than you take in, you have a spending problem, but the president of the land can’t?

We. Are. Fucked.

2013-01-08  »  madlibertarianguy