Smoke and Mirrors : Deficits and Surpluses: Obama the Jester

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By: Rev. Jermano

 

 

I fail to see how they add things up? Now John McCain is squawking about reducing the military budget because of the new spending for a new Presidential helicopter? That's a laugh.....he wanted to lead us into a 100 year war with the world.    

 

Let's see. 700 billion bank bailout + 789 Billion Obama stimulus, + 2 trillion for the Afghanistan and Iraq War = 3 trillion 489 billion of debt...... and this leaves out a whole lot of other domestic things such as healthcare, education, and the money they give to Churches for keeping their mouth shut about going to War. Obama is talking about reducing the deficit in half by his next term? Yea right......flowers bloom outside in the dead of winter too.    

 

This certainly does add up to over 4 trillion in my view.....and they are keeping the War machine going.  Now they say they are ;leaving Iraq in 2010...while there is more troops in Iraq than when Bush was in control. They removed brigades, but increased soldiers in other units. Hardly a promise keeper. Obama is playing this time game, hoping we forget, making us try to lighten up.....all toward keeping Bush out of the spotlight....but knowing darn well he is the guy still controlling things back-stage.    

 

Obama is not going to have the deficit cut in half by his next election. He has to create jobs first that will actually be bringing in tax revenue to go toward paying down the debt. That is no easy task....to get the Private Sector to start hiring when all they see are sinking profits.     Really they should forgive the debt...and wipe the National Deficit Clean at zero. Change the idea they are borrowing money from the people to finance the bailout of the banks, and the stimulus....but call it the will of the peoples right to produce money for the sake of creating jobs. No payback is required.....it is an American thing to do for fellow Americans.    

 

I view it like this....if I owe $100 to uncle sam and my neighbor owes the same.....and we decide that it does not need to be paid back....then there is no deficit. right? Afterall the people are really Uncle Sam. What I am going to pay myself back the $100 I borrowed from myself?     That is nonsense.

 

So if all the American people said this..."there will be no deficit"... the stock market would certainly return to its normal activities....there would be no economic crisis....Now the stimulus will not be looked as being a stimulus....but as an abundance of wealth being pumped into the American Economy.....for the sake of the American Way.....    

 

Now this to me would make more sense....than the constant headaches and political maneuvering and waste of time....getting this and that.....passed through Congress. It should be that simple to do. The President and Congress and can do anything they want. That is freedom.. So why make us go through this deficit BS? all the time.?    

 

Rev. Jermano..........