President Obama: The Biggest Government Spender In World History

The U.S. has never before had a President who thinks so little of the American people that he imagines he can win re-election running on the opposite of reality. But that is the reality of President Obama today.

Waving a planted press commentary, Obama recently claimed on the campaign stump, “federal spending since I took office has risen at the slowest pace of any President in almost 60 years.”

“There is, now, a house-of-cards feel about this administration. It became apparent some weeks ago when the President talked on the stump – where else? – about an essay by a fellow who said spending growth [under Obama] is actually lower than that of previous Presidents. This was startling to a lot of people, who looked into it and found the man had left out most spending from 2009, the first year of Mr. Obama’s Presidency. People sneered: The President was deliberately using a misleading argument to paint a false picture! But you know, why would he go out there waiving an article that could immediately be debunked? Maybe because he thought it was true. That’s more alarming, isn’t it, the idea that he knows so little about the effects of his own economic program that he thinks he really is a low spender.”

What this shows most importantly is that the recognition is starting to break through to the general public regarding the President’s rhetorical strategy that I’ve have been calling Calculated Deception. The latter is deliberately using a misleading argument to paint a false picture. That has been a central Obama practice not only throughout his entire presidency, but also as the foundation of his 2008 campaign strategy, and actually throughout his whole career.

The previous administration, or President, proposes a budget. The previous Congress approves a budget. And what Congress approves can be radically different from what the President proposes.

As Art Laffer and Steve Moore showed in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, President Bush began a spending spree in his term that erased most of the gains in reduced government spending as a percent of GDP achieved by the Republican Congress in the 1990s led by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, in conjunction with President Clinton. But for fiscal year 2009, President Bush in February, 2008 proposed a budget with just a 3% spending increase over the prior year. Fiscal year 2009 ran from October 1, 2008 until September 30, 2009. President Obama’s term began on January 20, 2009.

Recall, however, that in 2008 Congress was controlled by Democrat majorities, with Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, and the restless Senator Obama already running for President, just four years removed from his glorious career as a state Senator in the Illinois legislature. As Hans Bader reported on May 26 for the Washington Examiner, the budget approved and implemented by Pelosi, Obama and the rest of the Congressional Democrat majorities provided for a 17.9 percent increase in spending for fiscal 2009!

Actually, President Obama and the Democrats were even more deeply involved in the fiscal 2009 spending explosion than that. As Bader also reports, “The Democrat Congress [in 2008], confident Obama was going to win in 2008, passed only three of fiscal 2009’s 12 appropriations bills (Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security). The Democrat Congress passed the rest of them [in 2009], and [President] Obama signed them.” So Obama played a very direct role in the runaway fiscal 2009 spending explosion.

After just one year of the Obama spending binge, federal spending had already rocketed to 25.2% of GDP, the highest in American history except for World War II. That compares to 20.8% in 2008, and an average of 19.6% during Bush’s two terms. The average during President Clinton’s two terms was 19.8%, and during the 60-plus years from World War II until 2008 — 19.7%. Obama’s own fiscal 2013 budget released in February projects the average during the entire 4 years of the Obama Administration to come in at 24.4% in just a few months. That budget shows federal spending increasing from $2.983 trillion in 2008 to an all time record $3.796 trillion in 2012, an increase of 27.3%.

Moreover, before Obama there had never been a deficit anywhere near $1 trillion. The highest previously was $458 billion, or less than half a trillion, in 2008. The federal deficit for the last budget adopted by a Republican controlled Congress was $161 billion for fiscal year 2007. But the budget deficits for Obama’s four years were reported in Obama’s own 2013 budget as $1.413 trillion for 2009, $1.293 trillion for 2010, $1.3 trillion for 2011, and $1.327 trillion for 2012, four years in a row of deficits of $1.3 trillion or more, the highest in world history.

President Obama’s own 2013 budget shows that as a result federal debt held by the public will double during Obama’s four years as President. That means in just one term President Obama will have increased the national debt as much as all prior Presidents, from George Washington to George Bush, combined.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/06/14/president-obama-the-biggest-government-spender-in-world-history/2/

Think about it. All the liberals that voted for Obama before are going to vote for him again. He will get the black vote. He will get a large percentage of the Hispanic vote.

The few percentage points that pushed him over the winning edge last election were the undecided voters who believed his claims that he was different, honest, and would end partisanship.

Lying worked last time. The people who aren't going to buy the baloney this time aren't going to vote for him anyway. The undecided are the best targets he has now and off to shovel the BS he goes.

Lying works because a large segment of the population are too lazy to question and research what he and his zombies say.

They can't remember what they did last week, so how can they be expected to remember that the democrats won both the house and senate in 2006.

The last budget deficit under Bush and a Republican controlled congress was for FY 2007 and it was $161 billion..

Pelosi comes to power and debt to GDP goes from 64% FY 2007 to 93% FY 2010..

Now its over 100% and Obama says he got us out of the ditch?

It will get worse in the fall.

*sigh* Remembering the Clinton days.... he wasn't so bad looking back lol

i have developed a whole philosophy for myself. Before, I was independent

And then I read George Washington's Farewell Address a few months ago. He warned us then to not allow political parties to infest our government. They will be guaranteed corruption and place the good of the party before the welfare of the Nation. Both parties are sellouts to different special interests. Nothing will ever change until we outlaw political parties. They a destroying America and anyone who supports them are accomplices

That is why I became an Independent years ago. But parties have a lock and will always be with us.

I agree. You can't get elected without funding from special interest. And they are buying your vote. If you don't vote the way they tell you then your funds dry up and you can't get re-elected

I think the way our system is designed that gridlock is the default action of Congress. No one faction gets to dominate. They are there to govern. Not to rule

I've decide that

Man is righteous and noble. Men are greedy and corrupt.
The Constitution protects Man from government but does nothing to protect government from men. Obama, Boehner. Pelosi... all of em are just cardboard cutouts performing roles. Get rid of one and they'll just substitute another

As Golding (Total Quality Managment guy) says, don't blame the guy for being corrupt or incompetent but blame the system for allowing it

You say some of the dangdest things.
Missed seeing you around here.
Hope you have been well.

Hey! How is Ft Stockton? Y'all been gettin more rain than us it looks like. I'm gonna be down in a few weeks. I want to tour the dialysis clinic there. I've been thinkin about a change and it only about ten minutes further than Odessa

Good to see ya agin

*singing*

There's Republicans and Democrats and SuperPac Executives
And they're all made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same

Hey, west Texas was my stomping ground for 13 years! Though I lived in the Hobbs, Lovington New Mexico area. I was dating a great girl from Odessa at one time! Small world...

I've been gone from there for 3 and a half years. Mother-in-law got cancer then died 2 years ago.
Gonna' get back there one day. Got a small place out in Mesa View.