Posted on 03/24/2009 3:54:22 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
President Barack Obama's 3.55-trillion-dollar budget plan will leave the United States with a worse budget deficit than Cuba, a leading Republican critic warned Tuesday. "This creates for us a higher deficit than Cuba's. This is not the kind of position we want to put the United States in," Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters.
Other Republican critics of Obama's spending policies, including his nearly 800-billion-dollar economic stimulus package, have variously warned that he risks turning the country into Argentina, France, Germany, or Zimbabwe.
Asked for the figures underpinning the charge, a McConnell aide pointed to a report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office that warned the US budget deficit for fiscal year 2009, ending September 30, would swell to 13.1 percent of Gross Domestic Product.
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Well, hell I’ll move there-at least the cigars are cheap.....
/s
And the weather's nice...
Wait a minute, wait a minute, I’m confused!?
I thought that Cuba was a paradise, where you get the world’s best healthcare available and everyone drives brand new shiny cars and there’s tons and tons of people lined up to try to get citizenship in that country...what? Cuba’s NOT the way Michael Moore tried to portray it?!?
Never mind!
/Emily Latella off
Elections have consequences!!!!!!
What is equally disturbing about this report is who is buying the debt. We are selling ourselves down the river to the Chinese and the Arabs. In a few months we are our the way to becoming a Third World country. And all this to satisfy the vain ambition of a inexperienced marxist confidence man, and the self-serving crooks and megalomaniacs in Congress. In 2019 this report says, the debt interest alone will be larger that our defense budget. That is unsustainable. And it is a crime against our children and grandchildren. Any Republican who votes for any of this should be tarred and feathered.
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