Obama's Ridiculously Small Idea

TalkingSides.com ^ | 01/13/11 | CaroleL

[CaroleL]

This morning President Barack Obama stood before the cameras in an election-year attempt to claim he wants to shrink the size of the federal government and lower spending. According to the administration, his new proposal to merge six trade and commerce agencies would save $3 billion over the next 10 years and eliminate 1,000 to 2,000 jobs. Great headline unless you consider that since taking office, Mr. Obama has increased the federal workforce (excluding Census and Postal workers) by 7%; adding more than 144,000 to the federal payroll.

The national debt is now over $15.2 trillion and has grown at a pace of $4.24 billion per day during the Obama presidency, but our Campaigner-in-Chief stands before the American people touting a proposed $3 billion over 10 years savings as "making our government more responsive, strategic and leaner."

[WayneS]

According to the administration, his new proposal to merge six trade and commerce agencies would save $3 billion over the next 10 years and eliminate 1,000 to 2,000 jobs. Great headline unless you consider that since taking office, Mr. Obama has increased the federal workforce (excluding Census and Postal workers) by 7%; adding more than 144,000 to the federal payroll.

Not to mention the fact that he is lying through his teeth about saving ANY money and/or eliminating ANY federal jobs.

[Doogle]

would save $3 billion over the next 10 years

...since our current interest is over 4.5 Billion per week now....this clown should have his nose pressed against a blackboard and made to write "YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID" ten thousand times

[Doogle]

per day

[humblegunner]

Even more ridiculous is your excerpting your blog posts here.
Why not just post in entirety? Stop pimping. Post the whole thing here.

[runninglips]

He will merge departments that are unneeded, with departments that the Conservatives will even be in support of. The strategy, make it so they cannot be severed from the Federal Government, without maximum outcry, and much rancor and debate. If you first see the need to compromise, to get your policies pushed through. You offer scapegoats. This is a way to call himself a reformer and a budget cutter, while spending more, on more government.