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Obama : America would have gone bankrupt if not for our new trillion-dollar boondoggle
Hotair ^ | APRIL 2, 2010 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 04/02/2010 2:08:36 PM PDT by RobinMasters

A transmission from Bizarro World via CBS’s “Early Show.” I know he has to say stuff like this — admitting that we just added more economic dead weight to an already crushing entitlement load would be politically catastrophic — but it’s still amazing to hear him say it.

They really, truly are going to campaign on the idea that a raft of new federal health-care benefits is a money-saver, despite the glorious experiences of Medicare and RomneyCare and despite poll after poll showing that people expect costs to go up, not down.

We can crunch the numbers every which way, starting with the original sin of gaming the CBO estimates to lie about the program’s real pricetag, but it’s actually more useful to revisit that golden SNL skit parodying Obama’s joint presser with Hu Jintao. One line says it all: “I am noticing that each of your plans to save money involves spending even more money.”

That’s precisely the gut-level response most voters will have when they hear him talk like this, and it’s a huge reason why the polls on O-Care simply aren’t going to move that much before November. So if, as here, The One wants to console himself with the idea that “it’s only been a week!”, he’s welcome to it. The die is already cast. Click the image to watch.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhostimulus; boondoggles
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1 posted on 04/02/2010 2:08:36 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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2 posted on 04/02/2010 2:08:51 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters
America would have gone bankrupt if not for our new trillion-dollar boondoggle

If we would have gone bankrupt without it, I shudder at the thought of whats going to happen with it.

3 posted on 04/02/2010 2:11:37 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: RobinMasters

Obama: “America would have gone bankrupt if not for our new trillion-dollar boondoggle”

Translation: “America IS bankrupt BECAUSE OF our new trillion-dollar boondoggle.”


4 posted on 04/02/2010 2:14:19 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: RobinMasters

2+2=5?


5 posted on 04/02/2010 2:15:45 PM PDT by camerongood210
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To: RobinMasters
Obammie's been listening to one of his smartest financial experts:

“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’ The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.”

~~ Slow Joe Biden

6 posted on 04/02/2010 2:16:44 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: RobinMasters

same pack of Ivy League sophomore’s who think Marx just did’nt quite have the tight talent the last time around....and just give us all the money we need ...and we’ll make it work..we promise...


7 posted on 04/02/2010 2:19:25 PM PDT by mo
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To: RobinMasters

America is bankrupt!!


8 posted on 04/02/2010 2:19:31 PM PDT by blackie
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To: RobinMasters

same pack of Ivy League sophomore’s who think Marx just did’nt quite have the right talent the last time around....and just give us all the money we need ...and we’ll make it work..we promise...


9 posted on 04/02/2010 2:19:36 PM PDT by mo
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To: RobinMasters

It scares me more that there are a good many people who will believe it.


10 posted on 04/02/2010 2:21:15 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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11 posted on 04/02/2010 2:23:50 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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12 posted on 04/02/2010 2:24:10 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: RobinMasters

That’s like saying America would have burned to the ground if he hadn’t smothered the flames with a trillion pounds of high explosives.


13 posted on 04/02/2010 2:25:24 PM PDT by behzinlea
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To: RobinMasters

Because of this bill, the effects of bankruptcy will be masked for another 6 months or so.


14 posted on 04/02/2010 2:26:48 PM PDT by farmguy
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To: RobinMasters

using that logic, blow another trillion and make us rich


15 posted on 04/02/2010 2:44:38 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: RobinMasters

Which moron added government spending to GDP instead of subtracting it?


16 posted on 04/02/2010 2:45:51 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (Tea parties today, Lexington tomorrow.)
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To: blackie

Financially, morally, and spiritually.


17 posted on 04/02/2010 2:55:26 PM PDT by Soul of the South (When times are tough the tough get going.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The statement in itself is not necessarily absurd, there are times when a business must spend money to avoid going broke but in the context of which Biden spoke it certainly is absurd.


18 posted on 04/02/2010 2:59:18 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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“I know he has to say stuff like this — admitting that we just added more economic dead weight to an already crushing entitlement load would be politically catastrophic — but it’s still amazing to hear him say it.”

Since he refuses to release his transcripts, we can only guess. But it’s a fair inference Barack Obama has never taken a course in Econ 101. Moreover, his cabinet has the least private sector experience of any cabinet in the past century. Expecting him to be economically literate is perhaps as unfair as expecting a moron to understand the theory of relativity.

He literally does not understand that as government absorbs more of the pie, the pie grows less slowly or shrinks. Likewise, he has no concept that every dollar in visible taxes shrinks the size of the pie by 30 cents in lost output. He thinks it’s all about redistributing pie and that there’s not a dime’s worth of difference whether HE spends your money or you spend it yourself. And due to his arrogance (hard to say whether this comes from nature or nurture), he believes his judgment about how your money should be spent is superior to yours.

The person millions regarded as the messiah turns out to be a two-bit politician with grossly erroneous ideas about how the world works. This clown prince convinced nearly all the Democrats in Congress to leap off a cliff for him on health care reform. It will not be until voters turn in their ballots next fall that these delusional Democrats wake up and smell the coffee. Obama is the worst president and worst thing that has ever happened to their party.


19 posted on 04/02/2010 3:03:34 PM PDT by DrC
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To: depressed in 06

Which moron added government spending to GDP instead of subtracting it?
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The same one who counts all the new government hires as employed people when they should be counted as multiple unemployed in most cases. Each one sucks up the taxes from several taxpayers and in most cases do no productive work and in many cases are counter productive, why should they count as employed?


20 posted on 04/02/2010 3:03:46 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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