Comments on: Obama’s Fake “Spending Freeze”

By: Dale Tims

Dale Tims — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:33:29 +0000

Everything needs to start at the top and work it's way downhill (quickly, not taking years to move). Our so-called
president should not be entitled to eat at the taxpayers' expense (he has a very GREAT liking for LOBSTER on a regular basis). The way I Iook at it, we are already giving him a very appropriate salary. If he (they) want lobster every day, let them pay for it, I mean, what are we paying him for? Certainly we should not have to feed them Lobster and caviar when we are eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and McDonald's. It IS NOT FAIR. I guess he feels entitled to use our tax money to eat like royalty. Ms. Pelosi has taken over the U.S. Air Force as her private airline. To be ready at her beckon call. Get the TOP Straight and I don' think the rest will really have a problem. Most of us have learned to live with less and they are taking ALL they can get by with.

By: Walt Hutchens

Walt Hutchens — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:28:28 +0000

What's scary about this post is that Ron Paul is a politician who differs from the others only in details. He talks as if deficits were the result of out of control discretionary spending and self-control in Congress would solve the problem: The truth is that over half of total federal spending is for entitlements — most Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. The federal medical programs have been growing at more than twice the rate of inflation and until we do real reform (NOT ObamaCare) that's only going to get worse.

Real reform is going to be painful and if it doesn't create some unemployment AND make a lot of us mad, it'll be a waste of time.

He also skips past the fact that over half of the annual deficit now is due to lost revenue as a result of the current recession. Getting that under control just by eliminating what we think of as federal functions would essentially close down the federal government: Yes, we'd have to zero out the military, get rid of the federal courts, and very much more. No sane person wants to do that.

It is true that we need to rein in the federal government: Diddling in business matters — nationalizing auto companies, operating the home mortgage market, taking over student loans, and taxing the snot out of anyone who dares to make serious money make EVERY rational businessman fearful of expanding. But fixing this won't save much money in the near future and again, it'll create highly visible unhappiness as union members get laid off, and home prices continue to fall.

We are where we are because federal fooling around got our economy seriously out of whack. But most of the details of that also made us more comfortable, and unwinding it is going to hurt before it makes us better off.

Until we have candidates who can speak these truths, we're not going to get very far.

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By: Frank-O

Frank-O — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:36:40 +0000

Is there anything that politicians do that isn't "fake"? I can't seem to think of one single thing.

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:57:14 +0000

Go Ron Paul!!

By: MichaelBoldin

MichaelBoldin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:31:34 +0000

I thought this really hit the nail on the head and was worth repeating:

"Politicians should stick to the very limited roles given them by the constitution instead of allocating such a sizeable portion of our capital and intervening through regulations and tax policy."