With a12.3 trillion dollar debt saving twenty Billion upon a singular "spending freeze" isn’t value a mention. Is it time to discharge a Department of Education as well as concede a State as well as Local Governments to have full control? What alternative departments can be utterly eliminated?
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IRS
Rural electrification.
FCC-rather eliminated most of it’s duties.
How about eliminating funding for the National Endowments for the Arts?
this it actually easy!
Anything to do with climate change.
The Iraq War, dude.
The Iraq War wound up costing $3 trillion over 6 years. You guys whine about $829 billion over 10 years to provide all Americans with affordable health care, and yet no complaints about a war that wound up costing us $3 trillion over 6 years?
And what did we get for that cost? As it turns out, we got nothing. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, when he was a Shiite rebel against the Sunni Saddam Hussein government, allied himself with the Shiite majority Iran. It is an alliance he maintains today; and because we and Iran don’t get along Nouri al Maliki has allied with Iran and won’t let us use Iraqi bases to intimidate Iran into backing down from their nuclear aspirations.
Well, what about oil? We got some of that, right? Actually, no. Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki decided to sign all the oil over to China. China got ALL of their oil. We didn’t get a single drop for our efforts.
Did we get anything at all? Why, yes we did. We attained universal health care. Unfortunately, we attained it for the Iraqis. As it turns out, YOU (as an American taxpayer) are now paying for Universal health care for the Iraqis. Bush gave them that.
In the 8 years Bush was President, the National Debt went from $4 trillion when he entered office to $11 trillion when he handed it over to Obama. And you mention that it is $12 trillion, meaning that $1 trillion was added in Obama’s first year. Unfortunately for you, according to Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity $850 billion of that $1 trillion actually belongs to Bush.
According to Sean Hannity, the government’s fiscal year ends on September 30th of every year, and the new one begins on October 1st. Well, in 2008 (Bush’s last year in office) in mid-September, Bush attempted to get a $700 billion bailout passed to save the failing financial sector. He failed. The House Republicans voted down the bill. So according the Glenn Beck (trying to prove he is against overspending, whether Republican or Democrat) Bush added $150 billion in REPUBLICAN PORK to the bailout to attract those votes. It works. The Republicans cave and pass the now $850 billion bailout bill. But according to Sean Hannity, the bill was passed in mid-October of 2008; AFTER the new fiscal year, Obama’s fiscal year, had already begun.
In other words, BUSH’S $850 billion bailout bill is counting entirely against Obama, NOT Bush. So $850 billion of that $1 trillion you say was added in Obama’s first year actually belongs to Bush. So for the record, according to Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity (albeit unintentionally proven), Bush added $7.85 TRILLION to the National Debt, compared to Obama’s $150 billion.
Incidentally, $150 billion added to the National Debt by Obama is LESS THAN 2% of the $7.85 Trillion that Bush added to the National Debt.