As reported by The Washington Post, “President Obama’s proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday.”
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CNN adds, “Of that amount, an estimated $5.6 trillion will be in interest alone.”
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| “The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) and the White House (are) … both predicting a deficit of about $1.5 trillion this year — a post-World War II record at 10.3 percent of the overall economy. But the CBO is considerably less optimistic about future years, predicting that deficits would never fall below 4 percent of the economy under Obama’s policies and would begin to grow rapidly after 2015.
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“Deficits of that magnitude would force the Treasury to continue borrowing at prodigious rates, sending the national debt soaring to 90 percent of the economy by 2020, the CBO said.”
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| “By 2020 the (CBO) estimates debt held by the public would reach $20.3 trillion, or 90 percent of GDP. That’s up from 53 percent of GDP in 2009.”Read more at townhall.com |
Taxpayers have even more reason than academics to fear the impact, in part because the public may not learn the details before this plan becomes law. Democrats aim to bring their education revolution to the floor without a committee vote or even a hearing in the Senate. |
Democrats might seek to enact the bill passed by the House last summer, an even more ambitious plan sketched out in the President’s 2011 budget, or some mystery meat prepared by chef Tom Harkin, who chairs the Senate education committee. So far he won’t tell anyone what’s on the menu, and he may not have to. The limited 20 hours of reconciliation debate will no doubt be consumed by ObamaCare, but another new entitlement could be hustled into law under cover of bloviating lawmakers. |
| Both the House-passed bill and the President’s budget increase Pell Grants and also create automatic future increases, so individual grants will grow faster than inflation every year. Read more at online.wsj.com |
| President Obama and Missouri Democrats including Senator Claire McCaskill, Governor Jay Nixon and Russ and Robin Carnahan want to ram their toxic health care bill down your throat but THEY DON’T HAVE THE GUTS TO FACE THE PUBLIC! |
| Pelosi is trying to bring this to the floor for a vote in the coming days…and is strong-arming all the moderate dems into voting for Obamacare Socialized Medicine – and Federally Funded AbortionRead more at gatewaypundit.firstthings.com |
Minus 21, not looking good for POTUS, but this graph doesn’t tell the whole story | Rasmussen presidential approval index, March 10, 2010 |
| it’s true — today IS Obama’s worst approval index day in the Rasmussen Reports polls |
| Kelly is a smart young woman and a proud conservative voice in a liberal college. |
| I loved when she said to me after it was all over, “I got some great shots of the SEIU people lining the first three rows on the floor beneath the podium. Go Kelly! |
| There were a number there with signs ready and were “fired up and ready to go” |
| In the photo directly to the right the top sign reads: “ObamaCare Sick Joke” and “Hey Axelrod, We are not the Peanut Gallery. |
| featured guest speakers such as former Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick who is currently running for the GOP nomination in the PA8th Congressional District |
| Here is Kelly’s picture of the SEIU people directly in front of the President. |
This was the only group that was able to shake hands with Obama at the conclusion as well.
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| I had to laugh, however, when the President said he had to be honest the health care plan was not going to be free. You should have seen the students looking at each other. |
Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version.
Slaughter has not taken the plan to Speaker Pelosi as Democrats await CBO scores on the corrections bill. “Once the CBO gives us the score we’ll spring right on it,” she said.
As leaders put final touches on a corrections bill and await CBO scores, leaders, key committee chairmen and White House Chief of Staff Emanuel huddled Tuesday evening.
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman said members had a special message for Emanuel. |
“He was certainly informed that we don’t feel we want any deadline assigned to us,” Waxman said. |
| Less than three months ago, they were stunned at the way the Democrats managed to get 60 senators to vote |
| Then Scott Brown took them back down to 59, and Republicans were again stunned |
| And, when polls showed an ever larger number of Americans ever more opposed to Obamacare |
| Republicans were further stunned to discover that, in order to advance “reconciliation,” Democrat reconsiglieres had apparently been offering (illegally) various cosy Big Government sinecures to swing-state congressmen in order to induce them to climb into the cockpit for the kamikaze raid to push the bill through. The Democrats understand that politics is not just about Tuesday evenings every other November, but about everything else, too. |
| A year or two back, when the Canadian Islamic Congress attempted to criminalize my writing north of the border by taking me to the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission, a number of outraged American readers wrote to me, |
On early Sunday morning Muslim herders attacked Christian villagers in Nigeria with machetes.
500 Christians were slaughtered. |
Villagers in central Nigeria buried dozens of bodies, including those of women and children, in a mass grave on Monday after attacks in which several hundred people were feared to have been killed. (Reuters)
ITN has video from the Jos, Nigeria.
(Warning: graphic) |
Some of the bodies had been charred. Some had slash marks across their faces. One young victim was found to be scalped and few others were found with cut off hands and legs.
The Muslim hackers shouted “Allah Akhbar” (God is Great) before breaking into homes and hacking the Christians to death. |
| RUSH: This story speaks for itself. |
| Washington Week in Review with Representative Eric Massa, Democrat, New York |
| — let me tell you a story about Rahm Emanuel. I was in the congressional gym, and I went into the showers |
| The last thing I want to look at is my fellow colleagues naked, but they don’t have shower curtains down in the gym, and I’m sitting there showering naked as a jaybird and here comes Rahm Emanuel not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest yelling at me because I wasn’t going to vote for the president’s budget. |
| Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man? |
| MASSA: What the heck is he doing in the congressional gym? He goes there to intimidate members of Congress. |
| We had words and he hates my guts |
| So he’ll get rid of me and this bill will pass, and I don’t know what we’re going to do in this country. |
| RUSH: This guy is a Democrat. |
| The current push for government-run health care via the nuclear option and last week’s Blair House TV snooze-orama are clear demonstrations that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid share Vladimir Lenin’s tenacity to impose radical change where it’s not welcome — in fact, where there’s downright hostility to change by a solid majority of Americans. And make no mistake, Lenin was first and foremost about the will to power. |
Before liberals level charges of red-baiting, I’ll offer that the differences between Lenin and the Bolsheviks and Obama and left-wing Democrats are significant, many, and varied. Through skullduggery, battle, and blood, Lenin established a dictatorship of the proletariat, which history has amply shown was a thinly veiled dictatorship by Lenin and his Communist Party heirs. There was nothing “soft” about Lenin’s tyranny or Stalin’s. The mass graves of tens of millions of victims bear mute testament to these despots’ infamy. Read more at pajamasmedia.com |
| Without any oversight, accounting, or transparency, environmental activist groups have surreptitiously received at least $37 million from the federal government for questionable “attorney fees.” The lawsuits they received compensation for had nothing to do with environmental protection or improvement. |
The activist groups have generated huge revenue streams via the obscure Equal Access to Justice Act. Congressional sources claim the groups are billing for “cookie cutter” lawsuits — they file the same petitions to multiple agencies on procedural grounds, and under the Act, they file for attorney fees even if they do not win the case. Since 1995, the federal government has neither tracked nor accounted for any of these attorney fee payments. |
| Nine national environmental activist groups alone have filed more than 3,300 suits, every single one seeking attorney fees. |
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Why Democrats Don’t Care about $9.7 Trillion Debt by Dennis Prager
