State of The Union

     In tomorrow's State of the union address, Obama is reverting back to the two things that he is very good at, campaigning (talking)  and sfumatti, smoke and mirrors.  He is intelligent enough to understand that his out of control spending was a BIG issue in Brown's election.  Robert Gibbs has said that the dissatisfaction of voters that got Brown elected IS EXACTLY WHAT GOT OBAMA ELECTED.  (so this was a win for the democrat party? ) Talk about smoke and mirrors! Using sfumatti, he will call for a three year freeze on discretionary spending. 

     He will not tell you that he already increased discretionary spending 24% ABOVE what it was under George Bush.  He will not tell you that discretionary spending was slightly over $400 billion last year. He already has $534 billion built in for 2010.  AND he has over $500 billion unspent from the first stimulus, $250 billion coming back as payments from banks and another $200 billion from other sources. Quite a slush fund eh?  But he is counting on the fact that naive voters will only hear SPENDING FREEZE!  Also, congress must approve this every year.  It's a no brainer that IF they approve it this year, that's the last you will ever hear about it!

So our leader can call for and maybe even get a 1 year spending freeze (no increase above the 24% he already has!) and do this with almost $1 TRILLION in reserve(hidden) 

400 BILLION TO 1 TRILLION 534 BILLION AND CALL IT A FREEZE!

HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE?

PS Discretionary spending only accounts for 1/3 of the monies government spends and does not include monies spent on medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Defense, two wars,  housing and urban development (like ACORN), the EPA etc. It also does not cover expenses of the executive office, so he can have all the Czars he wants!

     He is depending on you, the voter not to understand what he is really saying and his ability to "speak and promise."  He is the ultimate diplomat and remember the definition of a diplomat is someone that can tell you to go to hell and.....you look forward to the trip! I believe he could sell ice cubes to Eskimos!

 

GRAVITAS~PIETAS~DIGNITAS