Obama and the budget

Mandatory spending: $2.184 trillion (+15.6%)
$695 billion (+4.9%) – Social Security
$453 billion (+6.6%) – Medicare
$290 billion (+12.0%) – Medicaid
$11 billion (+275%) – Potential disaster costs
$571 billion (−15.2%) – Other mandatory programs
$164 billion (+18.0%) – Interest on National Debt


2010.Discretionary spending: $1.368 trillion (+13.1%)

$663.7 billion (+12.7%) – Department of Defense (including Overseas Contingency Operations)
$78.7 billion (−1.7%) – Department of Health and Human Services
$72.5 billion (+2.8%) – Department of Transportation
$52.5 billion (+10.3%) – Department of Veterans Affairs
$51.7 billion (+40.9%) – Department of State and Other International Programs
$47.5 billion (+18.5%) – Department of Housing and Urban Development
$46.7 billion (+12.8%) – Department of Education
$42.7 billion (+1.2%) – Department of Homeland Security
$26.3 billion (−0.4%) – Department of Energy
$26.0 billion (+8.8%) – Department of Agriculture
$23.9 billion (−6.3%) – Department of Justice
$18.7 billion (+5.1%) – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$13.8 billion (+48.4%) – Department of Commerce
$13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of Labor
$13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of the Treasury
$12.0 billion (+6.2%) – Department of the Interior
$10.5 billion (+34.6%) – Environmental Protection Agency
$9.7 billion (+10.2%) – Social Security Administration
$7.0 billion (+1.4%) – National Science Foundation
$5.1 billion (−3.8%) – Corps of Engineers
$5.0 billion (+100%) – National Infrastructure Bank
$1.1 billion (+22.2%) – Corporation for National and Community Service
$0.7 billion (0.0%) – Small Business Administration
$0.6 billion (−14.3%) – General Services Administration
$19.8 billion (+3.7%) – Other Agencies
$105 billion – Other

 

So you are willing to admit that over 1.3 trillion of spending went to programs which democrats started?

 

I'm more concerned with,

Mandatory spending: $2.184 trillion (+15.6%) up from 09'

Discretionary spending: $1.368 trillion (+13.1%) up from 09'

Total 3.552 Trillion !!!

We don't have it to spend

 

I agree, politics has become a game of he said she said, and we can not afford it, it is unfortunate the direction which we have taken, i can only hope we can pull ourselves out of this mess.

 

People pay into these programs,they are not like bush tax cuts and wars

I don't have the stats on Medicare,but SS has taken in more then it has spent and presidents have been borrowing from the surpluses for years

Bush's tax cuts and wars have not taken in more then has been spent on them

 

This is comical your own artical said 2.1 trillion over 10 years for the war and that was the high end estimate, now you are saying 1.3 trillion of mandatory spending into social security and medicaid, this year alone, and you are trying to blame the deficit on bush...... you are not very bright are you?

Plus there is another 1.3 trillion of what your estimates call discretionary spending..... well if it is discretionary how bout you quit spending you jackass?


Lets give you the benefit of the doubt, and on top of the war for 210 billion (high end estimate, also something the majority of dems voted for) i will give you 200 billion for the bush tax cuts, where does the other 1.1 trillion Obama is spending come from? The same 1.1 trillion which happens to be twice the size of bush's biggest deficit.

 

Whats comical is that your dumb ass cant seem to figure out that SS brings money in,it has brought in more money then it has paid out

Bush's spending on wars and tax cuts did not bring money in dumb ass.Bush's wars were paid for with the help of borrowing from SS though

 

SS currently has a 2.5 trillion dollar balance and brought in 700 billion this year.Does Bushes wars and tax cuts have 2.5 trillion dollar surpluses ?


Although Social Security is often said to have a “trust fund,” the term really serves as an accounting device, to track the pay-as-you-go program’s revenue and outlays over time. Its so-called balance is, in fact, a history of its vast cash flows: the sum of all of its revenue in the past, minus all of its outlays. The balance is currently about $2.5 trillion because after the early 1980s the program had surplus revenue, year after year.

 

Did you know that obama is proposing to renew many of the Bush tax cuts?

To be fair Hello, there is a $300B drop in revenues, but you are correct there is still a $700B increase in the deficit over bush that is not paid for.

This discussion with ..... is interesting itself. I do not think he represents the smarter liberals, but he does act just like an average democrat. The smarter liberals know damn well what they are doing, they are making the social welfare so hopelessly large and debt ridden that there will be no room for anything but their crap in the future. Social handouts are a ratchet, they just went up $500B suddenly, but if you proposed taking us back to just 2008 levels you would be called a mean racist who balances the budget on the 'backs of the poor'.

Notice how even simple facts are obscured to the satisfaction of the rather unsophisticated democratic electorate, taking ..... as an example.

fact: Medicaid jumped up 43% in just two years under Obama, the recession was used as an excuse to throw it into stimulus. It is not paid for and it was not part of health care reform. It has not been brought back down, meaning it was not a one time stimulus.

democrat rhetoric in response: But people pay into these programs (me: people pay taxes for the military too). It's bush's fault, the wars are draining us, his tax cuts are killing us.

My response: But the wars and 2003 tax cuts do not give one an excuse to compound the problem by adding $500B in unpaid for social mandatory spending. Complaining about Bush's deficit of $455B in 2008 and then responding by tripling it makes no sense at all. The recession is over, real stimulus projects, if such things exist, amount to far far less than the $700 new hole in the 2010 budget. There is no excuse for this new insanely higher deficit, medicare is not economically productive.

demo rhetoric BUSH, WARS, bush's deficit and tax cuts
bush bush bush


- and it just doesn't end, some people simply will not look at this problem too hard, Obama can do no wrong for them. The demo politicians just love it, they can spew out this bilge at will and people eat it up.

 

Obama has my vote in 2012 if that makes you feel any better