FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape (AP/apnews.myway.com)

It explains about how Obama didn’t take responsibility in his speech about deficit spending but he was in Congress where this spending under Bush originated… so yeah, it was him.

So Obama is deliberately misleading and flat out lying. Obama is a liar. This isn’t news to me but maybe people who just believe what they hear in the big media haven’t investigated the other side of the story real well or even considered checking the facts. No wait, most people don’t do this, that’s right. What am I thinking?

Don’t get all up in my grill about listening to Rush Limbaugh. It’s the other side of the story. You need balance. Not listening to him makes you more narrow minded than if you do. The big media groups are liberal. People believe that if you hear the same thing a lot, it must be true. Really? Are you that much of a drone?

Hear both sides, do your fact checking and make up your own mind. Don’t cheat and take the easy way out by just listening to big media. Get a brain. Yeah, Obama sounds… uh… um… ah… educated (when he’s… um… on prompter) but go beyond that and see what he is really about. Scary.

So his first 100 days grade from me? A “C-”. He didn’t get anything he wanted at the G20. He’s visiting our enemies, apologizing for America, puts all kinds of tax cheats in his cabinet, can’t handle pirates, fails to bailout Chrysler, spends more in 60 days than Bush spend in 8 years (with a war) and turns the country into a Socialists empire. He got a lot done, so that’s why my score isn’t a “D” but he got all the wrong things done, so in that respect he has failed miserably.

-Tony

Paul Ryan: The GOP’s Alternative Budget (www.wisgop.org)

…Under the president’s plan, spending will top $4 trillion this year alone, and consume 28.5% of our nation’s economy. His plan would mean a $1 trillion increase to the already unsustainable spending growth of our nation’s entitlement programs — including a “down payment” toward government-controlled health care and education; a $1.5 trillion tax increase to further shackle the small businesses and investors we rely on to create jobs; a massive increase in energy costs for families via cap and trade. Moreover, the Obama plan would result in an exploding deficit, a doubling of the nation’s debt in five years, and an increase of that debt to more than 82% of our nation’s GDP by the last year of the budget. This approach will ultimately debase our currency and reduce the living standards of the American people.

President Obama is clearly not in touch with what’s going on in America. He’s been rich a while and doesn’t get it. Sure, he talked the talk to get elected but has no experience with running anything big. It’s really starting to show. He’s really just a “yes man” doing whatever these yahoos in Congress tell him to do and they’ve had an agenda for a long time now. They’re loving this.

So this is not a recipie for change unless that change is to run the country into the groud.

We’re in serious trouble.

I hope some Republicans step up to where Paul Ryan is and start making some noise. You are our voice.

-Tony

“So where’s my rebate check?” you may be asking yourself… well, you’re not getting one this time. Here’s a decent recap of it from H&R Block:

Economic Stimulus 2009 (digits.hrblock.com)

…the stimulus plan includes tax relief for middle-income families and spending programs for things like transportation, environmental and broadband infrastructure projects, aid for states and energy assistance, all designed to create millions of good-paying jobs.

The good news is that 95% of America’s taxpayers will benefit from at least one of the tax breaks. Unlike the 2008 Economic Stimulus, there will not be stimulus rebate payment checks in 2009 for the majority of Americans. While some of the relief will be paid this year, the majority of the relief for an average taxpayer is most likely to come next year.

-Tony

Good luck. You better be smarter and have more substance than you did during the elections. You’ll need it, Barack.

-Tony

EXCLUSIVE: Agenda disappears from Obama Web site

Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site.

Gone are the promises on how an Obama administration would handle 25 different agenda items – everything from Iraq and immigration to taxes and urban policy – all items laid out on his campaign Web site, www.BarackObama.com.

Right now, all the “The Agenda” page says is this:

President-Elect Obama and Vice President-Elect Biden have developed innovative approaches to challenge the status quo in Washington and to bring about the kind of change America needs.

The Obama Administration has a comprehensive and detailed agenda to carry out its policies. The principal priorities of the Obama Administration include: a plan to revive the economy, to fix our health care, education, and social security systems, to define a clear path to energy independence, to end the war in Iraq responsibly and finish our mission in Afghanistan, and to work with our allies to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, among many other domestic and foreign policy objectives.

This 95% tax cut thing isn’t coming, people. Sorry to disappoint you. The Bush tax cuts will expire and by the time Obama sets up all these prorams that he wants to, there will be no way to cut taxes but instead increase them. So he will have lied. I can’t believe everyone thought that a Democrat would slash taxes. Clinton promised the same thing, remember and he raised taxes. He said he had to go back on his promise. So will Obama. Save up your pennies – you’ll need them.

-Tony