Words matter — but will they do so anytime soon?
In the course of President Obama’s tax day remarks, he reiterated his absurd pledge to cut $2 trillion from the deficit (all the while claiming not to know about the nationwide tax protests):
We know that tax relief must be joined with fiscal discipline. Americans are making hard choices in their budgets, and we’ve got to tighten our belts in Washington as well. And that’s why we’ve already identified $2 trillion dollars in deficit reductions over the next decade. And that’s why we’re cutting programs that don’t work, contracts that aren’t fair and spending that we don’t need…We’ve passed tax cuts that will help our economy grow. We’ve made a clear promise that families that earn less than $250,000 a year will not see their taxes increase by a single dime. And we have kept to those promises
As the graphic above shows, this fellow Obama talks sheer nonsense. He says a $10 trillion increase in the deficit is a $2 trillion reduction.
The President often says “words must mean something.” They obviously mean whatever he wants them to mean, nothing more and nothing less. And the disgraceful media can’t be bothered to do anything other than worship their hero and hector those who dare to disagree with him.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:24 am
To elaborate slightly, heroes are people who have accomplished something, not those who talk about what they are going to do. The media can say whatever they like, the deficits and waste are real, rising, unsustainable, and increasingly difficult to hide.
We’re like the spendthrift with multiple credit cards. We can keep borrowing, and moving balances around, but that only compounds what we need to repay.