OF ALL THE FALSEHOODS TOLD ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA, THE BIGGEST WHOPPER IS ONE ABOUT HIS RECKLESS SPENDING SPREE.
As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno.”
REMEMBER THE “PRAIRIE FIRE OF DEBT?”
“Spending & Borrowwing INFERNO” ($10,000.00 to have a picture taken with Romney)
Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true.
But it didn’t happen. Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s.
2:28 PM EDT, Wednesday May 23, 2012
Carney: Claims Of Obama Spending Binge Are ‘BS,’ Slothful, Lazy Reporting
Gaggling with reporters on Air Force One Wednesday morning, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney alerted the press corps to a new story reiterating the point that President Obama has actually demonstrated unusual fiscal restraint, and warned them that uncritically reporting GOP tax-and-spend claims to the contrary amounts to “BS” and a sign of “sloth and laziness.”
“[T]he rate of spending – federal spending increase is lower under President Obama than all of his predecessors since Dwight Eisenhower, including all of his Republican predecessors,” Carney said, according to an official transcript. “That is a fact not often noted in the press and certainly never mentioned by the Republicans. “[T]his President has been – has demonstrated significant fiscal restraint and acted with great fiscal responsibility. That is also why he has put forward a balanced plan to further reduce our deficit and debt by over $4 trillion….
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I simply make the point, as an editor might say, to check it out; do not buy into the BS that you hear about spending and fiscal constraint [sic] with regard to this administration. I think doing so is a sign of sloth and laziness.”
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/carney-claims-of-obama-spending-binge-are-bs
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