Paying Taxes

It has come to my attention that Obama’s newest cabinet pick, Ron Kirk, owes about $10,000 in back taxes.

I’m starting to lose count of all Obama’s cabinet picks who have unpaid taxes. There’s Timothy Geithner – who’s now the Treasury Secretary in charge of the IRS. There was Tom Daschle – who was supposed to be essential in reforming our health care system. Nancy Killefer – who was self-terminated when her past tax problems were discovered. Bill Richardson pulled out of Commerce because of federal pay-to-play probe. Hilda Solis’s husband had some tax liens going back 16 years.

I’m starting to wonder if Obama’s vetting questionnaire looks something like this:

“Do you owe back taxes? If yes – when can you start?”

Maybe he needs to send Biden in to let these people know that paying taxes is patriotic (remember that?). Does that make Obama’s cabinet a bunch of traitors?

No wonder democrats don't care if taxes are raised. It doesn't affect them.

If Obama continues this trend, we may get enough Obama appointees to make a real dent in these impressive upcoming deficits.

Clinton's "Surplus"

With all the recent news about Obama’s budget plans, I want to set the record straight about something.

I keep hearing liberals boast, “Well, when Clinton left office he had a surplus, and look what Bush did to it…”

Clinton didn’t have a surplus.

Slick Willy changed the rules of accounting while he was in office to make it look like he had a surplus.

Clinton decided to use the “cash” based accounting numbers, which look directly at cash that came in vs. cash that went out. This type of accounting is fine for very small businesses or personal checking. Federal law requires businesses with revenues over $1 million/year to use “accrual” based accounting. Accrual accounting measures income and expenses when they accrue. For example: if I borrow $10,000, cash accounting says that I have $10,000 on my books and doesn’t take into account that I owe someone that money. Accrual accounting says that I have $10,000 + -$10,000 in debt = $0.

During the final 4 years of Clinton’s budget, they reported a $559 billion surplus. When the government audited the numbers (using accrual accounting), there was actually a $484 billion deficit.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/2006-08-02-deficit-usat_x.htm

Budget Deficit

Obama recently announced that he plans on cutting the deficit in half by the end of his term.

His team said that he plans on reducing the federal deficit to $533 billion by 2013.

Does anybody else see a slight problem, considering the budget deficit in 2008 was $455 billion?
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1213.htm

Are we supposed to be impressed that he is going to more than double the deficit and then cut it in half by the time his 4 years are over?

Quite a lofty goal there, Mr. President.

Obama's Spending Extravaganza

I’ve put off making a post about Obama’s spending bill because I am just so absolutely disgusted by it. I could go on for hours about how unbelievably stupid it is, but I’ll be brief.

It’s not a stimulus package. I wish people would stop calling it that. I’ve heard estimates from 7-10% of the bill being spent in 2009. If this is supposed to stimulate our crappy economy, why are we waiting to spend 90% of it? It’s actually just a giant bill of pork to pay off Obama’s buddies who helped get him elected. I love how Obama keeps saying, “There are no earmarks in this bill.” Yeah, not if you redefine the definition of ‘earmark’ to suit your agenda. Earth to Obama: the entire bill is pork.

During Obama’s campaign, he told the American people repeatedly that he would be able to pay for every dime of his plans, so where is the $800 billion cut in the budget?

Democrats like to pretend that republicans are into ‘scare tactics’ so I’m curious what they think of Nancy Pelosi’s recent comments. “If we do not pass this economic recovery package, 500 million Americans will lose their jobs every month.” For those of you who aren’t good at math, there are approximately 300 million Americans. Every one of us will lose multiple jobs every month until Obama’s spending bill is passed. Sounds a lot like a scare tactic to me.

So why the rush to pass the bill, Ms. Pelosi? If only 7-10% of the bill is going to be spent this year, why are the democrats pushing for it to be passed so quickly and thoughtlessly?

Are you freaking kidding me?

As I watched B. Hussein Obama sworn in as the president of the United States yesterday, I couldn't help but giggle when the oath became a mangled mess. That's it...just a giggle. I hadn't planned on giving it a second thought.

Until I turned on the radio and hear some liberal commentators and callers complaining about how John Roberts had messed things up and was to blame for the gaffe. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

First, we are already making excuses for B. Hussein? He's going to have to put on his big-boy pants at some point and start taking some responsibility.

Second, if Mr. Roberts messed up on the oath, shouldn't our new President be a quick enough thinker that he can repeat after someone, or is that too much to ask? I mean, we all know he can read off a teleprompter like nobody's business, but ask that man to repeat after you and the crap hits the fan.

But I must admit that I'm not surprised. The next 4 years will be an endless string of excuses for B. Hussein. Anything that goes wrong the next 4 years will be blamed on Bush or someone else, and Obama will get the credit for anything that goes right.

Luckily, I won't have much time to sit around listening to the liberal media fawn over their messiah. I'll be too busy waiting in line for health care...

Che Obama

Alright, the election is over and there's nothing any of us can do about it (except complain).

I am getting really freaking sick of all the Obama supporters telling me that we need to, "Come together," now that their guy won. Stop trying to make the rest of us feel bad by not running around singing Obama's praises, riding on unicorns, farting colored marshmallows and collecting our strawberry scented welfare checks.

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When I hear this garbage coming from a liberal's mouth, here are a few things that come to mind:

It's like all of a sudden, now that their guy is in office, we aren't allowed to disagree? Or have we instantly forgotten that dissent is patriotic?

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So in the words of Ann Coulter:

"In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president."

Question for Obama supporters

Obama says that 95% of people will get a tax cut under his plan (sometimes he says 95% of ‘working families'). http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/26/debate.mississippi.transcript/

But 32% of people who filed taxes in 2006 had zero tax liability. http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/1410.html

I want to know how Obama is going to give a tax cut to those 43 million Americans who don’t pay any taxes. My suspicion is that this isn't really a tax cut at all. Obama has cleverly disguised the world 'welfare' by using the term 'tax cut'.

Lucky for him, there are millions of Americans who care more about getting a couple hundred dollars back from Uncle Sam than they care about the far-reaching detrimental effect Obama's plan will have on our country as a whole.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
-Thomas Jefferson

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have."
-Gerald R. Ford

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.