Says FOX News:
President Obama is expected to propose that Congress freeze “non-security” federal spending for the next three years, senior administration officials said Monday.
The term “non-security” is broad. It will exempt costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, all other Pentagon spending, as well as foreign aid and the budgets of the Veterans Administration and Department of Homeland Security.
The freeze will apply to the annual spending on day-to-day government programs that do not include mandatory spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Spending on these three programs alone this year is projected to equal 8.7 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product or 59 percent of all federal spending.
OK, let’s be honest here. I don’t like Obama. I didn’t vote for him, I think he’s done a poor job as President, and since I see him as just another neo-euro-Socialist I do not respect him as a man.
Nevertheless, I give credit where credit is due. The federal government has to stop spending taxpayer dollars. You do realize, don’t you, that every penny spent by the federal government is a penny taken by force out of someone’s wallet or purse? So every penny they spend, on any program, is a penny you or I could have used to buy our groceries or pay doctor bills.
I also appreciate that he limited this to the next three years – his administration – and didn’t try to impose anything on the next President.
Then there’s Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. I’m afraid that these three Socialist programs are now too intertwined into this country and cannot be touched. It’s a damn shame that so many people absolutely depend on the government to pay their bills.
Now let’s look at reality, though. These spending freezes will do little to bring down the deficit. These spending freezes will do little to help average taxpayers. These spending freezes may be nothing more than a “look at me” from Obama as he attempts to re-image himself as a man of the people. Just like he did during the election, Obama may be doing nothing more than saying what his advisers tell him the people want to hear. Don’t forget that no less than four times during the presidential debates did Obama actively campaign against an across the board spending freeze. And until I see something really happening out of Washington I do not believe a word out of his mouth.
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