WASHINGTON – In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America’s founding. And it says by the next decade’s end the national debt will equal three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy.
That alone should be enought to assure you that the nation is on the wrong track. Yet, the current administration is ever-eager to prove that they have no idea whatsoever what they are doing, what the problem is, or how to fix it, but that they will do whatever they can to make sure that their friends and business partners get rich off the taxpayers.
Case in point:
The grim deficit news presents Obama with both immediate and longer-term challenges. The still fragile economy cannot afford deficit-fighting cures such as spending cuts or tax increases.
And yet, spending cuts are exactly what a contracting economy requires. Obama’s advisors said Tuesday that unemployment is heading towards 10 percent — and that’s from their fraudulent new method of defining “unemployed” as narrowly as possible, to keep the number as low as possible! Measuring it the way we did back in the ’80′s, unemployment would be up in the 20 percents!
So when they say they can’t afford to cut spending, what they mean is, they do not want to stop giving money to the corporate interests receiving government money. Case in point:
Amid the gloomy numbers on Tuesday, Obama signaled his satisfaction with improvements in the economy by announcing he would nominate Republican Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. The announcement, welcomed on Wall Street, diverted attention from the budget news and helped neutralize any disturbance in the financial markets from the high deficit projections.
Ok, some things to remember:
- The Federal Reserve is a private company, like Federal Express and Federal Ammunition.
- The Federal Reserve is in the business of loaning money to the government and other banks.
- The Federal Reserve is raking in the cash, loaning billions of dollars that it creates out of thin air to us taxpayers, who pay interest on money that did not exist before the government borrowed it to pay interest on money it borrowed last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, going back to 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed.
- The Federal Reserve and the loathsome Alan Greenspan caused the bubble in housing, stocks, consumption and prices in general by keeping interest rates artificially low for a very long time in order to drive prices up and encourage investing in all sorts of idiotic schemes that would never have received money had it not been nearly free.
- Bernanke and Greenspan kept denying that there would be a bust, right up until several months after the boom busted.
- Bernanke, Obama, and the rest of them have no idea where the economy is going, all of their predictions have been wrong, none of their stimulus plans have helped, and they really have no idea what’s going on. Case in point:
“This recession was simply worse than the information that we and other forecasters had back in last fall and early this winter,” said Obama economic adviser Christina Romer.
Translation: Our economic models are worthless because we are following the worthless and wrong Keynesian economic models which have been proven wrong by 4,500 years of human history, and we’ve never bothered to read anything from the Austrian school of economics which is always right, because only the Keynesian models say that the government should meddle in every aspect of the economy and regulate every aspect of human activity because we at the top are supposed to be better at making the best economic choices for the masses than collectively 280 million people are at individually making the best economic for their own situations.
That’s why they had no idea that the recession was going to hit, how bad it was going to be, that all their stimulus would — at best — have no positive effect, and — most likely — make it worse, because when you’ve spent so much more money than you’ve earned that you are so deep in a debt-hole that you feel like the doctor’s finger after he’s asked you to turn around and cough, the last thing you and the patient want is for you to keep shoving it deeper in there, yet that’s exactly what the government is doing to us. And without even such niceties as a kiss or Vaseline!
But the bankers who own the Federal Reserve want their paychecks to keep rolling in, and the auto dealers who voted and donated Democrat and so didn’t get shut down by Obama want some income, and it’s so easy to keep taking out more loans to pay for all the previous loans, and our government is full of spineless idiots and socialists (please pardon the redundancy) who care more about pleasing lobbyists and being able to vote themselves money than keeping their oath of office or impoverishing their consitutients and running the greatest nation in the history of the world into the ground.
And yet, returning to the Constitution would solve all these problems and spur a return of prosperity not seen in a hundred years.
Let’s get it on!
How very sad that 99% of all the people in the nation believe everything that Obama says, without questioning it. According to the news reports the cash for clunkers program was widely successful even though it put people into debt for a new car and many of the dealerships haven’t seen a dime yet.
In other words, it doesn’t really matter what the presidency does; just what the news reports. As long as they keep saying All is Well in Zion, yea Zion prospereth, they can keep cheating our souls and leading us carefully down to…………
From The Five Minute Forecast:
As we forecast yesterday, the Obama administration predicted today a cumulative $9 trillion deficit over the next 10 years. Somehow, since the most recent projection in May, that forecast has grown by $2 trillion.
In other words, by 2019, the public debt will have doubled… to 75% of the size of our entire GDP.
Also of note, the new White House projections call for a 2.8% GDP contraction in 2009, twice as lousy at they forecast this time last year… try to remember that the next time they tell you about the economy “getting back on track.”
“This is where I have to come out and talk about how bad these forecasts are!” insists Chuck Butler. “For instance, 10 years ago, these forecasters said we would be enjoying a budget surplus right now… Buzz! Wrong! Thank you for playing, there’s a nice parting gift for you at the door! Johnny? Tell them what they won! How about a nearly $2 trillion (by gov’t. accountants’ figures) budget deficit instead? That will be more than $500 billion more than these accountants forecast just a year ago!”