So say the irrational, Fruit-Loops, Left leaning pundits who opine I think Federal spending done by white people is fine. But let a man who is 16% black start spending wildly and THAT’s when I head for the high dudgeon. I know, stupid and ignorant, but as long as we have a 1st Amendment, there will be those who use it irresponsibly.
Anyway, thanks to my friend Doug at Stixblog who got it from another friend, Steve, at No Runny Eggs, (in the interests of full disclosure, both of these guys are white) I present to you a simple visual explanation of part of the reason people are screaming far louder now that President Obama is spending than they were when President Bush was spending. Please note, this comparison assumes rational understanding of the public record. It assumes you recognize objections to GWB’s spending sprees when you see them. It assumes there’s a reason the response to spending by the current Administration is more severe than response to Bush spending was. It also assumes you are in touch enough with reality to understand race has no bearing on the matter.
Let’s take a federal spending, national debt producing road trip …
Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
Dan Spencer
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
5^?
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 12:44PM EST (link)Awesome!
These types of visualizations need to be burned into the public consciousness. It’s one of the conservative opportunities for a comeback. Yet at the same time, I can see Obama getting away with “I cut the deficit in half, you gullible voters. Ha ha!
I think this is a fruitless task
David Hinz (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 12:52PM EST (link)trying to ascribe some sort of rationality to Democratic voters.
“isn’t he dreamy” pretty much sums it up…
The Minority Report — The HinzSight Report — TMRB.tv — MFOB “Miss Tagart, do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.”
The "Republican" candidate lost only 53% to 46% last Nov
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 2:06PM EST (link)Barack campaigned well as a blank slate against the incumbent. Next time, the incumbent will be himself.
We need to change the votes of only 3.5% to get even. We’ll be able to do better than that once the independents begin to see what they’re going to reap (debt shackles) from what they have sown (Obama’s election).
As to the rationality of the left wing nutjobs, well, I’ll give you that
better up that to at least 5%
David Hinz (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 2:12PM EST (link)what with the increased funding to ACORN, the politicization of the census and the general downward drift of the intelligence of the American public.
The Minority Report — The HinzSight Report — TMRB.tv — MFOB “Miss Tagart, do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.”
Just think
Common_Cents (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 3:36PM EST (link)if the media just attempted to vet Obama. A game changer. A guy like Obama needed a perfect storm and he got it.
We need to get the distribution system back and get the word out.
We need tenacious fighters who will take on the media head to head and call out their BS. Like Gingrich did at the RNC.
The media will whimper and fold like the passive aggressive submissives they really are.
Not taking them on will only serve to legitimize them. Bush went down that road and caused us great harm.
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
You Don't Have To "Change" Votes
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 3:38PM EST (link)I think morale alone will keep about five percent of Obama’s supporters at home next time. They won’t vote Republican, but they also won’t bother to campaign and go out and vote once they realize that nothing’s changed and that they are still poor and that money doesnt grow on trees and that Halliburton doesnt control the world and their rent is still high and gas prices even higher.
They got better things to do, like getting high.
On The Flip Side
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 3:43PM EST (link)… We can probably gain about two to five percent of Republicans who sat home if they are inspired. I suspect that about five percent could switch their votes. The wild card will be new young voters and immigrant voters.
Wait! What did you say?
David Hinz (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 3:44PM EST (link)Halliburton doesn’t control the world? Has anyone notified Darth Cheney?
That is gonna leave a mark…
The Minority Report — The HinzSight Report — TMRB.tv — MFOB “Miss Tagart, do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.”
So easy a Democrat could understand...
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 1:06PM EST (link)but they won’t….regardless of the simplicity of this.
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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Thanks fort the ping back
Black River Wolf (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 8:12PM EST (link)IF more people would realize how much in debt we are going to be after the Obama presidency, I do not think that we will have to do too much. But will the MSM cover for Obama??? I think so. So we need to get the message out that any way we can.
And if the Right gets off of their hands and stops fighting each other we may win, but with all the infighting, it will be hard. We have to look at who the real enemy is, the Left in this country that wants a European Socialistic Government.
“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame,
two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”—-John Adams
It's about what we are spending the money on
alabamared (Diary) Monday, May 18th at 2:11PM EST (link)Bush ran up debt on things that I liked.
Obama is running up debt on things that I don’t like.
Why do I need to look any farther than that?
One of the ways that we keep losing arguments to the Democrats is that we are arguing with them on their terms. By pretending that Democratic and Republican spending have some sort of moral equivilance or are equally valid, we have pretty much already lost.
The question isn’t how fast the debt car is going. The question is who is driving. Right now, I don’t like the driver, so I would just as soon he stop so that I can get off for the next 4 or 8 years. I’ll get back in when this country gets its head on straight and we get a Republican driver back behind the wheel.
Wow ... that sort of misses the whole point ...
Blue_Collar_Muse (Diary) Tuesday, May 19th at 8:29AM EST (link)The idea is to reduce irresponsible spending. While Clinton was driving but with a GOP controlled congress holding the wallet, debt grew at a snail’s pace compared to the last 9 years.
Under Bush, also with a GOP controlled congress, it was the highest until Obama.
This is not about the wrong party in power. It’s about the wrong policies and the wrong principles in power. Merely getting a GOP President isn’t the solution if he turns out to be another W as far as spending is concerned.
Blue Collar Muse
Smaller Government! Lower Taxes! Stronger Defense! More Liberty! Complete Transparency!
We may have to agree to disagree
alabamared (Diary) Tuesday, May 19th at 9:42AM EST (link)I just think that what we are spending on is a much bigger deal than how much we are spending.
But if we are going to talk about deficits in the abstract, I would also like to see those numbers crunched using spending as a % of GDP and not as an absoulte number. Of course W. and Obama are going to look worse on an absolute scale.
I know that the numbers in the video are inflation adjusted, but that still does not get to what I think is the more relevant point–how does the deficit look compared to the size of the economy. Basically, any post-WWII-boom deficit will look a lot worse in this metric because the economy grew so much during that period.
I know that you didn’t make this video, so I am not complaining at you. Actually, I am not complaining at all. I’m just really curious about how the deficit looks in a historical manner as a percentage of GDP. I imagine Obama still comes off pretty bad–especially because he has a smaller economy than W.