Feb 13 2009
Obama’s Double Standard for Fiscal Responsibility
Hat Tip to Pursuing Holiness for graph
Yesterday, on the stump for his “porkulus” bill, Obama was in Peioria calling for “fiscal responsibility”. Now, what I want to know is, does this man have Multiple Personality disorder, or is he just a hypocrite? He seems to have one standard for himself and his friends and another for the rest of us, who are supposed to tighten our belts. David Axelrod reported that the first week in the Oval Office, Obama turned up the heat, to the point that “you could grow orchids in there.” After the Porkulus bill passed the House, he celebrated by having the legislators for a big party with $100 steaks (wyagu steaks).
So, he isn’t exactly leading by example. and now he’s flying around the country trying to bamboozle the Public into thinking that he has our best interests in mind. If that were the case, he would have given the stimulus package to the Congressional Budget Office to write instead of having the clinically insane Pelosi and Reid team write it, and they did nothing but fill the stimulus with earmarks and public works programs, which most economists told him would not work. By the way, running around the country in Air force One is also a very big expense as well.
So, if he wants the country to become fiscally responsible, then he has to start in his own back yard. Harry Reid even said once that paying taxes was “voluntary.” Who’s he trying to kid? Even J. Christophe Amberger calls the stimulus package a “publicity stunt”, similar to when Oprah gave away 276 $30K cars. He went on to say that at least Oprah paid for them with her own money.
