Hi Bee1000,
Your are correct. I misstated my facts. We are committed to a deficit that is 4 times what any sitting president has created in our entire history. Here are the facts according to our government sources.
According to the Omnibus budget office source page 7 of 38 http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2010/assets/summary.pdf
In 2008 our estimated deficit was 459 billion dollars under George Bush. In 2009 it is estimated at 1841 billion or 1.841 trillion dollars under President Obama. This estimate does not factor in health care nor does it account for Cap and Trade.
Currently we have spent 350 billion or approximately half of the allocated TARP funds. We are on the hook for a potential additional 350 billion according to CNN Money that could be spent in 2009.
We passed a compromise stimulus bill or economic recovery package for $789 billion of which only a portion has been spent to date according to a NY Times article at http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/united_states_economy/economic_stimulus/index.html yet it was necessary to pass it without reading the bill, because shovel ready programs would put our country back on the road to prosperity.
Never in our history have we been made to feel so rushed to passed comprehensive bills that cover so much ground with so little knowledge of their effects. Never would I have believed that our House and Senate would actually vote for bills that they have not read, or do not understand simply because their party leaders pressure them to do so.
Glenn Beck is bringing those people together who believe in asking questions about their representatives and where our government is headed. Many of us want health care for everyone. We want health care that cannot be dropped because of pre-existing conditions. We want health care we can take with us to any job we choose. That does not mean it has to be government health care. We want the freedom to choose the health care we want, regardless of the state it is offered, and we want the free market to regulate the price we pay.
When has our government ever provided health care or anything else with better service, better coverage, or at a cheaper price? Name one.
CommonSense2009
http://www.obamasense.com
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