Obama talks about responsibility, accountability, ever expanding deficits and debt, and then says that it is an unsustainable course. He then proceeds to put forward a budget proposal that is irresponsible, has no accountability, and that sets us on an unsustainable course. Who does he think he is kidding? He is selling us down the road to serfdom.

He is saying that instead of us taking the hard knocks and dealing with our own problems, that we should instead just pass it on to our grandchildren in the form of debt. He is making them pay for what we are consuming now. He is in essence stealing money from our posterity, which by the way is immoral.

Just think of your own life for a minute. Lets say that your grandparents had left you a debt of $250,000? Lets also say that this was a legal contract and that you were required to repay this money during your lifetime. And that the contract specified that 35% of your after tax earnings were to be garnished until this debt was paid off. I believe that you would not be a very happy camper, would you? Not only would you not be happy, but you would also be pretty ticked off at your greedy Grandparents for stealing your money. Well guess what? This is exactly what we are doing to our Grandchildren.

Are the American people living in a fantasy word? Do we not know just how big of a hole that we are digging ourselves into? But the biggest question of all is; how do we expect to deficit spend our way into prosperity, when that is exactly what got us into this mess in the first place.
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Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures

President Barack Obama has repeatedly claimed that his budget would cut the deficit by half by the end of his term. But as Heritage analyst Brian Riedl has pointed out, given that Obama has already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package, pledging to halve it by 2013 is hardly ambitious. The Washington Post has a great graphic which helps put President Obamas budget deficits in context of President Bushs.
Whats driving Obamas unprecedented massive deficits? Spending. Riedl details:
•President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.
•President Bush began a string of expensive finan¬cial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.
•President Bush created a Medicare drug entitle¬ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade. President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new govern¬ment health care fund.

•President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. Presi¬dent Obama would double it.
•President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already in¬creased this spending by 20 percent.
•President Bush tilted the income tax burden more toward upper-income taxpayers. President Obama would continue that trend.
•President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obamas budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016.
UPDATE: Many Obama defenders in the comments are claiming that the numbers above do not include spending on Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush years. They most certainly do. While Bush did fund the wars through emergency supplementals (not the regular budget process), that spending did not simply vanish. It is included in the numbers above. Also, some Obama defenders are claiming the graphic above represents biased Heritage Foundation numbers. While we stand behind the numbers we put out 100%, the numbers, and the graphic itself, above are from the Washington Post. We originally left out the link to WaPo. It has been now been added.
CLARIFICATION: Of course, this Washington Post graphic does not perfectly delineate budget surpluses and deficits by administration. President Bush took office in January 2001, and therefore played a lead role in crafting the FY 2002-2008 budgets. Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for the FY 2009 budget deficit that overlaps their administrations, before President Obama assumes full budgetary responsibility beginning in FY 2010. Overall, President Obamas budget would add twice as much debt as President Bush over the same number of years.
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/

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