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Redstate
Spending at Gun Point
By Breeanne Howe
January 17th, 2013
In the days leading up to President Obama announcing his gun control
plans, and now that he has, the focus of Republicans and Conservatives
has been squarely on his ever-encroaching attack on the Second
Amendment. As Republican National Committee Chairman Reince
Priebus stated on the President’s move, “He paid lip service to our
fundamental constitutional rights, but took actions that disregard the
Second Amendment and the legislative process.” While Obama’s
disregard for Americans’ Constitutional rights should absolutely be a
primary argument against the President’s plans, we should not forget
another vastly important detail.
President Obama has a spending problem. In his FY2013 budget, the
President submitted $3.8 trillion in new spending which does not
include the $500 million (or by some accounts $45 billion) he would
like Congress to spend on his gun proposals. Obama, and his
fellow Democrats, would like to point to his spending cuts to deflect
his out-of-control budget going forward, but in truth he has admitted
to cutting (over the next ten years) only $1.7 trillion. As Ed
Morrissey notes at Hot Air, “the federal government is on track for a
fifth straight year of trillion-dollar deficits under Obama.”
Many Americans may think the President’s gun control spending is the
first in 2013, forgetting that the federal government started its
fiscal year last October. The government actually spent $638
billion before we even reached December. At the current rate, the
government is spending $10.45 billion per day, 435.8 million per hour
and borrowing 46 cents for every dollar it spends. The growth of
the country’s spending is so much that the money it takes in, up 10%
already this fiscal year, cannot keep pace. If this is avoiding
the fiscal cliff, we’re in for a nasty fall.
Like any addict though, the President places blame for his failed
personal responsibility on someone else. In Obama’s case,
Congress is solely to blame for not paying down the debt...
Read the rest of the article at Redstate
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