Cutting Obama's Deficit of Truth

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Balancing the Budget on the Backs of the Armed Forces

Continuing my dissection and analysis of President Obama's April 13 speech on how he plans to reduce the deficit. His first step was to “keep annual domestic spending low” despite his record of increasing it. Here is the second, the only one of the four steps in which he plans to make actual cuts:... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Keeping Annual Domestic Spending Low

Continuing my dissection and analysis of President Obama's April 13 speech on how he plans to reduce the deficit. Now, we get into how he intends to reduce the deficit. "The first step in our approach is to keep annual domestic spending low by building on the savings that both parties agreed to last... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Putting Everything on the Table

Continuing my dissection and analysis of President Obama's April 13 speech on how he plans to reduce the deficit. One last look at this section: "To meet our fiscal challenge, we will need to make reforms. We will all need to make sacrifices. But we do not have to sacrifice the America we believe... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Sacrificing the America We Know

Continuing my dissection and analysis of President Obama's April 13 speech on how he plans to reduce the deficit. Another look at these two fertile paragraphs: "To meet our fiscal challenge, we will need to make reforms. We will all need to make sacrifices. But we do not have to sacrifice the... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Obama's Concept of Sacrifice

Continuing my dissection and analysis of President Obama's April 13 speech on how he plans to reduce the deficit. Let's continue in yesterday's paragraphs: "To meet our fiscal challenge, we will need to make reforms. We will all need to make sacrifices. But we do not have to sacrifice the America we... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

What Pledge to Halve the Deficit?

Continuing my dissection and analysis of President Obama's April 13 speech on how he plans to reduce the deficit. First, some required outside reading. Go to http://factcheck.org/2011/04/factchecking-obamas-budget-speech/ and study their detailed refutation of the President's remarks about the Ryan... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 27, 2011

The America Obama Knows

Continuing my dissection and analysis of President Obama's April 13 speech on how he plans to reduce the deficit. Next paragraph: "The America I know is generous and compassionate. It’s a land of opportunity and optimism. Yes, we take responsibility for ourselves, but we also take responsibility for... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Playing Loose With the Numbers

Continuing my dissection and analysis of President Obama's April 13 speech on how he plans to reduce the deficit. We're going on a little side trip from the speech itself. I'm writing this a few days after the President boasted of how he had brought back the American auto industry; the boasts, which... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Seriousness and Courage

Continuing my dissection and analysis of President Obama's April 13 speech on how he plans to reduce the deficit. Next paragraph, please. "This vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America. Ronald Reagan’s own budget director said, there’s... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Income Reductions and the ISHPI

Continuing in the Big Lie section of the President's April 13 speech on deficit reduction, the section in which he tells us what to believe about the marginal tax rate reduction in the Ryan budget proposal: In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of all working Americans... Sign in to see full entry.

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