Obama and his administration is full of hypocrisy. Anyone with the most basic understanding of economics knows that our Country moves closer to insolvency each and every day. He's already increased taxes on everyone across the board, in spite of campaign pledges to the contrary, but has yet to take any steps to cut spending!
Here's what he said about this very same problem back in 2006.....
(It seems he's fond of using children to sell his bill of goods... )
Now, even the Presidents own Government Account Office, a fact that seems to have gone almost unreported in the mainstream media, warns that we're on an unsustainable fiscal path. I'm not surprised given the fact that on average, everyday we're adding $3,699,744,466.56 dollars to the National Debt. This translated to an annual increase of $1,354,106,474,762.13 in new debt last year. Current estimates for 2013 are at best the same, if not worse. This means that every TAXPAYER in America is currently $145,877 dollars in debt!
GAO report number GAO-13-271R entitled 'Financial Audit: U.S. Government's Fiscal
Years 2012 and 2011 Consolidated Financial Statements' which was released on
January 17, 2013.
"Increased attention to risks that could affect the federal government’ s financial condition is made more important because of the nation’s longer-term fiscal challenges. The comprehensive long-term fiscal projections presented in the unaudited Required Supplementary Information section of the 2012 Financial Report show that—absent policy changes—the federal government continues to face an unsustainable fiscal path. The oldest members of the baby-boom generation are already eligible for Social Security retirement benefits and for Medicare benefits. Under these projections, spending for the major health and retirement programs will increase in coming decades as more members of the baby-boom generation become eligible for benefits and the health care cost for each enrollee increases. Over the long term, the structural imbalance between spending and revenue will lead to continued growth of debt held by the public as a share of gross domestic product (GDP); this means the current structure of the federal budget is unsustainable. These projections, with regard to Social Security and Medicare, are based on the same assumptions underlying the information presented in the Statement of Social Insurance and assume that the provisions in law designed to slow the growth of Medicare costs are sustained and remain effective throughout the projection period. If, however, the cost containment measures are not sustained over the long term—a concern expressed by the Trustees of the Medicare trust funds, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Chief Actuary, the Congressional Budget Office, and others—spending on federal health care programs will grow much more rapidly. GAO also prepares long-term federal fiscal simulations which continue to show debt rising as a share of GDP.
The Full report: Click here to view FULL REPORT
If Obama's inauguration speech is any indication of his future intentions, it doesn't look like he's willing to do what's right for America. Our National Debt is the single largest threat to our National Security.
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