FACT: The last federal budget actually signed into law took place in September of 2007 for fiscal year 2008. It was signed by President Bush.
FACT: Since then, and due to the Democrat party spending objectives, not a single day of the Obama administration has been with any budget restrictions at all.
FACT: The ‘spend at will’ Democrats had full control of both houses of congress and the White House for Fiscal Years 2009, 2010, 2011 and they never passed a budget. The Senate never even proposed one, and the Obama budget proposal only got 2 votes in 2011, and -ZERO- votes in 2012.
FACT: The Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in Jan 2011. They passed a budget for Fiscal year 2012 (The Ryan Plan), and again for Fiscal Year 2013 (Ryan Plan 2.0). The Harry Reid Senate never brought either House budget up for a vote – nor did they produce one of their own.
FACT: By Law the Executive Branch (The President) must produce his budget proposal by the first Monday in February each year. It is now April 9th and Obama, despite having taken 3 vacations, has yet to propose one. {reportedly a proposal will come out tomorrow}
FACT: The federal government spends approximately $1.3 Trillion dollars more each year than currently it takes in via tax revenues. [That’s one thousand 300 billions] This is called the federal deficit.
FACT: When President Obama took office the total accumulated federal debt was approximately $5 Trillion. It is now almost $17 Trillion and climbing. {as mentioned above it is increasing at a rate of about $1.3 trillion anually}
Reportedly President Obama’s budget proposes to cut $1.8 Trillion in “deficit” spending over the next 10 years. That’s $180 billion per year…. while the current rate of deficit is $1.3 trillion per year.
.@PressSec promises a daylong "budgetpalooza" when the 2014 budget is released tomorrow.
— PETER MAER (@petermaer) April 9, 2013
Note how President Obama never talks about cutting the “debt”, only cutting the rate of deficit. We’ll still spend more than we take in – we’ll just trim it a little.
This is an unsustainable path to ruin.