President Obama’s chief mouthpiece, Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, recently issued a challenge that is rooted in re-election politics, not official business.
Carney proclaimed, “… do not buy into the BS that you hear about spending and fiscal constraint with regard to this administration. I think doing so is a sign of sloth and laziness.”
This was said immediately after the hyped claim by Carney that Obama “has demonstrated significant fiscal restraint and acted with great fiscal responsibility.” Carney continued his flourish stating, “Federal spending is rising at its slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower.”
Amid a deficit revealed in a USA Today analysis to be more than $5 trillion in 2011 alone in contrast to the “official” $1.3 trillion reported, 12.5 million citizens unemployed, and a third year with no budget for the federal government, the “BS” being vigorously shoveled is by a panicked White House.
The facts, as published by the Obama administration’s Office of Management and Budget’s own figures: There have been only five fiscal years since World War II in which federal spending has exceeded 24 percent of the gross domestic product, the size of America’s entire economy. Want to guess when four of those years might be?