WE SURROUND THEM!

“Where's dOOd?”

“ok well I never said that it's the ONLY cause. But what I do say is it's a major factor and Barney Frank and Franklin Reigns are all wrapped up in the whole mess. They are trying to overwhelm the system, ala Saul Alinsky. What's more, I'm glad you mentioned Countrywide because I showed you recently that the DEMMYS voted against investigating Countrywide, just the other day....hmmm, that's wierd. As usual you glazed over you own party's corruption and blamed it all on Bush....”

“ANOTHER MAO ADMIRER IN THE WHITE HOUSE
By
webwench
@ October 21, 2009

Ron Bloom. Ever heard the name? He is Obama's manufacturing czar. Last year, Bloom gave a speech to some union members in New York. He apparently was giving a speech on the union role in bankruptcy and restructuring of the auto industry. Here's what the guy had to say:

"Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system ... we know that this is largely about power. That this is an adults only, no limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog."

Can you believe this? This character is The Community Organizer's manufacturing czar! Manufacturing is part of the private sector! It is at the core of our free market economy! And this moonbat is saying that the "free market is nonsense?" He believes that the whole point of free enterprise is to "game the system?"

Let's do a little recap here:

1. Obama writes of his gravitation toward Communist student groups and Marxist professors in college.
2. Obama appoints an avowed Communist to be his green jobs czar.
3. Obama's communications director sings the praises of Mao
4. Now we have Obama's manufacturing Czar citing Mao and calling the free market "nonsense."

What am I missing here?

I don't think I'm missing anything at all. I believe we have a president who feels great animosity toward the free markets and everything-not-government.

I think if the American voters ... and this includes black voters who voted for this menace simply because of skin pigmentation ... need to freaking wake up or this country is royally screwed.”

“UM dood I double posted on the Communist thread...Thanks

Vile, Countrywide had no "OBLIGATION" to comply with CRA..but tell me if a Senator comes to you and "mentions" certain legislation that would FORCE your hand...might you take a second look?”

“oh yeah XL, I forgot we covered that at our secret meeting last night....”

“UM dood I double posted on the Communist thread...Thanks

theXL400
6:39:26 AM
10/21/09

That makes you a communist.”

“Aw crap Strat...that was "Secret"...Shi#...I thought when we were told to invite people who could think for themselves it was open...oh I see yeah, secret meeting...sorry”

“Jay Ambrose: How much is a trillion dollars?
By: Jay Ambrose
Examiner Columnist
October 21, 2009

A friend recently gave me a sense of how much a trillion is with an illustration you can also find on various Internet sites. A million seconds, he said, is 12 days, while a billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds? That's 31,688 years.

In other words, a trillion is a whole, whole lot, and that's something you might keep in mind when reading that the U.S. deficit for 2009 is now projected at $1.4 trillion, which is a cool trillion more than the deficit in 2008 and the most government spending as a percentage of gross domestic product - 10 percent - since World War II.

It would be nice if this were just some amusing detail about a budgetary mishap in Washington, but the truth is something else. Our current spate of runaway spending could have a devastating effect on the lives of virtually all of us, and not just in the estimate of such Republicans as Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who sees this sort of thing continuing for the next decade and warns it will render us a "banana republic."

Equally concerned are most economists, who agree such fiscal folly can be ruinous unless it's stopped. And that brings us to the seeming solution of President Obama: Spend more.

His latest proposal along these lines is to give 50 million Social Security recipients a cost-of-living increase when there has been no increase in the cost of living. Just send each one a check for $250.

The total expenditure would come to something like $13 billion, but look, this has to be done because older Americans could be taking it on the chin under Democratic health care legislation, and there is political peril there.

A provision in a measure approved by the Senate Finance Committee would lop off some $400 billion in private-company Medicare reimbursements over the next decade. The fabrication from the Democrats and Obama has been that you can do this without affecting benefits or premiums, an assertion you might accept if you were of the persuasion that you can have your cake and eat it, too.

One major insurance provider debunked the hogwash in letters to customers, causing some federal bureaucrats to issue a gag order telling the company to quit it, a clear abridgment of this country's free speech guarantees.

But there was a fuss, the bureaucrats retreated, the public is learning the facts, and a number of observers are predicting the Democrats will back away from the proposal.

Even if they do not, this health plan would still be a threaten-the-nation spending monstrosity made to look more acceptable as a matter of 10-year cost estimates by postponing benefits for the first three years or so.

There are many things wrong with our health care system, and ways to fix them short of the extremities that all the exaggerations have demanded, and there are prudent means as well to begin to address Medicare's trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities. Ah, but prudence sounds conservative, doesn't it, and there will be none of that.

A guide to the likely inefficacy of a break-the-bank health care plan that now appears almost sure of enactment is the inefficacy of Obama's $787 billion stimulus package that was supposed to have immediate, significant consequences and has instead so far created 30,000 jobs through federal contracts and grants while 3.4 million jobs have been lost. With solutions like this, Americans are going to have trillions of reasons to worry, and even one trillion, as I said before, is quite a bit.”

“the physical area of this years ballooned deficit would more than cover the face of the earth, land and water.”

“http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nations_morons_march_on_washington

Nation's Morons March On Washington State

OLYMPIA, WA�With random cries of "Enough is enough," "Do something now," and "Huh?" thousands of the nation's biggest morons descended on Washington State this week, some 3,000 miles from their intended destination of the nation's capital.

The march, which had no discernable goal or message, and no official organizers, began at approximately 8:45 a.m. in front of what the morons called the National Mall, but was actually the courtyard outside the Olympia Public Library.

"More government accountability, and transparency, and accountability!" shouted grade-A moron Tammy Caldwell, 37, addressing no one in particular. "On behalf of me, and all the [morons] who came here today, listen up, greedy Washington fat cats: We're not going anywhere until each and every one of our voices is heard."

"To the Lincoln Memorial!" added Caldwell, pointing to a nearby monument dedicated to the memory of Washington State governor John Rankin Rogers.

Following a stop at what the morons believed to be Arlington National Cemetery, protestors reportedly marched east on State Avenue, south along Plum Street, paused bewilderedly when they failed to see the Reflecting Pool at the intersection of Union and Plum, and then found their way back to State to begin their march over again.

While authorities maintained that the gathering was largely peaceful and most of the fires were set purely by accident, demonstrators appeared visibly angry about a range of topics, including war, peace, food, music, money, baseball, cars, the people following them around as if this were some kind of rally, siblings, animals, plants, colors, and movies.

"Come on out of that precious little palace of yours, Mr. President. We're right here waiting," Pennsylvania resident Kip Callahan yelled toward the marble-columned State Insurance Building. "I didn't come all this way to be ignored. I got kids!"

"No Social Security for Medicare!" Michigan idiot Kevin Liston added. "Not in my backyard!"

Throughout the day, the number of protesters grew to include not just morons, but more than 6,000 nimrods, 3,500 dunderheads, and approximately 12,000 of the biggest #&%!$ing dip#&%!$s known to man.

In all, 75,000 of the simpletons turned out, though dozens were killed after walking out into traffic, and hundreds more were lost after wandering into nearby Trillium Park.

"I'm against things," longtime North Carolina resident Pam Beucher said. "I'm for things."

"America!" she added.

"I didn't know Washington, D.C. had Seattle in it," said Connecticut resident Kyle Hinton, an idiot. "Anyway, stop the war! No more hate! Swine flu! Iran! Pharmaceutical companies! Illegal immigrants! Never again!"

At press time the morons had been walking for 10 minutes into a concrete wall in Kennewick, WA, where they eventually stopped to pay their respects to those who lost their lives during the Vietnam War.

"This is�," NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams said Wednesday while broadcasting video footage of protesters shouting "four more years" at the base of Mount Rainier. "Actually, I don't know what this is."

Clearly moved by the marchers' plight, both houses of the United States Congress announced Wednesday they had begun work on a $3 trillion piece of legislation that would completely overhaul the nation's education system.”

“Oh man, that's classic.”

“gotta love the onion.”

“
"Banjo Player Sought In Hootenanny Spree"

Has anyone seen Buddur lately?

”

“FCC votes to begin crafting `net neutrality' rules
Oct 22 03:38 PM US/Eastern
By JOELLE TESSLER
AP Technology Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators took an important step Thursday toward prohibiting broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certain kinds of Internet traffic.

Despite the concerns of the telecommunications industry and the agency's two Republicans, the Federal Communications Commission voted to begin writing so-called "network neutrality" regulations to prevent phone and cable companies from abusing their control over the market for broadband access.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said regulations are needed to ensure that broadband subscribers can access all legal Web sites and services, including Internet calling applications and video sites that compete with the broadband companies' core businesses.

"Internet users should always have the final say about their online service," Genachowski said.

The FCC's two other Democrats voted to support his plan. The agency's two Republican commissioners voted merely to start the formal rule-making process, but said they have reservations about the substance of Genachowski's proposal.

Republican Commissioner Robert McDowell said he remains unconvinced that broadband providers are engaging in widespread anticompetitive behavior that requires government intervention.

"I do not share the majority's view that the Internet is showing breaks and cracks, nor do I believe that the government is the best tool to fix it," he said.

Next up for the FCC is to actually craft the rules, with a vote on whether to adopt them expected to come by next summer.

Yet even as the net neutrality proceeding unfolds at the FCC, the courts and Congress may also become involved. With mounting Republican opposition on the Hill, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Thursday introduced a bill to block Genachowski's proposal.

The FCC proceeding culminates a five-year debate in Washington that has pitted Internet companies such as Google Inc. against some of the biggest phone and cable companies—including AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp.

The broadband providers insist they need flexibility, free from government intervention, to keep their networks running smoothly and prevent high-bandwidth applications such as streaming video from hogging too much capacity. They also warn that net neutrality regulations would discourage them from expanding and upgrading their networks.

"We continue to hope that any rules adopted by the commission will not harm the investment and innovation that has made the Internet what it is today," Comcast Executive Vice President David L. Cohen said in a statement.

But companies such as Google, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc.'s Skype and Facebook Inc. argue that without such rules, the broadband companies will become online gatekeepers that can prioritize their own online services or those of their business partners—and potentially put others at a disadvantage.

That point was echoed by several key Democrats in Congress Thursday.

"We need to ensure that special interests cannot erect toll booths on the information superhighway that impede the innovation that has helped power our economy and create jobs," said Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., a member of the House subcommittee that oversees technology and the Internet.

Genachowski's plan calls for the agency to formally adopt four broadband principles that have guided the FCC's enforcement of communications laws on a case-by-case basis. Those principles state that network operators must allow subscribers to access all online content, applications, services and devices as long as they are legal.

The FCC relied on those guidelines last year when it ordered Comcast to stop blocking subscribers from using an online file-sharing service called BitTorrent, which is used to transfer big files such as online video. Comcast is appealing the decision, arguing that the agency doesn't have authority to mandate nondiscrimination rules, and a court ruling in its favor could undermine the current proceeding.

Genachowski also wants the FCC to adopt two additional principles that would bar broadband providers from discriminating against particular content or applications and require them to disclose network management practices.

And he is seeking to apply all six rules across all types of broadband networks, including wireless systems, which have been largely unregulated.

The commission still has a number of difficult issues to sort through as it drafts the regulations. Those include determining what constitutes legitimate network management by the broadband providers to handle congestion and offer specialized services, such as telemedicine, that may require dedicated bandwidth.

The agency will also have to determine how to apply net neutrality rules to wireless networks, which face bandwidth constraints because of spectrum limitations.


Better wake up AmeriKa!”

“I'd think you'd be all for this, d00d. Why aren't you?”

“Did he mean wake up and support this Amerika?”

“I mean, i'm not trolling here... I'm genuinely confused as to why strat feels that preventing internet providers from controlling what you can or can't view on the net is a bad thing...”

“I know dat. Unless he heard this on FOX Noose and posted it before finding out what it's really all about, rather than the Becky view.”

“I'll talk slowly ......big government is bad”

“http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02pc11

Frontline blames Clinton for the finacial meltdown...”

““I'll talk slowly ......big government is bad”

Why then do we spend 61% of the worlds expenditure on military and why is the US economy 31% of the worlds economy(2004)?

Big federal gov is the problem.”

“Ailes/Beck in 2012, if division by zero is defined by then.”

“well d00d, you know that if internet providers get to dictate what you can and can't do on the internet, then whose to say that you don't get a (gasp!) liberal internet provider blocking all its users from Becky Glenn's cult network? Besides, what about all those militia types who you just hope above all hope do something rash and stupid to our elected politicians? You think they'll be able to organize a little better after comcast shuts down their internet connections whenever they go to the 9/12 organization site?”

“.....ok, well what if Wal-mart decides to stop selling peanut butter? I mean, I really really like peanut butter.....so let's let the Federal take over WalMart and then they can tell them what to sell and not to sell....

It's called the free market, dipsh1t. HAving the internet become NPR? Come on man, you can't possibly be that stupid.

Melitia types? I take it back....you ARE that stupid”

“Your grasp of the issues is truly astounding.
last edited: 10/24/09 9:37:47 AM”

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“So you think Mark Loyd regulating the internet is a good idea, V?

You realize he's a Marxist, right?”

“
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"Puzzling Evidence"
Byrne, Frantz, Harrison and Weymouth
True Stories (1986)
Talking Heads

”

“'Melitia types' of coffee makers? Find me a 'True Marxist', no such thing, lOOd.”

“AT&T, Google Battle Over Web Rules
By AMY SCHATZ


WASHINGTON�There's nothing neutral in the battle between AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. over the future of the Internet.

Google, the powerhouse of Silicon Valley, and AT&T, champion for the old-line phone industry, are marshaling political allies, lobbyists and�in AT&T's case�labor unions for a fight over proposed "net neutrality" rules that could affect tens of billions of dollars in investments needed to upgrade the U.S. broadband network, which lags in speed and affordability compared with some countries.

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission made good on its promise to push new rules that would require Internet providers such as AT&T to deliver Web traffic without delay.

Digits
AT&T on iPhone Exclusivity, Dropped Calls and Net Neutrality Angels Weigh In on Net Neutrality Facebook and Twitter Founders Join Net-Neutrality Wars 'Blue Bell' Democrats Ask FCC to Tone It Down on Net Neutrality Broadly, that means cable and phone companies couldn't block or slow access to services from Google, Netflix or others that are a drain on their networks or could compete with their businesses.

But as the details of the new rules are hammered out in coming months, AT&T and Google are ramping up efforts to ensure the FCC doesn't impose rules that could hurt their profits or expansion plans.

Plenty of lobbyists have made their concerns about the FCC's proposal known to their political allies over the past few weeks. But AT&T lobbyists were particularly active, swarming Capitol Hill and state houses, prompting a bipartisan mix of governors, congressmen and senators to send worried letters to the FCC. Two big labor unions have taken out newspaper ads attacking the new rules.

"Google to date has gotten relatively a free pass that they're somehow promoting the public good on net neutrality as opposed to, what I see, is that they're trying to entrench their business model," said Robert Quinn, AT&T's senior regulatory lawyer in Washington.

Google responded this week with letters of support from dozens of technology-company CEOs and venture capitalists.

"It's not too strong to say we were caught off guard" by AT&T's efforts, says Richard Whitt, Google's top Washington policy lawyer, who said AT&T was deliberately trying to make the issue about Google, not the Internet itself.

"Part of it is this notion that you find one name and you make it the object of all your scorn and your vilification," Mr. Whitt added. "What we represent unnerves them."

As phone and video services have migrated online, the FCC has struggled to stretch its authority over new technologies. The FCC's net neutrality proposal, driven by Chairman Julius Genachowski, is the strongest move yet by the federal government to assert control over the rules of the road on the Internet.

Mr. Genachowski and his aides have been taken aback by the uproar. "In the run-up to today's meeting, there has been a deluge of rumors, and no shortage of myths and half-truths," Mr. Genachowski said during Thursday's FCC meeting. "We're addressing a topic of great importance, where parties have strong views based on differing perspective and experiences."

FCC commissioners voted unanimously to move forward with the rule-making process but the two Republicans on the commission disagreed on the need for them and raised concerns about how the rules might apply to wireless providers and premium services that cable and phone companies want to offer.

AT&T and other Internet-access providers want latitude to manage traffic on congested wireless networks and freedom to devote a chunk of their wired networks to selling more expensive services. Internet providers are worried regulators are assuming veto power over their efforts to develop new revenue streams from their Internet lines.

Google and other Internet companies fret that phone and cable companies will hobble their efforts to offer competing services online or will try charging them more for better connections to consumers.

Google wants phone and cable companies to deliver all traffic equally, so carriers can't get in the way of it offering consumers high-definition TV shows or movies on YouTube or phone services like Google Voice.

Thus far, there have been only two high-profile instances of blocking or slowing Internet traffic, and both stopped soon after the FCC told the companies to knock it off.

The skirmishing over federal regulation of the Web between AT&T and Google has gone on for several years. But the FCC's move to put forward stronger open Internet rules has escalated the fight.

AT&T recently accused Google of blocking calls with its Google Voice service, and provided evidence to the FCC that the search giant wasn't connecting calls to a convent of Benedictine nuns, among others. The FCC launched an inquiry.

Earlier this week, two big labor unions�the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers�took out advertisements in the Washington Post raising concerns that the new rules could discourage investments in telecommunications infrastructure, which to the unions means jobs.

Google returned fire late Sunday night, releasing a letter from 24 chief executive officers and tech-company founders, including Facebook Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg, and IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s Barry Diller, urging the FCC to move ahead with the proposal. A similar letter, from more than two dozen venture capitalists, arrived at the FCC Tuesday morning.

It's not the first time the two companies have faced off in Washington. AT&T and other wireless carriers were infuriated when Google successfully pushed the FCC to impose conditions on airwaves auctioned in 2008. Google bid enough to trigger the conditions�some $4.6 billion�and promptly dropped out of the auction. The wireless carriers weren't much happier when Google helped to successfully push the FCC to set aside some valuable airwaves for free, unlicensed use by potential competitors.

Google's success at getting the FCC to embrace its vision of the Internet hasn't been matched at other agencies. Last month, the Justice Department urged a federal appeals court to reject a settlement between Google and the Authors Guild and Publishers over its book search service.

A Federal Trade Commission investigation prompted Google CEO Eric Schmidt to leave Apple Inc.'s board and Genentech Inc. CEO Arthur Levinson to leave Google's board.

Meanwhile, both Congress and the FTC have expressed concerns about current online advertising and privacy practices of Internet companies including Google. Consumer groups have also weighed in, along with advocacy groups such as the Future of Privacy Forum, which is funded by AT&T.”

“"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."

- THOMAS PAINE”

“By Neal Boortz @ October 23, 2009 8:28 AM

Nancy Pelosi had an interview yesterday with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, and Maria actually asked a good question! She challenged Nancy Pelosi on the Bush tax cuts, suggesting to Princess Nancy that allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire would be the same thing as a tax increase.

So here's the question: "Does the expiration of the Bush tax cuts mean that there will be tax increases?"

This could have been answered in one word: Yes.

But Nancy couldn't bring herself to admit it. Instead. Here is what she had to say via The Swamp:

"That wasn't a tax increase,'' Pelosi said. "It is.. eliminating a tax decrease that was there... It was controversial to begin with. It is... a boon to those who have had it for now. But I think that you will see that happen.

"That affects, what? The upper two percent of our population. What we're trying to do is lower... taxes for the middle class, relieve burdens... on business. So that we can be competitive in job creation. And I think you'll see some interesting things emerge-- from the conversations we're having now. ''

What about allowing those tax breaks to expire at a fragile time in an economic recovery, the speaker was asked.

"I don't think many people here see, nor do the American people see those tax cuts at the high end as being job-creating,'' she said. "They don't... think that that's part of the reason we're in the fiscal, the budgetary situation that we're in, because those tax cuts cost money. And... they were... a cost to our budget, without any commensurate impact on the economy for job creation. To return money to the treasury. So, nobody sees those as a job-creator.

"Return money to the treasury?" Did you get that? Tanking earned income away from a small businessman --- and make no mistake, the vast majority of people who will suffer these tax increases are small businessmen and women --- so taking their money is "returning money to the treasury!"

If the voters of this country were (a) not government-educated; and (b) not so focused on their Hollywood celebrity news; they would run this barking moonbat out of office.”

“Had the tax breaks been reinstated in late 2004, they could have been lowered again last year and even lowered more than Bush had them.”

“dOOd, you're doing so much damage to the socialist- communist with you're post, I think it's time I talk about buying you off- how much?”

“Seditious dOOd, that's what he is.

I caught up on all my Hollywood Celebrittany News eyeballin' the magazine covers at the grocery checkout yesterday.

The pictures told me all I needed to know.

I'm making a GIANT meatloaf tonight.
(chopped jalapeno is the secret ingredient)”

“Fat, dumb, and happy....perfect for tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber...”

“United Nations Investigator Launches Probe Into US Housing Crisis


http://www.breitbart.tv/united-nations-investigator-launches-probe-into-us-housing-crisis/”

“So when are you going to take up arms against the White House, Hillbilly?”

“The day you take office....”

“..or when the still blows up.”

“d00d (like Becky Glenn) is too scared to take up arms himself... but he's got his fingers crossed that some wacko out there does it for him.”

“The dOOd is a candy ass........all he will do is yack-yack-yack.”

“Because I am sure DOOD has seen the benefits of King George's handout to his rich buddies. How's that trickle down working???”

“Beck really has a great set up though. Here, he was basically handed a huge population of bitter, disenfranchised republicans who feel nothing but hate for the man in office simply because he has a (D) next to his name and has democratic values. Except these bitter repubs don't want to admit that the "tyranny" of Obama is simply the sting of being on the poop end of the stick. All Beck has to do is pretend that it isn't just a butthurt republican thing while ranting and raving about oppression and tyranny, throwing in some idiotic buzzwords and catchphrases for good measure and crying crocodile tears while wrapped in an American flag - and the money just rolls on in. If Beck truly believed his own bs and was anything resembling a patriot, he'd take those millions of dollars he's made from these fools and invest them in assault rifles to arm his little army of braindead moonbats and bring about the "revolution" he preaches for. But he's not. He's just another capitalist piggie, making a fortune through misleading people.”

“What is really being missed is..."what if the next people in charge are JUST a tad different?"

Imagine if we get the scenario where a wacko Reactionary type like..Rev Bum Podhumper pushes one of his "clan" to the top. Suddenly the internet is being controlled and instead of free thought it becomes kinda like the office. Discussions are graded on "what is acceptable".

You know I am pretty sure no one hear remembers when the Japanese were illegally confined by Roosevelt...wait he was a Dem it was okay, or when in World War I the same thing happened to Germans on the East Coast...oh wait Wilson was a Dem..no harm.

The thing is what happens if free speech goes the same way of Venezuela, or Argentina?”

“Pepsi, your lameness shines brighter every day. Just like the politicians, you pretend it isn't happening but this time you will be shocked when the heads roll out of Washington come 2010. I don't care what letter they have by their name, R or D. If they are part of the looter mentality, handing out OUR money to buy votes and further the entitlement mentality of this population by redistributing wealth, they are G O N E.

What do you believe in? Why don't you care that they've spent more than all previous administrations combined? How come you have no problem passing our problems on to the next generation of Americans?

What do you believe in?

Screwing your kids out of a better life than you had......OH WELL!”

“You're REALLY late to the party, Dood.”

“he Spending Rolls On
The fiscal 2010 bills grow domestic programs by 12.1%.



The White House disclosed the other day that the fiscal 2009 budget deficit clocked in at $1.4 trillion, amid the usual promises to do something about it. Yet even as budget director Peter Orszag was speaking, House Democrats were moving on a dozen spending bills for fiscal 2010 that total 12.1% in more domestic discretionary increases.

Yes, 12.1%.

Remember, inflation is running close to zero, or 0.8%. The good news, if we can call it that, is that Senate Democrats only want to increase nondefense appropriations by 8% for 2010. Because these funding increases become part of the permanent baseline for future appropriations, the 2010 House budget bills would permanently raise annual outlays for discretionary programs by about $75 billion a year from now until, well, forever.

These spending hikes do not include the so-called mandatory spending programs like Medicare and Medicaid, which exploded by 9.8% and 24.7%, respectively, in the just-ended 2009 fiscal year. All of this largesse is also on top of the stimulus funding that agencies received in 2009. The budget for the Environmental Protection Agency rose 126%, the Department of Education budget 209% and energy programs 146%.


House Republicans on the Budget Committee added up the 2009 appropriations, the stimulus funding and 2010 budgets and found that federal agencies will, on average, receive a 57% increase in appropriated funds from 2008-2010. By contrast, real family incomes fell by 3.6% last year. There's no recession in Washington.

More broadly, the White House and the 111th Congress have already enacted or proposed $3.4 trillion of new spending through 2019 for things like the health-care plan, cap and tax, and the children's health bill passed earlier this year. Very little of this has been financed with offsetting spending cuts elsewhere in the budget.

Throughout the era of Republican rule in Washington, we scored GOP lawmakers for their overspending and earmarks—and so did Nancy Pelosi and other Congressional Democrats. So how do their records compare? From 2001-2008 the average annual increase in appropriations bills came in at 6.4%—or about double the rate of inflation. In this Congress spending is now growing six times faster than inflation.

And here is the kicker. Mr. Obama's 10-year budget forecast predicts that the budget deficit will fall in future years in part because federal spending on discretionary programs will grow at less than the rate of inflation. But spending is already up nearly 8% (including defense) in the first year alone.

For a laugh-out-loud moment on all of this, we recommend yesterday's performance by New York Senator Chuck Schumer on NBC's "Meet the Press." Mr. Schumer declared that "Barack Obama and we Democrats—this is counterintuitive but true—are really trying to get a handle on balancing the budget and we're making real efforts to do it." Counterintiutive? He said this four days after Senate Democrats lost a vote to add $250 billion to the deficit for doctor payments without any compensating spending cuts.

Democrats must figure that they can get away with this sort of rap because no one will call them on the reality of what they're spending. And they're probably right about a press corps that has ignored the spending boom since Democrats took over Congress in 2006. Meanwhile, the spending machine rolls on, all but guaranteeing monumental future tax increases.”

“pepsi has no consideration for his kids. Most likely he will be like the slew of "elderly" we see leaning in their wheel chairs, staring at disconnected TVs and knowing there will NEVER be a visit except for the EMS workers.”