Just because you sometimes travel at 64 mph in a 55 mph speed zone, doesn’t mean you can’t criticize someone driving 174 mph. This video explains:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5yxFtTwDcc[/youtube]
May 19, 2009 at 10:34 am
Just because you sometimes travel at 64 mph in a 55 mph speed zone, doesn’t mean you can’t criticize someone driving 174 mph. This video explains:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5yxFtTwDcc[/youtube]
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Families and businesses have budgets, yet Washington doesn’t — and it hasn’t for the last three years. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) doesn’t think this major omission is that big of a deal, and the White House has no opinion on the matter. Fortunately, there are leaders in the House who see the importance of passing a budget and getting runaway spending and escalating debt under control. For Congress, the budget is an outline of how and where money will be spent across the federal government and how high … More
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This is a wonderful visual and should be put in every school. Even little children could understand it so adults should easily understand it. Kudos to whoever put it together!
Betty Hanicke is absolutely right: "even little children could understand it," but that is because they are not influenced by an incoherent hatred for our 43rd president. The video is great because it presents only facts, and does not attempt to excuse excessive spending by previous administrations. All one has to do is watch, listen, and think.
The odd thing is — most teachers and professors don't seem to understand this!
In fact, I've posted this to my Facebook. Looks like my class load may get cut back even more than it has already been — since I've been posting material from Heritage and The American Spectator.
Also I wasn't busy slobbering over "The One" — as so many of my professorial colleagues were!
This is SO simple, it should be required watching for every American. Unfortunately, those enamored with "The One" would STILL say it was right wing propaganda,
Can we get Bill Clinton back? He did the best job with the budget.
I agree.
on the video, not the clinton comment.
The only thing this video does not show is Obama's budget vehicle plunging into an abyss as it drives the nation into the Pacific Ocean.
If people took Obama's name off the spending going on in DC right now and just looked at the dollars and their impact on our future, this nonsense the Democrats are perpetrating would cease overnight.