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Drinking to the Budget

Seeded on Sun Mar 1, 2009 9:01 AM EST
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If a Martini is your drink, skip the Vermouth. If Whiskey's your poison, take it straight. If you're a teetotaler, make an exception. And if you really, really shouldn't drink, close your eyes and take a deep breath. But, under no circumstances should you look at President Obama's budget blueprint for the next ten years without fortification.

The American people have long been craving a president that would tell them the truth. Now we're going to find out if we can handle it. The sticker-shock truth that hits hardest is the budget deficit number: clocking in at $1.8 trillion for 2009, $1.2 trillion for 2010. Those represent 12.3 percent and 8.0 percent of Gross Domestic Product, respectively—both representing levels not seen since World War II.

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This budget blueprint heralds programs that will change the face of the American economy.... President Obama could have tried to slip these in the back door, hidden their costs, used tricks, chicanery and bombast to hide what he was doing and, most importantly, how much they cost. He certainly wouldn’t have been the first president to do that—most certainly.

Instead, he took a different course. Not every forecast in this budget will come true, not every estimate will be on target. But we’re being treated as adults who can understand what’s going on and won’t be fooled by the inevitable distortions that will come from those who oppose the President. Are we ready for this? I think the answer is yes. So, yes, I will have a drink, a bourbon . . . a double . . . neat—but in celebration, not for fortification. It’s a welcome change.

I'm ready! Are you?

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Reply#1 - Sun Mar 1, 2009 9:02 AM EST
WingCrazee

lol, would be if I drank ;)

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Reply#2 - Sun Mar 1, 2009 10:05 AM EST
teresa-498430

I guess that is why "they say" ignorance is bliss. Here is to honesty, gulp.

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Reply#3 - Sun Mar 1, 2009 5:19 PM EST
AfricanMadman

I'll have a E&J and cola.... Chase, not mix please....? *glup*

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Reply#4 - Sun Mar 1, 2009 8:44 PM EST
PowerIsKnowledge

Barcardi light--straight up--water back.

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Reply#5 - Sun Mar 1, 2009 8:47 PM EST
AfricanMadman

Whoa, hope your not heading back to work afterwards, you'll need a peppermint after that....

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#5.1 - Sun Mar 1, 2009 8:49 PM EST
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PowerIsKnowledge

And keep them coming. Probably won't need a refill on the water.

    Reply#6 - Sun Mar 1, 2009 8:53 PM EST
    AfricanMadman

    Oh yeah? Then I'll have a "flaming still-birth", and keep them coming.....

      #6.1 - Sun Mar 1, 2009 9:00 PM EST
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