Tuesday, February 15, 2011

A 548% budget increase in 2 years?

  So they need a few hundred million dollars to get Obamacare started, just for the IRS, including all that dough for people to check to make sure the tanning salon tax is being collected. Those tanning salon owners are rolling in the dough, right?
  Now Stephen Moore at the WSJ reveals the percentage increases behind Obama's budget the last two years. This is one of the most stunning reports you'll read out there and it has received shockingly little attention. Here's a taste. Head on over to the WSJ for the whole report:
What is even more interesting about the analysis is where all the money has gone. The Commerce Department, for example, has seen a 219% rise in its budget. The Environmental Protection Agency is up 130%. The Department of Education, which Democrats say should not absorb even a single dollar of cuts, has enjoyed a 181% spending bonus. The grand winner is the Transportation Department, whose budget has soared by 548%. So much for the "infrastructure crisis."
  Politicians, voters and critics can argue all they like about whether this behavior is intentionally ruining the country or just unintentionally ruining it. 
  How do you justify an increase like this? How?
  Wasn't the stimulus supposed to fund roads? How many essential road projects did we get out of that?
  What? It funded monkeys on cocaine?
  Naw. That might look intentional.

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