Greater Lowell Tea Party

I was just treated to this short civics lesson and wanted to share it with you.
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The Washington Post babbled again recently about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough ... A lot of people swallow this nonsense. So once more, a short civics lesson.

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party. They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009.

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.

In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is, "I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th."

There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!

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From one of you (thank you) ~

Michelle Bachman just told the group listening in on the telecom that Nancy Pelosi has called all congressmen back to Washington tomorrow 8/10/10 (their break started last week). She is calling them back to vote in the new stimulus $ so all her Democrat congressional members will have a new shot of $ that can be funneled to their union/seiu/and worker bees to get Democrats reelected. Be sure to contact your congressmen tomorrow and tell them to vote no on the added stimulus $.
If your congress member votes yes....challenge them when they are back in district. This is the Democrats slush fund. Push back America.