Campaign-era promises....

During the past week there has been a lot of reflection by bloggers who have felt the pressure to keep up with the many (and I mean MANY...) unexpected and volatile changes in our country.

Even bearing in mind that democrats control the House and the Senate and rule the White House with a subtly not seen since George Orwell's "Animal Farm", sometimes uncomfortable bits of information slip out.

In a Reuters news piece over at Yahoo!news, the Congressional Budget Office has revised the exisitng wastage from the White House for JUST the bailouts up from $189,000,000,000.00 to the paltry and barely noticable price tag of $356,000,000,000.00.

With a recent estimate of the US population at 303,500,000 (which doesn't differentiate between active taxpayers and children, unemployed, welfare, or the elderly... it's hard to really guess how much the burden for rescuing these companies is going to be for the average taxpayer.

Now to be fair the CBO isn't taking in the whole picture. They're JUST looking at moneis given to AIG, the Auto Industries, and whoever else hussein wants to take over and run ruthlessly. With a national debt that threatens to vastly exceed our GDP in the coming few years the cost to Americans is likely to run somewhere along the lines of selling off everything we own.

It's a good time to buy stock in eBay, I think.

So, does anyone even recall one word from either candidate about how they would bankrupt America for the next few generations? I think I missed that particular town hall meeting. Mayhap Rush was sleeping when hussein told us in his much-vaunted transparency that he was going to sell away our future and God help[ us if we should ned some of that money for unexpected things, because there just won't be any.

Oh wait... now I remember... it's the part where hussein said something about breaking from our addiction to foreign aid and finding a replacement for money which will be cleaner, cheaper, and more plentiful.

Or something like that.

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