Comment #4

jarasan — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:27:47 GMT

Damit these people pi$$ me off even on St. Patty's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I'm going to get Bushmilled after I get Guinessed up. God bless Ireland and the USA!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment #3

sully16 — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:25:06 GMT

I am sure those who are on the receiving end are very happy, in the meantime, those of us who are paying are getting madder by the minute.

Comment #2

emilyg — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:51:35 GMT

They are liars without shame.

Comment #1

rdgrnr — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:42:21 GMT

Oh, they're up to the task.<br />They're not very good at it but they make up for that with the sheer volume of lies.<br />And their base doesn't know what the hell's going on anyway.<br />And wouldn't care if they did.

Original Blog Entry: How many LIES will it take to cover this..??

MADDOG10 — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:42:07 GMT

+30.5B: Federal Spending Up, Not Down, in First 5 Months of FY13

March 15, 2013

By Terence P. Jeffrey

President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in the Capitol on March 14, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

(CNSNews.com) - Federal spending was up $30.5 billion in the first five months of fiscal 2013 compared to the first five months of fiscal 2012, according to newly released data from the U.S. Treasury.

The federal fiscal year begins on Oct. 1 and runs through Sept. 30. In the first five months of fiscal 2012 (October through February), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement, total federal spending was approximately $1,473,999,000,000.00. In the first five months of fiscal 2013, total federal spending was $1,504,547,000,000.00.

Thus, federal spending was $30,548,000,000.00 more in the first five months of fiscal 2013 than it was during the first five months of fiscal 2012.

The federal government is also spending at a much faster pace this year than it did before President Barack Obama took office.

In the first five months of fiscal 2008 (the last full fiscal year before Obama took office), the federal government spent $1,230,412,000,000.00. That is $274,315,000,000.00 less than the $1,504,547,000,000.00 that the federal government spent in the first five months of this fiscal year.

So far this fiscal year, the federal government is spending an average of about $300,909,400,000.00 per month. If the government maintained that average pace for all 12 months of the fiscal year, it would spend a total of $3,610,912,800,000.00.

Through all of fiscal 2008, before Obama took office, the federal government spent a total 2,978,440,000,000.00. Adjusted for inflation, that equals $3,211,717,910,000.00 in 2013 dollars. So, were the government to continue on its pace to spend $3,610,912,800,000.00 this year, then real federal spending in fiscal 2013 would be $399,194,890,000.00 more than it was in the last full fiscal year before Obama became president.

Congress would need to cut $399 billion this year to bring inflation-adjusted federal spending back to the level it was before Obama.

According to the CBO, the sequester that has now taken effect will cut only $44 billion from the money that was expected to be spent through the remainder of this fiscal year.

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