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President Obama has talked alot about getting the deficits in order. The omnibus appropriations bill he’s about to sign proves that he’s all talk:

The 1,000-plus-page bill brings together six of the 12 annual spending bills that Congress had been unable to pass separately even though the new fiscal year began Oct. 1 because of partisan roadblocks.

It includes $447 billion in operating budgets with about $650 billion in mandatory payments for federal benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid as well as an estimated $3.9 billion for more than 5,000 back-home projects sought by individual lawmakers in both parties.

The bill increases spending by an average of about 10 percent to programs under immediate control of Congress, blending increases for veterans’ programs, NASA and the FBI with a pay raise for federal workers and help for car dealers.

President Obama’s talk about reducing the deficit is intellectually dishonest. Increasing the federal budget by 10 percent this year proves that he’s the most fiscally irresponsible president of my lifetime. Nobody even comes close. Simply put, President Obama’s talk last February about cutting the deficit in half is a bald-faced lie:

President Obama will announce Monday that he plans to cut the nation’s projected annual deficit in half by the end of his first term, a senior administration official said Saturday.

It’s impossible to cut the deficit in half when you’re increasing the budget by 10+ percent a year. That’s after increasing spending last year through last year’s omnibus spending bill. President Obama’s talk and congressional Democrats’ talk about fiscal responsibility is exactly that: talk.

The fact that the bill that President Obama is about to sign includes a pay raise for federal workers is disgusting, too. They’re already making out like bandits compared to the rest of us:

A review of federal salary data by USA Today shows that employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped by 5 percent during the recession’s first 18 months. That’s before overtime pay and bonuses are counted. During the same 18 months of the recession, the private sector lost 7.3 million jobs.

USA Today says the trend to six-figure salaries is taking place throughout the federal government due to substantial pay raises and new salary rules. The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker’s pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.

At a time when we’re in the deepest recession since the Great Depression, at a time when we’re running the biggest deficits in history, it’s disgusting to see government fat cats gorging themselves on our money. The Democrats OWN THIS PROBLEM.

But the second-ranking Senate Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, said the measure restores money for programs cut under former President George W. Bush such as popular grant programs for local police departments to purchase equipment and put more officers on the beat.

Dick Durbin is a liar. Programs weren’t cut under President Bush. That that’s the Democrats’ argument is feeble and disgusting. The last budget President Bush submitted was the first budget that topped $3,000,000,000,000. In President Obama’s first year, that record’s been shattered. It’s now close to topping $4,000,000,000,000, an increase of almost 33 percent. This year’s deficit will certainly be as big as last year’s.

It’s blasphemy to say that a 33 percent increase is needed for any reason. That argues that there wasn’t hundreds of millions of dollars wasted in last year’s budget, something that no person could argue and retain any credibility. It’d take a Dick Durbin to make that type of argument.

It’s important that conservatives and independents alike defeat as many Democrats as possible. It’s the only way we’ll restore fiscal sanity. It’s the only way we’ll avoid having Moody downgrade our bond status from AAA to AA. What I’ve read is that only banana republics have AA bond ratings. The United States has never had anything but a AAA bond rating.

President Obama’s and the congressional Democrats’ spending habits are unprecedented and irresponsible. Most importantly, their deficits are unsustainable.

That isn’t a picture of fiscal responsibility.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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