Archive for February, 2013

(I’m not sure it was supposed to be this funny)

“It is not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government.”
I couldn’t agree more – 100%
Going to preschool ends up “boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing violent crime” and can help infants eventually “form more stable families of their own.”
Never mind that the two states Obama praised for their commitment to preschool Georgia and Oklahoma rank in the bottom third for reading and math proficiency, and college attendance, according to the Department of Education.
“As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.”
Sixteen of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities are in China. The New York Times reported just a couple weeks ago that Beijing’s air quality ranked a “crazy bad” 755 on a scale of 0 to 500.
“Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs.”
After trending downward, insurance premiums spiked 9.5% the year after ObamaCare became law, and another 4.5% last year. And that’s before the main event happens in 2014, when ObamaCare takes full effect. One study finds ObamaCare’s mountain of rules and regulations will nearly triple premiums for young people. And his own health care experts say that national spending will shoot up 7.4% in 2014 and will climb 6% or more for the foreseeable future.
“We can’t cut our way to prosperity.”
Obama’s own record shows pretty clearly that we can’t spend our way to prosperity either.
Of special note related to the 27 new federal programs that he proposed – “Let me repeat – nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime.”
Once again I see complete truth in this statement.