Peter Ferrara, writing in the June 16 Forbes, has declared President Obama to be the biggest spender in history. He points out that federal spending has increased from $2.983 trillion in 2008 to $3.796 trillion in 2012, which he calls the “highest government spending in world history”.
The column was in response to an unfounded but widely distributed claim by Internet commentator Rex Nutting that federal spending had slowed under Obama. The claim was eventually echoed by the President, himself.
Nutting explained his nuttiness by claiming “that the first year of every presidential term starts with a budget approved by the previous administration and Congress.”
Ferrara explains, however, that a president proposes a budget but it’s Congress that approves it and that Congress can approve one much different than what the president presents.
Ferrara noted that the budget presented by President Bush for Fiscal Year 2009 called for a 3 percent spending increase. The budget approved by the Democrat-controlled Congress and implemented by President Obama hiked spending 17.9 percent.
He noted that the Democrats only passed three of FY 2009’s 12 appropriations bills while Bush was in office waiting for Obama to take charge before doing the rest.
Me thinks Peggy Lee was his favorite song bird.
Do you remember ‘Hey Big spender?”
I could see zero enjoying Peggy Lee singing–
The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of distinction
A real big spender
Good looking, so refined
Say wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point
I don’t pop my cork for every guy I see
Hey, big spender!
spend a little time with me
Do you wanna have fun, fun, fun?
How’s about a few laughs, laughs?
I can show you a good time
Let me show you a good time
Michelle catches him enjoying it, she might change her registration.
I’m not going dancing with him. He’s blowing his good times with my grandkids money.