Democrats and Deficits

Remember all the flack and hate that Democrats and liberals generated when Dick Cheney uttered these words: "Deficits Don't Matter." Well, now that they have one of their own in the White House and Democrats control both houses, it seems that they have forgotten their bitter arguments against growing national deficits. Now it's "spending is stimulus!" If government spending is good for the economy, why wasn't it good when the Bush administration was doing it? Now that Democrats have abandoned the charade of fiscal responsibility and "pay as you go" (remember that bull crap) they have unveiled a new and bigger fiscal budget for 2009 and it's an 8.7% increase from the 2008 budget. Despite Obama's jawing about "fiscal responsibility" and cutting the deficit in half by his first term, taxpayers should brace to get socked with higher taxes in the very near future. Sadly, this is exactly the sort of change that I expected from Barack Obama.