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Spending at Gun Point
By Breeanne Howe
January 17th, 2013

In the days leading up to President Obama announcing his gun control plans, and now that he has, the focus of Republicans and Conservatives has been squarely on his ever-encroaching attack on the Second Amendment.  As Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus stated on the President’s move, “He paid lip service to our fundamental constitutional rights, but took actions that disregard the Second Amendment and the legislative process.”  While Obama’s disregard for Americans’ Constitutional rights should absolutely be a primary argument against the President’s plans, we should not forget another vastly important detail.

President Obama has a spending problem.  In his FY2013 budget, the President submitted $3.8 trillion in new spending which does not include the $500 million (or by some accounts $45 billion) he would like Congress to spend on his gun proposals.  Obama, and his fellow Democrats, would like to point to his spending cuts to deflect his out-of-control budget going forward, but in truth he has admitted to cutting (over the next ten years) only $1.7 trillion.  As Ed Morrissey notes at Hot Air, “the federal government is on track for a fifth straight year of trillion-dollar deficits under Obama.”  Many Americans may think the President’s gun control spending is the first in 2013, forgetting that the federal government started its fiscal year last October.  The government actually spent $638 billion before we even reached December.  At the current rate, the government is spending $10.45 billion per day, 435.8 million per hour and borrowing 46 cents for every dollar it spends.  The growth of the country’s spending is so much that the money it takes in, up 10% already this fiscal year, cannot keep pace.  If this is avoiding the fiscal cliff, we’re in for a nasty fall.

Like any addict though, the President places blame for his failed personal responsibility on someone else.  In Obama’s case, Congress is solely to blame for not paying down the debt...

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