Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) used almost all his State of the Union response time telling America that President Obama wants bigger government, which means we should all be prepared for more spending. What an idiot ...
While President Obama inherited a budget train wreck, with built in trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye could see, he hasn't embarked on any kind of spending spree. Rex Nutting from MarketWatch put it best: "Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree."
Senator Rubio also completely ignored something else. The size of our federal government has been shrinking under President Obama. The ratio of government workers to our civilian population is at its lowest levels since LBJ was president (that's more than forty years for the Fox viewers out there). Check out this chart from the Federal Reserve ...
So, yeah, the size of our government as a percentage of our population has been shrinking under President Obama. In fact, if we take a closer look we find that President Obamas numbers on the topic are far better than under Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II.
For the record, the uptick in public sector job growth you see in 2010 is tied to the hiring that was done for the 2010 census. But you wouldn't know any of this because, apparently, Senate Republicans drink from the same Kool-Aid bottle that Mitch McConnell does (which might explain Senator Rubio's Big Gulp moment).
There's more, but this is the key. Both spending and the size of government have been going down under President Obama, big time.
The fact that Senator Marco Rubio got up in front of America - on a presidential stage - to suggest otherwise makes him this weeks village idiot.
- Mark
While President Obama inherited a budget train wreck, with built in trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye could see, he hasn't embarked on any kind of spending spree. Rex Nutting from MarketWatch put it best: "Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree."
Senator Rubio also completely ignored something else. The size of our federal government has been shrinking under President Obama. The ratio of government workers to our civilian population is at its lowest levels since LBJ was president (that's more than forty years for the Fox viewers out there). Check out this chart from the Federal Reserve ...
So, yeah, the size of our government as a percentage of our population has been shrinking under President Obama. In fact, if we take a closer look we find that President Obamas numbers on the topic are far better than under Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II.
For the record, the uptick in public sector job growth you see in 2010 is tied to the hiring that was done for the 2010 census. But you wouldn't know any of this because, apparently, Senate Republicans drink from the same Kool-Aid bottle that Mitch McConnell does (which might explain Senator Rubio's Big Gulp moment).
There's more, but this is the key. Both spending and the size of government have been going down under President Obama, big time.
The fact that Senator Marco Rubio got up in front of America - on a presidential stage - to suggest otherwise makes him this weeks village idiot.
- Mark
When Rubio took a sip of water I thought to myself, "His pants must be on fire."
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