Deficit: "1984", Orwellian Speak

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geitner is quoted today (see Drudge) as saying that "no one" is more concerned than President Obama about the size of our deficit. This is a wrothy follow up to President Obama himself (see archives for blog entry) criticizing the deficits we are building by asyin that such deficits cannot be sustained withour ruining the country.


This really is the Orwellian nightmare of "1984", where "truth" is what Big Brother tells you it is.


Let me be as blunt as possible here: It is objectively as LIE--a bald faced, blatant lie--that "no one" is more concerned about the huge budget deficits of the Federal Government than President Obama. If lPresident Obama were as concerned about aout of control spending, and the incredible defiicts, he would NOT BE SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY. When he talks about "cnocern" about the deficit, HE IS CRITICIZING HIMSELF.


For example, I am more "concerned" about the deficit than Obma. I would NOT be spending this much money if I were President of the Uniteld States, and I would not be letting Congress spend so much money without a major fight. There are SOOME politicians saying this very same thing, and they are obviously MORE "concerned" about the out of control spending than Obama.


I am perfectly aware that Obama and Geitner would say that they are not "lying", because they really are "concerned" about the deficits. They jsut believe that the spending is NECESSARY to "save" our economy. That merely emphasizes how much we are getting "1984" style propaganda instead of truth.


What does it mean when you say that things are MORE IMPORTANT than the deficit? Right. It means that the deficit is NOT your major priority. To suggest otherwise, with this kind of outrageous language, is objectively a LIE. Every sinle person who believes that the deficit, and the amount of Federal spending, is the HIHEST "concern" we now have is "more concerned" about the deficit than President Obma.


President Obama, and his team, have this "1984" style habit of suggesting that what they SAY is more important than what is. Thus, Preisdent Obama virtually states that he has "sovled" a problem every time he SAYS something, or sets up a new organization or group to "sovle" a problem. For example, on Friday, President Obama announced a new "cyber czar", as if the establishment of such a position will "protect" the internet from cyber attack (not obviously a MAJOR problem in the first place). Did this "solve" the problem? Bull. It might or might not even help the "problem". I vote for "might not", because a new Federal bureucracy never "solved" any problem.


Geitner and Obama are telling you that merely SAYING they are "concerned" about the Federal deficit tells you that they are on the way to "solving" a problem they THEY CREATED (or at least accelerated beyond even what President Bush did). It is amazing how President Obama can talk about a "problem", while suggesting that he was NO part of the problem. On the deficit, he definitely IS a MAJOR part of the problem and not obviously part of the solution.


President Obama has DONE NOTHING about the deficit, except increase it into the trillions. He even voted for the Bush spending that put us on this track. He is heading toward a "solution" to the deficit "crisis" of RAISING TAXES--which will not only hurt the devastated economy, but which will NOT RAISE MUCH REVENUE. It is a myth that raising taxes necessarily raise revenue. Taxes NEVER raise the projected amount of revenue, because people AVOID the higher taxes (plus, the money taken out of the private economy reduces the income from which future tax money must come).


Real "concern" about deficits, and government spending, is ONLY shown by REDUCING SPENDING. President Obama, Geitner, and the Democrats in power have shwon little or no "concern" about that. To them "concern" is only a word, to be used in place of action--to be used, further, in a "1984" style perversion of the word.