The agenda whose architect is currently enjoying 55% JARs?
As I've said, when you present yourself as Santa Clause or Robin Hood, it's not hard to be popular. As I've said, being popular doesn't make one good. It's not hard for someone that fits the social experiment concept Liberals wanted to try popular. Obama had a built in characteristic that created that popularity. When you create a situation where those that don't want to provide for themselves don't have to because those that do are forced to provide for them, you'll be popular with the leeches and freeloaders handed something for nothing.
So discretionary federal spending must have risen considerably under Obama then....
Can you show me?
Cause if you can't, I'm obliged to conclude that you are completely full of shit...
After Six Years of Obamanomics: Five Things You Need to Know
So discretionary federal spending must have risen considerably under Obama then....
I noticed you gave yourself the coward's way out by using "considerably". That means you can claim that increases weren't considerable. Hate to break it to you but one penny more spent on programs where one group is forced to fund something for another is considerable in itself especially when you bleeding hearts claim you care so much but go about funding what you say you believe in through mandates on others.
Sure......let me first point out that ANYONE citing the Gateway Pundit on economics is a ******* idiot...
My challenge:
So discretionary federal spending must have risen considerably under Obama then....
Your response:
#4 will provide the proof.
And with what, pray tell, is #4 concerned
?
Let's not forget where we began...
So discretionary federal spending must have risen considerably
So in what category do we find the items listed in this "#4"?
Direct spending, also known as mandatory spending, refers to spending enacted by law, but not dependent on an annual or periodic appropriation bill. Most mandatory spending consists of entitlement programs such as Social Security benefits, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Expenditures in the United States federal budget - Wikipedia
Mandatory spending is spending that Congress legislates outside of the annual appropriations process, usually less than once a year. It is dominated by the well-known earned-benefit programs Social Security and Medicare. It also includes widely used safety net programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps), and a significant amount of federal spending on transportation, among other things.
Many mandatory programs' spending levels are determined by eligibility rules. For example, Congress decides to create a program like Social Security. It then sets criteria for determining who is eligible to receive benefits from the program, and benefit levels for people who are eligible. The amount of money spent on Social Security each year is then determined by how many people are eligible and apply for benefits.
Congress therefore does not decide each year to increase or decrease the budget for Social Security or other earned benefit programs. Instead, it periodically reviews the eligibility rules and may change them in order to exclude or include more people, or offer more or less generous benefits to those who are eligible, and therefore change the amount spent on the program.
Mandatory spending makes up nearly two-thirds of the total federal budget. Social Security alone comprises more than a third of mandatory spending and around 23 percent of the total federal budget. Medicare makes up an additional 23 percent of mandatory spending and 15 percent of the total federal budget.
Federal Spending: Where Does the Money Go
If it is MANDATORY, it is NOT DISCRETIONARY.
Ya follah, Inbred Fuckstick?