Surprise: Obama Delaying Release Of New Budget Numbers Until After His Deadline For Gov. Health Care
Because he’s afraid the details about flagging economic growth, skyrocketing unemployment and rampant deficits might just make it difficult to pass a brand new, terribly expensive government health care program.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today’s bleak landscape.
The administration’s annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and unemployment and slower growth than projected in President Barack Obama’s budget in February and update in May, and that could complicate his efforts to get his signature health care and global-warming proposals through Congress.
The release of the update - usually scheduled for mid-July - has been put off until the middle of next month, giving rise to speculation the White House is delaying the bad news at least until Congress leaves town on its August 7 summer recess.
The administration is pressing for votes before then on its $1 trillion health care initiative, which lawmakers are arguing over how to finance.
This seems to be another chapter in the on-going efforts to apply their “let’s pretend it isn’t happening” solution to the deficit problems they’ve created. Not at all unlike earlier news about Democrats fixing the deficit their plans for government health care creates by simply pretending as though the deficit spending doesn’t actually exist. Something they’ll accomplish, if given the chance, by implementing budgeting rules which say the spending doesn’t count against the deficit.
In summary, Obama and the Democrats think the American public is stupid. They hope to keep us from being aware of what’s going on with the budget, and of the massive deficits their plan for health care would create, by hiding them from our view with bureaucratic delays and accounting tricks.
