By Greg Campbell
TPNN Contributor
On Tuesday, President Obama spoke to Congress and the American people in his State of the Union address. The partisan speech is often dissected and refuted by the opposing political party; however, Tuesday’s speech has been met with enormous condemnation as the president outlined an agenda that includes a large expansion of government while simultaneously claiming that such expenses would not add a dime to our national deficit that has topped over a trillion dollars annually since Obama was elected to office.
In his speech, Obama outlined his proposals for increased government spending and stated, “Let me repeat–nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime.”
However, this is a promise President Obama has often made and has often broken. The RNC released a video showing the numerous times over the years that President Obama made that exact same promise, touting government programs and increased government spending, and Joe Pounder, the research chief at the Republican National Committee, noted during the speech, “FYI, Obama is right, he hasn’t added a single dime to the debt, he’s added 58.6 trillion dimes.”
The Official GOP website also reveals each instance where Obama made similar promises to not add “a single dime” to the deficit.
In the time it took Obama to give his speech, the national debt went up $123.5 million and the U.S. government spent $404 million. After Obama proposed a variety of new government programs and expenses, Breitbart News examined the costs of just a sampling of the proposed augmentations of government:
“The list examined here is only a partial one, as there is no way to estimate how much the ‘manufacturing hubs’ Obama wants to create will cost—or his vague promises to spend more in general on education. But there are wishes on his list which should give us an idea of the massive growth in spending he wants.
Investment in green energy. If you add the costs of how much Obama has so far invested in 34 green energy companies which either failed or are heading for bankruptcy, the total is over $7 billion.
Regulations on carbon emissions. The estimated cost of what the United states would have to pay if it submitted to the Kyoto Protocol could range as high as four percent of the nation’s GDP. The nation’s GDP at the end of 2012 was $13.65 trillion. Four percent of that figure is $546 billion.
Fixing roads and bridges. According to the Federal Highway Administration in 2009, just to fix the nation’s bridges would cost $70.9 billion. That figure does not even address roads.
Making sure all kids can go to preschool. The average cost of preschools can range from $4,460 to $13,158 per year, according to the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referrals Agencies (NACCRRA). How many children are preschool age in America? Roughly 8 million. Multiply those children by the lower figure of $4,460 and that amount reaches over $35 billion.
New mortgage regulations that would allow families with ‘solid credit’ to buy homes, a la Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pre-financial crash. How much have Fannie and Freddie cost us? The Congressional Budget office says in the end the cost could reach $389 billion.
Total the costs of just these five wishes from Obama, and you get $1,047,900,000,000—over 1 trillion dollars. The President has run a deficit over $1 trillion all four years of his first term in office, and he has not proposed a budget which will cut spending—only ones that reduce the rate of future spending growth.”
