{"id":44726,"date":"2022-03-04T14:36:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44726"},"modified":"2022-03-04T14:36:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:36:39","slug":"i-wondered-about-this-when-he-said-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44726","title":{"rendered":"I Wondered About This When He Said It"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were a lot of misleading statements in the State of the Union address on Tuesday. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal<\/a> posted an article about one of these statements.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Presidents typically embellish their achievements during their State of the Union addresses, but President Biden\u2019s pose as a budget deficit hawk is one for the ages.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBy the end of this year, the deficit will be down to less than half what it was before I took office,\u201d he said, adding that he will be \u201cthe only President ever to cut the deficit by more than one trillion dollars in a single year.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s not by choice.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

This assumes Congress doesn\u2019t enact his Build Back Better plan or the more Covid relief he\u2019s asking for.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He\u2019s also using the fiscal 2020 budget as his benchmark. Congress passed $2 trillion in Covid relief in March 2020 to prevent a recession. Both parties piled on $900 billion more that December, and Democrats in March 2021 ladled out nearly $2 trillion more. The deficit is declining because Congress blew it out for two years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Inflation is always good for government coffers. Receipts are up 28% during the first four months of this fiscal year. But the Congressional Budget Office still projects deficits to exceed $1 trillion on average over the next decade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Mr. Biden is hoping the deficit reduction ruse will lure West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin to go along with more spending. Don\u2019t fall for it, sir.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember, statistics can pretty much be manipulated to say anything a statistician wants them to say. President Biden evidently has some good statisticians in his speech writing department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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