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7 OBAMA Broken Promises in Record Time
1. Make government open and transparent.
2. Make it "impossible" for Congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects.
3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. (Even Congressional Republicans shut out.)
4. No more secrecy.
5. Public will have 5 days to look at a bill.
6. You’ll know what’s in it.
7. We will put every pork barrel project online.

















The 1930s began with federal outlays representing just 3.4 percent of the nation's economy as measured by the gross domestic product. Roosevelt's efforts to fight the Depression with government spending caused outlays to rise to 10.3 percent of GDP by 1939 and to 12 percent by 1941 on the eve of U.S. involvement in World War II.
By contrast, government spending was 21 percent of GDP last year. Obama's economic recovery policies are expected to bring it up to 30 percent or more.
"The New Deal by today's standards involved a minuscule amount of spending," said Allan J. Lichtman, a professor of political history at American University. He said Obama is more of a "big spender" than was Roosevelt.
Roosevelt had a bigger crisis on his hands. Unemployment was 25 percent when he took office.
Last month's jobless rate was 7.6 percent, up from 4.9 percent a year before but still shy of the postwar high of 10.8 percent reached in 1982—and far from Great Depression levels.
Noticeably absent from the President’s op-ed on the stimulus today are the words “save or create 3.5 to 4 million jobs.” In their place, a new definition of success for the stimulus: “it will steadily save and create jobs as it ramps up over this summer and fall.” Just “jobs” not “millions of jobs?” Oh, and apparently, the stimulus was only supposed to provide “the boost necessary to stop the free fall.” And, “it has done that”—even though the unemployment rate is going up, not down as predicted. As you read the op-ed below, remember what their definition was for a successful stimulus just two months ago: “The first and most important purpose of the act is to preserve and create jobs.”


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