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Scotty Starnes posted: " Nothing is ever Owebama's fault.
(CNSNews.com) – Explaining why he has no choice but to demand an increase
in the legal limit on the national debt, President Barack Obama said at a
Monday press conference that Congress orders him to spend money. " Respond
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Nothing is ever Owebama's fault.
*(CNSNews.com<http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-congress-they-order-me-spend>
) *– Explaining why he has no choice but to demand an increase in the legal
limit on the national debt, President Barack Obama said at a Monday press
conference that Congress orders him to spend money.
“This is a matter of Congress authorizes spending,” Obama said.
“They order me to spend," he said. "They tell me: ‘You need to fund our
Defense Department at such-and-such a level. You need to send Social
Security checks. You need to make sure that you are paying to care for our
veterans.’ They lay all this out for me, and--because they have the
spending power--and so I am required by law to go ahead and pay these
bills.”
Just forget this pathological liar promised to cut the deficit in half and
wouldn't sign any bill with pork barrel spending in it. Did Congress force
him to make those promises?
The current debt
ceiling<http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/n/national_debt_us/index.html>
is
$16.394 trillion, a number that President Obama and House Speaker John
Boehner agreed to in August 2011, when they increased the previous limit by
$2.4 trillion. The Constitution gives Congress the power to borrow money.
So, the president cannot increase the debt of the United States unless
Congress enacts legislation authorizing him to do so.
“Separately, they also have to authorize a raising of the debt ceiling in
order to make sure that those bills are paid,” said Obama. “And so what
Congress can’t do is tell me to spend X and then say, but we’re not going
to give you the authority to go ahead and pay the bills.”
Shouldn't run up $1 trillion deficits each year in office there Owebama.
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