Barry just said we don't need a bigger government?
 

Is he changing course, or is this more bullshit?

you sound like more bs

i'm calling bullshit on whatever he says...

I asked a good question, stop hating!

California already has that, it's called the head start program

Did you start this thread before or after you went out to your mailbox to collect your govt check?

so basically you are surprised a politician is full of shit?

I'm surprised anyone believes otherwise.

http://www.bing.com/politics/stateof...PSERP&crea=771

interesting that it's all negative, average is -54 ? after 8 million votes

I am going with...... *MORE BULLSHIT*

He has cut the size of the government every month he has been office. Reagan, the man who first championed the smaller government movement, increased the size of the government drastically.

If you are for smaller government, you are for President Obama.

That is in partnership with Fox News and Bing. CNN and MSNBC (no longer associated with Microsoft) did not promote it.

Obama is the only president in modern history to cut the size of the government every year he has been in office.

http://bishopforcongress.com/sites/d...vjobs_lg_1.jpg

Please stop watching MSNBC!

The number of federal employees grew by 123,000, or 6.2%, under President Obama, according to the White House's Office of Management and Budget.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/25/news...ment/index.htm

If you believe that Obama has increased the size of the government, I challenge you to post proof. Get a link in here. It shouldn't be too hard.

I'll be waiting.

But of course you won't post proof because none exists.

maybe the right wing screamers were full of shit calling obama a radical "leftist" the whole time. again, if you are capable of dispassionately looking at at his actual record (and not the one the right wing invented), you'll see a right-center record.

there's a reason true liberals and progressives (not that i am one) are pissed at him. Not that BillO or Hannity or whomever would ever tell you that.

not that obama isn't full of shit. he is. he's just another corporate shill like the last 8 presidents, but just sayin'

see
fuckin
sig
.
.

It depends on how you want to define government employment. The right wing includes everyone on the government's payroll in an attempt to overturn Obama's accomplishment. This includes temporary census employees.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhE...yees-chart.gif

http://mercatus.org/sites/default/fi...nt%20PDF_0.png

According to the New York Times the federal government has grown under Obama.
Fact-Checking Obama and Romney - NYTimes.com

Size of Government

“The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me.” — Mr. Obama

Again, it depends on how it is counted. Looking at the five months from Mr. Obama’s inauguration to June 2009, when the recession officially ended, and including state and local governments, which are not under his direct control, government employment at all levels was virtually unchanged, from 22,576,000 in January 2009 to 22,570,000 in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Total government employment was 21,969,000 in May 2012, a reduction of about 600,000 jobs. But looking only at the federal work force under Mr. Obama’s direct control, then government employment has actually gone up. He inherited a federal work force of 2,061,700, and it rose slightly through June 2009 to 2,109,700; by May of this year, it had grown further to 2,204,100, a 7 percent increase.

Mr. Obama is not correct in saying this was the “only time” government shrank during a recession. During the recession from July 1981 through November 1982, under President Ronald Reagan, and again during the recession from July 1990 through March 1991, under the elder President George Bush, government employment shrank slightly, both over all and in the federal work force specifically. The White House said he meant the recession and the 35 months after it.

Either way, while Mr. Obama has boasted of shrinking the public work force, he has advocated policies to prevent it from shrinking by helping state and local governments avoid laying off employees. In recent days, he has lamented that continuing economic troubles result in part from a decreasing public work force.

Monday, March 30, 1981

that's what happens when you try to decrease government

And the left includes temp workers only when it's convenient, like employment numbers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_524468.html

GoFuckYourself

This Rubio guy, I like him, but how hot were the lights on him?

I'm waiting to hear from Ted Nugent

"Size of government" does not refer to the number of employees working for the government. It refers to the amount of government spending expressed as a percentage of GDP.

Great guy!

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1Y3UXZM_enUS513US513&aq=0&oq=marc+rubio +s&client=chrome-mobile&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&q=marco+rubio+scandal