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White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition
bostonidealist writes "The White House has officially responded to a We The People petition created on January 15, 2014, which urged the President to 'direct the FCC to classify ISPs as "common carriers"' after the D.C. U.S. Court of Appeals 'struck down the Federal Communications Commission's open internet rules.' The White House statement says, 'absent net neutrality, the Internet could turn into a high-priced private toll road that would be inaccessible to the next generation of visionaries,' but notes, 'The FCC is an independent agency. Chairman Wheeler has publicly pledged to use the full authority granted by Congress to maintain a robust, free and open Internet — a principle that this White House vigorously supports.'"
But he has SPENT more tax payer $ then ALL the presidents before him combined.
This only works if you statistically cast Bush in the worst light possible, and Obama in the best. The fact remains that the national debt is now 17.3 trillion. Obama has spent far, far, more money that we don't have than any previous president.
Well if we're going by what congress spends, then we need to start counting at 2007 when Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid took over. They are responsible for the spending handed to Obama. The last Republican budget signed into law had a deficit of 161 billion.
Please, don't let facts get in the way of the leftie astroturfer meaning to smear a group of people who want to pay less taxes with a sexually-themed slur.
Which is more? 161 billion, or 1.5 trillion? The difference is an order of magnitude. Let's stop pretending, like the parent did, that Barack Obama is some sort of harbinger of fiscal restraint. Since Democrats took control in January of 2007, the budgeting process has been nonexistent. Deficit spending has gone through the roof. Their first three fiscal years in power had record deficits, and not by small piddly amounts. I'm partisan about this because both sides are not equally to blame. Stop being an apologist asshat.