Bill Clinton's State of the Union Dubbed 'Promise-A-Thon'
Bill Clinton proposed an average of $139 million *per second* during
his State of the Union address last week, estimates the Libertarian Party.
"Every time you blinked, you'd miss another $139 million in new
federal spending." said Steve Dasbach, the
party's national director.
Here are the Libertarian Party's calculations:
- Length of speech: 89 minutes
- Total proposed new/increased federal spending: $743 billion
($400 billion for Medicare, $343 billion for other programs)
- Proposed new spending per HOUR of speech: $495.3 billion
- Proposed new spending per MINUTE of speech: $8.3 billion
- Proposed new spending per SECOND of speech: $139 million
- Total proposed new/expanded federal programs: 101
- Number of federal programs Clinton promised to reduce or
abolish: 0
- Number of positive social/economic trends Clinton took
personal credit for: 10 (job creation, economic growth,
lower poverty rates, federal surpluses, a "revival of
the American spirit," reduced crime, fewer teen births,
reduced welfare, helping "parents succeed at work and at
home," and increased volunteering.)
- And number of times Clinton told the truth: 1
(His Freudian slip that Al Gore had a plan to make
communities more "liberal.")
"We're grateful that Clinton's State of the Union
speech didn't last longer," Dasbach said. "At $139 million a second,
American taxpayers
couldn't afford it."
(Source: Libertarian Party media release)
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