President Obama, who plans to implement a three-year spending freeze on most domestic programs, criticized his Republican opponent John McCain in the 2008 presidential campaign for suggesting a similar plan during the debates.
According to the New York Times, Obama's intended freeze will "exempt security-related budgets for the Pentagon, foreign aid, the Veterans Administration and homeland security," along with Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
In the first presidential debate, McCain advocated the idea as a way of trimming the budget. "How about a spending freeze on everything but defense, veterans affairs and entitlements," he said.
Obama criticized that idea as a "hatchet" and alleged a "scalpel" was necessary.
"The problem with a spending freeze is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel," then-Senator Obama said in his first presidential debate against McCain. "There are some programs that are very important that are underfunded."
Wow. Just, Wow!
I'm never giving another dime to these Washington assholes. Obama is proving to be just more of the same...
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