Legal Commentary

Another Broken Vow

On November 25, 2008, Reuters reported that ?Obama vows to slash wasteful spending.? (HatTip to the Center For Individual Freedom)

In his news conference on Tuesday Obama vowed to run a cost-effective and efficient government. ?If we?re going to make the investments we need, we must also be willing to shed the spending we don?t.?

?We cannot sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness or exist solely because of the power of a politician, lobbyist or interest group,? he said.

Full post as published by Discriminations on February 15, 2009 (boomark / email).