Frozen Over

clipped from www.moonbattery.com The MSM and the Obama Apologists would have you believe that the "Spending Freeze" Obama announced (and which was rightly snickered at in the SOTU) was at least a baby-step in the direction of fiscal responsibility and lean government. What they don't tell you is that the "freeze," even if enacted, represents a massive increase in spending from the Bush years. Department of Energy: $27 Billion under Bush, $65 billion under the Obama "freeze". Environmental Protection Agency: $7.8 billion budget under Bush, $17.7 billion under the Obama "freeze". Department of Education: $46.2 billion under Bush. $127.8 billion under the Obama freeze. Obama is only planning on "freezing" budgets at levels he has already bloated out. And, by the way, only about 11% of Federal spending is affected. By the way, the Democrat-run Senate has already rejected the idea of any spending freeze.