(Washington, D.C.) –Today, on the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) expressed its continued opposition to the U.S. government’s massive expansion of entitlements and deficit spending.  On Monday, March 21, CAGW re-released their “Chinese Professor” ad depicting one possible outcome of continued fiscal irresponsibility. 

“President Obama has pledged his commitment to tackling the deficit and restoring the budget to a sustainable path,” said CAGW President Tom Schatz.  “However, his two most prominent achievements since taking office – Obamacare and the Stimulus – dramatically raise the present and future burden taxpayers must shoulder.  Despite President Obama and his supporters in Congress’ continued insistence that what amounts to a gigantic enlargement of Medicare will somehow reduce the amount government confiscates from taxpayers, the reality is much more grim. 

“Taxpayers fully appreciate the ruse that has been perpetrated.  The President and Congress continue to act like mindless cheerleaders for a monstrous bill that does not control costs or improve healthcare outcomes.  To make matters worse, if the past year is any indication, the President and his Congressional allies have no plan to reduce spending of any kind.  Their budget request was the largest on record, and they have been utterly unwilling to accept cuts to any agencies.  It is becoming more and more clear that the plan all along was to spend like crazy, then hope for the best.  Unfortunately, as the private sector and (to some degree) state governments have made hard choices in better focusing their resources on essential outlays, the federal government has proceeded with business as usual. 

Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, mismanagement and abuse in government.  The Spending Cut of the Week calls attention to a federal program that is wasteful or duplicative.