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“With the recent announcement that Congress will raise the debt ceiling by 1,900,000,000,000 to 14.3 trillion, a mere freeze on that 17% of the budget which constitutes discretionary spending will have little effect,” said Calvey.  “Instead, we need real cuts in the budget, like ending the TARP bailout and stopping 'stimulus' spending, either of which would save the taxpayers more money than President Obama's proposed 'freeze.'  And we need to end costly pork-barrel earmarks once and for all.”

Calvey noted that Congress recently increased discretionary spending by 28%.

“For President Obama to urge merely a freeze in discretionary spending after proposing the massive spending increase in his now-jeopardized government takeover of health care is like an alcoholic promising in the future to stop after two drinks,” said Calvey. “It is not likely that Obama is sincere in his desire to curb federal spending, and this measure won’t accomplish any meaningful spending reductions anyway.”

Calvey further noted that while President Obama and the current Democrat majority in Congress deserves the bulk of the blame for the massive spending increases, establishment Republicans are not blameless, either.

“The recent election in Massachusetts ought to be a wake-up call to both parties:  STOP INCREASING FEDERAL SPENDING.  It is simply immoral to heap this debt on our children and grandchildren, and it is immoral to inflate the currency and risk people’s savings in order to pay for massive government spending,” said Calvey.

Kevin Calvey is a small businessman and a conservative former State Representative from Del City. Kevin volunteered to deploy to Iraq as a Captain in the Army National Guard in 2007, and his mission in Iraq was to prosecute al Qaeda leaders and other terrorists in the Iraqi court system.  Kevin was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his service.  Kevin and his wife, Toni, live in Oklahoma City with their baby, Anastasia.