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Still in the so-called "honeymoon" phase of his presidency, Barack Obama's actions are already echoing his campaign rhetoric, "Words, Just Words," demonstrating that his own promises are also "just words."

A long standing maxim in business and politics is: Pay attention to what people do, not to what they say. Read the following and judge the honesty and integrity of our president for yourself:

Obama: "If a federal agency proposes a project that will waste that money, I will not hesitate to call them out on it and put a stop to it. What I will need from all of you is unprecedented responsibility and accountability."

Question: Where's the Obama administration's transparency in accounting for the trillions of dollars it has been spending?

Obama: "The American people are watching. They need this plan to work. They expect to see the money that they've earned, that they've worked so hard to earn, spent in its intended purposes without waste, without inefficiency, without fraud."

Comment: To date, there has been no accountability, zero, none, nada, for the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been given to the financial industry.

Obama: "We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom in Washington these past few years, we cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences to the next budget, the next administration or the next generation."

Comment: Since taking office, Obama has done exactly what he said could not and would not be done.

Obama: "...when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

Reality: The $410 billion omnibus spending budget bill that the president signed contained over 8,500 "earmarks."

Obama: "...this piece of legislation ($410 billion omnibus spending bill) must mark an end to the old way of doing business and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability that the American people have every right to expect and demand."

Really! When can we expect to see the accountability that Obama has promised?

Obama: "I will immediately sign a law that begins to phase out all incandescent light bulbs. It's a pretty simple task to implement, given it could save all of us Americans $6 billion a year."

Note: Politifact.com comments, "...after 50 days with no action, we count that as a promise broken."

Obama: "When I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

Politifact.com notes, "...with about 9,000 earmarks in the omnibus spending bill, our stance is promise broken because when you say no earmarks, that means absolutely no earmarks."

Another issue President Obama felt strongly about on the campaign trail, a pay as you go budget, meaning big spending commitments must be paid for by cuts elsewhere or by other new revenue has proven to be "just words," as he plunged the United States into trillions of dollars of debt to finance the unbridled expenditures of his administration.

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