Hey, if you’re going to do something that hasn’t been done before, you might as well raise the bar really high; like, doubling the previous record. This would be the equivalent of Usain Bolt running the 100 meter race in 4.79 seconds. President Obama has doubled the budget that even George W dumped on us. He’s done this in just eight and a half months in office. He’s already spent one-fifth of the total that Bill Clinton spent in his entire eight years in office.
To be fair, spending comes from Congress, though they are often acting on a President’s demands. One of the most dangerous times for our freedom and financial safety comes when we have stupidly managed to give one party control of Congress and the White House. We did this with W and have done it again with O and the result is ruinous. An economy in collapse, trust in government shattered, a country ideologically split. I told everybody I could back during the election, when it became clear that Obama would win to go ahead and vote for him but to vote Republican for Congressional and Senate seats in order to emplace a forceful opposition to Obama. (This was pre-blog, so not on the record anywhere; you’ll just have to take my word for it.)
So now we have a leftist President handing off the heavy lifting to the even more leftist Nancy Pelosi and the dweebish Harry Reid. Obama sets the course and Pelosi and Reid push the spending through to advance their agenda and they seem to have little to no understanding of how the real world works out here. They are finally making noises about juicing job creation but amazingly, they think that they can do that by raising taxes and heaping the health care entitlement onto the backs of business. If the health care bill passes, we will get to see another spike in the unemployment rate and it will be permanent this time as businesses either leave the US or retrench in such a way as to function on lower revenues and with less staff.
Callous Children.
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