“To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable.” –James Madison

The Game of The Day

This evening, our president, the Anointed One, will grace us with yet another chapter in the ongoing saga of his excuses crusade.  Excuses why the economy is so far in the hole that our great-great-great-(well you get the picture)-grandchildren will still be trying to pay off the interest he will have accumulated on our debt.  Of course that’s W’s fault. 

He will try to excuse the fact that he has been in office more then a year and the Health Care plan is very little closer to being passed then it was in August.  Of course that’s the Republicans (and W’s) fault.  It doesn’t matter that more then 65% of the people in the country do not want it, or that he cannot get enough support in his own party to pass it.  Oh, that’s Massachusetts fault.

What is amazing to me is that with all his failures, this man remains so arrogant that he really believes this minimal gesture of a spending freeze of only 17% of the budget will satisfy the people, and cause them to return the support he was blessed with only a few months ago.  What he will not tell us, is that these same programs have already had a 22% increase in their annual appropriations in the past two years, and another 25% increase including stimulus.  He will not tell us what the CBO already has.  That the during the first three years of his Presidency, 2009-11, the federal government will borrow and estimated $3.7 trillion.  That’s $3,700,000,000,000.00!!  The sad part of this is that my father had never even heard of the word ‘trillion’ before he died, and today they talk about it as if it’s common place. What’s more, that is substantially greater than all of the accumulated national debt for the first 225 years of this countries history.  Again, we must remember, that too is W’s fault. [Read the full article→]

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