What A Difference Two Hundred Years Makes!

What A Difference Two Hundred Years Makes

“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. … For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.” –Patrick Henry

My how things have changed in only a couple of hundred years.  Our founders, like all of us, had faults of course.  Dishonesty, and lack of honor were not among them.  They held town meetings all over the colonies to get the opinion of the people, and they actually listened to those opinions. What a concept.  When they informed the people of what they wanted to do, they made no promises they could not keep.  They told them exactly what they would be up against.  The people of that time had faith in those people that represented them, and with good reason. 

In our time we are not so lucky.  When a politician is on the campaign trail they will tell us exactly what we want to hear.  Right up to the day they are elected.  Then for 80% of the time they are in office they will do what they want, then comes the elections again.  They seem to believe the American people will believe anything.  The sad part is that in many cases they are correct.

Over the course of the last eleven months our fearless leader, Barack Hussein Obama has implemented the most exaggerated spending this country has ever known.  He has, at last report, spent or committed our country to, nearly TWICE the amount of money that all the previous presidents of this country spent combined, and all the time telling the American people that he was actually saving us money.  Or was going to at least.

Now he wants us to believe that he has come to this conclusion:  “I think it is important, though, to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession.” If you can some how take this statement seriously, you might think that Obama is actually concerned about the growing deficits and never had anything to do with causing them in the first place.  Why is he talking like this?  Simple, there are lawmakers, some in his own camp, talking about, dare I say it, TAX CUTS in order to reduce these deficits, and he, of course, has concluded that this will only increase the deficits even more.

Now I always thought ‘Slick Willy’ was good at dodging political bullets, but I swear this man can walk on both sides of the street at the same time.  The sad part is, he really thinks he’s right.

He feels that ‘At some point, the people could loose confidence in the U.S. economy’.  I can’t help wondering if the people he’s talking about are the Chinese that hold more American debt then any other nation on earth ($800 Billion I believe) and the man wants to borrow even more.  This is probably why he made the comments while on his latest apology and appeasement tour in Beijing recently.

I think he’s trying to pander the idea to the Chinese that the $787 Billion investment he SAYS he is investing in our wonderful recovery is actually working.  I think that one is even harder to swallow when less then 20% of that stimulus money has been paid out.   Personally, I think he’s holding on to it to try to shore up the 2010 elections.  The way things are going now, he’ll need every bit of it.

I’m sure he never mentioned, to the Chinese, the summary by the CBO at the time he proposed it.  The nonpartisan group was very kind to him by saying: “In the longer run, the [Obama] legislation would result in a slight decrease in gross domestic product compared with CBO’s baseline economic forecast.” They neglected to mention that their scoring was static rather then Dynamic.  Economists scoring the plan dynamically were not nearly so kind.

His ‘fabrications’ continued earlier this year, as he assured the public that the jobless rate would be held under 8% as long as he could throw tons of money out there.  Guess he didn’t throw enough when we consider that we now have 10.2% unemployment and many experts expect it to increase to 12% before it’s all over.  Keep in mind this is the average unemployment rate some states are already at 15 and 16%, and we will not discuss Michigan. Then again there is one bright spot.  All those government jobs in DC haven’t been touched.  If I were the suspicious type I might make something out of that.

Next ‘fabrication’, he recently announced, through others of course, that through October, the American Recovery Ace had ‘created or saved’ 640,329 jobs.  However, skeptics found this statement questionable.  Even his own ‘Political Bed Fellows’ media are looking into the questionable nature of the accounting and reporting procedures.  Like jobs ‘created or saved’ in districts that don’t actually exist.  Not the jobs so much as the districts.

“This is our moment, this is our time to turn the page on the policies of the past, to offer a new direction”? Anyone remember this one.  The reference to the Obama’s v. Regan’s policies of big government solutions compared to the free enterprise system.

Now it would appear that all his ‘fabrications’ are about to bite him in a place we’ll never see on TV is we’re lucky.

The Liberals are fighting in their own ranks.  Many are very upset with BHO on any number of issued, not to mention with each other also on any number of issues.  Now this is a good thing though and I think we should encourage it all we can.

The shame of it all, is that this or any other party, would do so much better if they would only take a lesson from those that put this wonderful country together in the first place.  Listen to those you represent.  Always put the people ahead of self interest, and above all, do what is right for the country.  So far, Obama and every one of his Liberal friends have done exactly the opposite, and now it’s time we make them pay for it.

Eleven months from now.  FIRE CONGRESS! Rookies can do no worse.