This week many of us had the opportunity to witness what was deemed a spectacle of the greatest sort: The address of a sitting US President followed by the address of the most recently "retired" former Vice President.
I, as an American mother of a soon-to-be soldier, wanted to see something (anything, really) from President Obama that would set my mind at ease. You see, I have no problem with my son and his desire to enlist. This is going to be his choice. He will be a man of 18 when he enlists, old enough to die for his nation, but not old enough to buy a beer. I had hoped that amidst all of the bad decisions that had been made in recent weeks our Commander in Chief would say something, anything, to convince me that he has America's best interests at heart. What I saw was, once again, a showman, a master campaigner, a manipulator capable of contrived good-will and good intentions. We all know how the path to hell is paved, so I couldn't help but think back on what else Mr. Obama had done since his Presidency began in January, 2009.
He has, with the help of the spineless, hapless Democratic Socialists, thrust our nation headlong into totalitarianism. The U.S. government now owns the once proud and independent automobile industry. Hand in hand with the UAW, the President deftly and with little notice, changed the course of American history. Chrysler, and soon to be GM, will become the hammer and sickle bearing arms of the Democratic Socialists, all with the unwitting and unwilling financial backing of you, me, and future generations of Americans.
Before our children return to school in the Fall of 2009 Mr. Obama and his sycophants in the other branches of government will thrust the final sword into the body of American independence and liberty by FORCING a liberal, centralized health plan on every American. Mr. Obama has admitted that we, as a nation, are OUT OF MONEY, per the transcript below:
Saturday, May 23 2009 10:32:18 ETIn a sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN, President Obama boldly told Americans: "We are out of money."C-SPAN host Steve Scully broke from a meek Washington press corps with probing questions for the new president. SCULLY: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money? OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we've made on health care so far. This is a consequence of the crisis that we've seen and in fact our failure to make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades. So we've got a short-term problem, which is we had to spend a lot of money to salvage our financial system, we had to deal with the auto companies, a huge recession which drains tax revenue at the same time it's putting more pressure on governments to provide unemployment insurance or make sure that food stamps are available for people who have been laid off. So we have a short-term problem and we also have a long-term problem. The short-term problem is dwarfed by the long-term problem. And the long-term problem is Medicaid and Medicare. If we don't reduce long-term health care inflation substantially, we can't get control of the deficit. So, one option is just to do nothing. We say, well, it's too expensive for us to make some short-term investments in health care. We can't afford it. We've got this big deficit. Let's just keep the health care system that we've got now. Along that trajectory, we will see health care cost as an overall share of our federal spending grow and grow and grow and grow until essentially it consumes everything... SCULLY: When you see GM though as “Government Motors,” you're reaction? OBAMA: Well, you know – look we are trying to help an auto industry that is going through a combination of bad decision making over many years and an unprecedented crisis or at least a crisis we haven't seen since the 1930's. And you know the economy is going to bounce back and we want to get out of the business of helping auto companies as quickly as we can. I have got more enough to do without that. In the same way that I want to get out of the business of helping banks, but we have to make some strategic decisions about strategic industries... SCULLY: States like California in desperate financial situation, will you be forced to bail out the states? OBAMA: No. I think that what you're seeing in states is that anytime you got a severe recession like this, as I said before, their demands on services are higher. So, they are sending more money out. At the same time, they're bringing less tax revenue in. And that's a painful adjustment, what we're going end up seeing is lot of states making very difficult choices there... SCULLY: William Howard Taft served on the court after his presidency, would you have any interest in being on the Supreme Court? OBAMA: You know, I am not sure that I could get through Senate confirmation...
Can we really afford to stand aside, stoned-faced and silent, as our "leaders" lay our nation to ruin?
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