I wasn't going to post this weekend but I just heard an interview with a former Obama staff person. She said that Mr. O has bent over backwards in the debt negotiations and the Republicans have not given anything. What the heck is she talking about. Obama has not offered one single legitimate idea in this process and is demanding that the Republicans give in to his tax increases.
Personally I am sick of all these people giving Obama a free pass. He has done nothing less than add 5 trillion dollars to the debt in less than 3 years and he has the gaul to say the only way to fix this is to raise taxes, without spending cuts mind you.Republicans have passed a budget that would save medicare and social security and also cut 6.4 trillion in the next ten years. Which is better? do nothing per Obama or cut spending?
Republicans in the House have also passed Cut, and balance, which would force the government to balance its own budget and stop the increase in spending without having the money to spend. Don't you think that is more reasonable than increasing spending without thinking of the consequences?
Think about history. Herbert Hoover became President at the beginning of the Great Depression and increased spending by 50%. Franklin D Roosevelt gave us the New Deal spending more money by giving freebies to the poor and raising taxes to pay for his reform. The Great Depression did not end until after WWII and at that point we had to cut spending because there were not enough people working to pay the government debt.
Where are we today?
For all of you Obama supporters, stop giving him a free pass and look at the facts. We are doomed if we continue down this same path. We must balance our national budget just like at home. And we must get people back to work. Without those two things in the agenda we will not be a free country in the next three years.
