Obama announced his deficit-fighting ideas today to counter Paul Ryan's previously announced plan that would save $6.4 trillion over the next decade. It consists of - drum roll please - nada, zip, nothing. He lumbered out platitudes, straw men, and little else. Clearly he doesn't want anybody to mess with his spending humungous amounts of money on Lord knows what. Mark Steyn skewered M. Obama squarely:
"There’s something sad about a man so carelessly revealing himself as entirely inadequate to the moment. Government spending is an existential threat to the United States. Whether or not anyone at the White House knows this, the viziers decided to shove the sultan out on stage with a pitifully unserious speech retreating to all his lamest tropes – the usual whiny, petty and unpresidential partisan snippiness, and the ponderous demolition of straw men even he barely bothered to pretend he believed in:
Politicians are often eager to feed the impression that solving the problem is just a matter of eliminating waste and abuse –that tackling the deficit issue won’t require tough choices.
"Yeah right" is right. For example, if you tax 100% of the income of everyone making more than $100,000/year, the total would only be $1.582 trillion, which less than the deficit for just this year. Tough choices my patoot.
We have the great misfortune to have a totally empty suit as President at a time of great peril for this country. Unfortunately, we have only ourselves to blame. I for one would like to leave something worthwhile for my children and grandchildren. It's time to roll up our sleeves and get ready to throw the bums out once again in 2012, Democrat or Republican to again make this the great republic it has been and can be again.
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