Obama has spent 5 trillion dollars of future taxpayers' income in a blizzard of spending on politicians' pet projects; he has set in place an enormous growth in government, and handcuffed our military's ability to gain intelligence about America's avowed enemies. Skillful and charismatic liar that he is, he said that, on every issue, he thinks about what is good for the country, not is what is good politics. It is hard to square that statement with his penchant for declaring a firm position on an issue and then the opposite position two weeks later according to the prevailing public winds. In an attempt to blunt the rising anger about the 5 trillion and the grass roots nationwide Tea Parties, he said that "we need to get serious about fiscal discipline by trimming waste in the federal budget," and told his bureaucrats to cut 100 million of waste from their programs." (A purely symbolic, political ploy to everyone except the Obama-adorers and the lapdog press.) One hundred million is lint in the pocket of five trillion. It would take 10,000 more of these 100 million dollar savings to balance the five trillion. Charles Krauthammer commented that Obama has the magic to make words mean almost anything; for example the Obama whopper when he boasted that he had "identified $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade." It takes audacity to repeat this after it had been so widely exposed as transparently phony by the Congressional Budget Office. His administration remained quiet about saving another 15 million dollars. They killed a Washington D.C. program that allows inner city children to escape the poor schools and attend private schools in the nearby area. This savings, hatched and supported by the new Education Secretary, Senate Democrats, and the teachers' union, deprives a few kids of the opportunity for a better education. Bravo, Liberals.
One Guy's Opinion on the Political Scene By: Jim Herndon
