Posted on 04/21/2011 7:28:48 AM PDT by blog.Eyeblast.tv
Yesterday at a Facebook town hall meeting, Barack Obama called the GOP budget ‘radical’ and ‘not courageous’. He stated, “I think it’s fair to say that their vision is radical. No, I don’t think it’s particularly courageous.”
It’s good to see the president take advice from Sen. Chuck Schumer who came up with the genius idea of labeling it ‘extreme’. The sad thing about this is, some people actually believe everything they hear.
As a backdrop on how this all started, here’s an excerpt from the Washington Examiner:
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a member of the Democratic Senate leadership, got on a conference call with reporters Tuesday morning without realizing the reporters were already listening in. Schumer thought he was on a private line with four Democratic senators who were to talk with reporters about the current budget stalemate.
Schumer instructed the group, made up of Sens. Barbara Boxer of California, Tom Carper of Delaware, Ben Cardin of Maryland and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, to tell reporters that the GOP is refusing to negotiate.
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Tell reporters that the GOP is refusing to negotiate. Like they did on Obamacare?.
Radical!? What’s radical is spending the country into oblivion. What’s radical is a gargantuan leviathan of a government that looks to control every aspect of our lives. What’s radical is a government that has it’s hands in our pockets. What-s radical is spending 3 1/2 trillion dollars. What’s radical is a 1 1/2 trillion dollar deficit. What’s radical is taxpayers being forced to fund the murder of the unborn.
Feel free to add on.
Question is if Obama can get away with this demagogy when unemployment is back up over 400k a week and gas prices may not stop rising when 4.00 a gallon is hit this month.
If these crickets would pipe down, we could hear the Republican response.
After Trying to pressure S & P not to report that news.
But then we have the largest owner ( outside of the Federal reserve ( who ever they are) China has concerns over are debt.
Are there examples in American history where the general welfare of the society benefitted by applying the principles of so-called "government" control?
A reading of Governor Bradford's diary of the experience of the Jamestown Colony might be instructive here.
America's Founders preferred liberty for individuals, and their principles made America a desired destination for millions for over 200 years.
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:122
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
Put the "redistribute-the-wealth" philosophy of Obama up against the philosophy of individual, Creator-endowed liberty expressed by Jefferson, and then talk about who's "radical" or "extreme."
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read stuff like this. What is radical about a plan that gradually reduces the deficit over 10 years? What is radical about KEEPING federal taxes at their historic level of approximately 18% of the economy? The answer, of course, is that there is absolutely nothing radical about it at all. Its sober and may not go far enough. Its only “radical” in the same way that its radical for a heroin junkie to stop spending all their time trying to score a fix and to try to get off drugs.
I can’t put into words how much I despise this anal aperture.
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