Editorial: Time for real cutting, not more 'investing'

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama suggested freezing spending on a small fraction of the federal budget and making a few cuts. But, as the National Taxpayers' Union calculated, the plan actually would add a net $21 billion in spending. And that's before the unknown costs of seven other major State of the Union proposals whose price tags aren't immediately obvious.

The president can't disguise spending by calling it "investing." Americans recognize that when government "invests" what really happens is that taxpayers' money is spent. . . .

Isn’t this kind of like taking out cash advances on credit cards, with a high fee and even higher interest rate, to “invest” in some scheme that MIGHT pay 1/100th of the interest you are paying?

Obama’s “logic”:

More is less... Spending more money is actually spending less money.

Freezing spending at levels that triple the deficit is actually cutting and being responsible...

What sort of insanity is this? And are Americans REALLY stupid enough to believe this?

Oh - wait - 52% of votes voted for him.... nevermind. Never underestimate the influence of public schooling...

RE: "That is real scary...OR, is that scary real? Probably both!"

3) China Moving Away from U.S. Dollar as Reserve Currency. The U.S. dollar became the world's reserve currency because it was backed by gold and the U.S. had the world's largest manufacturing base. Today, the U.S. dollar is no longer backed by gold and China has the world's largest manufacturing base. There is no reason for the world to continue to transact products and commodities in U.S. dollars, when most of everything the world consumes is now produced in China. China has been taking steps to position the yuan to be the world's new reserve currency.

The People's Bank of China stated earlier this month, in a story that went largely unreported by the mainstream media, that it would respond to overseas demand for the yuan to be used as a reserve currency and allow the yuan to flow back into China more easily. China hopes to allow all exporters and importers to settle their cross border transactions in yuan by the end of 2011, as part of their plan to increase the yuan's international role. NIA believes if China really wants to become the world's next superpower and see to it that the U.S. simultaneously becomes the world's next Zimbabwe, all China needs to do is use their $1.15 trillion in U.S. dollar reserves to accumulate gold and use that gold to back the yuan.

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February's budget deficit was more than the entire fiscal year of 2007.

Do they actually believe we can continue this way and things will just sort themselves out?

They are worse than even I thought! I pray (and weep) for my country!

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