Posted by
American Sweetheart on Friday, March 27, 2009 8:36:00 PM
If you missed Hannity last night, I very much encourage you to watch this interview with British Member of the European Parliment Daniel Hannan. It hightlights a video of Hannan riding the "Straight Talk Express" and telling Prime Minister Gordon Brown that his spending has got to stop.
One quote is very similar to that of Margaret Thatcher, whom once stated that "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." Mr. Hannan announced to PM Brown that "you have run out of our money."
The same can be said for Barack Obama. The whole time I listened to Parliment Member Hannan, I couldn't help but believe that instead of PM Brown, he were speaking to Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the criminals in Washington. He conveyed what is on the minds of so many Americans, and in plain English. He didn't beat around to bush. He didn't use wild and impressive metaphors. He simply spoke the truth. The truth is that socialism does not work.
In working at a bank, I see many people have a sign at their desk. It is quite humerous, except that I believe Congress is living by these words: I can't be out of money. I still have checks left.
Congress is continuing to write bad checks and Obama is willingly putting his signature on the line.
What happened to transparency?
Obama has one heck of a calculator, I'll tell you that much. The math is fuzzy at best.
On February 23, 2009, President Obama made the follow promise to the American People:
"I refuse to leave our children with a debt they cannot repay. We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end. ... We cannot simply spend as we please."
He also had this say about fiscal responsibility and only spending money that you have:
"This is the rule that families across this country follow every single day, and there's no reason their government shouldn't do the same. You don't pay what you don't have."
He went on to promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. The deficit he "inherited" (his favorite one liner), stands at $1.3 trillion.
I'm sorry, here is where my calculator stops working and where Obama's picks up for me.
The United States on January 20, 2009 had negative $1.3 trillion dollars. That is TRILLION with a T.
On February 17, 2009, $787 Billion worth of Generational Theft was signed into law. (Chalk that up to over $1 trillion when you factor in the interest that will be owed).
Shortly thereafter, the $410 billion Omnibus Spending Bill, completely laiden with over 8,000 pork pet projects was signed. This money is to be spent by end of fiscal quarter on September 30, 2009.
Obama is proposing a $3 trillion budget to be spent for the fiscal year of 2010.
Let us now add in the $684 billion that funding the beginning of nationalized healthcare should cost us this year.
I'm sorry. Forgive me. I can't see straight any longer. Like I said, Obama's calculator is better than mine. His can magically cut $1.3 trillion down by $533 billion by 2013 (Lord help us if he is still in office in 2013) while spending like a train barreling down the tracks. I see where his deception lies. He is going to not spend an additional $533 billion on top of all of this. That is what he means by cut back the deficit. If that isn't what he means, then I am at a loss. I don't know what he is going to do.
It certainly isn't going to be examining the pork projects in existance line by line and taking out the ones that don't work. Hell, he just found over 8,000 more to add to the lot! They all aren't "perfect", but it's okay. This was critical for "saving us."
Obama, you are out of OUR money. There isn't any left. It's gone. It isn't coming back. Not if we continue on this self destructive path. Mr. Hannan from the video hit the nail on the head when he stated the following:
"It is common sense that when you are in debt, you spend less. Anybody except a politician can see that."
You know that this cannot work. You CHOOSE not to care. You choose to ignore the thousands of brilliant economists that say over and over that you cannot spend your way out of recession. They say that you need to cut spending and cut taxes.
You campaigned on an idiology that you cared what other countries perceived America to be. You cared when other countries viewed us as cold blooded killers. Yet you do not care when other countries want to stop playing in our sandbox. That is going to hurt our economy even more. Other countries don't want to do business with us or lend us more money when we cannot pay back what they already have given to us. That makes this also a threat to our national security. It's like giving a child $5 for the Fair and telling him it has to last all night and five minutes later he comes back asking for more. Congress is spending like a 16 year old girl with her Daddy's gold card and you keep giving them the signature that they need to do it. Here, sign on the dotted line and the money is yours! We'll print more!
Continue to attend and organize the Tea Parties folks. Continue to SHOW your face and make them HEAR your voice!