Once again, we see the Obama Admin willing to sacrifice others to save Government - Granite Grok

Once again, we see the Obama Admin willing to sacrifice others to save Government

Or is this the REAL projection?  We’ve heard for weeks (Er, months?  Years?) that Republicans, Conservatives, TEA Partiers, Constitutionalists, or Libertarians are the extremists, the terrorists, the people with suicide vests strapped to their chests (while clinging to their religion and guns?)….you know the litany.  In all cases, just trying to subtract even one single dollar from any Government budget brings out this talk that we are anti-Government, we’re Anarchists…and with any diminution of Government, the litany of hating the poor, hating kids, hating illegal aliens, hating education, hating the hungry, hating….need I really say more?

That’s what we were told during this shutdown, that the wrong decisions by Republicans were being be felt by the most vulnerable as Government had to shutdown.  Shutdown?  We really ended up with a SlimDown as only 17% of the Feds actually did stop.  And we got MORE expenses as the stuff that got shutdown was aimed at hurting the public in hopes of turning the public against those evil Republicans who took the “nice” things away.  Instead we saw the UGLY face of a Government grown too large to the point of having little remorse over targeting those they serve.  This just over the Slimdown.  And now with the specter of the Debt Ceiling floating onto the stage, what is it that the Administration is willing to go after first?  Yeah – guess who gets the haircut first? (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew delivered a stern warning to Congress on Thursday about the consequences of not raising the debt ceiling, saying Social Security checks and benefits for veterans are among the payments that could be halted in such a scenario.  Lew testified Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee. He spoke amid claims from some corners that missing the Oct. 17 deadline does not necessarily trigger the doomsday scenario of default on the debt.

“Lovely vulnerables you have there – pity we’re going after you all!”.  The elderly, the wounded vets – all a ploy.  It has always been that “Republicans want to take that away from you”.  With that one statement, Lew gives lie to that.

Lew also did not go so far as to claim payments on the debt would be jeopardized after Oct. 17. However, he said myriad other payments inevitably would be — which he described as a “default” in the general sense.  “Under any scenario, we will be defaulting on obligations,” Lew said.  Lew, in a written statement, warned that upcoming payments for the following could all be jeopardized before Nov. 1:

  • Social Security payments
  • Medicare payments
  • Veteran benefit payments
  • Active-duty military salaries

And it shows – you all (we all) are mere pawns in the Progressive mind.  It is not about helping people – that mask has slipped.  You matter only insofar that you can be used to achieve a political objective and move FORWARD! the Progressive agenda.

Did you notice what was NOT LISTED?

No layoffs at the EPA, the NLRB, the FCC, the Dept of Education, the Dept of Commerce, the Dept of Energy, the Obamacare part of the IRS, the TEA Party targeters of the IRS, OSHA, the PEACE Corp, HHS; nope, not a one word about the already identified “non-essentials” (You really thought I was going to use the now PC word “non-excepted”??).

Not one single governmental entity – except the ONE Constitutionally mandated one – our military.  Maximum hurt (the elderly) and the maximum disdain and virtual disarmament of the United States.  It would not surprise me if Obama’s targeting of the military would also result in the stranding of our military where ever they are – in foreign land or in on the battlefield.  Deliberate choices.  A choice for Determined Weakness.

“The United States should not be put in a position of making such perilous choices for our economy and our citizens,” Lew said.

No such choice of those four needs to be made.  We have a Federal income of about $250 Billion / month with a debt interest obligation of less than 10% of that – $20 Billion.  Instead of making the RATIONAL decisions that you and I would make (“who were those non-essentials again, and which departments / agencies virtually disappeared??“), the uber-Socialist / power greedy in the Obama Administration will make the POLITICAL decision to, once again, maximize pain.  Do you know what that would cause?  And do I really have to state what Obama’s tyrannical response will be to that event?

Lew said missing that deadline would cause financial chaos, hurting the economy and shaking the financial markets to a degree that could cripple the economic recovery. He urged Congress to promptly raise the debt ceiling and pass a spending bill to restore confidence.  The appearance was yet another public restatement of the administration’s stance that Congress needs to pass a spending bill and lift the U.S. borrowing cap before President Obama will negotiate over the nation’s budget ills.

What would bring confidence would be to make the list, the rational list, of how this would be handled, make it public, and then stick to it (e.g., do what you say you would do – simple, eh?).  As opposed to what he AND Obama are doing – threatening the markets.  Once again, not calming the nation but ramping up the chaos (even as they say otherwise).

This is nothing more than a haughty, Royal We, declaration of almost out of Dune: “We can destroy it, thus, we own it”.  You didn’t build that – it is Government’s to give or take away.  And this Republican response hardly gives me any sense of a willingness to fight back:

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, though, argued that the nation’s overspending needs to be dealt with, and he bristled at Obama’s repeated claims that the debt ceiling should be raised to pay for spending Congress racked up. “It is a problem that all of us … need to deal with,” Hatch said.

He also said it is “disconcerting” to hear Social Security and other payments could be stopped.

What a wuss answer.  What is the strong, strident answer to ANY of this – no sense of self-righteous anger that this could destroy America as we know it simply because Obama, baby, can’t accept no for an answer?  That he is willing to destroy instead of looking for a solution?

…Lew on Thursday also questioned his ability to prioritize payments.

Of course he would say that – it continues the Obama meme that he, the most powerful man in the world and his right hand henchman, are mere victims of the system, that the system controls them (and always laughing on the inside that they, the New Left (communist branch), have taken over).

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