Pondering the Obama presidency, I cannot help but recall the immortal words of Marvin the Martian:
“Oh! That wasn’t a bit nice! You have made me very angry! Very angry indeed!”
Try as I may, there is little I can find to like about the new Administration to this point. It seems that almost every day since he started, he’s promoted policies I believe to be wholly wrong, or saying something that completely flies in the face of credulity.
The budget he has proposed, which spends money we don’t have like there’s no tomorrow, seeks to focus on three items above all else: so-called “green” energy, education, and expanding socialized medicine. Added to the previous “bailouts” and “stimulus” spending, the President is most assuredly saddling future generations of Americans with debt the likes of which have never before been seen in the history of the world… and he’s only just begun!
While I admit the present mindset that economic cycles can somehow be altered by increased government spending and growth began under the tail end of the Bush Administration, he’s a piker compared to his successor, who has taken such policies to new heights. Plus, Obama has added in a large measure of anti-private sector, “capitalism is the boogeymen” rhetoric the likes of which that haven’t been seen since the halcyon days of the Bolshevik revolution. This is not good in a country where liberty is mostly based on private property rights which are the basic fruits of our labors. Once we break the work ethic, and people no longer have incentive to do much of anything for lack of any real return or reward, then what?
Make no mistake about it—we are living in times where a large number of people have been led to believe that we can borrow our way out of debt and simply print money and spend ourselves into prosperity. You’ve all seen the letters in the papers extolling the use of stimulus money for things that people would otherwise not pay for themselves, a good example being the Gilford police station project. People you would think should otherwise know better think we should simply take this money “because if we don’t, someone else will get it.” This is the very attitude that has brought America to the economic brink.
Who is footing the bill?
While Obama and his comrades in the Democrat-led Congress are busy dishing out money all around, what about those who are in fact still working? If not this group of Americans, aside from what they’re borrowing in the name of future generations, who else will they take the money from? Heaped on top of the obvious income taxes will be the eventual higher costs to everything as taxes are added at every step of the way and passed on to consumers as the price of business. Ultimately, we will ALL be stuck with the bill when inflation rears its head in the wake of the printing of so much money. It could get so bad as to rob Americans of every last cent they have. All thanks to the government. That makes me very angry!
It is not only his ruinous economic activities that are causing me great angst these days. If you had held out hope that the President Obama would at least be halfway decent in a way acceptable to nearly all Americans in the political spectrum while representing us abroad, well, too bad. Instead, as Obama and his wife and the rest of the entourage took the Continent by storm, it has been one disappointment after another for those of us who feel pride in our great Nation. Instead of representing American ideals of liberty and personal responsibility, the president trashed the country and his predecessor in a fashion never before seen.
Said Obama while visiting France:
“In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”
Excuse me? I want just ONE example of this so-called arrogance. I want a full explanation of just what he means. When did we “fail to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world?” What the hell does that mean?! It’s nothing more than meaningless pap, all designed to tear us down. I don’t like it one bit, and it’s making me very angry!
Then, after the lunatic from North Korea shoots a nuclear capable missle that could possibly reach US soil, or detonate the infrastructure-destroying EMP bomb, Obama pledges the US will lead the way in nuclear disarmament. What the…? This, again, makes me very angry! Oh, and he expressed “grave disappointment,” too. I’ll bet this made the North Koreans tremble in fear! And the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, and everyone else on the list of future potential enemies must be some impressed, too. Not! Again, this makes me very angry because I think he puts our country at great risk in a world of bad actors.
This is why I’m going to the big Tea Party next Wednesday in Manchester’s Victory Park at 5:30PM. I’m VERY angry about what’s going on, and I’m going to stand with many other people that feel the same way. I’m hoping that, just maybe, Obama and the rest will get the message that not eveybody is grooving to what they are doing. For more information and to sign up, click here.