Trillion Dollar Politics

I am intrigued by the inadequacies of our current government.  The shortfalls of the government would be more amusing if they were not affecting every man, woman, and child in our great country.  We are facing a depression.  There is no other appropriate word to describe our current economic climate.  However, no one wants come out and call it a depression because everyone is afraid of the implications.  Unemployment is high, the national debt keeps going up, and many students have graduated into joblessness.  Politicians are avoiding the ‘D’ word alongside many economists because they do not want to frighten the American public or Wall Street.  Well, Wall Street is already afraid, as are those whose money is invested in it.  But wait…who cares about Wall Street? Main Street is the heart of America.  Yes, “Main Street.”  It sounds so nice to be concerned about Main Street because that means you care about all of the ”little” people out there.  This is interesting because without Wall Street, Main Street is grabbing its ankles.  

Mr. Obama enjoys pulling the Main Street card out of his pocket and sticking it in the folks’ mouths that voted for him.  Ah, yes, Main Street is what Mr. Obama cares about.  I’m sure that’s the reason he is taking the money from those who live on Main Street and throwing it in the pockets of the unemployed people who live in slums down from Wall Street.  It is astonishing, really. 

You see, Obama (like any politician) ran for office claiming to have solutions for all of the problems we are facing now. I respect that he has not claimed these solutions would work instantaneously, but it becomes painful to watch him attempt impossible feats.  It brings to mind the image of a small child playing with shape blocks trying to punch a square through the triangle hole. I, in the same fashion as Alan Keyes, ask how a bankrupt government is supposed save the economy by pumping money into it.  Where is this money coming from?  

Joe Biden eloquently advised last July that the government has to spend money to keep from going bankrupt.  Yes, that is what America voted into public office.  This is terrifying, is it not?  So after the government saves the economy with money it does not have, buys corporations with money it does not have, fights a war with money it does not have, sends aid to countries with money it does not have, it is going to make health insurance available to everyone with money it does not have.  We are supposed to stand by and watch this happen.  Are we really supposed to let Obama and the Democrats take more of our money and throw it away?  Give it to people who have not sweated and taken risks to get to where we are?  On top of it, we are not supposed to say that this is socialism?  It is socialism.  Obama and his pawns are shoving something down our throats that we simply cannot afford. 

 It is okay though; they held a bipartisan debate about the health care nightmare, I mean reform, last week.  Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell asked the Democrats to “start over and go step by step and target the areas of possible agreement” that they had discussed.  In return, the Democrats are pushing the parliamentary shortcut known as reconciliation to pass this bill. Now, turn this over a few times in your head:  was it really a bipartisan debate for compromise when everyone realized that regardless of the outcome, they were going to try to push the bill forward anyway?  I won’t answer that question.    

The scariest thing in this is that it is a lose-lose situation for the current administration.  I say scariest because when you think about everything that is happening, you can only wonder why they are still trying to push this massive bill that we don’t have the money for.  If Congress passes this current 2,700 page massive disgrace of a bill, they will have effectively pissed off most of the voting population.  However, if they start over like many good hearted Republicans and Democrats alike have suggested, they lose face.  To me, this is frightening because in a political lose-lose situation like this, a President who ran for office claiming that he would work for the people should make the right decision, tuck away his liberal pride, and listen to his country.  

Instead, he along with the leftists decided that the government should make your health decisions for you.  The liberals in power have decided that our tax money should fund abortions.  They have decided that the laws of economics do not apply to them and that they can keep raising the debt ceiling to pass massive overhauls without a single vote from the other side.  They have decided that our money is not our money and that our voices do not matter.  Well, let us see what they have to say next fall.  I’m very interested on their day of electoral judgment as to how they will justify ignoring the logic of those who gave them power to represent the voters.  Think about it.