Torch and Fork

Well, you do have to admit that Obama reads well in public.  I can see how people can get sucked in to the rhetoric. 

Much of what he promises we’ll just have to wait and see if it comes anywhere close to developing.  Some of what he had to say is just plain hypocrisy.  Three or four times he mentioned having inherited a $1.3 trillion dollar deficit.  (Did you notice how the democrats cheered when he did that?)  Maybe no one told him that a good portion of that number developed the two years before he took office, when we had a democrat Congress.  Or how about the fact that he piled on another trillion within his first 30 days in office!

I found the speech disappointing at best.

President Obama will make his first congressional address tonight on the Hill.  We’re all invited to watch and listen.

This ought to be good.  Last week he signed a record setting spending bill that will put America into debt that we’ll most likely never be able to pay off.  Since then people have actually had an opportunity to read the stimulus bill and found an endless string of liberal pet projects and very little that might be thought of an economic stimulus.

Yesterday the president said that he is developing a plan to pay off half of the fedearal deficit by the end of his first term. 

On Monday President Obama said, “This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we’ve long neglected.” 

That kind of rhetoric makes me a little skittish.  I see new and higher taxes in our future.  I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some hefty cuts in military spending.  I am really scared that he will take what ever we have left in our Soical Security accounts leaving Baby Boomers totally up the river as they near retirement age.

The man is not to be trusted good reader.

I look forward to listening to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal deliver the Republican response.  Governor Jindal is a really bright guy and consistently on the right side of most political discussion.  He does not pull punches and will help sort through what ever flavor of baloney President Obama is serving tonight.

Obama has taken flip-flopping to a new level.  48 million people recognized that before the election.  Now the natives are getting restless across the whole country and his popularity lessens everyday.

The United States is being stolen from it’s citizens right before our eyes.  Of course you know that or you wouldn’t have searched for and found this web site.

The question is; what can we do about it?  We’re going to figure it out together right here, and in our homes talking to friends, neighbors and family. 

I think one of the problems has been our own complacency.  For decades we’ve stood by and watched our culture crack, rot and crumble.  In the past it’s been in dribs and drabs; things seemingly small but making a chink in America’s armor none the less. 

We winced when we saw somebody burning the flag for the first time decades ago and maybe grumbled when were told that the flag burner was protected by first amendment rights.    For the most part we remained quiet. 

They stole our Social Security funds and put them into the General Fund; we remained quiet.

Congress turned against our President and military, openly, while at war; we remained quiet.

Now they are in the process of nationalizing our banking system and key industries, planning to silence opposing voices on the radio, stealing the treasure of the working man and woman and giving it away to the special interests that mobilze hundreds of thousands of drones satisfied with the pittance the government the government will give them. 

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