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.