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Buckle Up For Another Political Showdown – America’s Credit Card Is Maxed Out Again

Increasing Debt Ceiling, No Budget, Unrestrained Spending, And A Spinning Debt Clock… Obama’s Road To American Serfdom


By: Jim Hoft with Andrea Ryan

Buckle up.  Here we go…again.

On cue, America’s credit card is maxed out again.  And, on cue, our pompous Demogogue-in-Chief emerged before America, feigning command over the situation.  Predictably, Obama preemptively scolded Congress for their anticipated reckless and ideological misbehavior and fighting.  Because, they can’t “hold the American and global economy hostage to one party’s ideology”, since it’s their “responsibility to ensure that the U.S. pays its bills and maintains its creditworthiness”.

The Washington Post reported,

“During lunch at the White House with top leaders of the House and Senate, Obama called the political deadlock last year “not acceptable” and emphasized that he expects a “serious bipartisan approach” to tackling the budget and the federal deficit this year, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

Obama stressed the need to “avoid fighting old political fights,” Carney told reporters after the meeting. “It’s simply not acceptable to hold the American and global economy hostage to one party’s political ideology. It’s the responsibility of Congress to ensure that the United States of America pays its bills, maintains its creditworthiness.”

Meanwhile, as Obama was admiring himself before his audience, the Senate Democrats were busy refusing to pass a budget.  Again.  Republicans proposed four fiscal blueprints for responsible spending, and the Democrats rejected all of them.  And, of course, proposed none of their own.  Again.  In complete violation of the law, it has been over 1,100 days since our country has had a budget.  That is obscene on so many levels, but, most importantly, because it creates an unnecessary and imminent threat to the stability of our country, and our national security.

According to The Washington Times,

The Senate on Wednesday rejected every single budget being offered this year, leaving the chamber – and therefore the federal government – without a plan to address Medicare, Social Security and the other major entitlement programs that are driving deficits and debt.

In repeated votes, Democrats who control the chamber defeated four Republican proposals, including a plan that passed the House in March. The entire Senate also unanimously rejected President Obama’s 2013 budget, voting 99-0 against it, following a 414-0 vote against it in the House earlier this year.

Congress is required by law to pass a budget by April 15, then write the annual spending and tax laws to carry out the budget’s targets.

But for the third straight year, Democrats didn’t offer a plan of their own in the Senate. The last time it did pass one was in 2009, when Democrats controlled all the levers and wrote the measure that paved the way for them to pass Mr. Obama’s health care law.

In other words, the Senate Democrats are “holding the American and global economy hostage to their political ideology” and betraying their “responsibility to ensure that the U.S. pays its bills, and maintains its creditworthiness.”  But, to protect the U.S. against a horrific fate would require a budget…something the Democrats refuse to provide.

Not far from here lies Greece, a once proud country built on an ancient foundation of historical greatness.  A country that has declined into complete fiscal, social, and political chaos because of the failure of a grand scheme by its citizens to borrow and spend their way into prosperity.  Their government is in shambles and the citizens are cleaning out the banks in droves.  Who needs Spartans when a country can be reduced to a scene of carnage simply through its debt and governmental incompetence?

In “The Road to Serfdom“, Friedrich von Hayek labeled what we are witnessing today.

“Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons with elsewhere, the knowledge of possible alternatives to the course actually taken, information which might suggest failure on the part of the government to live up to its promises or to take advantage of opportunities to improve conditions–all will be suppressed. There is consequently no field where the systematic control of information will not be practiced and uniformity of views not enforced.”

But, concurrent with Washington’s spectacular display of insanity and Obama’s passionate drive to divert America’s greatness, economic freedom, and liberty into serfdom, Mitt Romney was in the Heartland giving a speech about our crisis of debt.  Romney’s message, calling Obama’s “prairie fire of debt” a “nightmare mortgage for America”, was smartly wrapped in the imagery of a prominently displayed national debt clock.

Obama’s failed policies of Socialism are taking us down Hayek’s road.  If we don’t change direction we might as well hold the chains ready for our children.