The State of the Union is this. We’re spinning out of control. We’re out of control because we have a President and Congress that are more concerned with spin than with actually creating a successful strategy to solve our economic issues.
As I have said in previous blogs we must simply judge success based on performance versus objectives. And on every count this President and Congress, including Harry Mitchell and Nancy Pelosi, have failed.
Despite a trillion-dollar “stimulus” a year ago we are still asking “Where are the jobs?” Unemployment is up, not down having lost nearly three million jobs since the “stimulus” was enacted. Our national debt hit a record $1.4 trillion just for fiscal year 2009 and has passed $12 trillion increasing 39% since the Democrats took control of Congress three years ago.
And now, the President is in spin mode. But he’s spinning us out of control. He has redirected his focus on the middle class in an attempt to create jobs. Yet, he has spent the last year pushing job-killing legislation like Tax and Trade and government run health care. The President and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Mitchell have been telling us for the past year that government spending would save the economy yet now they finally want to cut spending. But even that smells funny. The President talks about spending freezes yet Democrats in Congress want to raise the debt limit by almost $2 trillion.
We are, as a nation, being subjected to an extreme form of political whiplash as Obama and the Democrats in Congress spin their failed attempts into a new strategy built on rhetoric rather than sound fiscal discipline.
Events
May 6, 2010
Soroptimist Meeting with CD5 candidates
Mustang Library - Book Discussion Room link to event
Jim on the Issues
Prosperity
I believe government is and should be limited by three defined purposes. The first is for our government to promote prosperity. That means it should facilitate the free market system so we can all innovate and create wealth. Government shouldn't dictate, define or over-regulate our road to happinness
Liberty
Second, government should defend our fundamental liberties as defined by the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights and not infringe upon them.
Security
Third, government should provide for our common security.
I like your blunt talk about what is wrong, and the failure of the democrats to effectively govern. However, it is important to me and all voters in the next election to also hear concrete proposals to do it right. Yours truly, Carl Raine
Posted: January 28th, 2010 - 9:24 pm