BY RUSSELL TURNER
HOUSE DIVIDED
It was Abraham Lincoln that once said that a house divided against itself cannot stand. I have seen families become divided; when that happens it isn’t long until the family no longer exists. Often times one spouse will try to pit the children against the other spouse, usually it involves promising the children something that is entirely impossible then they proceed to lay the blame on the other spouse for not going along with the plan. Those types of actions are childish, but they are no more childish than the actions of our president in his state of the union address.
Even a blind man can see his strategy. Our president is promising the government will mandate and provide everything from sick leave, free college education to the government providing child care. All of these things would be nice if we were able to afford them. I wonder if the president and all of his supporters have forgotten that our nation is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world. While some will acknowledge that we have an 18 trillion dollar national debt, they don’t want to talk about the un-funded liabilities of nearly 100 trillion dollars for social security and Medicare. Our president likes to make promises; we Americans need to look at his past track record.
We were promised that health care premiums would average 2,500 dollars less for the average American family; how is that working out for you? While the mainstream news media likes to show how successful Obamacare is, most of the time they interview people that are receiving huge subsidies for their insurance and ignore the people who are paying the bill themselves. Because of Quantative Easing ordinary working people who have saved their money cannot receive a decent interest rate on it, while at the same time the stock market has soared to new highs, which has benefited the wealthiest Americans. Our president is playing the part of a vengeful parent that wants to pit their children against the other parent. Even the president understands that most of the agenda he is promoting is unaffordable and he wants to make the Republican controlled Congress the bad guys. He wants the American people to put pressure on Congress, but pressure can be applied to him as well. How can the Congress counter his strategy?
Congress should pass common sense bills and lay piles of them on his desk. He has threatened to use his veto pen if Congress doesn’t succumb to his way of thinking. Congress needs to force him to make good on his threat. Let the American people see who the true obstructionist is. The Republicans need to find a way to inform the American people of the conservative point of view; sadly the mainstream media will be of no help, so alternatives must be found. We Americans need to understand the fact that we are broke and all of the empty promises and political posturing will not fix the problem. Until we stop putting our faith in politicians with dismal track records our days as a great nation are over.
Comments
Post a Comment