President Obama's Proposed Budget Would Add More Than $9.7 Trillion to the National Debt

When most people think that $12 trillion is a lot of money, we get this story:

President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday. Proposed tax cuts for the middle class account for nearly a third of that shortfall.

The 10-year outlook released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is somewhat gloomier than White House projections, which found that Obama's budget request would produce deficits that would add about $8.5 trillion to the national debt by 2020.

When is it enough? When do our officials in Washington have to wake up before they realize they are destroying the country through debt?

It has been said that the greatest danger we face in this country is our fiscal irresponsibility.

The Next New Dealers or Generation Liberty?

The Washington Post ran this piece by E.J. Dionne under the headline "The Next New Dealers."  A better headline would have been "Generation Liberty."  This is where Young Americans for Liberty will make the difference for generations to come.  We cannot let our generation slip into the statist hypnosis.  H/t: The New Republic.

Is Obama losing the under-30 crowd, too?

E.J. Dionne Jr

WASHINGTON--Young Americans are the linchpin of a new progressive era in American politics. So why aren't Democrats paying more attention to them?

The relative strength of conservatives in American politics since the 1980s was built on generational change: Voters whose views had been shaped by the New Deal were gradually replaced with the more cautious souls who came of age after FDR. Then the Millennial generation came along.

Health Premiums Increase 39%, Obama Urges Oversight

From the New York Times:

President Obama will propose on Monday giving the federal government new power to block excessive rate increases by health insurance companies, as he rolls out comprehensive legislation to revamp the nation’s health care system, White House officials said.

By focusing on the effort to tighten regulation of insurance costs as a new element that had not been included in either the House or Senate bills, Mr. Obama is seizing on outrage over recent premium increases of up to 39 percent announced by Anthem Blue Cross of California, and moving to portray the Democrats’ health overhaul as protecting Americans from profiteering insurers.

The President's proposal is, of course, the wrong idea. Yes, premium increases are going to be tough on Americans. Yes, insurers are probably going to be making what some would call obscene profits with this rate increase.

Obama Declares He Will Rule by Authoritarian Decree

With his agenda stalled in Congress, it looks like President Obama and his administration will use rule by authoritarian decree to get the job done.

Here is a quote from his Chief of Staff:

“With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities,” reports The New York Times. “We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emanuel

How is this type of governing acceptable in the United States of America? How have we become a country in which we have a dictator ruling the people?