Even Dems might understand this!

Below is an explanation of our national debt sent me by my daughter:

I also read an interesting article on our national debt.  It took eight 0's off the actual debt to compare it to a household budget.  Here's what it looked like...

U.S. annual tax revenue: $2,340,000,000,000

Federal annual spending budget: $3,590,000,000,000

New annual debt from overspending this year:  $1,250,000,000,000

National debt:  $15,400,000,000,000

Last year's budget cut by Congress: $38,500,000,000

-Now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget-

Annual income: $23,400

Budget:  $35,900

New debt added to credit cards: $12,500

Outstanding balance on credit cards: $154,000

Total cuts to the family budget: $385

Do you think we have a problem?

"Noonan: America's Crisis of Character"

A very good and important column from Peggy Noonan. Very important for the younger in our society to read and think about. I would really like to hear what you - those young enough to stop this trend - think we should do.

Her closing paragraphs present the question for society:


"In isolation, these stories may sound like the usual sins and scandals. but in the aggregate they seem like something more disturbing, more laden with implication, don't they?  And again, these are only from the past week.

The leveling or deterioration of public behavior has got to be worrying people who have enough years on them to judge with some perspective.  [me!]

Something seems to be going terribly wrong.

Maybe we have to stop and think about this."



Maybe we should!

BHO Quixote

So on point! 

Does BHO really think this will work?

More Democrat illogic: DOMA v Obamacare!

Byron York points out the blatant politicizing of the courts. They should be ashamed!


"In 1996 Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act by huge bipartisan votes -- 342 to 67 in the House and 85 to 14 in the Senate. President Bill Clinton signed the measure into law. Now, the Obama administration says DOMA, which permits states to refuse to recognize gay marriages from other states and also creates a federal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman, is unconstitutional. ... 'I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,' Obama said Monday about the arguments over Obamacare before the nation's highest court. The danger presented in the health care case, the president continued, is that 'an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.' ... If the president was so concerned about a court overturning a duly constituted law passed by a democratically elected Congress, why was he urging a small group of unelected judges to strike down DOMA, a measure that won passage by a far greater margin than Obamacare? The answer is, of course, that the administration is making a political argument for its positions, not a legal one. ... [T]he timing of the arguments over Obamacare and DOMA has revealed the flexibility of the administration's arguments over constitutionality. And the flap over Obama's remarks is just a preview of what is coming when the court issues its decision on Obamacare this June." --columnist Byron York

Thought you might enjoy this!

This is how I feel some days this election season!!!

Dems: Politicians of the People?

Remember this when you vote this November:

"New Chief of Staff: Former Hedge Fund Exec. at Citigroup, Made Money Off Mortgage Defaults

Daniel Halper

January 9, 2012 5:56 PM

President Obama's first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once sat on the board of troubled federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac. Bill Daley, the president's chief of staff whose departure was announced today, was previously a top executive at financial firm J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. So of course there should be little surprise that Obama's latest chief of staff, announced today by the president himself, also has deep ties to the financial industry himself.

From 2006-2008, Jack Lew was chief operating officer of Citibank's alternative investments division. And it was his division that made billions of dollars betting "U.S. homeowners would not be able to make their mortgage payments," as the Huffington Post reported.

The piece also reported: “Lew made millions at Citi, including a bonus of nearly $950,000 in 2009 just a few months after the bank received billions of dollars in a taxpayer rescue, according to disclosure forms filed with the federal government. The bank is still partly owned by taxpayers.”

Of course, one should not begrudge Lew his personal, professional, and financial successes. But one might wonder what kind of message the president is sending with this appointment.

“I welcome constructive input from folks in the financial sector. But what we’ve seen so far, in recent weeks, is an army of industry lobbyists from Wall Street descending on Capitol Hill to try and block basic and common-sense rules of the road that would protect our economy and the American people,” Obama said in 2010. “So if these folks want a fight, that’s a fight I’m ready to have.”

In announcing Lew today, the president mentioned his previous work at the State Department and in the Clinton administration. Obama did not mention Lew's past of making billions of dollars for Citibank just a few years ago. "


And they will attack Mitt Romney - or the Rep nominee, whoever it will be - for the same thing.

Don't kid yourself about the Dems motivations!  they simply have no shame - and that is a deadly characteristic.