2010-07-07 / Opinion

Up The Creek Without A Paddle

Why should we be surprised?
by Terry Toole

It never fails to amaze me that we are surprised at what our current president of these United States of America will think of next.

Other than telling one lie after another, some of us seem to try and give him the benefit of the doubt that, maybe, just maybe he is telling the truth, this time.

Some think that president Obama is our real danger, and he is with his leadership. He has led our U.S. Congress into allowing whatever he wants to do with our nation and our taxes, more importantly the $13 TRILLION plus spent that we do not have. The plus, and growing by the second is, according the Associated Press in May of 2010, the U. S. Treasury Department has said the large financial firms that handle our national debt are predicting the federal deficit for 2010 to reach $1.38 trillion. That means that every day, the government will accumulate an average of $2,478,079,632.02 in additional debt. [$1.38 trillion / 365 = $3,780,821,917.80 (approximately. $3.8 billion per day)].

Accordingly, more than $150 million of debt is being accumulated every hour. [$3,780,821,917.80 /(24 hours)= $157,534,246.57] And every minute, the U.S. government accumulates approximately $2.6 million in additional debt. [$157,534,246.57/ (60 minutes)= $2,625,570.77] That’s $43,759.51 a second. [$2,625,570.77/(60 seconds) = $43,759.51]

The only real truth that has come out of his mouth is that we will have change. The change we have had and continue to have should give us some insight into where we are heading.

It's a given that any politician will blame his problems on his predecessor. That can only last for so long. Then you can blame your screw ups on those you govern like your commanding generals who say things you don't like, or BP that ruins our coastlines trying to save or make money.

A politician will also say things like, "it's not going to cost 95 percent of Americans one dime more."

Then the promise was no American making less than $250,000 would pay more taxes.

All of you who pay taxes, this past year, paid more taxes, unless you were one of the millions who lost their jobs and their homes.

The change is coming. The income redistribution allowed by All the Democratic congress, has raised your taxes, devalued the American dollar and is giving away more of what you work for to those who do not work and to big unions and big government workers.

It makes me sick at my stomach for someone in small or big business or who is suppose to be a "Christian" to say, "I can't get involved in local, state or federal government or politics. It will hurt my business, or I might make someone mad."

Guess what has happened since "good" people haven't chosen to get involved. Look who is running and ruining your government. Look who is taking away your freedoms, daily. Look who is allowing the killing of millions of unborn babies. The estimates are that 4000 or more babies are legally aborted daily in this nation of the free and the brave.

If you think it's "all right" to kill babies, I guess we will have to go to your tax debt being raise to unpayable amounts and rising at rates that you will never be able to pay.

OK, so you don't want to get involved. You don't want to run for office. You do have one thing that you can do on July 20, and November 2. You can vote for someone who has not already nearly ruined this nation. That right could be taken away very soon.

It doesn't take a real smart person to know that you cannot spend yourself out of debt, and you can't give to one group and not take what you give from another group. The only ones that our government can take from are those who are working for their livings.

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