Simply Politics & News

[SOROS]

On the floor of the Senate in 2006, then-Sen. Barrack Obama said, "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government's reckless fiscal policies. ... Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

Since President Obama has taken office, the national debt has risen from about $11 trillion to $17 trillion and counting, and he is currently looking to raise the debt ceiling once again during his administration. Is it a failure of leadership, are we borrowing from other countries to finance our reckless fiscal policies, are our children and grandchildren much more in debt than they were five years ago? Absolutely. Yet the president apparently has a very short memory from what he said as a senator speaking about the Bush administration, and what he is saying today on his own. I wasn't any happier during the Bush administration about the burgeoning debt and the burden on our children.

His stand and threats toward Congress is the height of hypocrisy. He is unwilling to either negotiate nor look at where the government can cut its outrageous spending. He and his family live like the royal family, at taxpayers' expense. He and his administration behave like a dictators and thugs. The country is no better off than it was five years ago; in fact, I would dare say we are much worse off both in national and international arenas. Do I feel safer than I did five years ago? Absolutely not.

Does he not remember what he said seven years ago, or does he just assume that we don't remember his stand on so many issues that as president he has changed time after time?

I would also like to ask, why isn't "Obamacare" (the Affordable Care Act) good enough for Obama and his family, for Congress and their families and staff, for big business, labor unions and other friends of Obama, but it is good enough for the rest of us? Hypocritical? You bet!

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20131005-OPINION-310050309