Posted on 07/09/2011 3:46:42 PM PDT by Anamnesis
Barack Obama’s big government policies continue to fail. He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry. The gears on that clock have nearly exploded during his administration. Yesterday’s terrible job numbers should not be a surprise because it all goes back to our debt. Our dangerously unsustainable debt is wiping out our jobs, crippling our economic growth, and jeopardizing our position in the global economy as the leader of the free world.
As a governor, I had to deal with facts, even unpleasant ones. I dealt with the world as it is, not as I wished it to be. The “elite” political class in this country with their heads in the sand had better face some unpleasant facts about the world as it is. They’ve run out of money and no amount of accounting gimmicks or happy talk will change this reality. Those of us who live in the real world could see this day coming.
Back in January 2009, as governor of Alaska, I announced: “We also have to be mindful about the effect of the stimulus package on the national debt and the future economic health of the country. We won’t achieve long-term stability if we continue borrowing massive sums from foreign countries and remain dependent on foreign sources of oil and gas.” Then I urged President Obama to veto the stimulus bill because it was loaded with absolutely useless pork and unfunded mandates. Everyone knows my early and vocal opposition to that mother of all unfunded mandates known as Obamacare starting back in August 2009, and many recall my objections to the Federal Reserves’ inflationary games with our currency known as QE2 from November 2010. It’s a matter of public record that I did not go to Harvard Law School, but I can add.
The same “experts” who got us into this mess are now telling us that the only way out of our debt crisis is to “increase revenue,” but not by creating more jobs and therefore a larger tax base; no, they want to “increase revenue” by raising taxes on job creators who are taxed enough already! As Margaret Thatcher said, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” That’s where we are now. Hard working taxpayers have been big government’s Sugar Daddy for far too long, and now we’re out of sugar. We don’t want big government, we can’t afford it, and we are unwilling to pay for it.
This debt ceiling debate is the perfect time to do what must be done. We must cut. Yes, I’m for a balanced budget amendment and for enforceable spending caps. But first and foremost we must cut spending, not “strike a deal” that allows politicians to raise more debt! See, Washington is addicted to OPM – Other People’s Money. And like any junkie, they will lie, steal, and cheat to fund their addiction. We must cut them off and cut government down to size.
To paraphrase Hemmingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We’ve been slowly going broke for years, but now it’s happening all at once as the world’s capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone’s door anymore. And we don’t have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We’ll be Greece before these D.C. politicians’ false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.
We can’t close our $1.5 trillion deficit overnight, but we must get as close as we can as soon as we can. Little nibbles here and there over 10 years (spun to sound like they’re huge budget cuts) aren’t anywhere near enough. I know from experience that cutting government spending isn’t easy. As governor, I made the largest veto cuts in my state’s history, and I didn’t make many friends doing it. But we will never recover, we will never get free of devastating debt, unless we make tough choices now. We don’t hear talk like this from leaders in D.C. or from those running for office because they say what they think we want to hear rather than what must be said.
We are in desperate need of real leadership, but President Obama’s solution to everything is to grow government by borrowing more money, spending more money, printing more money, and taxing our job creators. He once said that he “believes in American Exceptionalism…just as the Greeks believe in Greek Exceptionalism.” Well, the path he has us on will make us just as “exceptional” as Greece – debt crisis, stagnation, permanent high unemployment, and all.
As we approach 2012, there are important lessons we can learn from all of this. First, we should never entrust the White House to a far-left ideologue who has no appreciation or even understanding of the free market and limited government principles that made this country economically strong. Second, the office of the presidency is too important for on-the-job training. It requires a strong chief executive who has been entrusted with real authority in the past and has achieved a proven track record of positive measurable accomplishments. Leaders are expected to give good speeches, but leadership is so much more than oratory. Real leadership requires deeds even more than words. It means taking on the problems no one else wants to tackle. It means providing vision and guidance, inspiring people to action, bringing everyone to the table, and with a servant's heart dedicating oneself to striking agreements that keep faith with our Constitution and with the ordinary citizens who entrusted you with power. It means bucking the status quo, fighting the corrupt powers that be, serving the common good, and leaving the country better than you found it. Most of us don’t see a lot of that real leadership in D.C., and it’s profoundly disappointing.
But let me tell you where real hope lies. It’s not the hopey-changey stuff we heard about in 2008. Real hope comes from realizing how God has blessed our exceptional nation, and then doing something about it. We have been blessed with natural resources, hardworking entrepreneurs, and a Constitution that preserves the greatest form of government ever devised by man. If we develop those natural resources, allow our entrepreneurs to keep and invest more of what they earn, and adhere to the time-tested truths of our Constitution, we will prosper and endure.
But first and foremost we must tackle our debt. We don’t have the luxury of playing politics as usual. We need real leaders who will put aside their own political self-interest to do what is right for the nation. And if they don’t emerge… well, America has a do-over in November 2012.
- Sarah Palin
You got that right!
There were only 2, at the end and they were no big deal.
Sorry, it’s an OCD thing with me. ;>)
If you are using a Mac you can set the CapsLock key to do nothing in the preferences.
Ditto x 8. LOL
I’m not certain, but you might have just set a record... I wonder what you won?
I think 17 is the record so this was just a blip ;)
Amazing. Those are the words of the next ~real~ President of the U’S.A.
Amazing. ;>)
Hmmm, Now wouldn’t that depend on whether (s)he was saying “Oh sh1#” with every hit of the ENTER key or after the 17th?
Truly Reaganesque rhetoric, Mrs. President! Love ya’ Sarah..... Bob
Simple rule: Never hit “send” but one time. Even if your computer does not appear to be sending. It does. Go back and refresh and you will see. I only know this because I have done the same thing too many times.
Time to sharpen the pitchforks. Form the Palin Brigade—Be ready at a moments notice to ride to the sound of the guns. The enemy will throw everything at Sarah and those who follow her—she will face dangers from both the left and the right—they must not win. We must support her—or anyone she so designates to lead the coming revolution in Washington. As Americans we really have no choice.
to allow the statute of limitations to run out on the frivolous lawsuits
good point
i will read Sum Tsu someday but busy right now
This is where executive experience comes in very handy, giving her the background to tackle the problems we are facing as a nation. Sarah’s way of governing made a big difference to Alaskans and the Alaska economy. As governor, she learned how to evaluate different courses of action, and lead effectively with the goal of getting good results. And Sarah really takes the message to the people, not relying on the media to filter (and therefore undermining) her message.
Great job, Sarah!
I resent your attempt to take the Bible out-of-context and attempt to make it seem like it says that Bachmann's must approve everything she does. It does imply that. It states that the husband is spiritual leader of the household. That applies to the household only not to a woman leading the country.
Bachmann is standing on her Christian beliefs and will pay off in Iowa.
I'd just love to see Palin answer the question whether Todd is the head of household. What do you think she'd say?
She isn't bringing the issue up. Others are -- like George Stephanopoulos and those that wrote the pledge she signed.
And, if you have a problem with her defending the Founders against lies told by liberals about slavery, then you stop calling yourself a conservative:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57907.html
ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked Bachmann to defend that comment, given the fact that the U.S. founders helped enshrine slavery in the Constitution and allowed it to continue as an institution until the Civil War.
Bachmann responded by pointing to the career of John Quincy Adams, the abolitionist president who was not yet 9 years old when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
"If you look at one of our founding fathers, John Quincy Adams, that's absolutely true," Bachmann said. "He was a very young boy, but he was with his father, serving essentially as his father's secretary. He tirelessly worked throughout his life to make sure that we did, in fact, one day eradicate slavery from our nation, and I'm so grateful for that work."
Who writes for you?
OK, who is the head of your household? Just asking.
When you personally speak for Christians everywhere, resent it all you want. Until such time as Christianity nominates you as their leader, deal with the fact that some of us interpret the Bible in a different way than you do.
Bachmann brought her personal religious belief into the public square so don’t be so shocked that others may not particularly agree with it. If her husband is leading her ‘household’ then he is de-facto in charge of the country should his wife become President.
Palin isn’t publicly claiming to be submissive to her husband as a way to garner favor with rural Christian America. No sense speculating on ‘what if’ in this instance since SP never put herself in Bachmann’s position.
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