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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
Exhibit A why Sarah Palin is needed as the teh next President of the United States.
She knows what the problem is, what has to be done, and she has done it herself before.
This is the left hook.
The right to the solar plexus—an FB on Fast and Furious.
Then, an announcement that her hat is in the ring.
It’s GAME ON!!!!!
“’Send the OPM addicts to the Betty Ford Clinic.’ The timing was sadly right for it.”
NO! NO! NO! The lsm would have taken that and slammed her with it for sheer callousness. The whole rest of the article would have been rendered meaningless.
Paragraph #9...all I need to know. GAME ON!
Let’s fix this mess and get Gov. Palin elected as our next President in 2012!
Most regular folk who earn their own money through hard work, sweat and tears, know not to spend more than they earn, because they understand what it takes to earn and save money.
When you spend other people's money, especially when there is little to no accountability to the owners of that money, you forget about budgeting and living within your means. There is no one to turn down the money spigot.
Darn, I wish she'd get serious...
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Oh well, I did say that trying to edit Palin was dangerous. I would try to honor a nice lady for her good works (her Clinic), and the LSM would twist it. Happily Sarah doesn’t need anyone to write teleprompter copy for her. Heck, the teleprompter budget would be one of her more noticeable spending cuts.
that was awesome- atleast you know who will make those tuff choices. i KNOW sarah will, the rest of them have no record to stand on— Run Sarah Run
“All too many people think that Tina Fey is the former Governor of Alaksa.”
Yeah, too bad too many get their “news” from SNL.
Sarah is certainly not endorsing any of the announced candidates but has instead presented the resume of one ready to announce and to run for president. Go, Sarah!
Mail. Thanks for this post.
And, the GOP knows that she can destroy them...entirely.
The dims will survive as they will never split. They are a far more unified force in politics.
However, I believe the GOP to be doomed. And I'm OK with that.
You gotta start somewhere.
They're probably proof-reading it over and over again for typos,lol.
Has Sarah ever had a better statement? She’s had a lot of good ones, but I think this is the strongest, most powerful, most direct, most complete statement from her yet. I can’t wait until the 1st Presidential debate when she reduces ZerObama to incoherent stammerings and sputterings.
Too rich. Go Sarah Go!
:-)
That's why she just released a campaign film and is up in Iowa getting ready for the caucuses.
Because she's not running.
</sarcasm>
Good timing - please send this to the RINO’s who are preparing to make that deal.
No doubt about it: she’s good.
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