President Barack Obama is currently asking the House to raise the debt ceiling of the American people, something he already did once last year. What makes this even worse is the comments he made while a Senator during President George W. Bush's tenure.
On March 16, 2006, Obama said, “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.” Now he is having to eat his own words as there is opposition to his agenda. His press secretary, Robert Gibbs, further explains that "no" vote was a message to "make a point about needing to get serious about fiscal discipline."
But here we are, almost 5 years later, and now Obama is fighting to have the debt ceiling raised, and not concerned about getting "serious about financial discipline." Is this also a sign that we are here as a "sign of leadership failure?"
In the home, we have to make financial decisions daily. We have creditors that lend us money, and we make the choice to accept that additional debt increase. Creditors stop lending to those that are proven to be irresponsible with their spending habits, though. They deny us credit and we are forced to make tough decisions that require "tightening the belt" and sacrificing the wants to take care of the needs.
Obama is the head of the family we call America. If he is being denied credit, it is partially due to irresponsible spending. I suggest that he follow the same advice that financial specialists give to individuals that are struggling financially: cut up the credit cards (don't borrow any more), cut the fluff (stop spending on special interest programs) and pay down your debt (self-explanatory).
What do you think?
Nice set up Xan... That said, I think your logic has one flaw, you are using logic and reason based in truth. There is nothing logical, nor truthful about Washington. There may be a few people of honor who say what they mean and mean what they say, but as a whole they are a sorry, hollow, representation of those great statesman who built and maintained our country. Lying is the mother's milk that they feed on. pelosi said that a politician says anything in an election year in a derisive tone that mocked the interviewer for even thinking that a politician should have their feet to the fire for promises made. Until the body politic has the cancer removed, we can expect neither honor nor truth.
ReplyDeleteWhile the politician may say anything in the election year, it is the constituent that chooses to vote for the politician on a subsequent term. Thus the politician lives on knowing that whatever choice he or she makes, it becomes irrelevant during the election year. It is the hollow promises that people vote for, not the history of the elected officials actions. Does that make the cancer the voting demographic?
ReplyDeleteI think it is important to look at the history and voting records of those that you have on your ballot. You shouldn't be looking at your ballot for the first or second time when you go to fill it out your should have thought about it methodically and made sure that you chose to vote for people that will do the most with the office.
ReplyDeleteSaying that The logic is flawed because there is a ton of liars in Washington is absurd and is like saying that Washington doesn't even need to have logic. Our problem is that there is to many people who are illogical and we need to get a grip and govern our selves. AS said in history, this system of government will only work so long as the people will govern themselves. That means we all have to take action and put time and effort into our decisions. Not just vote down a single party line.
Aren't there liars on both sides of the party lines? Additionally, don't the politicians use a form of logic in their daily activities? I can't say that all do, but I am sure that the significant majority of politicians, on both sides of the party lines, use logic to convey their points of interest. Even as quoted above, then-Senator Barack Obama was using logic in his "no" vote of raising the national debt limit, the logic of getting serious about financial discipline. Now that he is on the othe side, he is using logic to convey that without the debt increase, there will be a "shut-down of the government." So it isn't that they aren't using logic in their rhetoric.
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