President Obama's 7-Eleven Spending Nightmare

While even now Barack Obama is on the campaign trail in Iowa and Ohio, right here in the shadow of the Beltway the Treasury Department has released a study that snap-shot's the President's horrendous handling of this economy, and why . The summary of Federal spending for fiscal year 2012 (which ended September 30) has come out.

For every seven dollars that our government had, it has spent eleven (precisely $10.95).

Stir in the scope of our government, and the difference in those numbers and let that thought mull for a moment. With no regard for our fiscal integrity, this year Obama's giganto-government-machine has been burning through cash like dry lint and firewood.

Jeffrey Anderson of the Weekly Standard elucidates the reality of this problem clearly in a recent article.

"To illustrate this a bit differently, for every Jackson ($20) we’ve had available to spend under Obama, we’ve also borrowed a Hamilton ($10) and a Washington ($1) and spent those too.  The only thing is that, under Obama, we’ve (literally) spent the equivalent of 342 billion Jacksons, 342 billion Hamiltons, and 342 billion Washingtons — borrowing all of the Hamiltons and Washingtons."

President Obama desperately needs to take a leaf out of the books of Republican governors and legislatures.  While the Feds have dug the hole of debt even deeper, our own Governor McDonnell has the numbers on his side; posting a surplus and attracting both businesses and individuals to the Commonwealth. Fiscal responsibility isn't just common-sense, good policy.

Our deficit is passing $16.02 Trillion as I write this. the kind of reckless spending, strangling regulation, and backwards job "creation" policies that we have seen from this administration are outright dangerous.

Mr. President, Common Sense is on Line 1

The Federal government has been quietly slipping by a tax to the American people that costs as much as 20 C-130 cargo planes. "What for?", you might ask.

 Free cell phones.

Let that sink in. For cell service, one and a quarter billion dollars (yes with a b) has been spent by Uncle Sam every year since 2008 and the cost has not stopped rising. Some people even have multiple phones that are being subsidized by ALL OF US.

Does this sound ludicrous to anyone else?

Basically, the Universal Service fee that you will see on every one of your phone bills constitutes the passing on of a mandatory payment from the phone company to you. The federal government requires companies pay into the Universal Service fund and they pass the buck, so to speak, to the consumer.

Originally the program only serviced land lines. That sounds reasonable, right? Well in 2008 the program was expanded to include cell phones and to say the cost skyrocketed would be an understatement. Rep. Tim Griffin of Tennessee has posted an excellent video explaining this lunacy to youtube, and it is embedded below.

With our economy severely recessed, and a pile of debt as tall as the Chrysler Building and growing, what on Earth is our government doing paying for data and minutes? This kind of idiotic and reckless spending has to be brought to someone's attention; it doesn't even sound rational.

Woodward Calls Out Obama on Hyper-Partisanism

Photo Credit to The Daily Beast

Over the weekend, Washington Examiner writer Conn Carroll wrote an insightful synopsis of author Bob Woodward's new book, "The Price of Politics". In it, Carroll notes Woodward's feelings on Obama's miserable mishandling of the presidency and the damning consequences of Obama's hyper-partisanism.

In the book, the President himself is quoted as shooting down a bi-partisan Republican stimulus plan early in his term with the words "I can go it alone, I have the polls". His own chief-of-staff, Rahm Emanuel, has spoken on the fact that Obama's final stimulus plan had zero contribution from House Republicans, "We have the votes. (expletive) them." 

It is a well-known fact that this President has mishandled the problems that America faces. It is a well-known fact that Obama does not have a bi-partisan bone in his body. But for a President to not only mishandle a situation, but to metaphorically spit in the face of a concerned Republican Party that is willing and able to help...

It just isn't something you do.

Obama has derisively described House Majority Leader John Boehner as a "cigarette-smoking, country-clubbing Republican who makes deals." Deals are a part of legislating effectively and compromise is important to America's democracy. Boehner has tried to make many deals in his years in Congress. But appeals to reason in the White House often fall on deaf ears.

We have a President who cannot handle the job himself; who refuses to compromise for the good of his nation; and who slaps bi-partisanism off of the table. The facts are as plain as day. America can only hope for a change.

Franken, the Only One Who Can Out-Gaffe Biden.

Earlier this week, Vice President Joe Biden was joined at a Minnesota campaign event by TV-writer turned Democratic Senator Al Franken. Biden, just putting his Virginia "chains" gaffe behind him, must have been happy to not be the most verbally mistake prone person on the stage for once.

Barack Obama and his campaign are perfectly willing to shove VP hopeful Paul Ryan in the direction of other, less tactful politicians. But has he been paying attention to who his own VP is standing at the podium with? Senator Franken has been known, like others, to have made some intolerant, ignorant, and downright offensive soundbites in his day.

Let me explain. Al Franken has made the news many times for things he has said. At Harvard, Franken flatly explained that he hated homosexuals. Later, Franken was quoted speaking about raping a CBS reporter.  Is that really the kind of association and the kind of people that Obama wants to stand with under the lights?

Spec Ops Takes Aim at Obama...Metaphorically that is

The Special Forces group Special Operations OpSec Education Fund is voicing its opinions about how President Obama has handled the American military in his time in office. The verdict?

Badly. 

The stated purpose of this organization is to protect the safety and operational security (OpSec) of America's men in uniform; and to combat the use of leaks and sensitive information for political gain. 

As Virginia is home to not one but four of the Nation's largest and most important military sites (The Pentagon, Langley, Oceana Naval Base, and Quantico), these issues are very close to home for us in the Commonwealth.

The group has come out with their own 22-minute video about the mishandling of military leaks, the killing of Osama Bin Laden, as well as other incidents. They also plan to air advertisements exposing the Obama Administration's bungling of these leaks over his term.

The former soldiers and intelligence specialists at the organization have criticized the Administration for using leaks to promote himself and his policies, for badly handling the Bin Laden apprehension to make himself look better, and even for disclosing sensitive details of the Bin Laden raid to Hollywood filmmakers. This isn't the kind of self-serving, careless attitude toward national security needed in a Commander-in-Chief.

To read the full article from WTAX click here

How Many More Months of >8% Unemployment Before America has had Enough Change?

The government recently released the monthly employment statistics.

"What a surprise!", cried no one ever. The figures indicate that unemployment has risen again, this time to 8.3%. This comes as we also realize that nearly 350,000 people on unemployment have simply stopped looking and therefore drop off of the record as unemployed Americans. 

That news comes as Obama touts an increase in jobs created in July by about 20,000. Looks suspiciously like a drop in the bucket, Mr. President. 

How many more signs does America need that this Administration's failed policies regarding economics and job creation are failing? It's time to put some common sense back into America's job creating policies. 

To read further, an article is available HERE