This time, if Congress cooperates, Obama will temporarily allow businesses to write off capital investment expenditures immediately rather than over a 3 – 20 year period. He also proposes to expand the business tax credit for research and development. These cost-saving measures are intended to lure businesses into spending money now in the hope that the cash spent will stimulate the economy. But, according to DNC Chair, Tim Kaine, the R & D tax incentive will be the ninth business tax credit since Obama took office. The first 8 didn’t work. Who thinks number 9 is the charm? And who’s willing to wait for more than a year to find out if either one has any effect at all?

Even if these moves don’t do any good, why not try? Because doing things that don’t work wastes time that could be spent on something productive instead. They also raise false expectations that the government action is beneficial. By the time taxpayers figure out what’s happening, politicians are firing off another solution, full of excuses about why the last one missed the mark.

The tax incentive solutions aren’t going to bag the recovery either. To begin with, small businesses employ over half of the private sector workers. When the Bush tax cuts end next year, the owners responsible for generating 48% of the net income will see a tax increase. So, they’ll have less money to grow their businesses in ways that make economic sense. To attempt to recoup some of it, they must spend their money as Obama dictates.

But, government is only good at piling up huge debts, not judicious management. So, forcing growth choices on the private sector by substituting government judgment for that of business owners is highly unlikely to spur a recovery. It would be one thing if we had a robust economy and the government wanted to influence some aspects of business spending. In a recession, it should ensure a level playing field and let business run with the ball, not micromanage the plays.

An even bigger problem is the uncertain economic climate. The uncertainty exists because of both overreaching and undefined administrative regulations in bills passed by Congress. And the constant political promises to do a lot more of the same. Not that there shouldn’t be regulations. But, the failings are generally not for lack of rules. They’re due to the lack of enforcement. A lean set of effective regulations beats hog-tying businesses with rules that do not permit them to function. We’re at the latter point right now.

The issue really comes down to whether government should control the private sector. The control ball started rolling during the Great Depression and it’s picked up speed ever since. During our current Great Recession government has grabbed more power over business, and the rest of us, than ever before. But, political dominance has never worked to our economic benefit.

Franklin Roosevelt spent ten years spinning his wheels trying to pull our economy out of the Great Depression ditch. He implemented lots of heavy-handed government works programs and erected the social spending piggy bank. None of it worked. According to Christina Romer, Obama’s recently departed Council of Economic Advisers Chair, the Depression ended because of currency devaluation and monetary expansion.

Thanks to the Fed, some monetary expansion is already in place. Congress’s part is no-strings tax cuts and fewer regulations. Then politicians can step aside and let our economic forces repair themselves. But, that will take a government with a different mindset than the one we have now. Which will you favor at the ballot box in November?

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So why is he making premature constitutional pronouncements? Evidently, trying to bluster an end to the debate about the mosque in a show of support for the Muslim community. What he should have done was encourage a frank discussion of the bottom line issues between the opposing sides. But, he punted and a whirlwind of political damage has been cutting a wide swath ever since.

One of Obama’s big agenda items is improving relations between the U.S. and the Muslim World. From his inaugural address, to his speech in Cairo, to his political appointments and beyond, he’s been a prodigious promoter of Islam. And, that’s not necessarily bad. Other things being equal, getting along is obviously a lot better than not. But, Obama’s single-minded purpose blinds him to virtually everything else, causing him to miss the mark too often. In this case, pulling a false trigger to force people to cozy up was bound to blow up instead. Right now, we’re suffering the fallout that political leadership may have prevented.

According to Daisy Khan, one of the two main initiators of the Islam Center project, its purpose is to celebrate diversity and detente. Since 2005, she’s spoken of it as a place of community fellowship for Muslims, and, as importantly, an overture to American-Muslim harmony. Through interfaith programs and other outreach efforts, she believed the Center would help repair the breach created by the 911 attacks. Driving a constitutional stake in the ground was not one of her talking points.

It’s not surprising. Two Mosques have existed in lower Manhattan for decades, located four and twelve blocks, respectively, from Ground Zero. Non-muslims do not protest the presence of these houses of worship. True, they are low-key, but the Islam Center won’t look like a mosque either. A thirteen-story glass and chrome structure, it will house a large auditorium, theater, performing arts center, sports center, bookstore, culinary school, art studio, food court, 911 memorial and the mosque.

How did a brawl of disagreement breakout over this idyllic purpose? In an article published before Obama opened his mouth, the New York Times listed several bridge-building missteps taken by the Center’s backers. They boil down to one thing: a failure to recognize the possibility that the Center could be viewed as a monument to the ideology that felled the twin towers.

There are several major dividing points that the article failed to discuss. Although now called Park51, the original name for the Center was Cordoba House. The effort to build it is called the Cordoba Initiative. For Muslims, Cordoba refers to Cordoba, Spain, the Muslim capital during centuries of political and military domination over that part of Western Europe. Then there’s the backers’ refusal to rule out terrorist sources of funding for the Center. Chief among them is the Iranian government, which, according to our State Department, is the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism.

Lastly, Daisy’s husband and the Center’s co-founder, Feisal Abdul Rauf, has an unfortunate habit of making very explosive, anti-American allegations. Take his September 2001 60 minutes interview and his 2005 Australian interview. He accused the U.S. of being an accessory to the 911 crimes, directly responsible for bin Laden and worse than Al Qaeda. Now days, Feisal says his 60 Minutes statements were “edited out of context”. But, for the past nine years, he’s gotten a lot of favorable mileage out of them in the Muslim World.

How this will ultimately play out is anyone’s guess. Following Obama’s initial religious freedom speech, the mosque builders dug in their heels and refuse to budge. Talk of rapprochement has been replaced by a mute determination to claim constitutional rights that were never the issue. Obama botched an opportunity to engage both sides in a dialog that may have resulted in an amicable resolution. Instead, he poured gasoline on a smoldering flame, exploding it into a white-hot election year issue. Where is the cool head of effective leadership?

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In fact, we’ve known it for years. Way before the Obamacare cost burden. Entitlements are sinking us. But, we’re also told that reducing them is politically impossible. We can’t afford them but we can’t escape them, either. So taxes have to get higher, a lot higher, at least for the rich. Trouble is, you can tax them only so much before they go extinct, and then where will we be? Maybe that’s what Jesus meant when he said we’ll always have the poor with us. He could see 21^st Century U.S.A. when everyone became poor trying, in vain, to finance increasing entitlements.

About that “we can’t escape them” thing. According to “experts”, reducing entitlements is just too politically dicey. No U.S. politician wants to be like his Greek counterpart. There, mere legislative debate of entitlement reductions led to riots in the streets, fire bombings and civilian deaths. Of course, we’re no where near any of that now. But, there are signs of increasing rancor and division within our Country. Much of it is spurred by politicians pushing class and race disunity and general prejudice within their power bases. The resulting political climate is a significant impediment to fiscal responsibility. It’s also one of the great disservices of our elected representatives. So, except for one guy, our Congress people run for cover if the entitlement paring knife even starts to come out of its sheath.

But, they don’t have to worry much about the knife right now. Barack Obama, former community organizer, has a supremely well-developed sense of entitlement himself and that’s not about to change. Put in the White House mostly on a promise of hope-filled bipartisanship, he has become the Great Divider of class, race and cooperation. The community organizer gig was, according to his wife, the defining moment of Obama’s life. It, and a stint as an Illinois state senator, instilled an abiding purpose: permanent social change forced through the politics of social division.

As President, Obama’s biggest weapons of social change are comprehensive reforms and the tax code. With them, he forces wealth redistribution from those who earn it to those who support his social agenda. Business has been under heavy fire from the start. Today, its being attacked for ‘hording’ cash that, as Obama sees it, could jump start the economy. So, he wants to take it from companies through higher taxes and let the government spend it for them. Never mind that the economy is so weak, and the latest government regulations so stringent, businesses can barely inch forward. After all, Government knows best. Except for the other fact that all Government spending has gotten us is a very temporary, and expired, uplift. And a ton more debt.

Through it all, Obama never even eludes to a sense of individual responsibility. You know, self-reliance. Work hard and achieve. Live within your means. He acts as if John Kennedy’s famous line, “Ask not what your country can do for you”, was about raising taxes. Speaking of which, rich folks are in Obama’s crosshairs, of course, because they have money. Regardless of how they achieved “wealth”. Regardless of the choices they made that precluded some of life’s finer benefits. Regardless of how hard or long they worked or what they denied themselves in the process. They must be taxed because, to paraphrase the bank robber Willie Sutton, that’s where the money is. And Obama needs money. Trillions and trillions of dollars to permanently shift the economic balance in the U.S.

So the rewards don’t go to those who earn them. In Obama’s normal, those folks are on the wrong side of the new social divide. And will be as long as he has the Congressional majorities to sustain one. Or until the spider finishes its destructive work. At least something works.

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If life were like a free Disneyland, it would be magical indeed. There’d be all kinds of gravy trains, running every which way, taking people wherever they want to go. But, we don’t live in a fairy tale Magic Kingdom that can support everyone who wants to live here. We’re in a Country with national debt careening out of control like a runaway freight train. With the highest level of persistent unemployment since the Great Depression. With an economy so slow in recovering that, right now, it’s stalled on the ragged edge of double-dip.

Part of the not so magical picture is the $100 billion annual net cost of illegal immigrants to our taxpayers. And it’s not going to change because the illegals are unskilled labor. They’ve been likened to 10 million high school dropouts. That may have a harsh ring to it, but it’s also the truth. Here’s another truth: immigration should be about what’s good for the Country, not what’s good for the people who want to immigrate. What’s good for reducing our skyrocketing debt problem is shutting down the illegal immigration launch pad.

But, how about just one more wave of amnesty? How about, no way. Amnesty begets amnesty. Grant it now and there will be a next time. Guaranteed. Just look at recent U.S. history. Amnesty to millions in 1986, a worse problem today. Why? Two reasons. First, amnesty removes the pressure that motivates politicians to act. Once the special interests are satisfied, the best interests of the Country, its citizens and economy are forgotten. You don’t think so? You don’t have to look as far back as 1986 for an example. Look at the past 18 months. Congress has turned itself into a slaughterhouse creating all the special interest pork in our new ‘reform’ laws. And the majority of taxpayers? Gone begging.

Plus, you can’t reward illegal behavior and expect the behavior to end. The 1986 amnesty inspired four times the number of illegals to immigrate to our Country. It continues to entice people to act illegally in the belief that the next amnesty wave is just around the corner. To permanently derail the gravy train, it has to stop.

This means deporting people who are here illegally. To the claims of “social injustice”, I say let’s talk about reality rather than firing off emotionally charged words designed to disengage the brain. People here illegally know their status. When they entered our Country, they consciously took the risk that they would be caught and deported. They made the decision to become line cutters, crowding ahead of people waiting to immigrate legally. Now, they go to the back of the line to fill out their papers and take their turn like everyone else.

If you want to be upset about something or someone over a deportation solution, try aiming your guns at the Mexican Government. If that bunch did not keep most of its people in abject poverty, they wouldn’t opt for illegal entry into the U.S. If they had jobs and decent living conditions, they’d be happy at home. After all, do you see U.S. citizens streaming illegally into Canada for work? If you really want to help illegal immigrants, join Amnesty International, and similar organizations, and fight the problem at its roots.

If we want to do something else in the best interests of the Country, we could enact a righteous guest worker program. One that is not a pathway to citizenship but is a way for people temporarily in our Country to work “above ground”. No families, just workers. Employers pay taxes and fees for them similar to those paid for citizen employees. An economic win-win-win for the workers, the employers and the Country. Now, that’s a change we can believe in.

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In 1996, Bill Clinton signed into law an immigration enforcement bill known as the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act. It sought to prevent and combat the entry of illegals into the Country and the availability of fraudulent immigration documents. It permits state and local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration law. The agencies must be trained and supervised by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

How has the enforcement of the 1986 and 1996 Acts worked out? Three states have declared themselves “sanctuary states”, meaning they refuse to obey federal immigration law and openly harbor illegals within their borders. There are over 100 cities in 24 other states that are also “sanctuaries” for illegals. Tough business sanctions are scarcer than hen’s teeth. There are almost 4 times the numbers of illegals in the Country now than there were in 1986, the vast majority from Mexico. Phoenix has become the kidnapping capital of the U.S., thanks to the unfettered presence of the Mexican drug cartels.

Obama’s place in this sorry landscape? For starters, the upcoming DHS budget reduces money for border security. Yet, with less than one American agent per mile along the border today, there is already a shortage of protection. If you played dare base or steal the flag as a kid, you’d want to be on the Mexico team. With these kinds of odds, you can’t lose. You’d be across that border and in a nearby sanctuary in a hot flash. Olly, olly oxen free. What a great game for kids.

But, who are the game masters really trying to kid? Against the collapse of immigration enforcement, Obama is demanding another amnesty law while suing a state that’s been thrown to the border wolves. What’s the fuss really about? Arizona has embarrassed Obama by focusing the public spotlight on his formerly low-key immigration agenda, which is to punt on enforcement against workers.

His new “silent raid” policy allows ICE-verified illegals to walk away. And, while he cuts border security funding, he rewards sanctuary hangouts by turning a blind eye. Arizona’s law has forced him on the offensive to win back eroding support of Hispanic voters who want more. So, Arizona is now facing big federal guns for its sins of mimicking existing federal law and of preempting Obama. Of course, according to the latest opinion polls, Obama is suffering for his own sins.

If that were the end of it, it would be shabby enough, but it’s not. The most shameful episode in recent congressional history was the standing ovation given by many of our politicians to Mexico’s President as he castigated Arizona. In fact, Mexico is so high on Amnesty International’s list of human rights violators that you need a ladder to reach it. And the U.S. should sue Mexico for failing to stop its murderous drug cartels from storming our Country.

Instead, Mexico has joined one of the lawsuits against Arizona. So, arrayed in opposition to the State is Mexico, with its human rights violations and invading cartels, and the President of the United States. How did it get this wrong?

If Obama and Congress have any stomach for more reform this year, they should reform themselves. Live up to the commitments in the legislation already on the books. Truly secure the border. Truly penalize businesses that employ illegals. Politicians have to stop asking us to believe that they’ll do this time what they didn’t do the first two times. We can be gullible for only so long.

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We can’t have it both ways and I guess the spending-to-economic-health deal would be a good one if it actually worked. And maybe it does. In theory. But, in practice, or at least as Obama practices it, all we’ve gotten is deeper in debt with no sign of letting up. In fact, under his proposed budgets, Obama will double the Bush deficits in the same time period. At that rate, we’ll be toast by 2020.

But, 2020 is not the point of this discussion. It’s the fact that spending, Obama’s big recession killer, isn’t getting the job done. Even proponents of the Stimulus admit that the recovery has been “shallow”. I’ll say. Take a look at the series of reports on this year’s first quarter economic “growth”, for example. The first reports were modest but encouraging. The second set revised the results downward to pretty much flat. The third, and latest, reports, lower the results even further. All the way down to “disappointing” and “unexpected”, words we hear a lot now days.

So, we’re getting all the Summer of Recovery hype. But not much about why the first 18 months of recovery haven’t ignited the booster rockets. Here are a couple of ideas. First off, the government can’t figure out how to spend money in a way that makes sense. This whole spending failure part of it is Sidney’s latest blog. So, let’s skip to the second idea. The crush of all those micromanaging reforms, which, translated, mean higher taxes and increased regulation to the point of stifling economic recovery.

Look at just two sectors invaded by the micromanagers, healthcare and industry. Obamacare’s cost to taxpayers and its negative impact on healthcare processes will be devastating, if the essentially identical Massachusetts law is any example.

And industry? The Business Roundtable, consisting of the leaders of some of the largest companies in the country, advises Obama and his aides on economic recovery. Last week, members protested the “increasingly hostile” industry environment Obama’s decisions have created, particularly regarding growth and job creation. In support of the protest, the Roundtable itemized hundreds of separate White House actions and decisions that stifle productivity and job growth. The protest has fallen on deaf ears.

Why do so many politicians ignore the persistent failure of large-scale government programs? You’d think the recent Social Security, Medicare and Fannie and Freddie face-plants would be enough to discourage further federal forays into overreaching control. But, those lessons are either lost or ignored.

Which brings us back to the G20 Summit. While spending may end recession and reducing it may ease debt, spending that merely deepens debt is a fool’s choice.

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If history is any judge, there’s quite a bit more to the question. First off, it’s not fair to characterize Israel as the “accused” anymore than to label those killed as “terrorists”. The whole point of an investigation is to determine what happened, not pre-assign roles. So, the Turkish Foreign Minister’s characterization of Israel as the “defendant” is wrong. Turkey may be excused its bias since most of those killed were Turkish citizens. But, that bias, and the political pressure that comes with it, spells big trouble for a just international inquiry.

More on that later. Let’s turn to history. Just yesterday, the British released the report of an investigation into the deaths of 13 people killed by British paratroopers in Northern Ireland in 1972. That’s right. 38 years ago. Known as Bloody Sunday, those killed in the incident were unarmed civilians, mostly teen-agers in fact. They died when the paratroopers opened fire on a crowd at a civil rights demonstration. The report, produced by an internal commission, found the actions of the Army wrong and “shocking” and vindicated the dead as innocent victims. The report is being criticized in Britain for taking too long to produce and, at $280 million, costing too much. Even so, the commission’s findings put its own Government squarely in the crosshairs.

How about a little history closer to home? Each branch of the U.S. Government judges itself all the time. In fact, our Constitution mandates that the Senate investigate charges of unethical member behavior internally. Ditto for the House. Why? Back in the day when the Constitution was written, our leaders wanted to safeguard each branch from the overreaching of other branches.

In keeping with that view, Inspectors General were created in the 1970s to investigate questionable activities within their own Executive Departments. Then there’s the Special Counsel, which replaced the Independent Counsel in 1999, and Special Prosecutors, all connected to the Justice Department, and so on. There’s a very good NPR radio broadcast from six years ago, detailing all this and more. Take a listen for yourself.

The Obama Administration currently supports Israel’s internal investigation, which, everything considered, is the way to go. The notion of an international commission of inquiry does not send out any fairness warm and fuzzies. There are too many international politics involved, with too many personal agendas running around out there. Exactly the type of thing our forefathers cautioned against in our own internal political structure. Let’s at least give Israel the same consideration on the international stage. If they fail the fairness test, we can always do over.

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As the days drag by, something even worse is oozing to the surface. The Minerals Management Service had to have known, when it granted the permit to BP, that the consequences of a drilling failure would be unmanageable. In April 2009 when MMS gave BP the thumbs up, disaster was the smart bet.

Under the best conditions, deep water drilling is risky. Containing a catastrophe at that depth is impossible. Making an inherently dangerous situation worse was BP’s safety history.  Among offshore drillers, the company has the worst record of catastrophic failures. Its felony misconduct caused an explosion that killed 15 employees. It is responsible for the worst oil spill in the history of the Alaskan North Slope. And it has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in criminal fines for drilling violations.

How could that company be given a permit for that type of drilling? MMS regulators, charged with ensuring the safety of offshore drilling, allow oil companies to police themselves. Oversight and safety have fallen into the abyss. Since 2001, letting the fox guard the hen house has caused almost 1,500 drilling accidents, over 50 deaths and hundreds of injuries and spills.

As Obama admitted in his press conference last week, his Administration has known about these sorts of problems from the outset. To deflect unfavorable public opinion, he’s now lobbing one of his favorite misdirection grenades. Current MMS failings are the fault of the Bush Administration and holdover civil servants. Unfortunately for him, the Inspector General has just published a report detailing fatal systemic flaws in MMS from 2000 – 2008. The problems were so pervasive they reflected a “culture” of corruption. Something Obama’s people could not have missed when they took over. The Obama years have not been evaluated.

So, hauling out the Bush blame crutch doesn’t work this time. No matter how messed up MMS may have been on Inauguration Day 2009, it was Obama’s baby. Whether the problems were created or inherited does not matter. What matters is that Obama did nothing to solve them before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, 2010.

Instead, he allowed MMS to continue with business as usual. Rather than issuing a moratorium on drilling and conducting investigations, permits were granted swiftly and without review. Compliance with environmental safety rules was waived. Technology troubles were shelved. MMS even ignored a BP whistleblower last spring and BP’s own failure concerns the month before the explosion. The Administration’s perpetuation of damn-the-torpedoes practices made the Gulf Oil Spill disaster not only possible, but, given the safety violations, certain.

Will honesty ever surface? About as likely as fixing the leak anytime soon.

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Unfortunately, Obama has too much to learn about civility to be lecturing anyone. He clouds up and throws temper tantrums when things don’t go his way. Wall Street Bonuses. He points so many fingers of blame that he needs six or seven hands at the end of each arm. Obama’s Blamesmanship. He shamelessly distorts even recent events to rise above choppy political waters. Revision, Anyone? He mercilessly mocks those who disagree with him. Tea Party Attacks.

Even so, if his rudeness merely created a partisan divide, we could close it by changing the Politician In Chief. The real problem is that the ABC’s of Obama’s boorishness – anger, blame and contempt – are not just weapons in his political war games. They’re the substance of his governance. Which means he doesn’t govern at all, because posturing cannot substitute for leadership. But it can cause long-term damage.

The Gulf oil spill is a perfect example of Obama’s management vacuum. Just last Friday, the President got all riled up in the Rose Garden. He chastised the three companies directly involved in the mess for failing to take responsibility. He was quick to praise his own people for their “relentless” efforts to stop the leak. Earlier, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs claimed the Administration’s response to the spill had been “comprehensive and fast”. Anger In The Rose Garden.

How about a sanity check? Rewind the Gulf spill reality reel to April 29, the tenth day of the disaster and the day before oil slimed the Louisiana coast. Previously, Janet Napolitano and Gibbs downplayed the spill as negligible and gauged its impact on future offshore drilling as practically zilch. The Administration’s primary response to the catastrophe had been the failed Coast Guard rescue operation for the 11 missing workers. So much for “comprehensive” action. In fact, Obama’s failure, for over ten days, to respond commensurate with the magnitude of the calamity would later be criticized across the political spectrum. New York Times; St. Petersburg Times.

On April 29, with oil about to contaminate U.S. shores, it was fish-or-cut-bait time. Better late than never for some real leadership. Instead, Gibbs and a gaggle of Administration officials, including Napolitano, played pin the blame on the BP donkey. A theme Obama has echoed many times despite an, as yet, unresolved investigation. They did outline a response to the disaster but it came off looking like a Three Stooges skit. And, like the Stooges, the Administration’s efforts have been ineffective. Politico; Associated Press; New York Post; YouTube.

Which is why Obama’s Rose Garden outrage last week was real. He can see the oil starting to lap the political shores of Washington D.C. I guess he means to stop it with his burning anger.

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Why do they act that way? When they first get to D.C., their welcome wagon goodie bag comes with a pair of blunder blinders. Once they slap them on, politicians are completely blind to any blunders they’re about to commit.

So, they pass laws without thinking about the long-term impact of their actions. They live in the here and now. It’s all about what they can do today to get elected tomorrow. And that’s about as far into the future as they can think. The blinders keep them so focused on running that they don’t see the cliff looming ahead.

Let’s consider a couple of examples. Everyone talks about the social security mess. And they’re right. But, it hasn’t always been that way. Back when it was passed in 1935, social security was thought of as an insurance policy. It was a way for people to secure their economic futures by contributing part of their earnings in taxes to an insurance pot. History of Social Security.

Despite the promising beginnings, today social security is in dire straights with two huge problems facing it. The Government has borrowed from the so-called social security trust fund and now owes it $2.5 trillion. And, for the first time since the 1980s, the fund will receive less in payments this year than it pays out to claimants. CBS News.

Because of continuing negative cash flow, the social security administration will have to start calling the Government IOUs in 2018. They will be repaid through taxes and/or more Government borrowing. The Heritage Foundation. However, this will come at a time when our national debt is doubling. The interest payments on the debt alone will be too high to sustain. You can bet that those social security IOUs won’t be at the top of the repayment list. CBO Summary.

The picture would have been way different if politicians had kept their greedy fingers out of our social security trust fund pie. But, the blunder blinders were working too well and the pot had too much money for them to ignore. They’ve used it for decades to fund other Government programs. Programs that help get them re-elected. So, say good-bye to the promise of social insurance and economic security after retirement. You might as well say good-bye to retirement, too, or be ready to seriously cut back in the golden years.

What did politicians learn from raiding the taxpayer retirement coffers? Obama’s proposed 2011 budget, currently sitting in Congress, raises taxes to help offset continued increases in deficit spending rather than reduce debt. The Wall Street Journal. These increasing deficits will be our financial ruin and yet they continue non-stop.

It’s time to rip off those blunder blinders. Expose politicians to reality’s harsh light by voting them out of office. While it still makes a difference.

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