Resources on the Ongoing Debate About our National Debt The White House
The above link is to the white house website. On this page is a video of the president's address on the debt crisis. There is also a link on that page showing a chart of the accumulation of U.S. debt. Please go look and watch the video and look at the chart. I would like to hear from my fellow Americans on this issue.
There should be no question in any ones mind just what the problem is. We are already obligated to pay these bills. Congress already approved every single bit of this! Go watch the video and look at the chart and let me know where you think we stand.
There is a poison in our country right now and it is a political poison that will destroy our country as we know it if we allow this crap to continue. Extreme politics is historically detrimental to any society. When any political group takes an extreme position it causes either a dictatorship to emerge or a revolution to occur.
Check your history folks and you will see this is the truth. The tea party is a radical extreme group that is going to destroy the republican party and possibly our country as we know it. As I have said before on this blog, we absolutely must find common ground and meet somewhere in the middle. If we can't even solve this debt ceiling problem which congress has already approved the spending for,without taking extreme positions, how in the world are we going to solve our very real problems such as getting our people working again?
We have real problems we should be working toward getting resolved right now instead of having to fight the egos of elected officials who are so out of touch with the actual people of this country it is unreal. The politicians are not working for us, they are working to please corporate America and the TV personalities. They are self serving, egotistical maniacs who can't possibly live up to the standards they profess to live by. Every last one of them have to realize that their real constituents are us, not some corporation or lobbyist.
Personally I am ashamed of our politicians for even letting this issue get to this late date. It shows a serious lack of responsibility on their part and is an embarrassment to our political system with the rest of the world. Why would we expect any other country to want to be like us? I love my country but I am very upset with our career politicians for dragging their feet on this issue.
Here's the deal though. If Obama is for it the republicans are against it. Whatever it is. Tell my why this is. There has to be a reason. I think it is deep rooted. I think we should be in celebration as a nation that we have finally crossed over racial barriers and have a super intelligent president in the oval office who just happens to be a black man. The fact that republicans, and especially the tea party is against everything this man stands for can be nothing other than hatred in it's most evil form. So go ahead and blast me, I want to hear your comments.
Oh and by the way, the debt ceiling was raised seven times during the Bush administration without this kind of a crisis ever being a possibility. You want to talk about liberal? He was much more liberal than Obama is. Two wars, tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, a prescription drug program, and don't forget he wanted every American to own their own home. Check this article:
http://articles.cnn.com/2002-06-17/politics/bush.minority.homes_1_home-ownership-home-buyers-american-dream-down-payment-fund?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS
That's why we're where we are right now folks! Think about it.
I added a federal taxpayer receipt that you can fill out below to see where your money is going.
