The National Debt Continues to Rise

On Wednesday the President addressed the nation and spoke about getting our fiscal house in order. What he should have said was that both political parties got us in this situation and it will take both political parties to get us out of the situation that the nation finds us in with massive governmental spending that is unsustainable.

The past eight years the Bush Administration and Republicans spent the period with little regard to fiscal disciple and abandoned their core beliefs of reducing government spending. The Obama Administration chastises the previous administration every chance it gets, but it has been reckless and with little regard to any semblance of fiscal responsibility continues to add to the spiraling national debt.

The stimulus package was an $800 billion monstrosity that was a give away to congressional Democrats and only benefited groups aligned with them and left the taxpayers in the cold. The president’s signature issue, health care reform is now a trillion dollar boondoggle that will only send the deficit to astronomical heights.

The time is now to reign in governmental spending! Too often we look at it as a revenue issue and that more taxes are needed to close the gap, but unfortunately this misses the point. The fact of the matter the nation needs a major overhaul on how the country spends it revenue. Washington always wants to exempt agencies or department, but to gain control over spending every department and agency has to be included.

Currently the nation is involved in two wars and correctly the President placed the cost of the wars into the Defense Authorization Bill instead of as a supplementary spending item. The 2010 Defense Bill signed last year was $660 billion dollars, but if you remove the cost of the wars you are still at about $525 billion dollars; has anybody looked at what is in this defense budget?

Every phase of government spending needs to be looked at and different procedures need to be in place that brings real reform to the budget process. The real culprits are politicians from both parties who only ability they know is to spend the taxpayer’s money!

If we don’t get a handle on this the nation’s economic future will be in doubt!

President Addresses the Nation During State of the Union Address

Last night the President spoke to the nation on the state of the union and his response to the many challenges faced by America. Again the president couldn’t help but put in a few more jabs at the condition of the country when he took over and how the stimulus package passed last year helped the nation avoid the brink of another Great Depression.

This administration still believes the stimulus package worked, then why during the same speech he pressed Congress for a jobs bill, but didn’t specify what was to be included and what should be in it. I thought the stimulus bill was supposed to jump start the economy and keep unemployment at no higher than eight percent?

The president is equally guilty as the previous administration in expanding the national debt. The stimulus package was a give away to Democratic causes and had little or no real impact on stimulating the economy. No matter how often he cites the success we can find equal examples how the numbers cited by this administration just don’t had up.

This administration has increased governmental spending by over $1.7 trillion in just one year and the rate keeps continuing. Both Republicans and Democrats have contributed to the fiscal mess the nation finds itself in, and now they are pointing fingers at each other when they should look at themselves as contributing to the problem.

If the president truly wants to reduce the federal debt then all departments and agencies in the federal government need to be held accountable for irresponsible spending. This includes entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.

It’s time for the government to go on a crash spending diet and soon, one just has to look at California at its fiscal mess; Washington is heading in the same direction.

President Vows to Help Middle Class

Listening to voter anger over rising federal spending and the state of the economy the president will announce curbs in federal spending and aid to the beleaguered middle class. Unfortunately the problems the president’s is facing are self inflicted. The stimulus package that passed last year was a give away to various causes popular with Democrats and did little to create the jobs the president had hoped for.

Time and time again legislation emanating from Washington had the opposite effect of stimulating the economy. Cap and Trade was an atrocious piece of legislation that only benefited the liberal wing of the Democratic Party and if implemented would have reduced jobs, as of right now its stalled in the Senate.

The president singular issue health care reform would have the nation spending billions when it can least afford it, and end up as a political albatross that had to pass the Senate by giving individual Senators key breaks costing billions just so they would vote on the measure.

If the president wants to truly create jobs then he needs to stop passing legislation that only makes the situation worse. Currently his Middle Class Task Force leader is the Vice President, who has never run a business, made payroll or have any business experience. His only experience is having spent over thirty years as a Senator, hardly the person qualified to know what businesses are going through. This president has no one in his administration with any business experience or knowledge of how things work outside of the academic world.

Washington needs to understand that eighty percent of jobs in the U.S. are with small business, you want to get America moving again then start helping small businesses across this nation. They are the ones taking the risk, they are the ones who hire other Americans, and they are the ones who will get this economy moving again.

What does Washington do, they over regulate them, they over tax them, they place mandates on them; they do everything they can to make it harder for businesses to succeed. You wonder why businesses move overseas?

Start help small business and you will help the middle class Mr. President!

Trijicon Removes Imprinted Bible Verse Numbers on Its Scopes

Trijicon, the gun sight maker who had been providing rifle sites to the military, until it was revealed recently they had been placing biblical verses on the gun sites next to the serial numbers. The company ha d contracted 800,000 sites to the military and were also used by the army and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan.

No matter how strongly one feels about ones faith we have to realize that we are in war of ideals and any reference to biblical verse plays into the hands of Islamic terrorists who use this as further evidence that this is a America lead crusade against Islam.

The troops engaged in the global struggle against this time extremism know that anything that we do is suspect to the people of the Arab world and already look suspiciously at us all ready, we don’t need to add fuel to an already tense climate of distrust.

Trijicon has stated they will remove all biblical markings on all rifle sites and is giving a conversion kit to the military to remove religious markings on current sites.

Everyone needs to use good judgment and not endanger our brave men and women who are serving the cause of freedom.

Scott Brown wins Massachusetts Senate Race

Last night Scott Brown stunned the nation by winning the Massachusetts Senate race formerly held by Senator Ted Kennedy who passed away last year. The stunning election sent shock waves across the nation ending the Democrats filibuster proof majority of sixty votes and places the president’s agenda in serious peril.

Scott Brown ran a disciplined race campaigning on fiscal disciple, reducing taxes, not allowing terrorists Miranda style rights, and the central focus was his insistence on being the forty first vote against the current health care reform measure now being considered by both the house and senate.

With his election victory it now has other Democrats in more moderate to conservative districts worried that independent voters who supported Democrats in both 2006 and 2008 have turned away from the policies of the Democratic Party and more important President Obama.

The very fact that he won in one of bluest states in the nation has to have Democrats quivering as the nation heads into the mid-term elections.

Right now the Republican Party is euphoric after last night’s results, but they should look deeper into why Scott Brown won and not try and over analysis this outcome.

Massachusetts voters rejected the elitist attitude of Martha Coakley who took this race for granted and the failed policies of the Democratic Party and of this administration. Republicans should take away from this race is the public is concerned with issues that impact the lives of ordinary citizens. Too often both parties are more beholden to the interests groups that support them and care very little for the average American.

Democrats won in 206 and 2008 with President Obama campaigning on the theme “Change we Can believe In” unfortunately that change led to same practices that Democrats campaigned the Republicans were guilty of.

The America people are tired of partisan politics, tired of political graft that benefit a politician or vote buying as witnessed by the health care reform bill now before congress. The American people want their concerns looked after and not corporate America or Wall Street.

Its time Washington start taking care of America!

The pivotal Massachusetts Senate Race

No matter the outcome tonight, this race never should have been close in the first place. Even if Martha Coakley wins a close race against her Republican challenger Scott Brown, this race should have Democrats across the nation worried. If they are having a tough time in a very solidly blue state like Massachusetts, then this will send shock waves across the nation.

The core to the president election last year was huge support from independent voters, and now these same voters are fleeing in from the president’s policies as over sixty percent of independent voters have stated that they are supporting Scott Brown. A sharp contrast from over a year ago, this wasn’t the change they expected or wanted!

With the mid-term elections less than ten months away and the president poll numbers now less than fifty percent, the Democrats are going to face a tough road ahead. The key will be the economy and I seriously doubt that the economy will revive by then, plus Democrats are still insisting on passing a very unpopular health care bill that the majority of Americans oppose.

Moderate to conservative Democrats should be extremely worried that if Democrats have a hard time winning or even losing in Massachusetts, then what chance will they have? The defining issue of the Massachusetts race was health care and Scott Brown repeatedly campaigned that he would be the forty first vote against health care reform. Democrats who vote for it will face the anger of voters and November will be a black day for Democrats and they have only themselves to blame.

Massachusetts Senate Election a Referendum for 2010 Mid-Term Election

The special election to fill the Senate vacancy left by the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts has turned into a Referendum for 2010 Mid-Term Election. It never intended to be this way as it should have been a slam dunk for Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley who is in a heated race with Republican state Senator Scott Brown for Ted Kennedy’s seat.

Recent polling has this race almost dead even, but in a state that has a solidly Democratic majority and one of the bluest state in the nation, it’s surprising that Scott Brown is even close. Should the unthinkable happen and Brown pull an upset it would unleash a Tsunami across the nation to all Democrats who are in moderate to conservative districts that they are in serious trouble going into the mid-term elections.

Even if Brown loses but the race is close, it still doesn’t bode well for Democratic prospects in November. Too struggle in clearly blue state with health care the number one issue makes every Democrat across the nation question how they will vote on this volatile issue.

The Republican will use this race as a huge referendum on the Obama Administration and the policies of the Democratic majority in Congress. Has I have written in the past this year every issues, every piece of legislation will have eyes on only one thing; how this plays to the voters come November.

The economy is still the single most important issue facing voters, plus no one knows how health care will play out or if the costs will be kept in check. Whatever happens this year doesn’t look bright for Democrats.

It’s still too early to know if the Democrats lose their majority in Congress, but if they do they will only have themselves to blame!