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March 9, 2010
NRO: Why Democrats Don't Care about $9.7 Trillion in Debt
Topics: Political News and commentariesIf you're among the majority of Americans who, if asked, would express concern about the Washington Post's report that President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade (CNN adds that of that amount, an estimated $5.6 trillion will be in interest alone), and who naturally assume that the Democratic leadership and President Obama is troubled by this jaw-dropping amount of national debt - brace yourself for a surprise.
As Dennis Prager explains in his must-read piece at NRO, you couldn't be more wrong. You'd be forgetting that the Democratic leadership are leftists, not just liberals:
The Post continues: "The CBO [Congressional Budget Office] and the White House [are] . . . both predicting a deficit of about $1.5 trillion this year - a post-World War II record at 10.3 percent of the overall economy. But the CBO is considerably less optimistic about future years, predicting that deficits would never fall below 4 percent of the economy under Obama's policies and would begin to grow rapidly after 2015.Take the time to read it all.I suspect that most Americans, if asked whether these numbers trouble the Democratic leadership and President Obama, would answer in the affirmative.
They would be wrong.
They would be wrong not because the Democratic party and the president are economic illiterates or bad individuals, but because the Democratic party and the president are leftists, and most Americans, including most Democrats, do not understand the Left. They may understand liberalism, but President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and most Democratic representatives and senators are not liberals; they are leftists. Few Americans understand the difference.
They do not realize, for example, that there is no major difference between the American Democratic party and the leftist social democratic parties of Western Europe. They do not know that, from Karl Marx to Barack Obama, the Left (as opposed to liberals) has never created wealth because it has never been interested in creating wealth; it is interested in redistributing wealth.
Therefore, unprecedented and unsustainable debt that will negatively affect most Americans' quality of life, render the dollar increasingly undesirable, and undermine America's prestige and power in the world - these developments do not particularly disturb the Left. They may trouble the president, the Democratic party, and their allies on some political level, but that pales in comparison to the Left's zeal for what it really wants: a huge government overseeing a giant welfare state and a country with far fewer rich Americans.
Prager goes on to point out what every freedom-loving American who hold to America's founding values needs to clearly understant. The Left's vision - and that of the Democratic leadership - is one in which a once-in-a-lifetime chance to establish a giant welfare state dominated by the Left is worth any price - even America's steep financial decline.
These people must be stopped in their tracks if America is to continue being the America we know and love, and if we are to avoid becoming the nanny state the Left desires us to be. This can only happen if Americans let their voices be heard NOW - by contacting their members of Congress - and November in the voting booth.
Posted by Richard at March 9, 2010 10:35 AM
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