By James Hood
Feb. 2, 2010

 

The Value of Money

Like many politicians, President Obama has no concept of the value of money. No, wait, make that other people’s money.

 

Case in point:

The President’s decision to allocate $200 million for a trial of the worst Islamic militant jihadist malefactor in recent history, in support of his Attorney General’s decision to try the bastard, who as already famously confessed, in the front yard of his crime of killing 3,000 innocent civilians.

Two. Hundred. Million. Dollars. And that sum is only for this year….exactly how long is this trial expected to last?

When Holder made his announcement to move the trial to NYC, he boldly asserted that there was more than enough evidence to assure conviction and a death sentence, so nobody need worry. Well. I worry that the AG’s stupid remarks opened Pandora’s Box for the prosecution.

I think any two-bit defense lawyer could spring his client in the face of the country’s top lawyer prejudging the outcome of a trial that has yet to be held. But let’s just go through the motions anyway and spend a year ,or two, or three granting our country’s most malevolent and fiendish enemy a grandstand show trial for which, despite Holder’s assertion to the contrary, there is no guaranteed outcome.

This toad could walk. I believe that even I could mount a credible defense on his behalf.

 

The Value of Money, Part Two

Hearkening to the public hue and outcry for spending cuts, President Obama recently announced that he has come up with $20 billion in budget cuts for the next year. Twenty Billion!

Seems like a tidy sum until you compare it to the just released $3.8 trillion spending plan that will take the National Deficit to a record high.

 

Three-Point-Eight-Trillion.

That’s a three, an eight, and a string of zeros that runs off the page. $20 billion is less than one half of one percent of the federal budget.

That is like saying I am going to cut my annual spending by not buying any more popcorn.

And there is that spending freeze, heralded by the President…that only starts NEXT year, after his current year’s budget has taken the national debt to new, and unprecedented (one of his favorite words) heights.

The Democrat mantra, as voiced earlier today by the House Majority Whip that we simply cannot SAVE our way out of recession, we must SPEND our way out of recession.

Fine. Whose money will they spend? There must be some magical, mystical, ATM machine in Washington that generates money at the push of a button. Oh, yes…that would be the Treasury…they can print money like crazy. Which is a good thing, since our borrowing power is diminishing by leaps and bounds.

But then there is that bad thing: Inflation…I’m referencing both money and egos. Ah, but yes, there is yet another limitless source of money: Taxes.

 

The term “taxes” needs clarification.

The President boasted last week at his meeting with the Republicans that he had given a tax cut to 95% of all Americans. Anybody with an IQ higher than his shoe size knows that this is a crock. And when you add back all of the levies by other names such as “fees,” just about everybody in the country is seeing their taxes go up.

But, says the Administration, only the very rich will be taxed. Well, I am not very rich; I am not rich at all, but my taxes are always going up. As will all who are reading this. Hide and watch!

 

Apologies

Methinks that another round of apologies may be in order for President Obama. He might consider making some abject apologies to China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Hugo Chavez for the United States making them look like pikers in the worldwide efforts to assist Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.

As is our custom in the wake of earthquakes, tsunamis, and other calamities, the United States has once again flaunted its “exceptional-ism” by providing the lion’s share of relief to the stricken Haitians in every conceivable way: people, services, money, healthcare, food…you name it, once again, the USA is again number one.

Imagine the trauma and angst that other nations must feel at being upstaged once again by those nasty, bleeding heart, Americans leading the vanguard of relief.

Perhaps Obama could persuade (he is really good at that) the United Nations to sanction the United States for overstepping their bounds in an effort to provide succor to a beleaguered country and it citizens.

 

Source: Stand Up America  

  

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