Obama's "Blueprint"

Yesterday, President Obama implored Congress to pass his record $3.6 TRILLION annual budget. The press quoted Obama as saying that the U.S. “can’t go back to a bubble economy, an economy based on reckless spending and spending beyond our means.”

Well, pardon me, sir, but your pork belly is showing. Your budget reeks of spending beyond our means. Spending hundreds of billions of dollars to Bail out Wall Street and the automotive industry is spending beyond our means. Accepting Congressional pay raises during the current economic crisis is spending beyond our means. Spending billions of dollars in foreign aid while our nation’s elderly are at the mercy of a social security system running out of funds is spending beyond our means.

Touting his expansive budget proposal, Obama said that he doesn’t “just view this document as numbers on a page,” but proudly proclaimed that it’s “an economic blueprint for the future.”

In my opinion, Obama’s “blueprint for the future” should be stored right next to those other blueprints for the “unsinkable” Titanic, because all I’m feeling right now is a sinking feeling about the direction he’s taking us.