According to Senator Harry Reid, as it concerns the budget debacle and the looming government shutdown. "It's an ideological battle."
Well of course it is senator. The democrats have been spending and funding ideologies for decades and now that the milk and honey has run dry, they refuse to accept the reality that their pet entitlement projects are on the chopping block or else.
"It's an ideological battle," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "It has nothing to do with the fiscal integrity of this country."
I beg the differ senator, it has everything to do with the fiscal integrity of this country. And what is absolutely amazing to me? Is that Harry Reid or any other democrat for that matter, would use the words fiscal and integrity in a sentence together. As a matter of fact, I fail to see where the word integrity could possibly be used as a descriptor of anyone currently inhabiting the halls of congress today. On either side of the isle.
Meanwhile, the government is scheduled to run out of money at midnight tonight? Really? I mean really? I could have sworn that America ran out of money in the 1970's and that we have been floating loans ever since. I know, there are those who will claim that we had balanced budgets under Bill Clinton. If anyone seriously believes that, they need to go back and have a close look and then see if they can get their heads wrapped around the concept of 'cooking the books.' Because that is precisely what has occurred, including Clinton's mush reported peace dividend. We saw where that got us didn't we.
The simple fact is this. America ran out of money a long time ago and we have been financing our government and our 'socialist programs' and our egalitarian budgets ever since, via what we could finance and borrow year to year. Paying the interest each year while we borrowed more and more. And now that the entire planet (not just America) is in deep night soil economically? The democrats want to make noises about fiscal integrity and point fingers?
Please.......
Whether the government shuts down at midnight tonight is not the issue. Where will we find the money to fund our obligations period, regardless of when and where we decide to make cuts is the issue. And Obama's ploy to veto any stop gap measure and allow the government to shut down has very poignant ramifications beyond the obvious in my opinion.
While most are focused on whether or not the government will shut down or not, the reported immediate impact of that shut down will fall immediately on the shoulders of the US military. The people who will cease to be paid effective immediately once it does shut down according to the president and his party.
The meaning of that both obviously and subliminally is not lost on me. In my opinion, Barack Obama is the most insincere and anti military president that this nation has ever elected. As such, his record and his actions concerning the US military and our personnel serving in harms way, has not been lost on veterans or those serving presently.
This man has nothing short of disdain for the American military and his actions and polices have demonstrated that fact since the moment he stepped foot in the office. Barack Obama is an anti American, anti colonialist, anti military president. That was demonstrated in his campaign rhetoric before he was ever elected. His refusal to render respect to the flag while the national anthem played. His refusal to wear an American flag pin on his jacket. His bowing and scarping before all the kings and despots in the middle east, while snubbing America's allies like the UK, France and Israel are examples that are glaring. As is his stated intent to withdraw American troops from the middle east before the end of his term, regardless of the outcome.
It has also no been lost on many Americans, that the casualty rate in Afghanistan has gone up dramatically since Obama put his generals in charge in Afghanistan and since they implemented 'his rules of engagement.' A full 60% of those killed and wounded in action in Afghanistan, are now attributable to the period of time since Barack Obama assumed office. A ten year war whose casualties have tripled in there years.
So, make no mistake, there is an obvious irony in that Obama stands prepared to cause the US government to shut down at midnight tonight and the immediate impact of that act falls squarely on the shoulders of the US military. And as a certain junior senator commented in the news yesterday, it is not lost on many that Obama did this intentionally, more than a year ago when he allowed the crisis to build to it present day culmination.
So as the government shuts down later tonight (and it will) remember who will bear the weight of that reality. Then remember which party and which president are responsible for it.
