Obama ignores will of the people
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeThe November election sent a clear message to Washington: less government, less debt, less spending. President Obama certainly heard it, but judging from his State of the Union address, he doesn't believe a word of it.There is much more.
The people say they want cuts? Sure they do - in the abstract. But any party that actually dares carry them out will be punished severely. On that, Obama stakes his re-election.
No other conclusion can be drawn from a speech that didn't even address the debt issue until 35 minutes in. And then what did he offer? A freeze on domestic discretionary spending that he himself admitted would affect a mere one-eighth of the budget.
Obama seemed impressed, however, that it would produce $400 billion in savings over 10 years. That's an average of $40 billion a year. The deficit for last year alone was more than 30 times as much. And total federal spending was more than 85 times that amount. A $40 billion annual savings for a government that just racked up $3 trillion in new debt over the last two years is deeply unserious. It's spillage, a rounding error.
As for entitlements, which are where the real money is, Obama said practically nothing. He is happy to discuss, but if Republicans dare take anything from granny, he shall be Horatius at the bridge.
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Krauthammer notes that Obama spent the first half of his speech talking about the new spending he wanted. He is not likely to get any of it.
There is a theme the Republicans need to use with respect to entitlements. The Democrats are being irresponsible to the detriment of future beneficiaries of these programs and their children and grand children who will have to pay for them.
The taxes my grand children will have to pay to cover the Social Security and Medicare expenses for my children will be confiscatory and unsustainable. That is a reality that we need to deal with and Democrat demagoguery is not the way to deal with the problem.
One of the worst people in this regard is Chuck Schumer who is already attacking Congressman Paul Ryan for proposing a road map to deal with the problem. The fact is the Democrats are being irresponsible with the current deficit and with the future ones caused by the failure to reform entitlements.
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