Politicians who squandered the US fortunes want more

Charles Hurt:

Anytime you hear a politician talk about needing “revenue,” grab your wallet and run. Anytime you hear a politician talk about “raising” $600 billion in revenue, grab your wallet, any silverware you haven’t already melted down to keep up with taxes, and your children’s piggy banks. And run like the wind.

These thieves have pillaged our government retirement program to pay for self-celebrating schemes that would land any officer of any corporation in prison. They made outlandish promises they knew they could not keep. They have squandered the precious taxes that we have already given them to pad their own political fortunes or so they could play Sugar Daddy to all those “in need,” such as the ethanol “industry.”

Of course, the poor have fared no better. On them, the Washington politicians yoked impossible mortgages that the poor had no hope of keeping up with. In their maudlin self-love, the politicians tell themselves that they merely killed these people with kindness. Not so. As the liberal heart unchecked so often does - among both Democrat and Republican politicians - they killed these poor people not with kindness, but with their own shortsighted, selfish desire to feel good about themselves.

Then they plowed us generations deep into debt covering up for their reckless mistakes with bailout after bailout after bailout. Now it is time to bail out the bailouts.

As we spiral toward the second dunk of a “double-dip” recession, Washington lawmakers have gotten very sober with all their grave talk of defaulting on the massive debts they foisted upon us. Rep. Ron Paul, a rare statesman in this town, is even warning that we should check to make sure our gold is still in Fort Knox.

The politicians, they assure us they have tried everything to right the ship. Everything, it turns out, except - stopping the spending! Or cutting all the crazy obligations they signed us poor suckers up for.

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Hurt makes a good case against continuing to follow the Democrat lead on spending and taxes. I think the voters agree with him. Democrats will try to spin their deception with words like balance and fairness, but I do not think voters will buy it.