In his op/ed piece for the Detroit News, ("Obama Opens New Era of Recklessness"), Nolan Finley describes just how audacious, irresponsible and dangerous is the man at the helm.The miraculous marketing machine that carried a junior senator into the White House is now at work trying to convince Americans that writing fat checks from an empty Treasury represents a giant step toward fiscal responsibility.
President Barack Obama has sent Congress a $3.6 trillion federal spending plan that outlines his administration's priorities.
It starts out $1.75 trillion in the red, the largest deficit by any measure in the nation's history. But because he's Barack Obama and everything he does must be chiseled in stone and handed down from the mountaintop, he's proclaimed this first budget as ringing in a "New Era of Responsibility."
Call it the Audacity of Hype...
Obama will spend less of the budget on defense than any president since Jimmy Carter, a dangerous choice in a world that is increasingly unsettled and where those hostile to America's interests remain unsubdued.
Overall, the Obama budget will make Americans more dependent on government, explode the federal deficit, risk further crippling of the economy and leave the nation more exposed to its enemies.
If this is what responsibility now looks like, then we have for sure entered a new era.
