So, has the Spender-in-Chief and the House GOP finally got the message?

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Spending our money like he's at a store that sells drugs, Obama's bizarre economic efforts which have buried us in debt for generations to come, have finally been put into perspective as the first of what no doubt will be many financial rating institutions, in this, case, Standard and Poors; states the obvious: that the United States has a negative financial outlook.

Efforts to date include Captain Obama's decision that the white area up ahead isn't really an iceberg so we can, in fact, slam into it at full speed; and in the interim, the House GOP has been busily engaged in rearranging the deck chairs and auditing the tea cups.

We've been looking at a budget that needs a chainsaw taken to it while the idiot running the show and most of the House GOP have been arguing over the size of the X-acto knife they WANT to use.

I'm reminded of a home owner who's house is on fire wondering if he shut off the barbecue on the back deck.

It's not like any of this is a surprise: Obama's "junkie in a drug store" approach to our economy has firmly moved him into the lead as the worst president in the history of the United States, jetting out ahead of the second-worst, Jimmy Carter, by light years in comparison.

We must, immediately, cut the budget.  We must immediately cut everything IN the budget except for the funding of maneuver and support elements in the Department of Defense.

That means rolling back the government, non-active-duty payroll to at least 2008 levels as a floor for the discussion.

That means cutting back on entitlements.

That means cutting back on the numbers of federal employees.

That means an emphasis on maintenance instead of construction.

It means eliminating unwanted, unneeded and unaffordable projects like the bridge replacement/loot rail foolishness.

The result of all of this, of course, is that the dollar is assuming the value of used confetti.  Gold hit its highest price ever today... the dollar having fallen to 95 cents if used to purchase the currency from that economic powerhouse known as Canada.

Canada.

So, there is something of an irony when the Empty Suit in the White House complains that the Ryan Plan will turn us into a third world country.  The dollar is out of control on a downward spiral, gold is skyrocketing, unemployment continues to vegetate and there is nothing on the horizon that indicates any of it is going to change any time soon... or any time at all.

Because it's looking to me like Obama's already accomplished that, and we just haven't received the memo.
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