The Emperor Has No Clothes

 I have paid into the system for the past 30 years, but I don't expect to ever see a Social Security check.  I am not counting on one penny ever being sent to me.  But my granddad is another story.  He is 96 years old and he counts on receiving Social Security and Medicare. 

So my ears perked up when the president made an announcement recently saying that payments on Social Security and Medicare may stop if the debt ceiling was not raised.  And then I got angry.  Why doesn't the government have the money to pay to my granddad?

What Americans should ask themselves is, "Hey, wait a second, my Social Security check and my Medicare benefits are borrowed? I thought I paid into a trust fund?  I thought I worked my whole life to pay into some system and now you cant pay my money back and you're claiming that the money is being borrowed?"

We all know these were idle threats and scare tactics.  However, the point is if the president's threats would have come to fruition and he did cut off Americans benefits, then the wake-up and the message to Americans is, "Hey, your Social Security benefits, your Medicare benefits, what we're paying soldiers in the field, all these things that are being cut off, this is borrowed money.  This is not money we have or money we saved for you. This is money we are borrowing from your children and your grandchildren, and we have no way of paying it back, and that alone should send a chill up the spine of millions of Americans.  And we want to raise the debt ceiling?  And borrow more? Pundits are now talking QE 3?  Are you kidding me?

The president stated that he needed to have the debt ceiling raised in order to help America out of our current economic situation.  STOP!  His policies and ideologies have created the problem.  And we need to start holding him accountable. 

I am sick of this president and can very easily let my emotions take over when I discuss his failed policies and ideologies to others.  However, Obama has to be measured by an objective standard that every president has to be measured by.  When I look at the election next year, what he's really going be coming to the American people and asking for is an extension to his contract. He wants a four-year extension to his contract to be president of the United States. So we have to measure him, and how do we measure him? Well, unemployment. Unemployment is higher, significantly higher than when he took over. What about the value of people's homes?  The value of people's homes are down. How about the national debt? The national debt is up significantly higher with no solution in sight and none offered by him.  What about GDP?  Our nation's GDP is at an all time low. 

By every measure that you can measure a president, things have gotten worse, and significantly worse, and that's what he has to be measured by.  He has a flawed ideology. His view of government and the people in his administration is a flawed view that takes us away from the things that have made America exceptional.  And part of this president's problem, quite frankly, is incompetence. I honestly believe there's a lack of competence in terms of being able to do the job and the ability to lead on some of these critical issues and the result is being paid by millions of Americans who can't find a job or are working twice as hard to make half as much, who see their country being bankrupted.  And listen closely to the next campaign speech or White House briefing from this president.  There are no serious solutions being offered by this president.  None. Zero. Nada.

This president is the emperor with no clothes.  This president is the "Manchurian" candidate.  This president is a man that was swept into power by the "perfect political storm" and has absolutely no business leading the greatest nation in the history of the world.

Barry, it is way past time to go!!