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in July 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said this about the president
at the time, George W. Bush: “The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the
last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the
name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for
the first 42 presidents -- number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome,
so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have
to pay back -- $30,000 for every man, woman and child.” Candidate Obama
characterized President Bush’s actions regarding the national debt as “unpatriotic”
and “irresponsible.” And you know what? I agree.
In the 6-1/2 years since
Mr. Obama took office in January 2009, the national debt has increased by another
9 trillion dollars; it now stands at $18 trillion. The debt is expected to
reach $22 trillion by the time he leaves office.
Wait. What?! When
Bush increased the national debt by $4 trillion in eight years, it was
unpatriotic and irresponsible. So what would you call it when the debt increases
by $9 trillion in 6-1/2 years?
If an enemy foreign
power wished to destroy our nation, a sinister and effective tactic would be to
saddle future generations of Americans with a crushing debt that can never be
repaid. When it finally “hits the fan,” it is not gonna be pretty. Calamities
of biblical proportion never are. When that time comes (not if, by the way),
you’d better have a good supply of the “Five B’s”: beans, blankets, boots,
bullets, and Bibles.
Just sayin’.
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