A true representative title for the budget would be; "The Continued Cloward Piven Spending Program to Destroy the American Economy, and Generate the Necessary Crisis To Achieve a Marxist Statist Government". Chairman Obamao is meeting with the next presumed Communist Chinese leader, most likely discussing their plans to rule the world in a Marxist Statist Utopia. If remains to be seen if we can make it to November. Might start a pool to predict the month and day of total collapse, that will genrate martial law and a cessation of elections. Maybe the entry fee should be ammuniton, must think of an appropriate calibur....

Nope. it's going to take a complete breakdown and a start over from scratch. We're to far gone.

NOt iof Obama reelected. The real damage to or country is being done by his socialist and worse appointees!

"Is there any hope for our fiscal future?" NO.

In fact I don't believe that there is any chance that our downward spiral on all fronts can be stopped, corrected or reversed. We are well down the road to serfdom.

I have never ever been this afraid of our government and the people in control. They have some much power and no one can stand up to them.

The only thing that keeps me going is my faith in GOD.

Only a Republican sweep in November can save us, and that only if we elect more Tea Party libertarian leaning politicians.

Yes, there is hope. But, that hope is a small light at the end of a far-away tunnel called super-majority, Tea-Party Republican control of both houses. If this can happen, then the current president can demand, stomp his feet and pout all he wants. The adults will control the purse strings. We've got to put the adults back in charge in Washington!

The Tea Party influence has made a moderate improvement among Republicans, but the establishment has not changed. Without a continuation on the republican side AND a similar change on the Democrat side of the aisle, I do not believe there is hope for financial sanity. Democrats refuse to hold their party accountable at all, and like alcoholic enablers, refuse to even admit that their elected officials are addicted to spending.

Is there any hope for our economic future? Not with the current crop of *****'s in office.

Mebbe Dear Leader (May Peace Be Upon Him) is really trying to turn us into Weimar Germany? Sure looks like it.

So much reckless lying, cheating and selfish am-

bitious behavior! Ultimately people suffer and die

from it. God help us all!

As long as our elected officials continue to spend money that we don't have, and conspire to pay down deficits with smoke and mirrors, our fiscal future is gloomy at best.

There is no hope for our fiscal future without divine intervention. Real Divine not a self appointed Messiah.

Deficit and debt is a two edged sword. Our politicians treat them as though they are one and the same. Debt is what we owe and deficit is what we are adding to that debt. We cannot address the debt without eliminating, yes, eliminating, the deficit and few if any of the politicians in Washington seem to realize or acknowledge this. Their claims to reduce the deficit only reduced the rate in the growth of the debt. Eventually the debt will be come unserviceable and at that time, which is approaching rapidly, all hell will break loose and we will look back at the opportunities we had to address it with longing.

Our only hope to get out of this fiscal mess is to NOT re-elect Obama. Unfortunately, the "takers" are getting close to 50% of the people voting. Why aren't the Republicans out there screaming "LIAR" about all the claims Obama and his new chief of staff (no acciddent that he is the former budget director) are making? We saw the new chief of staff on Meet the Press on Sunday and I almost lost my breakfast!

Yes, there is hope.

Scale our wars way down to advisory training.

Cut foreign aid to those countries who support terrorism.

Require drug tests for all welfare receipents.

Make contraceptives available, especially for unwed mothers who have serial babies.

Bar illegal immigrants from free education, health care and welfare.

Require eVerify for employment.

Cut tax loopholes.

Eliminate subsities for oil, ethonal and others.

Amereica is dysfunctional. As a nation we are not working because we have abandoned our core principles. The entitlement mentality will be our final undoing."With shekles come shackles". I believe it is up to the individual to look out after themselves,family and neighbors. Sorry to seem so negative, but at this late date it is reality. The prophets among us have warned us for years and basically they have been ignored, minimized and laughed at. Circle the wagons and stock up on beans and bullets. If we do not reverse our path, the next stop is Greece.

Ditto - God help us all! I am extremely concerned about the November elections. If 50+% of the electorate have no skin in the game, I'm morally certain that they have no motivation or intention to support (vote for) anyone other than the Dems, regardless of if they have the analytical skills to process its impact on our future.

While Terry poses some good ideas, there will be no hope unless we restructure our "committments" to federal employees retirement/benefit packages. That is the real economic killer.

I don't hold out much hope unless something drastic, and violent happens that makes our representitives change their way of doing bussiness.

Not as long as this moron is potus and the democraps are in charge of the senate. Until we stand up to the current jackasses in charge as patriots and take back our country we will continue in a downward spiral both fiscally and morally.

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." --Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." --Thomas Jefferson

Certainly not so long as we have an administration and half of congress controlled by thieves, liars, ignoramuses and destructors of the United States as we have known it in past years. The leader of this pack should be impeached and convicted for false swearing when he was inaugurated. Only if he is impeached and convicted can we escape supporting him for the rest of his life.

Question: Is there any hope for our fiscal future?

There is a solution which will produce immediate results but will be a painful transition for the millions of people in America who believe they DESERVE to be supported by the federal government at the expense of hard working American tax payers.

Our fiscal future will improve significantly if specific responsibilities / requirements / restrictions are placed on hand out programs that have and continue to be put in place by Washington politicians. The continued programs implemented by liberal politicians to purchase votes has got to stop. America can't continue to shoulder the financial burden of supporting the millions of freeloaders living in this country. This does not imply an unwillingness to help those in need but if help is needed certain responsibilities should be required /expected from those seeking help.

A few examples;

1. Proof of citizenship.

2. Drug tested while receiving federal help

3. One can't vote while receiving federal help

4. A requirement of receiving federal help, one has to participate in a training / reeducation program readying oneself for employment.

5. Refusal to seek / accept employment eliminates support.

6. A criminal act / felony immediately eliminates existing & future financial support.

In addition to improving Americas financial situation it will improve the lives of those who are trained and employed.

Is there any hope for our fiscal future?

There is but we have to elect the people who will do something about it. The current seat holders for the most part aren't interested in the fiscal future of our nation.

Hope? Only if adding more debt will reduce what we owe! Don't hold your breath!

"We've used the Internet more effectively to create more transparency so people know where their tax dollars are going. If they need a government service they don't have to navigate through 50 websites, they can go to one website." - Barack Obama

More baloney. During the Bush administration, I wanted to check the frequency assignments of some broadcast TV stations on fcc.gov. I found my answer in several clicks. After Mr. Obama took over and the ATSC (high definition) format was made mandatory, I tried to find information on frequencies and channel designations for HDTV stations. I never did find it. The FCC site had lost its simplicity; the Obama version was very poorly organized, and the search function returned a large number of irrelevant results. It could be a metaphor for Obama's policies.

"53% Approve of Obama in Michigan"

They must have only polled Detroit.

NO

Frankly, no, there is no hope for our fiscal future. If a leader like Reagan could only hiss, spit, and rail against entitlements and out-of-control spending, what chance does the current crop of pretenders have? Add to that the Democratic Party actually cultivates a constituency on the perpetual dole, that only a bare majority of us pay any income taxes, and it ensures any attempt at reform will fail. So, two things will happen. One, riots in the street at any meaningful reform effort, and two, eventual collapse of the economy, be that this year, next year, or 10 years from now. The former is possible, the latter inevitable. The only hope for a return to constitutional government lies in whatever is rebuilt from the ashes. Sorry to sound so grim, but that's the way I read it.

..."to prevent catastrophic global warming includes broad access to affordable birth control"...

Gheez...How many GHG compounds are released during child birth. Next time I will wear a gas mask. Wondering if the Gyn and nurses have some type of claim they could bring on my wife and I due to their presence and close proximity to the birthing process.

Does anyone believe that any ten year budget plan will be followed? That any "news" agency would report the details of someone's ten year plan with anything but ridicule is very telling. If we are going to choose leaders by which one can tell the biggest lies we should just keep blindly voting Republican or Democrat.

Maybe Republicans will wake up and start voting for whichever candidate has enough money to destroy the other candidates, regardless of fiscal policy. Vote for the one with the biggest Death Star!!

Just kidding, no one is that stupid.

Barry Payne, Titular Despot Emeritus

It won't matter much who gets elected President if we don't maintain control of the House, and gain control of the Senate. A least then they can impeach BO if he gets re-elected, perish the thought.

A simple answer. NO! We will be faced with an economic armageddon in just a few short years!

As to hope for America's fiscal future, there is none to judge by the effect that our "TEA party" legislators have had to date. As I see it today American's can look forward to a collapsing economy until the bancruptcy and rioting have run their course.

Look to the PIIGS for our future. Don't wait, apologize to your kids today 'cause they're the ones who will suffer most for the boomers profligacy.

NOT WITH THE OBUMMER IN OFFICE!

Is there hope? Not as long as this jerkwater is still in the White House. Get a Republican majority in both Houses and get Obama out and there is hope, but as long as he and his minions are in office there is no chance. Like I always say with him, "Liar, liar, pants on fire."

Is there any hope for our fiscal future? No!!! Not as long as Obama remains in the Oval Office and progressive liberals like Nancy "drain the swamp" Pelos and Harry Reid remain in Congress. The bills and agenda they have pursued have bankrupt the country. The time for revolution is now, either at the ballot box or ?????????? Either way, for the country to survive, they have to go!!!!!!!!! Make sure you vote and keep your weapons loaded. If Obama is re-elected and Pelosi regains control of the House and Harry controls the Senate who knows what will happen. I can assure you it will not be good for people who read the Patriot Post!!!!!!!!

Prepare for a 2nd financial meltdown.

You can cut back, slash and burn, dismantle all government programs and we are still going down the drain.

i dont think the nation can long survive with obama 'leading' us. he is bankrupting the country by his inept actions, acting more like a dictator

spell 'tyrant') than a president, has millions of people spellbound by their "FREEBIES" and promises.

he must have an agenda to ruin America, for no one

could be that stupid

nalbill

As a footnote to my first post on our fiscal future I think it would be appropriate to rename Obamacare, or the "Affordable Healthcare Act", to the "Unaffordable

Healthcare Act". This would be more in line with the truth about the bill and the ramifications involving the implementation of the bill. I think it is obvious to anyone with half a brain that they lied to us about the costs/what was in the bill when it was passed along strictly partisan lines/votes!! PE

Is there any hope for our fiscal future?

To Hell with our fiscal future. Is there any hope for the future of the United States?

I have news for all of you. Barack Obama is going to be re-elected. (1) Too many people in this country depend on government largesse for their living. Barry will just buy their votes by promising them more lucre (this includes more than a few crony capitalists and campaign donors, lest you think I'm only beating up on the poor, downtrodden, and indolent). (2) Republicans are running a field of candidates who can not beat Obama. They are not impassioned speakers and none of them ignite any kind of excitement in the base, let alone the swing voters. They are dull and boring because they are not campaigning for anything, but rather against something (and it is not Barack Obama at this point, but each other). (3) Any anti-Obama message is going to be filtered through the Main Stream Media. Anyone speaking ill of the "One" will be vilified and the message will be nullified. (4) Anywhere the vote is close, the Democrats will steal the election through shady recounts (à la Minnesota). I'm sure in several jurisdictions, enough dead people will vote for Obama so his victory will be assured. (5) More and more Americans are unable to distinguish between campaign rhetoric and the Truth due to a lack of critical thinking skills. This problem will only worsen as old folks like me die and our younger, under-educated (but brilliantly propagandized) citizens attain voting age.

We need to stop thinking in terms of Republican and Democrat, Liberal and Conservative, and start thinking like Americans. I suggest to everyone that you read the Declaration of Independence over the next couple of days. I'm a veteran and I've invested some blood, sweat, and tears in this nation, unlike Barack Obama and his minions. Are any of you willing to let Obama's collection of cowards and traitors deprive your children and grandchildren of their birthright?

Hope for our fiscal future? Not if Obama is reelected and the Senate remains in the hands of the Reid's, Schumer's etal.

Frankly, no, there is no hope for our fiscal future. If a leader like Reagan could only hiss, spit, and rail against entitlements and out-of-control spending, what chance does the current crop of pretenders have? Add to that the Democratic Party actually cultivates a constituency on the perpetual dole, that only a bare majority of us pay any income taxes, and it ensures any attempt at reform will fail. So, two things will happen. One, riots in the street at any meaningful reform effort, and two, eventual collapse of the economy, be that this year, next year, or 10 years from now. The former is possible, the latter inevitable. The only hope for a return to constitutional government lies in whatever is rebuilt from the ashes. Sorry to sound so grim, but that's the way I read it.

Is there any hope for our fiscal future? Not as long as Obama remains in office! He hates the constraints placed by the Constitution and tries to get around the rule of law whenever he can. The courts are full of jurists who think the same way he does. We need independent news outlets who actually investigate and report the truth. I can deal with the truth and make personal adjustments. What can you do with lies and half truths? I don't want to believe that our candidates cannot stand up to Obama and his minions. So, now must be the time to get personally involved and stop writing comments that only like minded patriots read. The general population must hear the truth.

We're toast, fiscally. If you think the rioting and #OccupyWhatever stuff is over the top you haven't seen anything yet, *particularly* if conservatives sweep control of WH, Senate, & House. Imagine the hue and cry of the downtrodden left and their media useful idiots. *shudder!*

Civil discourse, making cuts, and compromise are *already* relics of the past.

Why is it so mysterious, why better suited candidates are not running for office?

Which conservative *wants* to be sitting in a seat of *responsibility* when the SHTF? The leftmedia and sheeple will blame...(wait for it!)... conservatives!

The only hope is to educate the populace, whose response is "What's in it for me?", as to the fecklessness and untruth of this budget. I do not envy you the task; sloth and greed are hard enemies to face.

without addressing entitlements there is no solution short of eventual bankruptcy. on the current course the dollar will resemble the German mark of the 1930's before long.

Just one question? If, under Obamacare, the requirements were going to violate the conscience &/or the religious beliefs of the Muslim faith would the Administration's reaction be different? Wait.....because Obamacare, or insurance in general, DOES violate the beliefs of the Muslim faith they are exempt. There seems to be some major inconsistencies in the actions of the current Administration that are being conveniently overlooked by the media. What a shocker!

Just one question? If, under Obamacare, the requirements were going to violate the conscience &/or the religious beliefs of the Muslim faith would the Administration's reaction be different? Wait.....because Obamacare, or insurance in general, DOES violate the beliefs of the Muslim faith they are exempt. There seems to be some major inconsistencies in the actions of the current Administration that are being conveniently overlooked by the media. What a shocker!

The only way to start fixing this mess is to STOP SPENDING! The best current example is the Highway Trust Fund bill before the House/Senate. It should absolutely not be for more than is expected to come in from gasoline taxes, etc. But, (I guess I don't understand) the House/Senate are proposing spending more than is coming in. The USA is broke--it should be spending less than it takes in. How in the world is ~$2.7 trillion not enough!

Obama will NOT win. -He barely got in in 2008.

Even with the billion (stimulis illeagal) dollars, dead voters from ACORN, OWS dipsh%&$ - he cannot totally cover-up his total failure as POTUS.

He's one and done.

Now- what can he do in the next 9 mos. to further damage our country?

To the Secret Service I say guard the SCOTUS conservative justices with as much diligence as you can. I wouldn't put murdering one above 'Obama's paygrade'. With his communistic Obamacare coming up he'd do ANYTHING to put another (let me gag here) Sotomeyer or a Kagen on the court.

Just remind good people to vote and get that traitor the hell out of here!!!!!

Any hope for our fiscal future?

No. Our linear thinking is to blame. We think only of reducing spending, reducing taxes, reducing government authorities and responsibilities. We fail to recognize the fiscal systems operate within a vastly complex and dynamic culture of systems that rewards corruption and greed, does not value conscience or honor integrity, is void of a sense of culpability, denies or ignores the lessons of history, scoffs at natural consequences and has no concern for our posterity. Our national citizenry sings together: "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!" We refuse to consider the future or the legacy we are creating.

We will not fix the economy until we get the national morality settled.

As long as the law:

(1) protects a "right" to sodomy;

(2) protects a "right" to murder of unborn babies;

(3) requires religious institutions either deny their tenets, stop services to the "least-of-these" or go underground and operate illegally;

(4) mandates what its citizens must purchase;

(5) protects non-citizens and grants undocumented persons, including non-citizens, the right-to-vote;

(6) allows half of the citizens to enjoy, tax and cost-free, all of the same rights and privileges as those citizens who earn and pay for those rights and privileges;

(7) provides benefits considered lavish by half the world's population to non-paying citizens;

Moreover, as long as:

(8) the vast majority of education institutions, entertainment and news media continue to report the above conditions are good, fail to report the truth and distort the truth beyond recognition;

(9) the citizenry continue to demand more and more of what their country can do for them, while continuing to insist the so-called "one-percent rich" do more for their country;

(11) fails to protect our sovereign borders from encroachment by any, including criminals;

(12) frisks law-abiding citizens like criminal suspects simply because they wish to employ private transportation systems in the public sector, while deliberately avoiding acknowleding obvious criminal suspect behavior and appearance;

(13) all these and so much more...

... are allowed to continue unabated, our fiscal integrity has no chance.

ZERO, NONE, NADA, ZILCH!

The fiscal crisis is the inevitable consequence and symptom of a crisis of the loss of the sense of individual responsibility and community culpability. This individual crisis is compounded at every community echelon culminating in a loss of a common national moral compass.

Courageous leadership with uncompromising integrity can inspire we fix the individual crises. Then our national moral compass will be found, dusted off, calibrated. Then we will march, unified and strong, in the right direction.

Fix the moral crises first. Ensure a common moral standard. Then, the direction is no longer shrouded in moral fogs. Those nauseating, endless and caustic debates about “how-much-taxes?” and “what to do with the revenues?” disappears. Consensus becomes the norm. Our nation prospers. Our legacy endures through a grateful posterity.

Most importantly, the last and greatest hope of humanity, the equal rights considered self-evident and endowed by no less authority than our Creator: those rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; will be promulgated to the entire anxious world and bequeathed endlessly to happy generations.

This will be our greatest legacy.

History will record this nexus as our greatest success or our greatest failure.

It is our choice.

To: RK Sprau

Re: From the previous Patriot Post

I agree with you regarding the Republican position on abortion, although you probably didn't get much empathy from most Patriot Post readers, if they saw your comment.

To me, it's very difficult to reconcile the evident conflict some Republicans create as they push for lower taxes, less government, free markets, no mandated union membership, etc (all of which equate to freedom), while at the same time insist that women shouldn't have the freedom of choice.

My wife says that this characteristic of the Republican party is the single biggest problem that Republicans have as they try to appeal to voters. She says that if it weren't for the Republican typical resistance to freedom of choice for women, the Democrat party would die off and go away, because the Dems would have no other platform to appeal to voters. I think she's got a good point. The Republicans need to stay out of social issues.

And also, looking at this from the opposite end, the Democrats can't reconcile the evident conflict as they support the freedom of a woman's right to choose, but at the same time, support the removal of everyone's freedoms for just about everything else in life, via government control of everything. As the nation struggles with the biggest dose of poisonous liberalism from Obama and the rest of the Democrats, we can't help but know this is true.

So my friend, what's your choice? Gingrich or Romney, both of which show signs of being closet Liberals, or at least, signs that their conservatism is relative and situational? Or would you choose Obama, from whose policies the nation will experience poverty and destitution, and might even get the genesis of a civil war between the providers and the dependents? Or do you bristle and take a second look at a guy like Santorum, who's against abortion? Let me ask you, what's more important, women's rights to get abortions, which most of them don't get anyway, or the entire populace's right to freedom in every other aspect of our lives?

On his program today, Rush Limbaugh reminded us that during the '08 presidential campaign, Obama was against an individual mandate for health care. Yet, the hallmark characteristic of Obamacare is its individual mandate. This of course, is just another example of the plethora of lies told by our flim-flam-man-in-chief.

Does anyone out there have a list of all the lies Obama has told since he's been in office???

To: MNIce

You shouldn't be surprised that the FCC website lost its simplicity. It could be just coincidence, or perhaps growing pains due to the movement to HD. But if Obama had anything to do with it, obfuscation was probably part of the goal.

No. Les jeux sont faits.

No. Les jeux sont faits.

Only when we get enough people to realize what Obama is and get him out of office hopefully even before November.And that can be done if our court system does it's duty

There is no hope. Everyone should review Porter Stansberry's "The End of America" which is about the collapse of the dollar as the world's reserve currency.

The history of fiat currency throughout time is unblemished by success.

One facet of "military training" had to do with use of credit,savings, budget, etc. At that time, marriage for an enlisted person was not permitted until income was sufficient to ensure support of a family. That, typically, was about E5, and one needed permission from the "Skipper." Food stamps? Uh uh! Point; a military person was required to understand, and live within, his finances. Fail to pay a bill, and letters soon arrived on the "Skipper's" desk. With immediate results! Perhaps Mr.Obama, never having been in military, missed that part of his education. Supposedly in a college somewhere. Now, as CinC, he fails the entire Republic in his personal enchantment with being "noveau riche". There is another term in the English lexicon that is quite accurate, but not permitted here. This Republic simply cannot afford this dolt! What will it take for the Congress to act, as it should, on behalf of the folks? Seems only federal civilian employees are permitted suspended driver license, tax evasion, special perquisites in lodging, dining, pay, on and on. We are quite close to the situation that fired up the birth of this Republic. A greedy king with absolute power. Which corrupts absolutely!

I enjoy reading the Patriot Post, but get depressed reading what the lying liberals say. Please give us material to encourage us. Tell us what smart people think and say. Thank you.

The Navy guy makes a point; All of us must live within our means. Not doing so has, usually, severe consequences. so how is it our government is not required to "live within it's income"? The country is quickly sinking into insolvency, and the Chief Distributor ( I just read) is giving, excuse me, 800 million to--- whom? Did I read that correctly? Arab Spring Nations? What is that all about? This clown could have given every family in the United States a million dollars, and the cost would have been far less than what he has given to other Nations, many of whom are in opposition to the continuing existence of this Republic!Everyone would have benefited--mortgages paid, business's prosper, on and on. Talk about "saving the economy"! I do not agree with "isolationism," but Ron Paul does make some good points! We should not be the "world policeman, nor the banker, either"!

Not much! None as long as the B. Boxers think sex related devices belong in health care budgets rather than entertainment budgets.

Is there any hope for our fiscal future?

Not with our current administration.

Socialism does not work - you run out of other peoples money. The current obama, reid, pelosi, et al guarantees no change in deficit spending, no change in ever increasing taxes, no change in the devisiveness and class warefare being raged upon the American taxpayer. The Only solution I see is removing the unholy triumbrate from office, enforceing the Constitution and creating a budget that does not exceed income.

"President Obama's former Chrysler was put up for auction on eBay Thursday by the Illinois woman who now owns the car. You can tell that the car once belonged to the president. It starts off fast and then it stalls and starts calling for rich people to help push it." --comedian Argus Hamilton

TRUE! TRUE!! TRUE! Rather humorous in content but a great metaphor of what is happening in our nation today. If this 'wanna-be POTUS' is elected again, we're goners! Please Lord....... stop this usurper.

I have no doubt that our fearless leader understands exactly what his actions will accomplish... no mistake there! He works for the total destruction of America. However can you watch his actions and have any other conclusion! WHERE are our elected officials? Scared, ignorant or complicit?

I honestly don't believe there is ANY hope at all in avoiding a TOTAL financial collapse in the near future because there aren't enough elected officals in Washington DC with the BALLS to accomplish it!

@ wjmccrindle -

Agreed. There may well be a second 4th of July this year.

. . . and may I suggest .45 acp - always good, and .223 as there is good availability.

Plinking can be fun.

Across the board 50% cut in all Federal offices. repeal the 16th amendment and institute the Fair Tax. Any politician that has signed on to any Federal gun control laws going back to 1934 goes to jail immediately for life. Any politician that signed on to spending the social security trust fund using IOU's is jailed and all personal assets confiscated and given to the SSI fund. Place our money back on the gold standard and get rid of the Fed. This may get us a few more years down the road but the heart of the people must also change and i don't think that will happen. so we are screwed!!!!

We didn't get all the problems we have today through the misled actions of the Democrats alone. There is plenty of blame to be shared on both sides of the isle. However, the Liberals are absolute masters at subverting truth and distorting reality whenever it serves their agenda. They are insulting the intelligence of the American people by distorting facts, misleading, and outright lying while attempting to sell their legislation and regulatory efforts. The new Obama budget proposal is just the latest example. He reminds me of a magician, "watch my hands at all times, they will never leave the ends of my arms."

Our nation is sooo screwed if he pulls off being re-elected. Four more years of this amatuer, and we'll not be able to recognize our country!

The President has been going around the country admitting that he was not ready for prime time when he tells us that "the worst economy since the Great Depression" was worse than he thought. Does that make it worse than the Great Depression?

Q.) Is there any hope for our fiscal future?

A.) No, and there is nothing that you can do about it, as there will not be free elections in November (except kiss you a$$ goodbye).

There will be no hope for our country until the 'hope & change' despot (his crew) is out of office.

Any hope for our Fiscal Future? YES!! Vote Republican,in the Nov.6,2012 Presidential elections!

NO!

To: Maj USA Ret

I like what you have said. Solid logic and common sense, pointing out a set of truths that isn't apparent to most. Bitching about the budgetary issues (and we all know they're genuinely problematical and deserving of debate) without addressing our underlying moral depravity, is like complaining about guns and knives without addressing the causes for social crimes.

In fact, much of the purpose for the law is to serve as barricades against immoral behavior. In other words, if moral behavior doesn't act on its own, law gets created to specify how behavior is to occur and establishes punishments for noncompliance with the specifications. Real estate contracts are a good example. Years and years ago, people used to get cheated during property transfers. Then the uniform sales contract was created to specify behavior. Anyway, I digress.

The upshot of all this is that if moral behavior would only occur on its own, then there wouldn't be all this "need" for government intervention.

If we had a fair and moral tax code, there wouldn't be a need for threats from hostile IRS agents. If everyone was paying taxes under an equitable taxation system, there wouldn't be an excuse for greedy, tax-and-spend liberals to demonize those with deeper pockets. And if we had a president with a moral compass who genuinely wants to serve by respectfully following the Constitution, instead of a con-artist wannabe socialist dictator who genuinely wants to subjugate and enslave, our economy would improve and so would our quality of life.

I guess I found my own understanding of your words.

New Democrat codeword -- "Access" as in access to health care,, particlularly "womens healthcare", which they try to disquise as breats exams when what they want is Abortions - but lets start with contraceptives..

And this "Access" does not mean just the ability to walk in the door...it means walk in the door get top notch care and have somebody else pay for it. The rich - those making over ,,say $100,000.

My only solace comes in remembering how Ronald Reagan was able to come in and quickly turn the country around with free markets, and optimism, along with some union busting and beaurocrat reduction. It can and must be done.

No pale pastels - we need bold conservative ideas and leadership. I am watching Santorum closely -- he is not Ronald Reagan but he has the right ideas and they are not just on note cards. It will take more than one man -- and we can use all of our candidates in some manner, as we build the future of America with a drastically smaller and more constitutionaly focused federal government.

The progressive criminal abuse of this country must be stopped. The current Rhinos are not stepping up to fight Obama, so we need more like allen West and Rubio who can and will speak out in plain terms. Obama is a liar and a fraud, supported by a vast criminal democrat enterprise and he must not be re-elected.

@Hamilton: I must disagree with your thesis that Republicans ought to drop the abortion issue. If it is permissible to violate the rights of one person, then the rights of none are safe. In particular, no person may abuse his rights in a manner that he should know could cause the injury or death of another. For example, hunters are prohibited from discharging their firearms within 500 feet of a dwelling.

The Republican Party has recognized that science supports what the Bible teaches: we ourselves, not precursory blobs, were formed in our mothers' wombs. We became distinct individuals when our parents' DNA combined to start our growth. Our hearts began beating only 22 days later, and, if present-day monitoring technology had been available, our brainwaves would have been detectable by the 40th day of gestation. We began learning our mothers' languages at least as early as the fifth month, and we can recognize after birth music that we heard at this time. (You may have been taught in high school biology that the human embryo recapitulates the stages of evolution, from bacteria to fish to lizard, etc. This is a lie, based on a fraudulent paper by Ernst Haeckel in the 19th century. It was thoroughly refuted no later than 1956, but as Mark Twain observed, a lie is the only thing that has more lives than a cat.) The point I'm making is that abortion is an action intended to kill a human being. There is no honest way to sugar-coat that fact - there are only deceitful euphemisms or attempts to change the subject.

The Democrats' philosophy is based on selfishness and covetousness. In keeping with that, the Democrat Party has married itself to the notion that children are a hindrance to personal "fulfillment", and humanity in general is a scourge upon the earth. In their view, abortion is a good thing, because the resources that would have been committed to raising another member of the next generation can be reserved for themselves. That is really what is meant by "the right to choose" - a truly ghoulish assertion. It is no coincidence that over 90% of abortions are for "economic" reasons such as unwillingness to interrupt a career.

The Republican Party, on the other hand, claims to stand for personal responsibility, exercised in a framework of liberty and justice for all, in contrast to the opposing view that personal responsibility is something to avoid. If a woman does not want a child, she has the responsibility to comport herself in a manner not conducive to pregnancy. Just as a driver has a responsibility to operate his vehicle in a manner that will not endanger others, a pregnant mother has a responsibility to act in a manner that will not harm her child. This is nothing unusual; it is not an undue expectation.

Once she begets a child, the time for choosing is past - the child has a right to life that is unalienable. If the pregnancy is forced, the child should not pay for the sin of the father - if anyone is to die, it should be the rapist. The only exception would be the rare and sad case in which attempting to carry the pregnancy will unavoidably end in the death of the mother, or of both. This would be analogous to self-defense.

What are the consequences of the opposite view? It is no coincidence that the Social Security balance began sliding downward two decades after Roe v. Wade. The death of 1/3 of the children in the 1970s and and 1980s distorted the demographic profile of the nation, and the generation that should have been their parents is now reaching retirement age. There are now not enough people in their prime production years to support them. And this is only one consequence of the legalized killing of 53+ million people. The callous, dare I say, sociopathic, attitude that attempts to sell this as "a woman's choice" carries itself over to the willful disregard of all other rights that we have seen in the current occupants of the White House. For if the right to life can be disregarded, so can any other.

In conclusion, the pro-life component of the Republican Party platform is a core expression of conservative philosophy, not an inconvenient adjunct.

Yea... When we get rid of that "Big Eared Lawn Jockey" and his Hypocrite spouse from our White House and Our government!

J.J.B.Jr.(USN.RET.)

Maryland.

Is there any hope for our fiscal future?

Only if we elect true Conservatives to Both Houses of Congress and aided by a Conservative President. Neither Obama nor RINO Romney gives us any hope for the future. With Romney being a liar claiming to be Conservative, he may even be much worse than Obama. Romney is perhaps the most dishonest politician ever to run for the Presidency. Romney can be trusted about as far as a person can throw the entire Empire State building. First order of business is to "DUMP the ROMP" then "DUMP BAMMY" After that we must get many more Conservatives into both Houses of Congress

A little humor to tell it like it is: A liberal, a moderate and a Conservative walked into a bar. The bartender called out, "Hello Mitt". ----- Or as another put it. "Romney is the candidate you want him to be no matter what your political standing"

hope for our fiscal future???forget it!!ROME IS BURNING!!!

There is hope if Obama and his boys are out! Obama's 32 Month Report Card. Sad but all true!

Wake up VOTERS!

First President to refuse to show a valid birth certificate.

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit rating of the United States.

First President to violate the War Powers Act.

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

First President to defy a Federal Judges court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on shovel-ready jobs when most went to unions and individuals who gave money to his election.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

First President to fire and reappoint not only the CEO of a private corporation but also its 12 Board of Directors.First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants.

First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

First President to terminate Americas ability to put a man in space by stopping NASA.

First President to encourage racial discrimination and intimidation at polling places.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly speak-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state they are allowed to locate a factory.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN) First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 Czars to replace elected officials in his office.

First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two years in office.

First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to coddle American enemies while alienating Americas allies.

First President to publicly bow to Americas enemies while refusing to salute the U.S. Flag.

First President to go on multiple global apology tours.

First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends, paid for by the taxpayer.

First President to refuse to wear the U.S. Flag lapel pin.

First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000.00 a year at taxpayer expense.

First President to repeat “the Holy Qur’an tells us,” and openly admit “the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.”Remember that 32 months of Obama White House we the people have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our nation’s entire history, as the Obama’s plan their next extravagant vacation to the Indonesian Island nation of Bali.

* sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Wall Street Journal, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Dept of Labor, Standard & Poors/Case-Shiller, Federal Reserve, US Treasury, Heritage Foundation

Wasn't slavery also mainstream at one time? Just becasue something is maintstream doesn't make it the right thing to do.

"The vast majority of Catholic women are on birth control, support birth control and think it should be part of their health care plan. So, it just seems striking to me that someone would say this is a risky decision because it's the right thing to do and it's mainstream." --Rep. Michael Quigley (D-IL)

Not if this guy's still in office.

Is there any hope for our fiscal future? As much as I would like to remain optimistic about our fiscal future, but, the prospects looks bleak. Even as I write this comment, we have almost 50% of the people in this country dependent on some kind of handout and/or entitlement. I'll ask this question; do you think they will bite the hand that feeds them? It's hard to ween those who have been supported for so long by the establishment. The hard reality of being on that dead-end street had better become apparent before it's too late.

Shear numbers tell us Obama cannot be beat...Apathy & coruption confirm it. Only 50 milion or 25% of eligible voters cast a votig ballot and 2 millon of these are dead!!!??? It costs $4.50 to process each vote. In Canada, 93% of the population votes and it costs only 35 cents to process each vote. Why the diff? Canada has digital voting and NO US Congress to deal with. If it were not for these, Obama could not win.

N O .

Revolution & back to the real US Constitution.