George Rebane
Remember the ladies from Detroit who loved President Obama’s “stash” but had no idea where it came from. Well, it’s almost four years later, and one of them seems now to be on the Detroit City Council. As readers know, Detroit is on its collective ass and getting ready for a little bit of Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing, and the lady is maximally irritated. It seems that they have sent their paid lobbyists to Washington to tell Obama that ‘we voted for you, and now we want to be paid.’ What she’s actually asking for is some “bacon” from the stash that the city now richly deserves. Obama seems to be filching on his promise.
And then there’s Great Britain equally sliding into fiscal oblivion on its derriere (can’t use ass twice in the same post). Prime Minister Cameron is rallying the Brits to demand that companies operating on the island pay more taxes than they need to on (wait for it) “moral grounds”. Sticking a mike into the face of a typical citizen, and you hear that corporations like Starbucks and Amazon are “immorally minimizing their taxes” by following the applicable EU tax laws. Sadly, such is the damage that socialism does to an otherwise healthy brain.
Coming back to our side for a peek at the growing imperial presidency, we see a President, with bulging veins in his temple, tell the country that “I will not play that game (of joining debt limit and budget negotiations) any more.” No one has yet been smart enough to tell him that 1) the Constitution gives him no power to reject political deals like that, and 2) it is most proper to join debt limits and budget negotiations since they both deal with and are intimately related to our run away deficits and the real fiscal cliff, which is the soaring national debt whose service costs will swamp future federal budgets. Is he acting dumb on purpose or just letting the rest of us know that his voters are too dumb to understand this demagoguery? (No need to answer this.)
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