Posted by
Conservative Youth on Sunday, March 01, 2009 2:33:51 AM
Now, as a teenager I have the ability to look at irresponsible spending face to face and recognize it for what it is.... this happens to be because I am quite often accused (sometimes justifiably so) of spending my money, and that of my parents and grandparents, in a way that is irresponsible and immature. However, as I look at the stimulus package and new budget, I ask myself a few important questions:
1) Is President Obama really in charge here, or is he letting Congressional Democrats get away with fiscally disastrous spending?
2) Why are the American people sitting by and watching this happen?
The answer to the first question is impossible to answer. At one moment, I sit and think he has the reins. At the next, I think to myself that Nancy Pelosi does.... a thought which causes a cold chill to travel up my back and temporarily inhibit me from thinking in any logical way. Then I come back to reality and realize that it doesn't truly matter... whether Obama is a pawn used by congressional Democrats to further their liberal agendas is irrelevant due to the fact that Obama probably supports them. He just has the oratorical ability to present these liberal ideas to the American people in a way that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid cannot. That leads me to the answer to my second question: I believe that the American people are easily duped my pretty speech and flowery language. Americans hear the great rhetoric, and automatically assume that there is great truth and beauty captured by the words of the President. However, in my opinion, they're wrong. They listen, but they don't comprehend. The listen, but they don't see. They listen, but they don't hear the truth. Because the real truth is only to be found when the issue at hand is stripped to its bare essentials... something that Congressional Republicans have been attempting to do with the President's spending plans from the very beginning. However, if given just hours to read a thousand page stimulus package Republicans are going to have a hard time finding concrete evidence against it, even if it is ideologically unsound. That's the plan behind this. Democrats are attempting to shorthand the Republicans... and so far it has succeeded. Let's just hope that Republicans can come to their senses and be willing to fight this battle... against socialism, against Reid, against Pelosi, and unfortunately against Obama.
Oh and just P.S. to liberals: talking about Bush's spending is irrelevant now. We have a new president, and he's certainly bringing change.
Is it what you hoped for?