Posted by
Scott Ott on Monday, July 13, 2009 6:15:03 AM
PRES. OBAMA: "...we must lower the health-care costs that are driving us into debt, create the jobs of the future within our borders, give our workers the skills and training they need to compete for those jobs, and make the tough choices necessary to bring down our deficit in the long run." --
Op-Ed in Washington Post
Do you remember the Sesame Street game "One of these things is not like the others"? You see a grouping of four objects and have to decide which one is different before the song ends.
Look at the president's list above. Can you tell which thing doesn't belong?
Song Over: The only actual federal government responsibility among the four items the president lists is to bring down the deficit. (Unless he's talking about cutting health-care costs for federal employees, or giving federal workers job skills training.) So far, his plan for bringing down the deficit seems to be to spend as much borrowed taxpayer money as possible. Under this plan, the only hope for "deficit reduction" is to alter the definition of one, or both, of those terms.
The president, who has no previous executive experience, seems to think he got elected CEO of USA, Inc. and that every part of your life is a government program over which he exercises control. In the course of his aggressive effort to run your life, he neglects (or perhaps rejects) the job he swore to do: "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Perhaps one could argue that, technically, he is upholding his oath to "execute the office of President of the United States". After all, that verb does have more than one meaning.
Author, speaker, and Washington Examiner columnist Scott Ott, is candidate for Lehigh County Executive in Eastern Pennsylvania.