There is currently a major battle going on in Wisconsin between the moderates who are working for fiscal sanity against the extremists who are employing shameful tactics to hold on to their government-enforced privileges. But this battle is only yet another battle in this larger war, a war of ideas and ideals and policies and beliefs that needs to spill on to the battle for the White House in 2012. Obama and his latest budget is a double-down on promises to continue to provide taxpayer privileges to his supporters, and those who oppose this corrupt government-big business-labor are going to need to rally around someone who is going to have to fight tooth-and-nail against those who would do the future of our nation harm.
Here in Michigan, we quietly are having our own budget battle, where behind the scenes work is being done to put our own financial house in order by making drastic cuts to everything that everyone is concerned with. After the childish amateur governance of Democratic Jennifer Granholm, who destroyed Michigan's economy and passed on massive liabilities and debts and problems to the next Governor, new Republican Governor Rick Snyder was shocked at how bad Michigan's finances were and so was forced to come up with a tough budget.
But at the national level, the joke still continues, and Obama continues the childish and amateur policies that destroyed the finances and solvency of multiple states like Michigan and Wisconsin and which now will require much hard work and hardship to recover from. Rather than finding a budget reeling with deficit and wars and outstanding obligations and working hard to overcome those problems and reign in the deficits, he has instead extended the US finances further with more obligations and more debt and more problems and done it all while demonizing and politicking against his enemies.
Nolan Finley has written an excellent article on this issue. Here are some of the best parts:
...For those interested in comparing bold leadership to the wishy-washy variety, the release today of Gov. Rick Snyder's first budget is perfectly timed, coming as it does just four days after President Barack Obama gave the federal deficit disaster another big kick down the road.
Obama's budget is a fraud. It continues manic deficit spending. The cuts it contains are mostly pretense, while the tax hikes are real and destructive. It avoids the two major threats to the nation's fiscal stability, Social Security and Medicare.
And it leaves most of the tough decisions to Republican lawmakers, who will be demonized by the president and his political allies if they dare to make them.
It's the work of a president who lacks the courage to lead. It also exposes the reality that Obama's objective is to increase the size and reach of the federal government, not shrink it, and nothing that happened in the November elections will move him off that mission...
....Snyder also is showing far greater faith in his people than is the president. For weeks leading up to today's budget unveiling, the governor talked honestly to citizens about the precariousness of the state's finances and the shared sacrifices required to repair them.
Obama, by contrast, keeps spinning like a top, pretending to austerity while allowing spending to soar and demanding sacrifice only from the evil rich and greedy corporations. This week, his minions are out on the stump hailing Obama as a great job creator, even in the face of employment reports that grow grimmer each month.
What we saw with Obama's budget release is a politician in full re-election mode. He's going to say what he thinks the voters want to hear, but keep pursuing his discredited agenda.
Snyder is exactly as billed. He told voters he would put an end to business as usual in Lansing, and today he will. He told them he wouldn't flinch from the difficult decisions demanded of leadership. Today, he'll keep that promise. And he assured them that if they'd follow him, he'd lead them to a more prosperous and hopeful Michigan. Today, they'll get a look at the course he's charted.
Meanwhile in Washington, a president who promised those same things two years ago continues to wander in the wilderness.
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