"Spender-in-Chief"

I usually start my blogs with a short story that I relate to the subject I intend to address. Today, I am just going to jump directly into the mess with both feet.

As anyone who has a radio, television or newspaper knows we are now involved in a Federal Government shutdown due to Congress’s failure to make a deal on raising the debt ceiling.

The Republican House has sent propositions to the Senate which were disregarded by the Harry Reid partisans without even a glance, as those proposals all included provisions to delay or alter Obamacare.

The Republicans have dug in their heels and seem ready to let the “chips fall where they may”. The name calling and blame assignment is in full force on both sides of the aisle as each vilifies the other.

President Barack Hussein Obama is getting ready to go visit some foreign countries in a few days, oddly distancing himself from the snowballing crisis. He has already said publicly that any compromise in this bill will not be considered if it has an impact on the implementation of Obamacare, and if it reaches his desk, he will veto the bill.

As it now appears, Obamacare is already having effects on the American economy. Many companies have already begun moves on eliminating health insurance to thousands of employees; Walgreens is only the first major corporation to do so; others will follow in short order. Several companies have announced the cutting of full time hours in order to avoid the extra costs of Obamacare, and thrusting the cost of health insurance onto those employees who will now have even less money to use for its purchase.

Hobby Lobby has said they may close all of their stores rather than yield to the imposed policies written into Obamacare, throwing thousands of workers into the predicament of unemployment.

Obama is about to leave the country again, to make speeches and drone on about how we can “lead from behind” to nations that laugh at him behind his back.

Where do the priorities of Mr. Obama lie? Should Mr. Obama be addressing people outside the United States when hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of Americans are now facing financial disaster due to the Affordable Care Act altering their income to the point of spending money they don’t have, or losing their employment altogether?

Maybe Mr. Obama could address all of the folks who will lose their jobs at Hobby Lobby; telling them it is all for the “greater good”, so health insurance can be supplied to illegal aliens at little to no cost. Perhaps Mr. Obama can explain to all of the small businesses that will lose the trade from those folks who lost their jobs for “the greater good”, and the part-time workers they employ who will likely lose their jobs.

We have been driving headlong into fiscal disaster ever since Barack Obama sat down in the Oval Office and it’s about time someone stood up to this arrogant administration. I laud those brave men in the House should stand firm and not knuckle under to the “Spender-in-Chief”.