The Democrats tried to persuade us to give them four more years. They attempted to explain it all! They of course, blamed Bush and at the end of the week, after all the fancy rhetoric, after four years of Obama including his first two years of a Democratic majority in Congress, there they were. Out in the open for all to see.
One man. One party rule. One political ideology
And we still have :
1- a $16 trillion dollar debt;
2- 46.7 million Americans on food stamps;
3- 49 percent of all Americans living in households receiving government benefits;
4- 62 percent of all the federal government’s total outlays are going for entitlements;
5- 50 percent of all households do not pay any income tax;
6- President Obama is the first U.S. president in history to raise the debt over one trillion dollars in each of his four years;
7- an over 8 percent unemployment rate in each month that Obama was president and, maybe worst of all;
8- almost 40 cents of every dollar that our government spends pays the interest on our debt.
Let’s bring this down to a local level.
How would you like to be Chicago’s Democratic Mayor Rohm Emanuel?
1- To provide the remedial help that many students really need, he actually lengthened the school day;
2- to help reduce his ballooning fiscal deficit , he cancelled a previously negotiated 4 percent raise. and
3- He introduced merit-only raises tied solely to student achievement.
And what happened to this Democrat who had the guts to “take-on” the Teachers Union and put Chicago’s kids and the city’s mounting financial disaster first? For the first time in 25 years, on Sept.10, the 26,000 teachers and support staff, of the nation’s third largest school system, will go out on strike.
How would you like to be Pat Quinn, the Democratic governor of Illinois? His state has had five years of budget deficit. Their deficit is now $44 billion. They have $83 billion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities.
What did this governor do? First he did what all Democrats do. Two years ago, he raised the personal income tax 67 percent.
He also raised the corporate tax rate to 9.5 percent. When that didn’t help, when the expected increased revenue didn’t materialize Gov. Quinn, called a special session of the Illinois Legislature to tackle their monumental fiscal problems. They did not come up with any savings. or reforms .
“The accumulation of all powers in the same hands, is the very definition of tyranny “
James Madison The Federalist, 1787
Dr. Stephen Morris
North Hills
