Excellent Speech against raising the Debt Limit--by Obama!!

[Vincent]

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.

Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.

Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006

Of course, we've already seen many examples of how Obama flips his positions, so this is no surprise.

 

[Helvidius]

He did the same thing with the Patriot Act.

 

[TheDemSocialist]

Flip floppers they are quite common in American politics...

 

[BDBoop]

Of course, we've already seen many examples of how Obama flips his positions, so this is no surprise.

I know it comes as a shock to some, but people gain wisdom as they age. We learn new things, we change our stance. The world doesn't come to an end. Such is life.

Of course, it doesn't happen for all people - those people start threads such as this.

 

[Vincent]

I know it comes as a shock to some, but people gain wisdom as they age. We learn new things, we change our stance. The world doesn't come to an end. Such is life.

Of course, it doesn't happen for all people - those people start threads such as this.

People also corrupted, especially when they've gained power. Power corrupts, after all.

 

[1Perry]

I know it comes as a shock to some, but people gain wisdom as they age. We learn new things, we change our stance. The world doesn't come to an end. Such is life.

Of course, it doesn't happen for all people - those people start threads such as this.

So I guess what you are saying is that the people of Illinois sent a fool to Congress.