President Barack Obama on Monday signed into law a two-year budget and debt deal that funds the government through the rest of his presidency and raises the nation’s debt limit yet again.
The deal was negotiated in what Sen. Richard Shelby called Washington’s “dark corridors” without input from most of the people’s representatives, then slammed through Congress in a rush as House Speaker John Boehner hightailed it out of town for the final time.
Spending caps that were put in place in 2011 were tossed aside by a bi-partisan coalition of big spenders, allowing $1.5 trillion to be added to the federal debt by 2017.
Republicans and Democrats alike ensured the U.S. federal debt will exceed $20 trillion by the time President Obama leaves office, almost double what it was when he came in.
This is one of the most profoundly immoral, even tyrannical, things a President — and the complicit Congress — has ever done.
Here is why:
Would you not say that “taxation without representation” is tyranny? Of course you would. Our forefathers fought a war over it. And yet we sit idly by and allow politicians to pile on debt that will be left to future generations to pay.
Do the unborn have a say — a vote — in this spending? Of course not. Yet they will be taxed to pay for it. That, my friends, is tyranny.
Allow Thomas Jefferson to say it better than I ever could:
“I sincerely believe… that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale…
“I say, the Earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and encumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the Earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.”
The Washington Times on Monday labeled President Obama the “$20 trillion man.” If millions of Americans as yet unborn could speak, they would tell you “$20 trillion tyrant” is more like it.
.@BarackObama is The $20 Trillion Tyrant https://t.co/6Uxc9BC2al
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) November 3, 2015
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