We have a leadership failure in DC.  Enough is enough. 

If you did not have a chance to hear Obama last night, you can read his speech here:  Obama's Debt Speech Text and then you can read Boehner's rebuttal here:  Boehner's Debt Rebuttal

Obama’s once again threatened to not send Social Security checks next week was as low as you can go for a President.  Reminder:  He has no right to keep those checks from going out.  The money is there and if it isn’t – “Where did it go?”  Social Security money is taken out of paychecks all across America every day and deposited into a Social Security Trust Fund.  That fund is to pay for all Social Security recipients.  If the money is not there to send checks, then we have a serious crime at the highest level in America.  Can it be that the biggest Ponzi Scheme in history is now unraveling? 

We do not expect the President to follow through on this threat and if he does, it will be a defining moment in American history. 

We have decided, we like Senator Obama better than President Obama.  See his statements about the debt ceiling:

Last night, July 2011, President Barack H. Obama said:

“In the past, raising the debt ceiling was routine.  Since the 1950s, Congress has always passed it, and every President has signed it.  President Reagan did it 18 times.  George W. Bush did it 7 times.  And we have to do it by next Tuesday, August 2nd, or else we won't be able to pay all of our bills.”

Five years ago, March 2006, then Senator Barack H. Obama said:

 “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 US Government cannot 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.  Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally.  Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.'  Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren.  America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

There isn’t much more for us to say.  Obama’s friends at MoveOn.org and OFA are out in force today demanding that Obama get his way.  Their pre-made signs and paid volunteers will be shouting their demands and it will all be political drama for Candidate Obama.

Your action item today is from President Obama himself:  “So I'm asking you all to make your voice heard.  If you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your Member of Congress know.”

To reach your member of Congress, go to www.congress.gov.  Let him/her know that you expect deep cuts to waste, fraud, abuse and foreign entitlements before they raise the debt ceiling.  And, you also want a balanced approach to the deficit.  That would include a Balanced Budget Amendment. (Didn’t Obama say we should ask for a balanced approach?) 

Obama wants to change our country to his image of redistribution which is nothing more than Socialism.  He is tracking well to his goal.  Are you going to sit back and let him destroy your personal liberties and the ability to pursue happiness?

If you let him continue down his path of change, individual freedom will be gone forever.  Please watch this short video regarding Economic Freedom.  If you don’t believe a strong economy equals individual freedom, you will after watching it.  May God have mercy on the soul of America.