President Obama Holds a Summit on Fiscal Responsibility

 Yesterday President Obama held a summit on fiscal responsibility. In his speech he claimed, and I am paraphrasing, that the era of irresponsible spending was over and it was time to get back to fiscal responsibility.

 My first reaction when I heard the president speak about fiscal responsibility was…HA! Can he really be serious when he speaks about fiscal responsibility? Does he really expect us to take him at his word about fiscal responsibility and cutting wasteful spending just a week after he signed the biggest spending bill in all of history?

 Here is part of what he said:

Contrary to the prevailing wisdom of Washington these past few years, we cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences to the next Congress or the next administration or the next generation

 I agree with President Obama on this much, the last administration did spend way too much money. But for him to say that it is time reduce spending so that the future generations won’t have to pay our debts after this man has ensured our children doing just that is hypocritical. Does he really think the American people have forgotten so soon about his massive stimulus bill filled with pork and entitlement programs? And it is pretty damned arrogant of him to think that just because it is he who is spending this money it is okay. 

  And his spending is far from over as Democrats are going to ask for another $410 billion for this year. Where is the spending going to end? What is next year’s budget going to look like?

 President Obama talks a good game, hell that is the only reason he was elected, but his actions many times contradict his words. As he lectures us and congress perhaps he would be better of giving that speech in front of a mirror so that he could see the biggest offender.