The White House itself is projecting a $9 Trillion (yes that’s a ‘T’) deficit over the next 10 years. I heard a Republican congressman describe how much that really is, but didn’t believe him till I ran the numbers myself.
If we pay a million dollars a day ($365 million a year) on this deficit, how long will it take to pay it off? Grab your socks:
$9,000,000,000,000 / 365,000,000 =
24,657 years…and 6 months.
And that assumes Congress can balance the budget for the next 246 centuries.
U.S. moves toward formal cut off of aid to Honduras
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - U.S. State Department staff have recommended that the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya be declared a "military coup," a U.S. official said on Thursday, a step that could cut off as much as $150 million in U.S. funding to the impoverished Central American nation.
This is shameful. The Supreme Court of Honduras ordered the army to remove Zelaya from power because he was unconstitutionally attempting to seize power the same way Chavez did in Venezuela. The vice president of the same political party—not a general—immediately assumed the presidency, again with the full support of Zelaya’s own party!
What coup?
I frankly can’t believe Obama and the Democrats are too dumb to understand this, but the alternative explanation is even more apalling.
This is hard to watch, but if you’ve ever thought about texting or dialing while driving, please watch this. I guarantee it will make you think twice.
Here are two headlines from The Drudge Report about the National Health Service in England:
I just can’t wait for Obama to make health care a “right” so I can get it for free! Let’s all go to London when we get sick. Even with airfare it’s probably cheaper than the Houston Medical Center.
What’s wrong with the Cash for Clunkers program?
Jonah Goldberg’s column on National Review explains the problem very clearly—and in English! [Link]
There was a story in the Wall Street Journal this morning about how they’re destroying car engines using sodium silicate, and that’s when it struck me what the Democrats are all about: destroying wealth. At least for everyone but themselves and their friends.
It just isn’t right. Our generation was raised to build and fix stuff, and only the military was supposed to kill people and break things. The Democrats have it upside down as usual. They’re all about destroying babies and old cars (and soon old people), and would prefer to turn the Marines into a “meal-on-wheels” outfit.
