Don't hold on to your breath:

Wednesday – April 13, 2011 Don’t hold on to your breath: When does a tax increase not become a tax increase? When does deficit spending not become deficit spending? When does reducing the cost and size of government not become reductions? The president will make an attempt to answer these questions and more at 1:30 pm today, not prime time! The President will take to the airwaves this afternoon and announce his vision for deficit reduction. He will tell us what his plans are for the country and how his administration will put an end to inefficient government and how we will all benefit from his objective of central planning and redistribution of our wealth. This might all seem like the same old rhetoric from me, but I can assure you that the rhetoric from the President is a bit more serious than mine. What the President won’t tell you is that there is approximately 2 trillion dollars in revenue that will come into the government coffers next year and it is expected that the government will spend about 3.7 trillion dollars next year. This is why we have a 14 trillion dollar deficit! I understand that he will also announce a new tax increase. His plan will call for a tax increase, because the President says the economy is now ready for one. The economy is growing and the rich must now pay their fair share according to Democrats. The new tax rate or the FICA tax of those that make over one hundred and six thousand dollars will be 90%. In other words, any dollar over the hundred and six thousand figure will have a tax of ninety cents you get to keep 10 cents of every dollar over a hundred and six thousand. This approach will only satisfy his base and bring more misery to all. This approach will take into account some of the debt commission’s recommendations. However, the more “radical” recommendations as the liberal is now describing them will not be considered. It used to be that the liberal was considered the radical. Do you see how the liberal has just changed the paradigm? Don’t hold your breath on the President doing anything that is right for America except the minority of about 28% of the people in this country. That in it self should tell you something. It is estimated that nearly half of the country does not have an opinion of Congressman (R) Paul Ryan’s budget - but 100% of the country will know about Obama’s plan and they will be told what their opinion should be. The President is not listening when 51% of Americans favor repeal of Obama care. The President is not listening when 48% of Americans see a need to make serious cuts in Defense, Social Security and Medicare. Serious cuts mean making these programs solvent and affordable through a balanced approach. A majority 54% of Americans disapprove of the Presidents performance while 46% approve. If a majority of Americans disapprove why then does the President continue not to listen? The answer lies within the objective. His objective is to bring a massive change to the society as a whole which will change the approach to the rest of the world. His pattern has been disturbing in how he has moved his agenda forward. He will tell us that our brightest days are still ahead. He will tell us that if we continue with his plan we will prosper. He will tell us that the rest of the world must share in our expenses abroad. He will tell us that gone are the days of going it alone. He will tell us that we must continue to stimulate the economy so that every American has a chance to succeed. Our brightest days are now in back of us. More Americans are now dependant on government aid than any other time in our history. This is now how people view the new prosperity of America. The rest of the world is now moving towards democracy and solvency while the United States is moving in the opposite direction. I do agree that gone are the days of going it alone, because we have taken the back seat in the greatest sea change that the world has seen in centuries. The stimulus programs will continue because his new budget is a remake of the last two years spending habits. His base has not seen him move to left enough as he said he would. His base is his support. If he can change enough in the next two years of his presidency we will only be able to change half of what he changed. His base will be happy with that because half is still better than nothing. Don’t hold on to your breath and wait for him to do anything that supports the American way of independence and private prosperity. Don’t hold on to your breath that the President even comes close to getting it. Don’t hold on to your breath and think that the President will meet anything that the majority in Congress now wants. While you are still able to breath, with un-taxed oxygen, remember what the president said some time ago. He said, “I would rather be a successful one term president than an unsuccessful two term president.” It’s all a matter of how far he can move the country to the left in his short tenure and that is how the liberal will judge his success. Gregory C. Dildilian Founder and Executive Director Pinecone Conservatives A footnote: The first breath of our freedom was won by those that were not afraid to defeat the taxation and the tyrannical policies of a king. The President is not a king and the liberal is nothing to hold your breath for.