Posted by
OldRelayer on Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:05:54 AM
Mr. President if you could take a few minutes from your busy schedule and answer only two questions that many Americans want to know. You stated you would halve the debt in 5 years and yet you and the Congress have are spending at record high levels. I am a little older than you 63, so I didn’t take the new math but it seems to me impossible to have a balanced budget when the government budget is 30% of GDP. There simply are not enough rich people to pay for this. An accepted but still too high percentage of GDP is 20%. Given that growth in the economy will be small if not shrinking in 2010 where $3.7 the proposed budget, at 20% would cap spending at $2.7 Trillion. Once again one assumes that 20% figure is considered a high but not destructive tax structure. However let me submit for your consideration at the current tax rate with no or small growth through 2010 an additional $1 trillion will be added to the already enormous National debt and I think that is the best case scenario. Can you explain all of this in old math terms that an old man can understand.
Again this may just be my old math. How are you Mr. President going to perform your constitutional duties(the one you swore to when you took the oath of office) "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Very few duties are given to the President explicitly, but protecting our nation from domestic and foreign threats is sure one. How can you do this Mr. President when you have slashed an already inadequate military budget by more than the 10% you have stated. Where as you have wrapped what were supplemental budgets to fund the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan into the standing military defense budget, this cuts the budget more like 20 or 25%. At a time when hostile to the US countries in the world are testing long range missiles with the ability for nuclear warheads, you have limited funding for missile defense, how does this make our country safer Mr. President. Most of America is asking this question and we do not understand how making our military weaker makes us stronger to deal with the dangerous world we live in. Mr. President this isn’t the kind of change we wanted.
Mr. President, with all due respect, please don’t apologise for me, we have done nothing wrong, in fact we are the most generous country in the world and give not only our money to people in need but our lives in the cause of freedom the world over. Mr. President, you admire President Lincoln as we all do, we beg you to start showing your admiration by acting more like President Lincoln and less like Karl Marx.(I threw in that Marx dig, I obviously wouldn’t use it)