Are you better off than 4 years ago?
Never has a president promised so much and delivered so little. Mr. Obama promised to cut the deficit in half within the first three years of his presidency. Instead, our national debt has gone up 43 percent and continues to escalate.
It’s amazing people can see a deficit going from $1.3 trillion in a year to $910 billion a year as a positive. We are now working off the backs of our great-grand children.
Unemployment continues to rise despite the current administration’s aspersions to the contrary. The number of people out of work continues to increase. People who have stopped looking for work does not mean they are working, they are still unemployed. Smoke and mirrors.
Food stamp recipients have increased by 14 million since Obama took office. Americans in poverty have grown by 6.5 million people. The current administration is only interested in making people dependent on the government so they can stay in power.
No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others. As in previous moments of national danger, we Americans are all in the same boat. If we drift, quarreling and paralyzed, over a Niagara of debt, we will all suffer, regardless of income, race, gender, or other category.
If we fail to shift to a pro-jobs, pro-growth economic policy, there will never be enough public revenue to pay for our safety net, national security, or whatever size government we decide to have. This socialist experiment will fail because eventually you will run out of other peoples money.
The government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
Ron Levitt
Naperville