What comes first…the Debt, or the Spending…?

So, when you hear an elected official say “it’s not about Spending”, ask yourself…

…who voted for that Fool?

Don’t allow a crisis to happen…

Those of us with children know our kids love the ‘crisis game’. When issues arise, they wait until the last minute to tell us, hoping parents will make a decision the kids want.

And, when the game is realized, any good parent tells the kids from now on, if a crisis is created by waiting til the last minute, the answer the child doesn’t want will be given.

How is it that these spoiled ‘children’ in Washington DC continue to get away with ‘the crisis game’…?

Russell Simmons held a press conference today, calling for ‘unarmed mediators’ to be hired for our nations’ schools.

Isn’t that what they already had at Sandy Hook Elementary School?

(We won’t even discuss the irony of suggestions such as this coming from someone who’s making millions of dollars off ‘gangsta rap’! And of course, we assume his security detail is ‘unarmed’…)

Tragically, the mainstream media will no doubt join hands in praising this idiocy…

Regardless of what you think of Newt Gingrich, he does cut to the heart of matters…

Chicago is the poster-child of failed gun control policy, and serves as the perfect setting for a Congressional discussion of those failures.

During his press conference yesterday, Diner-in-Chief Obama seems to have indicted himself and Congressional Democrats during an answer to NBC’s Chuck Todd query.

Trying to hang the debt-ceiling question on Republicans, Obama waxed metaphorical, stating “…you don’t go out to dinner and then, you know, eat all you want and then leave without paying the check.”

Message to Obama…only you and your Democrats were sitting at that table!

That ‘dining tab’ (translation, Democrat spending bills) excluded Republicans, shut out of the ‘restaurant’ during the 2008-2010 Democrats-only legislative feeding frenzy.

What Republicans are saying now, AFTER finally being let into the ‘restaurant, is that they didn’t order what is now being served at the table.

And if any ‘feeding frenzy’ occurs by Obama, Reid, or Pelosi, the Democrats slobbering at the trough should stay and wash dishes if they don’t have money to pay for it…

File this under “A Modern Proposal” – Let those who voted for the system, pay for it.

Spender-in-Chief Barack Obama stated plainly in his Monday press conference that  “raising the debt ceiling does not authorize more spending. It simply allows the country to pay for spending that Congress has already committed to”.

Since all of the spending bills Obama refers to were legislated by Congress Democrats when they were in total power prior to 2011, and since all of the new House Republican spending bills have been held up during 2011-2012 by a Democrat-controlled Senate, it’s obvious that Obama et al does not believe in, or plan on, representing all Americans.

They only believe in representing those Americans who voted ‘Democrat’. Fine, since “words matter”, let’s invoke those principles most favored by this regime…

• 1) “We won”, and
• 2) “Fairness”.

Campaign finance laws being available to guide the way, let’s suggest that – since the minority are not allowed representation under this Democrat administration – then, only those people and groups who donated to the Democrats ‘winning’ 2012 election should have to pay for Democrat spending, which only they ‘racked up’.

After all, it’s only ‘fair’…

(Update – Sandy S objects to the use of Obama’s name without the honorific ‘President’, stating that omitting same is disrespectful. For those who wonder or object, please refer to the new ‘Honorific’ page added to the BCP site. Essentially, we reserve the respect of such Constitutionally-bestowed titles for those who actually respect that Authority…and their oath of office.

In. Plain. Words…Those who disrespect the very Authority that makes their title of office possible don’t deserve that respect for themselves.)

News sources advise Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid  is pushing Mr. Obama to go around Congress to hike the debt ceiling to avoid dealing with out-of-control spending.

Never mind that the Constitution states that Congress shall have that responsibility…

Never mind that Reid’s Senate oath (sworn in January) states he “…will support and defend the Constitution…” and he “…will bear true faith and allegiance to the same…”

Never mind that he also swore he would “…well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: so help me God.”

By this act, Reid violates EVERY SEGMENT of his oath of office, and the Constitutional document that invests him with a political office.

But then, this isn’t the first time he’s broken the law to hide his party’s spending spree…

(Note to Byron York: BlueCollar would argue that you’re wrong about Harry Reid being able to get away with breaking the ’74 Congressional Budget Act law because of that law not having ‘an enforcement mechanism’…

…in our world, that’s what’s known as an ‘oath of office’…)

“…well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: so help me God.”

Aahh, what’s the big deal…they’re just words…

“If Congress Doesn’t Raise the Debt Ceiling, Nothing Disastrous Will Happen”

Speaking truth to Power, Dean Kalahar makes a series of powerful points comparing a family unit’s finances to a ‘government family’s’ finances. Each point is followed by the logic that “the economics of government is no different” than that of a regular family.

Conclusion: with Character and Integrity, a family’s choices will save the day.

Mr. Kalahar’s article very convincingly shows us why no Disaster looms…

Character and Integrity in government…what a relief – we thought we were in trouble.

File this under ‘Brass Cojones!’ In what amounts to a huge admission of Democrat Party culpability, Obama administration regulators introduced first-time banking rules on Thursday, to ensure “that borrowers can afford to pay their mortgages”.

Never mind that common-sense would dictate such a concept in money-lending.

Never mind that the private sector had worked out that necessity since 1190 AD, when mortgages were believed to have first been created.

To hear him tell it, it took Obama’s appointed consumer-protection czar Richard Cordray and regulator cronies to impose lender restrictions and obligations… such as reviewing a borrower’s financial situation to make sure they can afford mortgages they apply for.

What he won’t say so publicly is that the financial lending practices were turned upside down by Bill Clinton’s team in the ’90’s. They took a little-known Jimmy Carter-era CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) bill, injected with Janet Reno ‘regulation-steroids’, and FORCED lenders to relax mortgage-lending requirements…or face federal blowback.

Democrats did this in the name of ‘Home Ownership For All’, but their unspoken intent was to get votes under the guise of championing the low-income voter constituency, which primarily consisted of racial minorities normally unqualified for such loans.

Forcing banks to make risky sub-prime loans put those institutions in a shaky situation, so banks did what they could to protect themselves, bundling the loans in designated mortgage-backed securities and reselling them to investors. All perfectly legal.

We repeat – all perfectly legal. For, while you may regularly hear news outlets vilify the ‘predatory lenders’ and ‘fat cat’ bankers, what you won’t hear is that the banking industry is one of the most HEAVILY REGULATED industries in the United States!

Why doesn’t the average American know this? Because the regulations are made into law by Congress, and Democrats have dominated that legislative body for decades.

We apologize for this brief historical excursion, but it was necessary. Policy followed by a private sector free enterprise system, Obama attacks regularly now. Obama’s team isn’t breaking new ground here – it was self-imposed common sense for centuries…

…until Congressional Democrats created the sub-prime mortgage crisis they now try to foist off on others, by forcing the risky lending practices they now purport to solve…

When Mr. Obama, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Moore, and the news media suggest or make efforts to restrict our right “to keep and bear Arms” – violating our United States Constitution in the process – they’re telling us we’re all Adam Lanza.

Mr. Obama should either fulfill his 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” – or renounce the title… as he renounces that authority which confers it.

It’s ironic that the man who clings to this Constitutionally-established high office, and willingly took that Constitutionally-mandated oath of office, now is the same man who dismisses said Constitution as irrelevant… when it pertains to the rights of others.

And for those other ‘legislators’, news media, and celebrity personages screaming for our guns, we remind them that there’s a reason why it’s called a “Bill of Rights”.

We are not all Adam Lanza, and it’s an egregious insult to imply otherwise.

BlueCollar finds it ironic in the extreme that disingenuous forces will exploit the evil deeds of a mentally unbalanced killer – who slaughtered 20 innocent children in one day – in order to confiscate our legally owned firearms…

…yet those same forces support government-funded efforts of Planned Parenthood, when they announce 333,964 achieved abortions – of the innocent unborn – in 2011.

Talk about Perspective…