We did some quick math on the president's claim about having enough money and realized that the government will in fact have much more revenue than what is required to issue social security checks.
It would seem that though it would not play quite as effectively politically let alone get the phones ringing in his opponent's congressional offices, a more accurate statement from the president would have been, "Since it looks like I can't get my opponent to raise income taxes on job creators, and I don't have enough money to fund all the other programs I like, I am now going to threaten NOT MAKE the issuance of social security checks a priority." Come early August, the Obama administration looks like it is going to have to make choices according to importance. Take a look at the Citizens Against Government Waste "Pig Book" for 2010. There has been no action on these programs. Apparently senior citizens make better hostages in negotiations for piling tax increases on job creators.
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DUH!! Obama doesn't get to decide what gets paid or not. If he halts SS checks, he can be impeached for failing to execute the laws of the Union.
All spending is under the singular control of Congress. The President is to see that the laws are faithfully executed. Failure to do so is an impeachable act.
Obama is using the typical scare tactic. HL Mencken said it this way in the 1920s:
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgobllins, all of them imaginary.
I doubt Congress will impeach him for fear of a response like that in LA 1991/2 with Rodney King. On top of that, no one in Congress has the "courage" to hold anyone's feet to the fire less they be subjected to the same scrutiny.
We the People have failed. We believed the lies of the government schools. We were brainwashed into believing in the power of the fed through the use of the Pledge of Allegiance, a socialist tool used to destroy individual state sovereignty.
Call his bluff!
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