Charles Hurt,New York Post
Obama plays while America drowns in his debt
Sunning lazily this week on the rocky shores of Martha’s Vineyard,President Obama is in a terrible pickle.
He has flushed billions of taxpayers’hard-earned dollars down the toilet "stimulating"the economy,acquiring insolvent car companies,and buying up clunkers that are immediately rendered inoperable by the feds —an apparent government specialty.
Launched from obscurity on the stiff winds of antiwar fervor,Obama now owns an intractable war in Afghanistan that will require years of enormous financial commitment,unshakable patience and unbending determination —all things that were once in such long supply for the Iraq war.
And now he has blown the top off all limits on the amount of suffocating debt he is willing to pile on the children and grandchildren of America.
These children once stood to inherit the greatest nation on earth but instead will be shackled to the debts incurred by this gluttonous generation.
Not that Obama is slowing down his check-writing hand.
He’s still lashed to this lunatic idea that even though the federal government has spectacularly failed its fiduciary responsibility to all existing entitlement programs,we should put it in charge of yet another one that will certainly grow larger than all the rest.