http://theiowarepublican.com/2012/why-i%...l-compact/

But were Adams witnessing the current condition of our American society, the quality of our modern political leadership, and certain expositions being articulated on the floor of the U.S. Congress and inside the White House (of which he was the first resident), we could expect even he to concede Thomas Paine’s point in Common Sense (which Adams once described as “a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass”) that “we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

Quote:For if virtue was hereditary, the American people would have expected our political leadership to have adhered to Thomas Jefferson’s admonition long ago that, “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes; a principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”

They have not.

Instead, we have watched in disbelief as the current generation of political leadership has permitted and tolerated our national debt to skyrocket to more than $15.5 trillion, one-third of which is held by foreign governments whose national interests are not our own.

Politicians now borrow 40% of every dollar spent by the federal government on the backs of my three little girls – ages 1, 3, and 5 – indebting them to the tune of $150,000 before they can even ride a bike.

We are witnessing one of the most profound moral failures and social injustices in American history – perpetrated not by one race against another race, nor by one class against another class, but by one generation against the next.

Funny I didn't hear politcians talking like this 2000-2008. Maybe we need another tax cut to stimulate us out of our quagmire.

(04-10-2012 10:28 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Funny I didn't hear politcians talking like this 2000-2008. Maybe we need another tax cut to stimulate us out of our quagmire.

You know who was talking like this...

Quote:The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents — #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic. -- Candidate Obama

I thought Obama was about hope change and halving our deficit within four years...

(04-10-2012 10:28 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Funny I didn't hear politcians talking like this 2000-2008.

Then you weren't listening.