By Michael Connelly

America, we are in a constitutional crisis!

It is time “we the people” wake up to what is really happening in our country. I am referring specifically to the controversy over raising the debt ceiling. Over the last few years, out of control federal spending has put us in this crisis situation. If we continue on this path we will face bankruptcy and anarchy. Massive cuts in federal spending are needed, but the President of the United States refuses to consider any real spending cuts. Instead, he wants to raise taxes - once more - on the people in our economy; people who produce jobs.
Conservatives in the Congress are attempting to hold the line on tax increases. Most economists agree that you do not cure a faltering economy by raising taxes. We already have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. That is why so many businesses are moving out of our country and overseas…taking American jobs with them.
The outcome of this debt ceiling battle is still in doubt. But as I write this article, there is discussion of compromise. However, the purpose of this article is to encourage everyone to try to get more American people to take their heads out of the sand and look at what’s going on.
We have a President who, in order to get his way, is taking significant portions of the population of the United States as hostages. He has stated that if the debt ceiling is not raised under his conditions, conditions that would allow him to raise taxes and continue runaway spending, he will not guarantee that the members of our military will receive paychecks; or that our senior citizens will get their Social Security checks in August.
If his threats are carried out, military families, who often barely make ends meet on their paychecks, will be severely hit. The morale of the military would plummet during this time when we are engaged in three wars. This would pose a grave threat to the security of our nation; something Obama has sworn under oath to protect. Unfortunately, Obama doesn't care. The failure to issue Social Security checks will cause grievous hardship to our senior citizens who have, in the past, sacrificed so much for this country.
Obama just doesn't care. The members of our military and our senior citizens are his pawns.
This is primarily due to the fact that in the past he has shown utter contempt for the military. For example: When he was a U.S. Senator he voted against appropriations to provide adequate body armor and additional armor to vehicles that would've protected our soldiers in combat. In addition, he recently broadcast to our enemies a willingness to prematurely reduce our forces in Afghanistan and Iraq in such a manner that it will put our remaining troops in grave danger. This has been done strictly to try and bolster his reelection campaign. He is aware that most members of the military voted against him in 2008 and will likely do so in 2012.
Obama just doesn’t care.
As for our senior citizens, he is also shown his contempt for them by orchestrating a healthcare plan that will reduce Medicare payments dramatically and establish bureaucratic panels that will decide whether seniors are worthy of being saved, even when their lives are in danger from serious illnesses. He recognizes that because of this many of seniors will vote against him in 2012, he is willing to throw them under the bus.
Obama just doesn’t care.
In order to further his political ambitions and desire to turn the United States from a constitutional republic into a socialist dictatorship, Obama just doesn’t care.
Some facts: Military personnel are paid from the existing Pentagon budget; Social Security checks are issued from the Social Security trust fund. There is ample money available for these checks to be issued. Therefore, in order to stop them from going out, Obama would have to take the extraordinary and unconstitutional steps of issuing executive orders to keep the checks from being sent.
Thus, certain Americans are considered expendable by this president. That’s why Obama doesn’t care!
Not once has Obama offered to withhold or cut the pay of the 77,000 federal employees (Who currently make more than the governors in states where they reside, or any other civilian federal employees for that matter.). Nor has he indicated that there will be any cuts to the salaries of his staff; many of whom are paid over $100,000.00 per year.
Americans! You need to know that you are not safe from the Obama juggernaut toward socialism. Just because you may be a member of a teachers union, or any other union that supports Obama, does not guarantee that you will not be thrown under the bus if it becomes expedient for him to do so. Only your high paid union leaders are exempt because they fund Obama and are considered part of the elite in this country.
Make no mistake; we have a President who considers himself far above the rest of the “expendable” us. Only the elite who support and fund whatever he does are temporarily exempt from his wrath.
Take for example, the fact that in the stimulus package Obama got passed, there was a special tax break for owners of corporate jets. That was an apparent attempt to buy their loyalty. However, now in present budget discussion, he’s converted them into villains who must be taxed. This is the hypocrisy of his totalitarianism.
Over the past 100 years, every major dictator in the world has eventually turned on the people who initially put him in the power. This includes Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Tse-tung.
In other words, whether you support Obama or not, you are not safe from losing your livelihood, your liberty, and your way of life if… you choose to allow him to continue building his dream regime.
President Obama has no regard for our Constitution, our free enterprise system, or our American values.
In this debt ceiling debate, Barack Obama has clearly revealed that he concerns himself only with his well-being, and his mission of socialistic conversion.
Obama just doesn’t care about you.

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