Sometimes it's hard to see the forest for the trees.  While Republicans and Democrats engage in a contentious political war over how to deal with our debt crisis, Obama and his Socialist/Communist advisers stand by snickering at the entire struggle and everyone involved.  It has always been their full intention to hypothecate the American economy to a degree that approaches full bankruptcy.  Why?  Because once we are in a state of financial collapse the stage will be set for an even more massive confiscation of income and assets than many could imagine.  For now this is an incremental process, but it's amazing and disheartening to those with American values and a belief in our Constitutiona to witness rapidity of the process under the "leadership" of Obama.  We are witnessing the dismantling of all that has made the United States the most free and successful nation on Earth---and reassembly in the image of the old Soviet Union.  The incremental nature of the march to the left by the Obama administration is the only real difference between progressivism and Communism.

The vote on Obama's sardonic budget proposal was 97-0 because he offered nothing but lip service to calls for spending reform and cut-backs in government entitlement programs.  He never intended to do so.  For now, Obama is content to watch Republicans and Democrats beat each other bloody over band-aid measures.  Should Republicans actually demand fiscal reform of spending and out-of-control entitlement programs, Obama is willing to let the United States lurch into default before allowing common sense compromise.  It's very much like Solomon's decision threatening to cut a baby in half when two women claimed to be its mother---and the attitude of the woman who was willing to watch it happen.

At some point, and hopefully before we lose the country, Americans may realize those who are calling for government fiscal reform are not doing so to starve elderly people or deprive them of health care.  Those are the canards of the Democrat-left past and may begin to appear before the public as trite, insincere and dishonest as they really are.  In a nutshell, public disapproval is why leftist regimes almost inevitably gravitate to one party dictatorships led by charismatic dictators.  They have a distinct discomfort in societies enjoying freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and fair public elections.  Don't think the progressive process toward Communism isn't well along the way in the USA today.  Mark Lloyd (Obama's "Diversity Czar") at the FCC is working hard every day to find ways to strangle constitutional political dissent. with draconian measures involving predatory taxation, arbitrary criminalization tactics, and lots of what the government does best---death by red tape and bureaucratic procedure.  Obama and Democrats are buying their way into permanent incumbency by using taxpayer dollars to pay off dedicated supporters, like the unions.  The only fly in the Democrat left ointment may be the 2012 elections.  God Bless America.  

Edited 2 times by Stalag18 May 27 11 8:31 AM.