Tuesday night Obama warned Congress that we need to “sacrifice some worthy priorities … and that includes me,” but his peers in Congress, and his own budget plans speak loudly otherwise. He calls his multi-Trillion dollar deficit a “vision for America.” This is an article about hypocrisy, and about the real American Vision’s alternative methods.
Full Story » Perhaps the most telling signal that Obama has no fundamental change in economics came during his December 9 interview on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press.” After discussing his plans for billions of dollars in new bailouts and billions more for government infrastructure programs, he faces, of course, the question of how to pay for all of this. His advice: “we can’t worry short term about the deficit.” In other words, in the short term, print, borrow, spend!
Full Story » One of the catch phrases surrounding the Obama stimulus plan has been “shovel ready projects.” Supposedly, all of the proposed billions for public infrastructure programs will fund immediately ready projects all over the country – projects all “ready to go,” they just need the funding to get started. The image given is of workers literally standing with shovel in hand, ready to start digging.
Full Story » If not for God’s providential, merciful, purposeful, intervention in all things, you could be excused for thinking 2008 was a year to regret and forget – speaking economically, politically and spiritually. In 2009, hang on to the fact of God’s constant, and dare I say, mighty, sovereignty. It’ll help get you through until negative trends reverse and sanity is once again seen by Americans as a sensible public trait. Pray.
Full Story » The anointed leader took the podium and proclaimed the message that a hopeful America—an America pleading for change—longed to hear: Yesterday, the people went to the polls and they cast their vote for a new direction. . . . I’m confident that we can work together. I’m confident that we can overcome the temptation to divide this country between red and blue.
Full Story » Religious thinkers and activists like our good friend Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo are lifting up the Biblical injunction to help the poor as a means of mobilizing Christians against budget cuts to social programs and growing inequality. — Barack Obama
Full Story » The August 16, 2008, Obama-McCain "Forum on the Presidency" at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church unexpectedly released two major political genies. First, the responses to Warren’s questions about a "Christian" worldview and the two candidates’ views on marriage and abortion led to shocks which, overnight, made Obama significantly less attractive while McCain gained ground.
Full Story » The latest economic proposal coming from Barack Obama is a socialist’s dream. The president-in-waiting wants to steal money from oil companies and, in an act of blessedness and benevolence, give a check of $1,000 to American middle class
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