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Obama Is Not King

45caliber Wrote: Jan 30, 2013 1:22 PM

"But, of course, we do have a spending problem, and a debt problem, and the president knows this." Actually, they don't have a spending problem. They can spend and spend and spend without any problem at all. The debt problem then belongs to us taxpayers. What we need to do is convince them to not spend what isn't there in the first place and to cut actual spending that has already been approved to balance the budget.

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Obama Is Not King

Watching President Obama's inaugural, I was confused. It looked like a new king was being crowned. Thousands cheered, like subjects worshipping nobility. At a time when America faces unsustainable debt and terrible economic troubles, why such pomp?

Maybe it's because so many people tell themselves presidents can solve any problem, like fairy-tale kings -- or gods.

Before America's first inauguration, John Adams suggested George Washington be called "His Most Benign Highness." Fortunately, Congress insisted on the more modest title, "President."

At his inaugural, President Obama himself said, "The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the...

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