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Obama: Squandering His Children’s Inheritance

Mar. 8, 2013 2:33am

Kayleigh McEnany is a writer and political activist who founded RealReaganConservative.com. She is also a contributor to the International Business Times. She […]

Kayleigh McEnany is a writer and political activist who founded RealReaganConservative.com. She is also a contributor to the International Business Times. She graduated from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and studied at Oxford University.

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Pleasure is the ultimate goal in life. This was the central premise of the ancient Greek philosophy called hedonism. It’s also the mindset of our elected officials in Washington. They have chosen to “eat, drink, and be merry” at the expense of future generations, spending wildly and carelessly, indulging themselves at the expense of their heirs.

Sequestration has come and gone, but not without the feigned hysteria, robust outrage, and disingenuous condemnation from our federal government. One key point, however, was left out of the twisted sequestration narrative: these cuts are nothing more than an infinitesimal drop in an oversized bucket. Future generations are still left with a hefty $16.5 trillion dollar bill.

President Obama spent weeks telling us that the sky would fall if we cut just over 1% of spending allocated for 2013. He conveniently left out the fact that spending is still increasing this year compared to last (spending will be up by $15 billion in 2013).

So, essentially, sequestration was a reduction in the increase of spending, meaning no real, genuine spending cuts have even taken place.

And the long-term trajectory of spending with the sequestration cuts is still a very dour picture indeed. The Heritage Foundation reports, “Federal spending is projected to grow from $3.6 trillion in 2013 to more than $6 trillion by 2023, a 69 percent increase without sequestration. Even with sequestration, federal spending would still grow by 67 percent. Sequestration barely even slows the growth in spending, let alone cuts any spending out of the overall budget.”

All of this builds to one conclusion – President Obama and the Democrats, like the ancient Greek hedonists, do not care about future generations. They are not willing to undergo even the slightest pain now for the sake of prosperity tomorrow.

If the left were truly interested in preserving this great country for their children, they would be looking to cut waste from their bloated budget, which has previously allotted for $24,000 to build a toilet on wheels in Texas, $141,450 to study swine manure, and $325,000 to build robotic squirrels. No joke. These really are government-funded, taxpayer dollar initiatives.

It is beyond inexcusable that our politicians in Washington continually act as profligate spenders with bottomless pocket books as our $16.5 trillion dollar debt continues to climb endlessly upward.

Rest assured, the day of reckoning is fast approaching. It is not now, in the post-sequestration world, and it’s not later this month, when we’re expected to hit the debt ceiling. But there is no doubt it is coming.

In Oscar Wilde’s infamous novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the hedonistic Lord Hentry Wotton remarked, “Life is a moment. There is not hereafter.” Unlike in this fictional portrayal where greed and self-indulgence had no consequence, there will be real life consequences to our actions.

It’s time President Obama realize there is a hereafter, and his children will be left to bare the destructive, injurious, unimaginable hereafter he has created.

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Gwenie Sue
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:31pm
Yes,Obama is spending our children’s money,not his children’s money. They are taken care of. Unfortunately,they will go down in history as having their father being the worst “mulatto ” (not black) president in history. The president who continued lying to the people,blaming everybody but himself for our debt,spending like there is no tomorrow and the worst is taking WH tours from children!!”

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Gwenie Sue
Posted on March 10, 2013 at 7:10pm
Obama’s children might not have to inherit their father’s debt like our children but they are going down in history as having their father being the worst president in history,the First “mulatto” (not black) president, and a man that can look you in the eyes and just lie over and over and not think anything about it. When our country is hurting he plays golf with Tiger,even worse,when 4 of our Americans were brutally murdered he went to Las Vegas. How would you like a Dad like that?

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bekhiet
Posted on March 9, 2013 at 11:52pm
His kids don’t need any inheritance, that money must be re-distributred! Im sure O wouldn’t want it any other way!

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Grand design
Posted on March 9, 2013 at 11:27pm
Politics is above everything else, even the nation!

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RabidPatriot
Posted on March 9, 2013 at 12:28am
You’re wrong. He is not squandering his children’s inheritance, he is squandering your children’s inheritance. His children have become mufti-millionaires on the backs of we the people.

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 9:18am
  HE-THE-KING is squandering his children’s in heritance…after-all…they’re only second-class-women!
  
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homo3000
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 10:29pm
I think he is trying really very hard. His kids needed to have things and he needed to help the country. he is trying, you guys. let’s all just talk like human beings.

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- Arshloch
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 4:38pm
  Well human, how’s the tooth fairy doing these days?
  
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Charles321123
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 9:21pm
I am so tired of hearing and reading this excrement. He isn’t destroying our children’s future he is destroying OUR future as in the immediate future. If you quit talking about it like it is decades away people will realize they they personally will be affected and perhaps some of the selfish brats we call grownups will do something. Let’s face it most modern westerners don’t give a crap about their children. Our so called adults go to Vegas instead of saving for their children these days. You make them realize they will be starving soon it might make them move. Here is the truth: Repent and turn to God or die soon unless you are ‘lucky’ enough to be one of those who go into slavery.

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RamonPreston
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 7:49pm
Obama: Squandering our children’s inheritance

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termyt
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 4:50pm
I’m sure he intends for his children to inherit his throne.

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Zipit
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 3:58pm
Not to worry! I’m sure they’ll receive lifetime exemptions from things such as Obamacare, taxes, birth certificates, health records, school transcripts,,,,,,, ya know!

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- savagenatn
  Posted on March 9, 2013 at 4:09am
  no kidding zip. No worries for his spoiled kids. They will be exempt from the same things this illegal hack has been.
  
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drewpreston
Posted on March 8, 2013 at 6:21am
Devour, Devour, suffocate your own empire,
Devour, Devour, Its your final hour,
Devour, Devour, Stolen like a foreign soul,
Devour, Devour, What a way to go.

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