Great Idea for Deficits - Shrink them into the National Debt

For quite some time after the ascendency of the modern day messiah (with a small 'm') back in the 2007 - 08 era, I believed, along with many others, we had a brilliant scholarly minded young half-black man who was making inroads to our presidency. I welcomed his arrival to what I thought would be a crowning achievement for our country should this man become our president.

I really don't remember what signal event occurred that started to alert me to watch his actions and words more carefully. I am positive that unlike Chris Matthews of MSNBC, it was not a "tingle up my leg." No, it was more like a "kick upside the head" that turned my attention to his unusual and devious body language that did not match his cavalier words of deceit which proved to be eloquent prevarications. IOW he was proving to be a damned liar, a fault he constantly practices to this day. He must be sorry he ever heard of the word 'sequestration' a word that has twisted and turned not only his mind but I'm sure his soul as well. He has, in his every waking hour, and probably many during sleep periods been avidly tortured on how to blame George Bush for that monstrosity, but unfortunately, George was a bit too early for that darned S-E-Q-U-E-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N; the monster he agreed to in order to run up the tab on his habitual spendthriftyness and IOU called the National Debt which hangs over him like a specter of doom.

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This man is the epitome of the words extravagant and profligate. He doesn't even quiver at the word 'trillion' and there's no reason for him to do so as it is OUR money that he is blowing on his mindless and careless schemes. And there's no way you can convince me that he isn't getting personally well endowed though cracks in the super-structure of government financial channels. Just over four years ago he was rubbing coins together, now he is classified as a multi-millionaire. How'd that happen? On a presidential salary? Now as a supposedly brilliant and educated man wouldn't you think he could have come up with better targets for savings to satisfy his sequestration needs than our military?, our safety and security?, our visitation "rights" to the White House for our schoolchildren? You know, - cut foreign aid to countries that hate us and maybe even presidential and congressional salaries; they got us into this mess. If he gave up a few vacations to exotic lands and luxurious accommodated foreign lands and a half dozen or more golf tours it could put a good-sized dent in the needs for that 13 lettered name totaling $85 billion (over 10 years). But then he is too busy trying to find ways around this bump in the road to keep that National Debt Ceiling moving on upwards, like the Jeffersons. "The president's travel expenses alone, for the golfing outing with Tiger Woods, would pay for a year of White House visits," Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer said Thursday. "So I suggest that perhaps he curtail the travel" according to FoxNews.com online March 08, 2013 in "White House suspends public tours, but first family tours in full swing." What puzzles me is that there are so many people out in our lands that are not only tolerant of his profligacy but are actively helping him, such as this avid worshipper of his as detailed in a small town newspaper. In the March 5, 2013 edition of the Hampton (NH) Union, a woman member of that town's socialist liberal political party icons had, in a letter to the editor, stated as a fact that the federal deficit shrank by $200 billion in the last fiscal year and has shrunk $400 billion in the four years since Barack Obama became president. She challenged a person who had written a prior "letter" to do more research on that topic. I am not a student of government finances and budgeting, but common sense tells me that the woman icon should also do more and better research before making accusations of shortfall in knowledge of the subject. I went to Wikipedia.org, a favorite of the left in our wacky world of politics and read there that the Government (financial) balance is the overall result of the budget over the course of an accounting period, usually one year. The budget balance is the difference between government revenues (taxes) and spending. A positive balance is called a budget surplus and a negative balance is called a budget deficit. Wikipedia goes on to say that deficits occur when expenditures exceed the revenue that was generated. The difference between current spending on goods and services and total revenues such as taxes and transfer payments is called the Primary Deficit, whereas the Total Deficit, or as often called, the Fiscal Deficit or just plain "deficit" is the Primary Deficit plus interest payments of the national debt. It is therefore with great difficulty that attempts are made to reconcile the icon woman's tale of Obama shrinkage of the deficit when that appears to be the ultimate generator of the National Public Debt which has measurably increased during Obama's four year term as president, significantly more than it did in all eight full years of G. W. Bush's presidency and many presidents prior to him. It is, however, typical "pull the wool over the eyes" razzle-dazzle left-wing chutzpah. Then again, perhaps that woman thinks that those $200 and $400 billion deficits shrank out of sight after they were placed into our national debt. What a great idea. I'd bet it was Obama's idea to begin with, however. Will Obama and Kerry bail out Egypt and Syria, just call it a deficit and when it gets added to the National Debt he could claim that he shrank another deficit out of sight.