Week In Review

The newest feature here at God, Family, America is a week in review. This will be an area to discuss opinions about the week. I will post what I see at the top five stories of the week. So, here we go.

The winners of the week of July 19-24 are:

• 5. CBO begins downfall of Universal Health care - With the CBO coming out and announcing how much spending was involved in the health care bill we saw support drasticlly begin to decrease. As the numbers spread, both Blue Dog Democrats and American citizens really started to understand just what was involved in these bills. This will go down a the beginning of the end for any current form of health care reform.
• 4. 40th Anniversary of Moon Landing - For one day, the anniversary of the Appollo 11 landing and then the walk on the moon dominated the news. This story has brought up many discussions of the future of space exploration. When will we go back to the moon? Will man walk on Mars? No matter your view of our space program, the discussion that arises is interesting and provides good discussion.
  
• 3. Blue Dogs Halt Health Care - While Obama tries to claim it is the Republicans that have caused a delay in health care legislation, the real story is that the Blue Dog Democrats have been the biggest force behind the stalling of the bill. While Republicans have been forcefull at bringing out many of the details of the bill, we all know that if the Blue Dogs gave support to the bill, it would easily pass.
  
• 2. Obama says cops act "stupidly" - This story was created by Obama himself. Without knowledge of the situation, Obama decided to defend his friend and attack cops serving their society. Even the Obama friendly media has come out saying that he made a huge mistake with this comment. Will this comment hurt Obama much in the long run, probably not but it does clearly show his stance on racial issues for those who doubted.
• 1. Obama Approval Ratings Drop - The number 1 story of the week is the approval ratings of Obama have dropped to below 50% for the first time in his Presidency. Because of Obama's inability to sell the public on his health care plan, we have witnessed Obama's approval ratings drop in every poll. Americans are beginning to understand what they signed up for when they put Obama into office. They are seeing his socialist policies and the majority of Americans still believe in smaller government.
  

Obama & CBO Chief Meet at WH

This story is still emerging, but Hot Air reported yesterday that Obama CBO to meet him at the White House. This should be concerning to all citizens as the CBO is supposed to be an independent office that answers to congress NOT the President. Yet here we have Obama taking his powers to another branch of government. It seems that Obama will do anything to force through this health care bill, just as he is with Cap-and-Trade, the bailouts, and stimulus. Fox news picked up on this story this morning. Take a look here at RealClearPolitics.com. Special Report will also be reporting on this story as well.

Out of Control Spending...When Will We Learn?

For many Americans it is sickening to see the how fast the spending in this country is increasing. Under George W. Bush we saw spending grow much more than most fiscal conservatives would ever support. The Democrats were crying out about the out of control spending and now that they control both houses of Congress and the Presidency they now endorse an even greater increase in spending. I'm young but it is becoming more and more evident that I will never see this country out of debt again in my life. I pray that my kids and/or grand kids will see the United States as a debt free country again.

Here's what CBO predicts will happen if we continue current policies:

Next year, our debt will exceed 60 percent of our total economic output, or gross domestic product (GDP). We would not meet the standards Poland and Estonia needed to qualify for admission into the European Union.

In 2023, our debt will exceed 100 percent of GDP - the highest level since World War II ended.

By 2076, debt will be more than 6.5 times GDP. Put differently, with current policies, there's no chance that children born today will get much of their promised Social Security and Medicare benefits.