IMPORTANCE OF NOVEMBER 2010

Two recently published and unrelated news articles have strongly emphasised to me the importance of the upcoming November elections.

Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation has projected some very disturbing prognostications concerning the future financial status of the American government. He has stated that if the economic recovery efforts by Washington remain generally the same then the era of the federal government having a yearly total deficit of at least $1.0 trillion is here to stay. He adds further that by 2020 this same national yearly debt will be at the $2.0 trillion mark.

The Obama economic stimulus has failed, there is no question about that. However, we must not overlook the role that the Democrat controlled House and Senate has had in this and other national financial fiascoes.

The second article I read addressed in detail the idea that the ongoing liberal/socialist/progressive attacks on our immediate past President, George Bush, as the leader who set the ground work for the terrible condition of the American economy are all wrong. In an alternative and very logical approach, it was expressed that the real culprits for our national financial mess are the House and Senate, both of which were Democrat controlled as our economy faltered and failed. What was more intriguing were the references to the past 20 years of fluctuations in the American financial well being and which party, Democrat or Republican, had the majority presence in Congress during these times.

It turns out that when government spending is closely monitored and a financial surplus is realized, the House and Senate are in the hands of the Republicans. The Democrats run the federal legislative show during the times that deficit spendings are not only permitted but encouraged to an obnoxious degree. The party affiliation of the occupant of the White House is shown to be of little financial importance if Congress belongs to the opposition. Look at what the Newt Gingrich congressional era was able to accomplish even as a free-spending Democrat of questionable morals lived in the White House.

For the better part of the past 4 years the Democrats have controlled Congress and during this time period the debts of our nation have exploded. This fact alone has made the November 2010 House and Senate elections even more important. With a Republican controlled Congress, the undisciplined spending efforts of B.H. Obama can be limited and substantially curtailed. With the Democrats still in charge, the fear of an economic disaster will always be just around the corner.

Remember this in two months when election day arrives. We can stop Obama now by taking away the Congress and then completely retire him in 2012.