A Nation in Crisis at the Hands of a Bad Man--Barack Obama:
Some Evidence from U.S. Representative Tom McClintock
(October 14, 2013)
by
Victor Edward Swanson,
publisher
The Hologlobe Press
Postal Box 5263
Cheboygan, Michigan 49721
The United States of America
copyright c. 2013
October 23, 2013
(Version 2)
(Draft version)
In October 2013--roughly speaking--the federal government was shut down; that is, only about 17 percent was shut down while the members of the U.S. Congress fought over funding measures, the "debt limit," and more, and while the Democrats in the high-level positions in the federal government, especially Barack Obama, were pushing the idea that, if the federal government were not open soon, the federal government would go into "default." The idea that the federal government would go into "default" was a lie, and to add to that, Democrats were also pushing the idea that a default would be as a result of what the Republicans in the U.S. Congress had not done, which was what the Democrats wanted, such as to have an increase in the "debt limit" and more bad things. Remember: In this time in history, since the federal government takes in more than enough money every month to pay debts that must be paid each month, the federal government cannot go into default when a debt limit is not increased--unless the U.S. President refuses to pay the bills that must be paid each month as a minimum. On October 15, 2013, U.S. Representative Tom McClintock (a Republican related to California) made a speech on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, and some of that speech exist here:
"...The debt limit exists for a simple reason--to assure that public debt isn't recklessly piled up without Congress periodically acknowledging it and addressing the spending patterns that are causing it. If the debt-limit increase is supposed to be automatic--as the President suggests--there is really no purpose to it. Now a new dimension has now appeared in this discussion. Unlike everyone of his predecessors, this President has vowed that, unless this Congress unconditionally raises the debt limit, the United States will default on its sovereign debt. But a failure to raise limit would not by itself cause the nation to default. The Government Accountability Office has consistently held that the Treasury Secretary has--'The Authority to choose the order in which to pay off obligations of the United States and to protect the nation's credit.' Such authority is inherent in the 1798 Act that established the Treasury Department and it entrusted it with 'the management of the revenue' and 'the support of the public credit.' The affirmative duty of the Treasury Department to do so is underscored by the 14th Amendment. Our revenues are more than ten times our debt payment, so paying the debt first to prevent a sovereign default is well within the financial ability of federal government. Indeed, it is a fiscal imperative! Earlier this year, the House passed H.R. 807, which not only explicitly requires the payment of the national debt in the case of an impasse over the debt limit but even allows the President to exceed the debt limit itself in order to protect the nation's credit. That measure languishes in the Senate under the threat of a presidential veto. Protecting the sovereign credit by prioritizing payments would mean delaying paying other bills. That is also untenable, unthinkable, and something much to be avoided, but it would not imperil the nation's sovereign credit. Only the President can do that! The House leadership met with the President last week and offered to extend the debt limit till November 22 with no strings attached. The President refused. Senate Republicans offered a six-month extension, but the Senate Democratic leader refused. What the President threatens to do would be catastrophic and unprecedented. The full faith and credit of the United States is what gives markets the confidence to loan money to the federal government. Even a threat of default--exactly the kind the President is now making--could have dire consequences to a nation that now owes more than its entire economy produces in a year. So where do we go from here? Republicans have miscalculated on two keys assumptions, first, that the Democrats would negotiate the issues that divide our country--they have not--second, that Democrats would seek to minimize the suffering caused by the impasse--they have not. Given the ruthless and vindictive way the shutdown has been handled [by Barack Obama], I now believe that this president would willfully act to destroy the full faith and credit of the United States unless the Congress acquiesces to all of his demands, at least as long as he sees political advantage in doing so. If the Republicans acquiesce, the immediate crisis will quickly vanish, credit markets will calm, and public life will return to other matters. But a fundamental element of our Constitution will have been destroyed. The power of the purse will have shifted from the representatives of the people to the Executive. The Executive bureaucracies will be free to turn out ever more outlandish regulations with no effective congressional review or checks of the purse. A perilous era will have begun in which the president sets spending levels and vetoes any bill falling short of his demands. When ever a deadline approaches, one house can simply refuse to negotiate with the other until Congress is faced with the Hobson's Choice of a shutdown or a default. The nation's spending will again dangerously accelerate, the deficit will rapidly widen, and the economic prosperity of the nation will continue to slowly bleed away. This impasse may have started as a dispute over a collapsing health program, but it's now taken on the dimensions of a constitutional crisis. Yesterday in Washington [D.C.], a group of America's veterans rose up to take a stand against these unconstitutional usurpations. I believe the salvation of our nation now ultimately depends on the American people joining them...."
I say that, it seems, soon, to protect the country as it was founded and the good children yet to come, a good man or a good woman will have to reject Barack Obama completely and the laws enacted by Barack Obama, especially the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, since Barack Obama, who has led to the deaths to Americans (such as in Benghazi) is an illegitimate U.S. President, having violated his oath of office, and that makes him a traitor to the country!
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