Checks and balances: That’s the fight going on over the debt ceiling.
The Constitution was written with checks and balances in order to form a more perfect union. But the Obama administration can’t balance its checks, so it wants to rewrite the Constitution to have a no-limit credit card.
Let’s be clear: The country voted in November to keep government divided as a possible way to force fiscal self-control.
In this case, a house divided cannot spend.
What is a bit scary is either the naiveté or the pretense displayed by the administration when putting this suggestion forth.
It has portrayed sidestepping our Constitution as the key to preventing further downgrades of our national debt. Stop and think about that logic: allowing — essentially encouraging — our debt to get larger and larger without checks and balances.
When this administration took office, our debt was $10.6 trillion, with two wars going on, and was already too high.
Today the debt is more than $16.3 trillion and growing feverishly. If this is what Washington does when its credit limits require congressional approval, just imagine what would happen without them!
Here’s one way to fix the problem, Washington: Check your balance before you spend another dime. This is the only way to get government costs back under control and get the nation’s debt heading in the right direction — down. Millions of American families do it on a weekly basis.
It may be unpopular, but so are canceling family dinners out and not being able to afford to send your kids to college.
If American families are being forced to cut back in weak economic times and meet a higher tax burden, shouldn’t our government be expected to cut back as well?
Right now, the message coming out of the administration is that it would rather cut up the Constitution than pull up its bootstraps.
Every American knows that credit cards have limits.
Clearly, the government needs its limits, too.