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YET ANOTHER RALLYING CRY

Obama's plan: since he can't blind the public with his brilliance, he will blind us with billions. 

President George W. Bush was wrong and wrongheaded when he began the bailout process. He looked to overrule the invisible hand; he looked to bypass corporate and personal responsibility. The One picked up where Bush left off and he has been running with it ever since. Prince Obama has drawn up a rescue plan and budget with numbers so large the human mind cannot truly grasp their significance.

To stop him, conservatives, Republicans, libertarians and other right thinking individuals will have to move from a defensive position: we need to do more than point out how highly irresponsible this spending spree is; we can't keep using words like "unsustainable." The Right may be able to outflank Obama and his acolytes, if, as Reagan did with welfare, we put a human face to these costs.

Any adult with grown children knows, if a man and woman have the good fortune to have parents who will pay for their wedding, the happy couple is not as likely to keep an eye on the bottom lines as closely as they would if they were paying for it themselves. Similarly, when the American tax payer understand that the money being thrown around by the Democrats will have to be repaid by them, they will end the party quickly.

The average person may not be able to understand trillions in debt, but they can understand the burden being placed on them, their children, grandchildren and onward. Once people begin to comprehend the personal costs, they will demand fiscal responsibility. The party will end.  Once they feel the burden, they will call for the check. STAT.

America, let's take back our cash and tell Obama, "You can keep the change."
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

IT SHOULDN'T TAKE A PRIMARY TO GET RID OF ARLEN
Re: Reader letters under "Good Riddance" in Reader Mail's RINO No More:

By Specter's own words he left the Republican Party because he could get past the primary. In other words, he wouldn't be a senator anymore if he stayed a Republican. (Poor baby...)

Specter is the quintessential example of why we need at constitutional amendment allowing states to impose term limits on congressmen and senators.
-- Garry Greenwood
Gearhart, Oregon