AWOL leadership on the budget

Never mind that even if this White House stays on its current course, it will continue to set major-league records on spending, ending this year with close to $1.3 trillion in deficits. Unprecedented spending as far as the eye can see.

The sad commentary in this fiscal charade is the average American is either completely oblivious to the goings-on around Washington or he/she simply doesn’t care. If you were fed major services such as free healthcare and told you had a moral right to everything the federal government provided through its nanny doctrine, after a while, don’t you think you’d be duped, or at least so gluttonously fat off the largesse you couldn’t move even if you wanted to? Think it’s not happening? Think again.

Fresh off a trillion-dollar hangover, congressional Democrats are reminded they have to return from recess and actually govern according to the laws of the land. Chief among them is Congress actually having to produce a budget on how it will run the government for the next fiscal year. And yet, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are thinking that’s not such a good idea. A budget merely complicates and formalizes their runaway habits, and that’s much too nasty to have on paper, especially at this time.

So comes the statutorily mandated deadline of April 15 for Congress to produce a budget, Democrats will be AWOL on the subject. Never mind that at the most desperate time, when hardships abound and the first thing families do is sit down and pen a new budget, congressional Democrats do the exact opposite. Not only is their spending so shameful, they no longer want to be bothered by writing it down! We’re so bankrupt as a country that even our kids and grandchildren will be on the hook for cleaning up this mess, and now they don’t want to tell us how it will all be spent?

The situation would be laughable if it weren’t so dire. This latest move is another symbol of the left’s true intentions — spend till it hurts, but be damned sure it hurts someone other than our special interests.

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