President can't keep blaming Bush administration

President Obama's speech at Brookings Institution was ridiculous beyond belief. He said: “One of the central goals of this administration is restoring fiscal responsibility. ... We have begun to make the hard choices necessary to get our country on a more stable fiscal footing. ... In reality, the deficit had been building dramatically over the previous eight years. Folks passed tax cuts and expensive entitlement programs without paying for any of it. ... It's a sight to see.”

What is a “sight to see” is that Obama can castigate the Bush Administration for increasing the budget deficit, when to date he has increased it more than fourfold! Obama criticized TARP's passage and handling, which was designed by Obama's own Secretary of the Treasury. Obama himself pushed for TARP's passage - what a hypocrite. Tax cuts? It's our money. Passed entitlement programs? Who did? Democratic Congress.

Now Obama and his fellow Democrats want to take even more through health care reform. This 2,000-page bill is a disaster and immoral (forcing us to pay for murder of the unborn).

God made us free - free to work hard and enjoy the fruits of our labor. I believe in charity, but forced charity is not charity - it's extortion.

Our Founding Fathers determined to make the “redistribution of wealth” unconstitutional. Powers of the president are only six. Powers of Congress are only 20. Read the Constitution. It's obvious our president and Congress haven't.

Anita Hansen

Marion