by Darrin Moore

President Obama buttered up the American taxeaters with his syrupy State of the Union address on Fat Tuesday night by tabling a massive stack of new spending proposals that are selling like hotcakes with folks who will never have to pick up the tab.  If enacted, these proposals will pancake employers, batter investors, and will flip employees from the frying pan into the fire.

Additionally the president audaciously asserted that all his profligacy would add not a single dollar to the deficit (repeating a broken promise he made more than five trillion ago).  So naturally the chorus of progressives who have been on the Obama bandwagon long before it started carrying a tune were out trumpeting the president’s big easy plans to put more people on the gravy train.  They are proposing an expensive party to let the good times roll while our economy remains in the gutter, our debt rises past the high water mark, and the levee is about to break.  We may already be swamped, so plugging holes wherever we can kind of feels like perhaps we’re just rearranging the decks chairs on a sinking ship, if you’ll excuse the cliché. [Read more...]