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By Bernard Goldberg
President Obama ends his op-ed saying, “This debate offers the chance to put our economy on stronger footing, restore a sense of fairness in our country, and secure a better future for our children. I want to seize that opportunity, and ask Americans of both parties and no party to join me in that effort.”

You might first want to stop vilifying successful people, Mr. President. When you tell over-taxed Americans that they’re not paying their fair share, when you suggest that they’re the ones who are freeloading on the backs of everyone else, there’s a tendency for them — and me — to want to tell you to GO FLY A KITE! But that’s another thing you’re not supposed to say.
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By George Will
Richard Miniter, a Forbes columnist, is right: “Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev.” Beneath the tattered, fading banner of reactionary liberalism, Obama struggles to sustain a doomed system. Democrats’ dependency agenda — swelling the ranks of government employees, multiplying government-subsidized industries, enveloping ever-more individuals in the entitlement culture — is buckling under an intractable contradiction: It is incompatible with economic growth sufficient to create enough wealth to feed the multiplying tax eaters.
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“$438 billion was the record-breaking federal deficit in 2008. That’s all of three years ago. In 2011, it’s getting on four times as big. … Obama did that. The Democrats did that. ‘Trillion’ is their word. They mainstreamed it, and very effectively, in nothing flat. But it’s not a fact of life. It’s a fact of their life, and they should be on the defensive about it. What do we have to show for the trillionization of government? The dead-parrot economy, the underwater property market, the flatline jobs market. But lots more bureaucracy and regulation. Obama wants to demonize ‘millionaires’? Who’s he kidding?” —columnist Mark Steyn
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By Michelle Malkin
Section 342: Create and staff Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (pending reprogramming approval by appropriators)

Section 911: Create new Investor Advisory Committee (pending appointment of Investor Advocate)

Sections 915 and 919D: Create and staff Office of Investor Advocate (pending reprogramming approval by appropriators)

Section 919: Issue rules, as the Commission deems appropriate, designating documents or information that must be provided by a broker or dealer to a retail investor before the purchase of an investment product or service

Section 921: Issue rules, as the Commission deems appropriate, addressing agreements that require customers or clients of any broker, dealer or investment adviser to arbitrate disputes arising under the Federal securities laws

Section 932: Create and staff Office of Credit Ratings (pending reprogramming approval by appropriators)

Section 979: Create and staff Office of Municipal Securities (pending reprogramming approval by appropriators)

Section 967: Report to Congress describing actions to implement the regulatory and administrative recommendations contained in the independent consultant’s report on the SEC’s organization.
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http://www.freedomandeconomics.com/

The truth is that most people have money troubles. Most people don’t try to spend their way out of debt. Social Security is not broke. It’s Obamacare that’s broke. It’s education that’s broke. It’s benefits for illegals that’s broke. It’s foreign aid thats broke. Etc., etc., etc., and it’s me that’s broke. But the government is not broke, it just can’t support itself in the manner in which it would like to accustom itself. It’s already accustomed itself to spending way too much. Sure there’s a lot wrong with S.S. Like giving benefits to prisoners, people who are allergic to work, illegals, and who knows what else.

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by John Hayward
As recently as March, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid angrily told reform-minded Republicans to “back off Social Security” because “it’s in great shape for many decades. Let’s worry about Social Security when it’s a problem. Today it is not a problem.”

But last Tuesday, President Obama said, “I cannot guarantee that [Social Security] checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do this.”

In other words, Barack Obama just called Harry Reid a miserable, stinking liar. Or a doddering imbecile. Take your pick.
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By Cal Thomas
There are no new ideas, only old ideas that either worked or failed. There is “nothing new under the sun,” as Ecclesiastes reminds us.
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By Thomas Sowell
Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.

In politics, there are not simply good things but some special Good Things — with a capital G and capital T — which are considered always better to have more of.
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By Michelle Malkin
Last week, I published The Ever-Expanding Catalogue of Obamacare Fables.
This week, MRCTV and BreitbartTV bring you an excellent and handy video of Obama’s favorite health care takeover tall tales in his own words.

All it needs is an “Unhappily Ever After” end page. Watch:

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