President Barack Obama walks from the Oval Office to the the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, to talk about deficit reduction. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
(CNSNews.com) – The 44th president of the United States invoked the very first president on Monday, as Barack Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes, mainly on wealthy Americans.
“George Washington grappled with the problem” of taxes, Obama said. “He (George Washington) said, ‘Towards the payment of debts, there must be revenue, and to have revenue, there must be taxes. And no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.’
“But he understood that dealing with the debt is — his choice of words — ‘always a choice of difficulties.’ He also knew that public servants weren’t elected to do what is easy; they weren’t elected to do what was politically advantageous. It’s our responsibility to put country before party. It’s our responsibility to do what’s right for the future. And that’s what this debate is about.”
As for Obama’s call to put “country above party,” even liberal media outlets don’t see it that way. See video and read more: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-invokes-george-washington-defend-his-proposed-tax-hikes
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This President should not invoking the name of Washington in this situation, even he knows that is a load of crap. The situation of revenue after the Revolutionary War is a much different situation than we have right now. We have had a century of spending money on projects and entitlements that were not needed, and now the President uses the words of Washington to try and get the people on his side. If he wanted to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, he would tell the American people we have spent too much money on wasteful programs so now we need to tax the job producers so we can get some of our money back. He should also tell the people when those who are running those businesses get their tax increase, we will be seeing it when we go to the store. Nothing stops private industry from raising their prices so they can get a profit, and taxes will be passed on to those in the middle class, the class President Obama says he is working so hard for. To say this is an epic fail would not be strong enough, what we have here is a President who will never understand how the world works.
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