COLUMN: The miracle of “Obama Money”

In actuality, the government was handing out applications to people seeking help to avoid foreclosure and homelessness. Just 3,500 of the tens of thousands of applicants will receive a cut of the stimulus funds earmarked for this purpose.

The fact that so many people would line up for a government handout is tragic enough, but the disconnect with reality that these people have is even more tragic. What makes it worse is that our politicians are even more clueless than these poor people.

If you have not listened to the street interviews conducted by WJR Talk Radio in Detroit, you should.

Ken Rogulski, WJR News reporter, asked one woman waiting in line why she was there.

“To get some money,” she said.

“What kind of money?” Rogulski asked.

“Obama money,” the woman replied.

When Rogulski asked where the money was coming from, the woman said it was from Obama. When he asked where Obama got the money, the woman replied, “I don't know. His stash. I don't know. I don't know where he got it from but he's giving it to us, to help us. We love him. That's why we voted for him. Obama! Obama!”

Of course! His stash! How silly of me. Here I have been wasting all this time worrying about the deficit and how our country would pay for all these spending programs and the answer has been right there in front of me the whole time.

Obama has a miraculous money stash.

Just as Jesus fed the five thousand with five loaves of bread and two fish, Obama is going to pull so much money out of thin air that we too will have full baskets left over when he is done.

Of course if he fails to work this miracle, then how are we going to pay for his health care program, the bailouts and all the other unfunded obligations that currently exist?

Obama, like practically every other politician and apparently a large portion of the electorate, does not seem to actually consider where this “Obama money” really originates.

This miracle money is coming out of your wallet and mine.

How much more disconnected with reality can these politicians be when they brag about a health care program costing only $900 billion as opposed to $1 trillion?

They are talking about billions and billions of dollars earned by hard-working American taxpayers. What they so cavalierly suggest is that you and me and everyone else keep working hard and just give the government our money so that they can give it to someone else.

That does not sound like a miracle to me. It sounds more like highway robbery.

Not only is this attitude incredibly arrogant, it shows that politicians, just like that woman in Detroit, do not really understand that getting more money means taking it away from the people who earned it – people who are working hard to manage their own spending and balance their own personal budgets.

“Obama money” is your money. It is being taken from you and given to people who do not have to live by the same rules you do. It is being managed and distributed by people who do not live by the same rules you do.

No miracle is going to repay our national debt. The only miracle that will save us is one of our making in which we hold our politicians accountable and demand that they stop spending “Obama money” they do not have.